With 20 years of experience in the arts education field and 22 years as a professional dancer, Shelby Williams-González has a career made up of overlapping networks. Artist, educator, and leader pushing for social change. Shelby has taught dance and performing arts for LAUSD, as well as developed programs for non-profit organizations such as The California Dance Institute, A Place Called Home and the L.A. Opera’s Education Program. As the previous Executive Director of artworxLA, Shelby dedicated her work to creatively educating alternative high school teenagers with sustained arts exposure and immersion. She believes that investing human and financial resources around our young people is necessary for LA’s youth to evolve as unique individuals and flourish as creative adults. Shelby has participated in numerous professional development programs focusing on leadership and cross sector work. In 2013, she was part of L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce Southern California Leadership Network – Leadership L.A. In 2015, Shelby participated in the Durfee LEAD Program with a residency at the Downtown Women's Center. Shelby has also participated in trainings through the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond in 2018 and 2019 looking at systemic racism and oppression and tactical strategies for community organizing. Shelby is a member of the 2016 Courage to Lead Cohort and the 2018 Next Leaders Development Program through the Center for Nonprofit Management. As a professional dancer, Shelby has been a member of the national touring and critically acclaimed Afro-Brazilian dance company Viver Brasil since 2006 as a dancer and choreographer for the company. Viver Brasil is a community of professional artists dedicated to honoring the African legacy through contemporary dance theater, utilizing Afro-Brazilian dance and music in performance, arts education, and community and cultural exchange programs. Her most recent work with the company, “Revealed,” explored the intersection of traditional Orixa (Afro-Brazilian Deities) dance and current racial and social inequities resulting in over-policed communities and mass killings of black bodies both in the United States and Brazil. Shelby serves on the Board of Directors for the Arts for Healing and Justice Network, an interdisciplinary collaborative that provides exceptional arts programming in order to build resiliency and wellness, eliminate recidivism, and transform the juvenile justice system. Shelby also serves on the Board of Directors of Suarez Dance Theater and is a member of the Los Angeles' Chapter for the Undoing Racism Collective. She holds a B.A. in Dance and Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and is a proud native Angelino, mom, wife, and avid shoe shopper!
Shelby Williams-González
Leadership & Staff

Justine Adeboyejo
Teaching Artist, Visual Arts
Email: justine@inner-cityarts.org
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Matías Anaya
Teaching Artist, Music

Abraham Aragundi
Data Specialist
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Nancy Avila
Accounting Supervisor

Ernest Baker
Teaching Artist, Dance

Eugenia Barbuc
Teaching Artist, Creativity Lab

Giselle Barrios
Programs Coordinator

Bob Bates
Co-Founder, Artistic Director
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Joanna Berkowitz
Program Coordinator

Jennifer Carroll
Associate Director of Education

Wendy Cruz
H.R. Generalist

Amy Cuenco
Director of Finance

Daniel Curtis
Teaching Artist, Photography

Amanda Edwards
Associate Director of Communications

Zion El-Amin
Teaching Artist, Dance

George Garcia
EVP & Chief Operating Officer

Joseph Henderson
Teaching Artist, Performing Arts

Holli Hornlien
Associate Director of Work of Art
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Victoria Imo
Visiting Faculty, ArtCenter

Holly Le
Staff Accountant

Jovonie Leonard
Teaching Artist, Dance

Nick Manuguerra
Assistant Facilities Manager
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Ashley Margo
Lead Designer + Teaching Artist, Media Arts
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Karina Mata
Teaching Artist, Media Arts
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Orlando Moreno
Outreach + Programs Manager

Cynthia Nava
Teaching Artist, Visual & Media Arts
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Adrian Noriega
Program Coordinator

Eva Perez
Lead Teaching Artist, Visual Arts
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Rob Ramsey
Teaching Artist, Screenwriting

Michael Sample
Co-Artistic Director
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Dana Carly Eitches Sasi
Teaching Artist, Music

Matthew Sutphin
Communications Manager
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Rebecca Tager
Teaching Artist, Ceramics

Jessie Tucker
Facilities Manager
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Rosanna Tullio
Associate Director of Institutional Giving

Sarah Tytus
Development Operations Associate

Anabel Vallin
Programs Assistant

Alma Villegas
Senior Director of Development
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Collette Williams Alleyne
Chief Education Officer
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Shelby Williams-González
President & CEO
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Board Officers

Grant Withers
Board ChairCapital Group

Kapil Gupta
Vice ChairBoston Scientific

Julia Taylor-Brown
TreasurerThe Garcia Companies

Vanessa Walker-Oakes
SecretaryFlintridge Preparatory School
Board Members

Kingsley Afemikhe
Shield AI
Kara Ahmanson
Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association
Patricia Brum
Snell & Wilmer, LLP
Gillian Calof
ClimateWorks Foundation
Brian Goldsmith
Lionsgate
Jackie Harman
COYN
Roth Herrlinger
Evolution
Jeffrey E. Jaeger
Standard Communities
Tae Kim
Collins Kim, LLP
Thomas Kim
Insomniac / Live Nation
Melissa Passman
Alpine Global Management
Christian A. Pierce
Actor/Writer/Producer
Kevin Pleasant
Chase
Margaret Richard
MLR Consulting Partners
Darris Sherman
Universal Pictures Home EntertainmentThe Founders

Bob Bates
Co-Founder and Artistic Director
Co-Founder

Irwin J. Jaeger
Co-FounderFounders Board Members

Geoffrey Anenberg
Creative Space
Wallis Annenberg

Kim Baer

Bill & Tamara Bagnard

Jon Basalone
Trader Joe's
Frank Baxter

Craig Benell

Alan Berro

Cynthia Harnisch Breunig

Al Brooks

Marvin G. Burns

Vera R. Campbell

Ira Cohen

Bob Davidson

Sharon DeBriere

Susan Emerling-Torres

Mitchell Frank
Spaceland Productions
Bobbie Greenfield

Crosby Haffner
Synan Holdings
Eugene L. Hernandez

Douglas Hinchliffe

Steve Hirsh

Linda Hothem

Paul C. Johnson

Glorya Kaufman

Laurie Konheim

Melanie Lundquist

Rick Madden
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Michael Maltzan

Jay Mangel

Jeff Marine

Silvia Marjoram
American Business Bank
Randy Miller

Connie Moran-Romero

Scott Morielli
Graff Californiawear
Anthony E. Nicholas

Drew Planting

Maura Rampolla

Monica Rosenthal

Joseph Sanford

Martha Saucedo

Steve Schoenholz
Tempted Apparel
William Schoenholz

Eric Schotz

Michael Schreter

Bob Shearin

Mithra Sheybani
Attorney
Mark Slavkin

Beatriz Stotzer

Katerina Tana
