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Eleanor Academia
Leah Antignas
Thomas E. Backer, Ph.D.
Molly Barnes
Corbett Barklie
Stephen Benjamin,
CPA, MBA, CFP

Phil Borden, Ph.D.
Marcy Hinand Cady
Elisa Callow
Patrick Ela
Ashley Emenegger
Rochelle Fabb
Brechin Flournoy
Debra Esparza
Ron Evans
Dudley W. "Skip" Gil
David Gluck
Jean Hester
Nancy Hytone Leb
Linda Joy Kattwinkel
Amy Kweskin
Lisa Lynne
Jay W. MacIntosh
Gil Morales
David Perry
David Plettner, J.D.

Michele Pred C.P.A.
Nnacy Quinn
Mari Riddle
Katherine Ruiz
Gregory Rutchik
Allison Sampson
Yesenia Sanchez
Hope Tschopik Schneider
Dewey Schott
Margaret Southerland
Judith Teitelman
Linda Vallejo
Greg Victoroff
Nancy Walch
Richard Walch
Morrie Warshawski
Judith Luther Wilder
Jan Williamson
SanSan Wong
Jerry Yoshitomi

 

CCI TRAINERS & COUNSELORS
 

Eleanor Academia aka "Black Swan" is an ethnomusicologist and the founder of the World Kulintang Institute. She is also a producer, an engineer, a composer, a radio host, and the founder of the heavy arena rock band, "Souls From Ash". A former Sony and Columbia recording artist, Eleanor reached the top of the Billboard charts for her recording of “Adventure”. Her latest CD is called “When You Live” and features an All Star list of artists such as Rikki Rocket from Poison, Steve Smith from Journey, Carmine Appice from Rod Stewart’s band and Chicago drummer Oscar Seaton. Eleanor also teaches “The History of Rock & Roll” for the Los Angeles Unified School District and for the Music Center Education Program. She both trains and counsels for CCI.

Leah Antignas As a consultant and facilitator, Leah Antignas partners with organizations to design and deliver customized programs on leadership development and organizational effectiveness. Leah is also director of Golden Gate University's Center for Academic and Professional Success where she is responsible for strategic planning and management of academic support and professional development services. Prior to joining Golden Gate University, Leah coached individuals interested in digital media and socially responsible business including work as a career adviser at University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and as adjunct faculty at San Francisco State University and the Art Institute of California - San Francisco. Leah’s background includes work in film production and the performing arts as well as 10 years of experience managing creative teams and producing products for Apple Computer, Broderbund Software and Purple Moon Media. Leah holds an MA in education from San Diego State University, and a BA in sociology from UCLA. She is also an alumna of the Center for Creative Leadership where she received certification in program development methodologies and facilitation of leadership and organization assessment tools.

Thomas E. Backer, PhD is a licensed psychologist who has worked with artists for more than 30 years, concentrating on challenges like stress management and balancing work and personal life. He also consults with arts organizations, ranging from the Directors Guild of America, the union for film directors, to Pacific Northwest Ballet, which he recently helped lead through a year-long organizational transformation. He is president of the nonprofit Human Interaction Research Institute, which for 46 years has studied innovation and change in the nonprofit sector, and he is Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology at UCLA Medical School. In his own creative life Tom writes and produces educational films, and has had one play published, as well as many books and scientific articles.

Molly Barnes has had multiple careers as an art dealer, art critic, curator, radio and TV personality and as a gallery owner on both the East and West Coasts. She has represented and / or exhibited artists Willem de Kooning, John Baldessari, Les Levine, Gronk, Mark Kostabi and dozens of other contemporary artists. Molly is also the author of “How to Get Hung: A Guide for Emerging Artists”. Molly offers workshops for CCI artists through the Arts Boot Camps, Arts Tune Ups, and the regular CCI class schedule.

Corbett Barklie is committed to deep engagement with artists and artist collectives whom she believes are the backbone of the creative community. It is the brave new work undertaken at the grassroots level that informs the field, ultimately shapes the work of arts institutions, and expands the palate of the arts consumer.   As an arts coach, Corbett works to re-define the idea of “stabilization” by looking beyond individual organizations and their ability to exist for long periods of time. Her work focuses on stabilizing the flow of high quality artistic impulses and product with minimal corporate infrastructure. Corbett was the founding Director of Loretta Theatre, the Executive Director of ARTS Inc., and served as the Deputy Director of Development for Center Theater Group. She worked with the NEA as an assessor and consultant in their Challenge & Advancement Program.  Since 2002, Corbett has been an Adjunct Professor in the University of Southern California, School of Theatre. She also produces theater and writes essays.
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Stephen Benjamin, CPA, MBA, CFP
, teaches “Tax Tips for Artists”. He is currently a sole practitioner whose financial services practice focuses on self-employed clients and those in the arts and entertainment world. However, his philosophy embraces the concept that financial planning is necessary for everyone, not just the wealthy. He believes that everyone should have a basic understanding of their tax responsibilities and a healthy relationship with their money. In addition to his business credentials, Stephen has a Bachelor’s Degree in Dramatic Arts from York University in Toronto and has experience as a stand-up comic, improve artist, actor and writer.
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Phil Borden, Ph.D., has been a professor at UCLA USC, and the University of the West, and has published widely on management and finance topics.  He has designed tools still in use for financing micro and small businesses.  He has founded and built arts and high technology businesses, served as CEO for an entrepreneurial women's nonprofit, an association of Asian American Business owners, and a company for entrepreneurs seeking private capital.  He sits on several for- and nonprofit boards.  Dr. Borden teaches CCI's “Financing Your Project” workshop.
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Marcy Hinand Cady, has worked for 18 years in the arts and foundation fields. She is an independent consultant and has worked as a facilitator and workshop leader on a wide range of planning and evaluation projects. She co-authored, with Paul Connolly, a handbook on cultural participation planning, Increasing Cultural Participation: An Audience Development Planning Handbook for Presenters, Producers, and their Collaborators and a guide to performing arts documentation, For the Record: Documenting Performing Arts Audience Development Initiative. Marcy was formerly Program director for the Arts at the James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco. Prior to that she worked as a Senior Consultant for the TCC Group in New York City, working with John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. She has also directed national projects for the Ford Foundation and Lila Wallace-reader's Digest Fund.
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Elisa Callow is founding director of the Armory Center for the Arts.  During her tenure, the Armory became a national model for excellence in community arts program development and the budget increased from $200,00 to over $2 million.  Elisa worked in the philanthropic sector for four years, first as Program Officer for the Ahmanson Foundation and then as Arts Program Director for the James Irvine Foundation.   Her most recent professional experience has been as a management consultant working with organizations in the nonprofit sector on strategic issues as they relate to program development, audience and market issues, organizational design and planning and evaluation.  Clients include: The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County,  About Productions, The Pacific Asia Museum, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, The San Francisco Symphony, and The Auckland War Memorial Museum. She is currently a mentor for the Durfeee Foundation’s Springboard Fund.  Elisa has also served on the Boards of a number of arts, environmental, and education organizations. She is currently a Board member of the Rowe and Gayle Giesen Trust and an Advisory Board member of Pasadena Conservatory of Music. 
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Patrick Ela is an arts consultant, an appraiser, and a sought after speaker at conferences and on arts panels around the country. He is the former Director of the Craft and Folk Arts Museum as well as the institution’s former Board President. Patrick serves on numerous grants panels and represents both corporate and private art collectors. He recently curated “Conversations”, an exhibition at the Museum of Natural History that featured the work of Tony Berlant, Paul McCarthy, Ed Moses, Lita Albuquerque, John Valadez, and Kim Abeles. Patrick serves on CCI’s Trainers Advisory Committee and is a trainer / co-host for the Arts Boot Camps.
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Ashley Emenegger Ashley has been an active leader in the arts community since 1997. In 2004 she founded McLean Fine Art. Currently Ashley works in the exhibitions department at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena. She recently served as Managing Editor for THE Magazine, and was the Director of the Bandini Art gallery in Culver City. As the former Executive Director of Gallery 825/Los Angeles Art Association, she presented hundreds of critically recognized exhibitions and educational programs. She also worked at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Ashley is an exhibiting visual artist, art writer, independent curator, and a frequent lecturer, including with UCLA, MOCA, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Japanese American National Museum, Santa Monica City College, Fullerton College, Pasadena City College, among many others.
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Debra Esparza is a small business consultant with an expertise in non profit management. A former banker, she served as the Director of the Entrepreneurial Training Program for the University of Southern California and has consulted for the Los Angeles Times, Women’s Enterprise Development Corporation, Cal State Long Beach, and for SBDCs throughout Southern California. Debbie is currently the Executive Director for Girl Scouts of Greater Long Beach and teaches classes on “Finance and Business Planning” for CCI. She also serves as a CCI Counselor on issues related to Financial Planning.
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Ron Evans Ron Evans founded Group of Minds. Ron is a leading developer and researcher of arts marketing and audience development using technology. His primary area of interest is the exploration of emerging technologies and their impact on patron behavior in expanding arts audiences. He has a history in the field of social interactions using technology, and is known for his work as the user experience and functionality designer behind the Artsopolis.com calendaring software, which has become a national model for collaborative arts marketing. He is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences, including the National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP), the Association for Performing Arts Service Organizations (APASO) and Arts Reach. He is currently studying the uses and best practices of social networking applications such as Facebook and Twitter, and their potential to communicate with cultural audiences.
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Rochelle Fabb is an award winning performing artist as well as a Producer and Publicist working in theater, dance, art and television.  Fabb is the founder of Loudmouth Productions an Event Production, PR/marketing and design firm for clients in the arts and has designed and developed publicity and marketing campaigns for clients including: Farmlab/Not a Cornfield/Under Spring llc, Broadway Cares (Chess), Ford Amphitheatre, Japan America Theater, Watts Towers Arts Center, and more.  Fabb is currently producing The Who's TOMMY with Nona Hendryx and Alice Ripley.  Fabb has lectured at: California Institute for the Arts, School for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, College of Santa Fe, the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University, L.A. County Arts Commission, Highways Performance Space, and 18th Street Arts Center amongst other venues.
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Brechin Flournoy is Communications Director for NEQA/Communications, the PR arm of Quinn & Associates here in the Bay Area.  A self-described ‘cultural omnivore,’ Brechin parlayed her dance background into a multi-faceted arts career.  She started her arts administrative career at the age of 19 as an intern at P.S. 122 during the heyday of the downtown performance art craze.  Over the past 20 years she has worked professionally in every aspect of performing arts production, most notably as the Founding Director of the San Francisco Butoh Festival (1995-2002).  For her leadership of this internationally acclaimed arts festival, Brechin was awarded a SF Bay Guardian GOLDIE Award and an Isadora Duncan Award (IZZIE) for Sustained Achievement in the Arts.  Subsequently, for three years, Brechin was the Guest Dance Curator at Yerba Buena Arts & Events summer festival.  Her client roster spans the greater creative spectrum from chamber orchestras, to new media events, to hip-hop and spoken word and almost everything in between.  Brechin has designed and taught marketing and PR workshops for independent artists and cultural institutions for the past decade – most recently at the Arts Reach National Arts Marketing conference about online marketing and public relations campaigns.
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Dudley W. "Skip" Gill is the founder and President of Strategic Impact Marketing, helps organizations enhance performance through effective strategy development, business planning and innovative marketing programs. Prior to starting Strategic Impact Marketing, Skip held executive and management positions at premier Fortune 200 companies including PacfiCare, Express Scripts, Cendant and American Express. He received his MBA in marketing and finance from the University of Chicago and holds a BA in economics from Dartmouth College. Skip serves on the Executive Committee of the Long Beach City College Foundation and is a board member of the Council on Aging - Orange County.
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David Gluck David Gluck is a San Francisco-based arts consultant specializing in finance and strategic planning. Recent clients include: Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Girls Chorus, SOMArts Cultural Center, New Century Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, and Stern Grove Festival Association. He has held executive positions with Magic Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, and the long-running West End production of the musical "Chicago". His educational background includes an MBA from UCLA Anderson and a BA from Princeton University. He has served on the boards of Theatre Bay Area and Crowded Fire Theatre, and was appointed to the San Francisco Arts Task Force during 2005-06.
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D. Jean Hester is the owner of Dive Studios, a graduate student at California Institute of the Arts, and a multi-media installation artist who has shown her work throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada. Formerly employed as a programmer for Jet Propulsion Lab, Toyota, and other large corporations located in California, Jean has acquired an extensive body of knowledge about marketing on the web. She is an early graduate of “Business of Art” and has been teaching “Marketing on the Web for Artists and Arts Organizations” for over three years.  Recent exhibitions and installations have been included in the inaugural show at LAAA's satellite gallery in Hermosa Beach (juried by Jeremy Strickland); the Aiden Riley Taylor Gallery; the Armory; and the 13th Annual International Symposium of Electronic Art, in San Jose.
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Nancy Hytone Leb
is an arts marketing and management consultant and is currently the Director of Training at the Center for Cultural Innovation.  Other clients include LA Stage Alliance, Academy for New Musical Theatre and Syzygy Theatre.   Nancy also develops and presents arts marketing workshops for artists and arts organizations including the Center for Cultural Innovation, LA County Arts Commission, Theatre Bay Area and the National Arts Marketing Project.  She recently authored the chapter, Marketing Your Art / Marketing Your Arts Business in CCI’s publication, Business of Art: An Artist’s Guide to Profitable Self-Employment.  From 2000 - 2004, Nancy was the Director of Marketing and Development for Playhouse West in Walnut Creek, CA.   Her for profit years were spent in senior account management positions at three of the West Coast's largest advertising agencies working on national brands such as Toyota, Saturn, Honda and California Pizza Kitchen.  Nancy received a graduate certificate in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University and her B.A. from Iowa State University.
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Linda Joy Kattwinkel is a visual artist as well as an attorney.  She practices primarily copyright, trademark, and arts law.  She is an experienced transactional attorney and litigator, particularly in federal courts and the Trademark Trial an Appeals Board.  Ms. Kattwinkel has also been mediating and arbitrating intellectual property and arts related disputes since 1987.   Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Kattwinkel worked for thirteen years as a graphic artist in editorial, corporate and advertising design, illustration and typography.  Today she paints at her studio in San Francisco where she sometimes participates in Open Studios.  Her artwork has been shown in over 25 museum and gallery exhibitions.   She serves as a trainer and volunteer mediator and arbitrator for CLA’s Arts Arbitration and Mediation Service.  She recently co-authored the AIGA’’s form contracts for designers.  Ms. Kattwinkel  is the author of Legalities, a regular online column for artists, for the GAG Northern California chapter. 
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Amy Kweskin Amy Kweskin is an internationally recognized non-profit management consultant specializing in organizational capacity building. She has worked with hundreds of arts and culture organizations in the US and with Third Sector charities in the UK to build leadership and management capacity through consulting, coaching, training and facilitation services. From 2005-2006 Amy was a professor of Arts Administration at University of Houston Downtown, inspiring her to pursue a research Fellowship with Americans for the Arts. In 2006 she relocated to the UK where she worked as Manager of Business Development for a national legal organization. Having returned to the Bay Area in 2008 Amy has begun the Doctor of Business Administration at Golden Gate University with a focus on building sustainable social enterprise. She earned an MA in Arts Administration from Golden Gate University and Bachelors Degrees in Cinema/Photography and English from Ithaca College.
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Lisa Lynne is a veteran musician and performer who has sold over half a million albums of original music featuring her Celtic harp. From humble beginnings she has ascended the ladder of success to starting her own production company and recording studio.  Having signed with the prestigious Windham Hill and New Earth Record labels, she simultaneously launched her own label Lavender Sky Music.  Her last four album releases have placed in the top 20 Billboard music chart, ("Hopes & Dreams" reaching #6) as well as holding top spots in the Celtic, New Age, and world music radio airplay charts.  She supports CCI as both a trainer and counselor.
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Jay W. MacIntosh is a Los Angeles attorney practicing in the areas of Entertainment and the Arts, Music Law, Intellectual Property, Corporate Formation, Contracts, Real Estate; Bankruptcy and Employment Law.  The former President of the Board of Directors for Women in Film and a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel of the Academy of Television Arts & Science, Ms. MacIntosh is also a former actress of Film, Television, Commercials and Theater and a member of SAG, AFTRA and ASCAP.
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Gil Morales engineer/producer, has helped recording artists bring their creative vision to fruition for over twenty five years.  In addition to his work with Grammy winning artists such as B.B. King, Lyle Lovett, Linda Ronstadt and Nati Cano, he has worked extensively with independent artists in the World Music, New Age and Gospel markets.  Mr. Morales shares his vast experience in many areas of the music industry
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David Perry has generated extensive media coverage - print, online, TV and radio - for a variety of clients. He introduced many clients to the Internet and developed their online communication strategies. As a writer he has contributed to a number of national publications and written on textbook, The Media How-To Guide for Nonprofits. David developed an original and international media database, including Internet addresses, with more than 10,000 contacts and his clients have been featured on national and international media. Current clients include Bay Area National Dance Week, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Lighthouse for the Blind, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, SF Girls Chorus, San Francisco International Arts Festival and Theatre of Yugen. David lectures at San Francisco State and the California Institute of Arts. In 2006, he was asked by Grants for the Arts and the SF Visitors Bureau to teach a series of PR basics to the arts community.
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David Plettner, J.D. is Co-Founder of The Cultural+Planning Group, a consulting firm based in Los Angeles and Honolulu.  C+PG works with leading arts and cultural organizations, philanthropic foundations, and government agencies to strengthen arts and cultural communities and economies.  Clients include Hawaii Community Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.  A retired modern dancer, David toured internationally with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company and Loretta Livingston & Dancers.  He hold a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, a B.A. from Wesleyan University, and was a special student in dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts. "I am inspired by the creativity of arts and cultural communities that I have worked with around the country.  I find that communities that value and support their arts and cultural economies have greater vitality; citizens of these communities better understand the uniqueness of their lives and they celebrate their sense of place."
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Michele Pred is a conceptual collage/installation artist who works with recycled, confiscated and found objects that are imbued with cultural and political meaning. Her work has been reviewed and featured by The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, ARTnews, Art in America, WIRED blog, Associated Press Television, CNN, MSNBC, Ready Made Magazine, Travel and Leisure Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Corriere della Sera (Italy), TV4 and Dagens Nyheter (Sweden).  Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs in London, Stockholm, New York, Bologna, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the 21st Century Museum, The Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, the Di Rosa Preserve in Napa, CA and is in numerous private collections. She is represented by the Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York and the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles.  In addition to her own artwork, Michele teaches professional practices at California College of the Arts and has been working as an artist career coach for the last year and a half. 
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Nancy E. Quinn
received her MBA in Arts Administration from the Anderson School at UCLA in 1983. As part of her business school curriculum, she served as an intern in the fundraising office at New York City Ballet. Her professional experience in the arts includes managerial positions with the Sequoia String Quartet Foundation, Chamber Music America, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and San Francisco Performances. She is the founder and principal of Quinn Associates, which has been providing fundraising services for Bay Area arts organizations since 1988. In Winter 2007, Nancy served as an Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts.
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Mari Riddle, is Regional Director of Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) Los Angeles Services. PCV, provides resources and capital to businesses that have the potential to bring significant economic gains to low/moderate income communities. She is a committee member of VEDC's SBA Microloan credit Committee and the Los Angeles Arts Loan Fund. Prior to joining, PCV, Mari was Executive Director of TELACU Community Capital (TCC). There she was responsible for the strategic development, management, and capitalization of a $6.5+ million dollar CDF that provided small business loans, business management workshops, and resources and referrals to small businesses operating in the low-to-moderate income communities of Los Angeles and Orange counties. Mari is also the former Executive Director of the Coalition for Women's Economic Development (CWED), a pioneer microenterprise development organization.
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Katherine Ruiz received her B.S. in Accounting in 1983 and worked in the private sector until 1995. At that time, she went to work for Williams and Tucker CPA and for the past eleven years has performed a wide range of accounting services in the nonprofit sector, including the arts and entertainment industries. Katie participates in CCI’s Arts Tune Up programs and also counsels individual artists on tax issues.
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Gregory Rutchik is the founding lawyer of The Arts and Technology Law Group. The firm represent creators, technologists and businesses in business and infringement litigation and in negotiations of the business agreements. Greg received a J.D. in 1992 from Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Dean's List. He received a B.A. in American Studies from Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1987. Greg was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tokyo Graduate of Law from 1992 - 1993. His focus was the Licensing of technology by Japanese information technology companies. Greg has traveled throughout the world, lived in Tokyo for four years after college and law school and speaks fluent Japanese and is also conversant in French. In 2005, Gregory received his LLM in Taxation with honors from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California.
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Allison Sampson’s career has spanned the worlds of banking, finance and the arts. She has served as both the Development Director and the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Festival, as the Assistant Managing Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and as the Director of the Colburn Foundation. She has her own consulting company with a clientele that includes Plaza de la Raza, Deaf West Theatre, United Cambodian Community, the Department of Water and Power, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Women Incorporated, and arts organizations throughout California. Allison currently is the Coordinator for CCI’s Arts Loan Fund and also offers workshops to CCI artists on “Financing Your Project”.
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Yesenia Sanchez Soleil Coaching & Consulting, is a professional coach and arts management consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has over 10 years experience working with artists and arts organizations as a financial manager, administrative director, program director, coach and consultant. Previously, she ran one of the largest artist incubation programs in the country at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. Yesenia has presented workshops on the topics of fundraising and development, fiscal sponsorship, and personal finance and business planning for artists at The Foundation Center, Independent Arts & Media, and California College for the Arts. She has also served as a panelist for the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco Foundation & Grants for the Arts “Best Practices Series” and the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention.
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Hope Tschopik Schneider teaches “Planning, Plain and Simple”, the workshop that always kicks off CCI’s flagship series, “The Business of Art”. Her skills as a planning strategist have been employed and enjoyed by Grand Performances, California Institute of the Arts, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, The Pasadena Conservatory of Music, and The Pacific Asia Museum. In a previous incarnation, Hope served as the Associate Director of the Olympic Arts Festival during the 23rd Olympiad in Los Angeles. More recently, she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and made it to the Base Camp of Mount Everest. She has also traveled to the Galapagos Islands, to Patagonia, and to most of Nova Scotia’s bays and coves. She is dedicated to her family, explorations of the spirit, her Book Club, good food and good friends, not necessarily in that order.
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Dewey Schott is an Associate Certified Coach who passionate about helping leaders soar to new heights. He has over sixteen years of experience working in the social and cultural sectors specializing in capacity building and leadership development. Through both his coaching practice and his role as Senior Manager of Leadership Services for NAMAC, a national arts service organization, he helps people stretch into their leadership potential, achieve their creative goals, develop healthy life/work practices, and create more effective organizations. Dewey is currently researching “next generation” leadership in California arts organizations for The James Irvine Foundation. He is also a member of the LeaderSpring Executive Coaching team; a member of the Bay Area Leadership Coaching Learning Circle convened by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services; and has lead workshops on coaching in the arts for Americans for the Arts. He received his B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies and completed his coach training at The Coaches Training Institute
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Margaret Southerland
is a Principal in the San Francisco office of Strategic Philanthropy Advisors. Margaret Southerland has more than twenty years of experience in the financial sector. She had a 13-year career with JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor firm, J.P. Morgan, with positions in both California and New York. Most recently she was Vice President of Corporate Philanthropy and Sponsorships for JPMorgan Chase, and served as the California Program Officer for the J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation. Prior to this role, she was Vice President and Director of Corporate Communications and Charitable Giving for the Western U.S. for J.P. Morgan and the California Program Officer for the J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust.  Margaret has been active in the California philanthropic and nonprofit communities, serving in a variety of capacities with the Northern California Community Loan Fund, Northern California Grantmakers, Bay Area Corporate Volunteer Council Steering Committee, University of Southern California Center on Philanthropy & Public Policy, and Autry National Center Acquisition Committee.
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Judith Teitelman teaches “Best Foot Forward” for CCI. She brings more than twenty years experience in planning, revenue generation and management strategies for grassroots, mid-size and large arts organizations to her consulting practice. She has been a Planning Consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Technical Assistance Specialist to the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Her other clients include PEN Center USA West, SCI-Arc, Japanese American National Museum, LA Freewaves New Media Festival, and Collage Dance Theatre. She is a dedicated world traveler and is currently working on a novel about India.
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Linda Vallejo has received numerous fellowships, awards and commissions including the Brody Arts Fund Fellowship, Outstanding Young Woman of America, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Artist Award and the Comision Femenil de Los Angeles Latinas Making History Award. She has had solo exhibitions at the Carnegie Art Museum, the Latino Museum in Pomona, the Patricia Correia Gallery, SPARC and the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Carnegie Art Museum, the US Santa Barbara Library, and Self-Help Graphics. Linda has owned and managed her own grantswriting business for over twenty years and currently offers grantswriting seminars throughout the country.
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Greg Victoroff, a partner at Rohde and Victoroff, literally wrote the book on “Poetic Justice” and co-authored “The Visual Artists’ Business and Legal Guide”. As a lawyer and as an author of legal guides for both visual and performing artists, Greg teaches workshops on copyright, collections, trademarks, and contracts for clients in Honolulu, Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. When not protecting artists in the courtroom, Greg plays the role of Super Dad to his two young sons and their giant dog. A trained orchestra musician, he also sits in with numerous bands and musical groups, including Santana, Huey Lewis and the News, and Bobby McFerrin. He is a member of California Lawyers for the Arts. His workshop for CCI is called “Copyright, Collections and Contracts’.
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Nancy Walch
founded Walch Consulting, LLC in 1973. Walch Consulting provides executive coaching and strategic planning services to corporate giving programs, foundations, and other nonprofit organizations. She enjoys the creativity involved in responding to the diversity of her clients' needs, including: coaching nonprofit leaders and entrepreneurs to take their vision to the next level; refocusing the efforts of well-established corporate foundations and nonprofit organizations, and guiding the development of new organizations. Previously, Walch was Founder of an Experimental Education Program at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Director, Los Angeles Junior Arts Center Gallery (curating interactive art exhibits for youth and families), and Co-Founder of Museum Educators of Southern California. Nancy has served on the Corporate Committee of Southern California Grantmakers, and the Executive Committee of ArtTable (a national organization of professional women in leadership positions in the visual arts).
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Richard Walch joined Walch Consulting after 20+ years leading the largest metropolitan bar association in the United States, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, where he served as General Counsel and Executive Director. As a former head of a nonprofit organization, Richard brings to Walch Consulting hands-on experience with a full range of management issues from governance, leadership development, strategic planning and personnel issues to building strategic relationships with the business community.  Among his many civic and professional achievements, Richard served as President of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Southern California Law Center and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
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Morrie Warshawski
has worked in the nonprofit arts sector for over thirty years as an administrator, consultant, facilitator, teacher and writer. His practice has included work with State and Regional Government Agencies (South Carolina, Missouri, Michigan, California), Foundations (Bush, MacArthur, Pew Charitable Trust), The President's Commission on the Arts and the Humanities, and numerous nonprofit organizations in many disciplines (Operation Shoestring, California Coalition for Youth, Michigan Alzheimer's Organization, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, St. Louis Black Repertory Company, and others.) He was Executive Director of three nonprofits (including Bay Area Video Coalition). Warshawski has extensive experience in the area of strategic planning. He designed and edited a Website devoted to strategic planning essays for the National Endowment for the Arts called LESSONS LEARNED; and for many years was one of the consultants for the NEA's Advancement Program, which provided fifteen months of planning assistance to organizations throughout the US.
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Judith Luther Wilder
is co-founder and current Senior Program Consultant to the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI).  She was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Women Incorporated (WI), a national organization designed to serve women entrepreneurs, and Executive Director and Founder of the American Woman's Economic Development Corporation.  Luther Wilder is also the founder/owner of ALW & Associates, a firm whose clients have included Arts International, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Center Theatre Group and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others. As the Executive Director of the 1990 Los Angeles Festival, a $5 million event that involved 22 countries and over 1500 artists, Luther Wilder helped to produce the work of hundreds of international artists in the United States. She has also coordinated numerous special arts events and economic development projects in Japan, China, and Cambodia and is the author of three books of poetry, a textbook for artists and a book published in December 1999, entitled "Breaking Through the Clutter."
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Jan Williamson is the co-Executive Director of 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica.  Her class on "Artists Residencies and Internships" has been offered to artists through CCI for the past three years.  Jan is actively involved in developing housing for artists and provided a leadership role in restoring the budget of the Cultural Affairs Department budget when it was threatened in 2004.  She is a member of the Arts Commission for the City of Santa Monica and serves on their Live / Work Committee.  She also serves on the Board of Directors for a local Tibetan Buddhist temple and when not working, can be found drumming with a group of Brazilian samba percussionists.
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SanSan Wong has over 20+ years of working in the arts. She is an independent arts consultant and is currently the Program Director of Cultural Equity Grants for the San Francisco Arts Commission. As a consultant she is focused on the exploration of new aesthetics, the impact of changing demographics and increased internationalism on arts and cultural practice, strategic planning, and strengthening support systems for brining artists and communities together. Her clients have included: The Ford Foundation, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Leveraging Investments in Creativity, Fund for Folk Culture, The Asia Society, among others. She has worked throughout the United States, and in the Asia Pacifica region. Her other institutional experience includes as executive Director of the National Performance Network, and before that, Director of Development and Special Initiatives at Theater Artaud (San Francisco).
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Jerry Yoshitomi’s company is called Meaning Matters. He is a Cultural Facilitator and provides consulting services for organizations such as Leveraging Investment in Creativity (LINC), a national initiative designed to improve the lives / conditions of artists. He chaired the National Task Force on Presenting and Touring the Performing Arts, which resulted in the seminal report, “An American Dialogue”. Jerry chaired three panels at the National Endowment for the Arts, served four years on the California Arts Council, was Treasurer of the Music Center of Los Angeles County and was the Executive Director of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center.
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