Stephanie Imah

As Program Director of Grants, Stephanie supports strengthening and sustaining CCI’s grantmaking and professional development programs for individual artists and arts workers. 

Stephanie joins CCI with over twelve years of experience, moving resources, stewarding programs, and developing and overseeing complex initiatives. She most recently served as the Director of Community Fund Design at the Movement Strategy Center, a movement-support philanthropic intermediary. While at MSC, Stephanie worked to shift power dynamics in philanthropy and redistribute power and wealth to frontline and grassroots groups advancing systems-level change. Prior to Movement Strategy Center, she led artist resourcing initiatives at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where she managed two of the nation's first guaranteed income programs for artists, a national artist-led giving circle, and collaborated on a research initiative exploring the intersection of art and public health.

Stephanie received her B.S. from University of Oregon in Public Relations and has deepened her commitment to resource mobilizing over the years -- having worked with organizations like Allied Media Projects, Afrotectopia (NYU Tisch School of Arts), Levis, and Rosie the Riveter Trust. In her creative time, she’s a practicing ceramist and textile weaver.