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Shelley Trott

Lath President

Shelley Trott is Primary Program Officer for the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, serving on the Foundation's executive and leadership teams. In this office, she advances organizational strategy, supports a diverse grantmaking portfolio, and fosters collaboration, evaluation and learning, and affect. Before holding this position, Shelley was Director, Arts Strategy & Ventures, leading the Foundation's strategic direction for the arts. Shelley joined the Foundation in 2009 as one of its starting time employees and has played an integral role in the evolution of its 3 programme areas. Her past piece of work as a dance and media artist has informed her entrepreneurial and collaborative approach. Under Shelley's leadership, the Rainin Foundation'southward Arts programme established a reputation for taking smart risks and gained national recognition for its visionary piece of work. She regularly speaks about the important part the arts play in innovative place-based approaches to enriching neighborhoods and communities. In 2014, Shelley was awarded the Council on Foundation'due south prestigious Robert Scrivner Award for Artistic Grantmaking for her work with CAST. Shelley earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She is Board President of Immersive Arts Alliance and co-produces the annual Bay Surface area International Children's Film Festival.

Patience Yi

Director

PatienceYi is an executive motorbus, arts advocate and activist. Equally a quondam tech executive, she brings almost 20 years of experience as an operator and leader. In 2017 she pivoted full-time from tech to the arts, becoming Executive Director of Code and Canvas — an innovative San Francisco arts and community arrangement. For six years, Code and Canvas delivered below-marketplace-rate studio, event and exhibition infinite to over two hundred local artists, hosting hundreds of exhibitions visited by tens of thousands of civic-minded citizens from effectually the world. Through countless hard-fought battles to keep a community art space vibrant and good for you,Patience learned that secure and affordable physical space is disquisitional to the health of our artistic communities and to our gild'southward cultural fabric.Patience is also a public advocate for arts, culture and education. Some notable recent efforts include: Presenting at the Earth Cities Civilisation Forum (2018) on the importance and challenges of preserving physical space for arts and culture, participating in the San Francisco Arts Impact Working Group (2019) to develop recommendations for Prop E funding and serving every bit a juror for Artspan's SF Open Studios Exhibition (2019). As a working mother of three,Patience has also been a fierce advocate for public didactics; she is a Board Manager at the New School SF (public charter) where she Chairs the Facilities committee, helping to secure the school a permanent dwelling house.

Imaan Taghavi

Manager

Past day,Imaan is an engineer at Arup where he contributes his idea leadership to the design of complex buildings and infrastructure. Past night, he is the founder and Executive Director of The Omni Motion, an attempt to make social partner dance accessible to all. At CAST, he eagerly brings both professions together to support infinite-making for artists in the Bay Area.

Deborah Cullinan

Secretarial assistant

Deborah Cullinan is the Chief Executive Officer of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts – San Francisco's premiere contemporary art center. She is one of the nation's leading thinkers on the pivotal role arts organizations can play in shaping our social and political landscape, and has spent years mobilizing communities through arts and culture. Deborah is committed to revolutionizing the part fine art centers play in public life and during her tenure at YBCA, she has launched several assuming new programs, engagement strategies, and civic coalitions. Prior to joining YBCA in 2013, she was the Executive Director of San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts. She is a co-founder of CultureBank and ArtsForum SF, and co-chair of the San Francisco Arts Alliance. Her passion for using art and creativity to shift culture has made her a sought-after speaker at events and conferences around the world, and she has presented at the NEA, SF Planning & Urban Research Center, Center for the Theater Commons, Grantmakers in the Arts and more. She is on the advisory boards of The Center for the Theater Commons and The Goad Initiative. She received the 2013 Visionary Leadership Award in Accolade of Margo Jones from Theater Communications Grouping. She is a Rockwood Fellow; a Gerbode Fellow; and a participant in National Arts Strategies' Chief Executive Program an initiative gathering 100 superlative culture sector leaders to re-imagine what cultural institutions are and how they contribute to society.

Brady Forrest

Director

Brady Forrest runs Highway1, a hardware accelerator in San Francisco. He also co-founded Ignite, a global talk series that has spread to over 200 cities around the globe. Thousands of Ignite talks can exist found online on just as many topics, and Ignite holds quarterly events in San Francisco. Previously, Brady chaired xx-plus events in the Usa and Europe at O'Reilly Media. He's been attention Burning Homo since 2000 and has been a part of several big art projects such every bit the Centre Phoenix, the Temple of Shame and the Gravity Bowl. He speaks at events around the globe on hardware, the Ignite customs, and big art at Called-for Homo. He has a B.S. in Industrial Management Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Steven H. Oliver

Chairman Emeritus

Steven H. Oliver is President of the award-winning construction and development business firm Oliver & Visitor based in Richmond, CA, which has built over a chiliad buildings in the Bay Area, including the California Higher of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the Charles Thou. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa. A well-known arts philanthropist, advocate, and civic leader in the Bay Area, Mr. Oliver is the former Chairman of the Board of the San Francisco Museum of Mod Art. Currently, he is serving as Chairman of the Board for the U.s.a. Artists. Mr. Oliver has as well served as chairman of a division of the National Endowment for the Arts and has served on the boards of numerous arts organizations, including the California College of the Arts, Mills College Fine art Museum, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Artists' Legacy Foundation, and Community Arts Stabilization Trust (Bandage). Oliver and his married woman, Nancy, are respected collectors of contemporary art. They display ane of the nation'south near renowned private collections of site-specific art at their northern California habitation, Oliver Ranch.

We extend our gratitude and appreciation to these prominent leaders for sharing their expertise so generously with CAST.

Advisory Committees

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Fundraising

Brady Forrest
Patience Yi

Existent Estate

Jose Corona
Lydia Tan

Inspect

David Sacarelos
Len Forest

Former Board & Staff

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Board

Eric Rodenbeck (Founding Board Manager)
Jim Bildner

Staff

Marlena Donahue
Suneetha D'Silva
Kai Kāne Aoki Izu

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