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Kerry Adams-Hapner
Director, City of San Jose, Office of Cultural Affairs
San Jose, CA

Ken Bernhardt
Regents Professor & Taylor E. Little Jr. Professor of Marketing
Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

Steven Brewster
Economic Development Officer, City of San Jose, Office of Cultural Affairs
San Jose, CA

Alan S. Brown
Principal, WolfBrown
San Francisco, CA

Bruce Davis
Executive Director, Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA

Chris Esparza
President, Giant Creative Services
San Jose, CA

Ron Evans
Principal, Group of Minds
Salinas, CA

Barbara Goldstein
Public Art Program Director, City of San Jose, Office of Cultural Affairs
San Jose, CA

Bernadine C. Griffin
Director of Theater Advancement & Development, 5th Avenue Theatre
Seattle, WA

Roy Hirabayashi
Executive Director, San Jose Taiko
San Jose, CA

Andrew Huang President, Houston Downtown Alliance, Houston, TX

Eliza Benington Kozlowski
Director of Communications & Visitor Services,
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film
Rochester, NY

Terence McFarland
Executive Director, LA Stage Alliance
Los Angeles, CA

J. Dennis Rich
Chair, Arts & Media Management, Colombia College Chicago
Chicago, IL

Joshua Russell
Director of Communications and Emerging Initiatives, 1stACT Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA

Doniece Sandoval
Chief External Relations Officer, Zero1
San Jose, CA

Joanne Steller
Vice President, Strategic Communications, TRG
Chevy Chase, MD

Laura Sweet
VP Marketing and Communications, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Saint Paul, MN

Andrew Taylor
Director, Bolz Center for Arts Administration
Madison, WI

Jeff Trabucco
Interim Managing Director, Artsopolis
San Jose, CA

Donna Williams
Audience Development Specialist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY

Daniel P. Wilson
Theater Consultant, genARTS Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA

Jerry Yoshitomi
Consultant, MeaningMatters Port
Hueneme, CA

Alice Sachs Zimet
President, Arts + Business Partners LLC
New York, NY

Arts Council Silicon Valley 4 North Second Street, Suite 500 San Jose, CA 95113 408-998-2787 www.artscouncil.org

Established in 1982, Arts Council Silicon Valley is a private, nonprofit arts organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Santa Clara County residents by creating and fostering arts and culture throughout the region.

As a grantmaking agency, they provide funding and fundraising support services to more than 140 local arts organizations and individual artists. The Arts Council also provides advocacy, marketing, and support services to more than 600 local arts organizations and strives to help make the arts accessible to our youth.

As the official state and local partner with the California Arts Council and the County of Santa Clara, they are now the largest private nonprofit arts council in the state. Since their inception, they have distributed nearly $24 million in grants and services to the arts in the region.

City of San Jose, Office of Cultural Affairs
170 West San Carlos Street
San Jose, CA 95113
408-277-5144
www.sanjoseculture.org

The Office of Cultural Affairs is the City of San Jose's lead agency for supporting and promoting the development of a rich arts and cultural environment for this diverse city's nearly one million residents, its workers who live in neighboring communities, and its many visitors.

The Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) is a unit of the City's Office of Economic Development. Together, they foster cultural and economic development as related strategies for continuing to build San Jose as the cultural and economic heart of Silicon Valley. The OCA coordinates services for a large number of outdoor events and festivals, offers a variety of financial support opportunities for arts and culture providers, supports arts education, and leads the development of public art works throughout the city.