Advisory Board
JOSÉ CÁRDENAS
Senior Vice President
Arizona State UniversityGLORIA GERACE
Board ChairFounder
Culture Projects
David W. Blight
Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Yale UniversityBryan Bowles
CEO
AtomTickets
Olga Garay-English
Director, National Latinx Theater Initiative and Principal, OMGArtsplus
WILLIAM W. GERRITY
Chairman and CEO
The Gerrity Group
John Gray
Former Director
Smithsonian National Museum of American HistoryColleen Jennings-Roggensack
Vice President of Culture Affairs, Arizona State University (ASU)
Executive Director, ASU Gammage
Naima Keith
Vice President, Education and Public Programs
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)David Lai
CEO and Creative Director
Hello Design
Natalia Molina
Dean’s Professor and Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern CaliforniaAmber Martinez
Vice President of Membership & Sustainability
SoCal Grantmakers
Karla Diaz Sayles
Deputy Director of the California Film Commission
Suman Sorg
Founder and CEO
A Complete Unknown
Margita Thompson
Former CA Gubernatorial Press Secretary
RALPH WALTER
Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford;
Retired Partner, Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LP
Betsy Weisman
Principal Planner
Weisman ConsultingMichael Woo
Dean Emeritus, College of Environmental Design, Cal Poly Pomona
Former Member, Los Angeles City Council
Zev Yaroslavsky
Director, Los Angeles Initiative, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs;
Former Member, Los Angeles County Board of SupervisorsReza Zaidi
Manager, C-17 Structural Design
The Boeing Company
Emeritus advisory board members
Antonio Villaraigosa
Former Mayor of Los Angeles