Anyka Howard Email & Phone Number

United States

Oakland, California, United States

Oakland, California

Co-founder of a grassroots advocacy and action coalition formed to intervene and respond to growing racial and economic disparities affecting historically disinvested arts and culture communities. Led the design and implementation of a multi-year campaign and citywide public policy platform for arts, culture and equitable development. Achieved critical budget and policy wins that established new arts and culture leadership within city government, advanced the adoption of a citywide cultural plan with OCNC priorities embedded, re- established the arts and culture commission, influenced the Downtown Specific plan and developed the next generation of cultural organizers.

San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Executive on a 6 person organizational leadership team responsible for leading the operations, management, financial and social sustainability of a nationally and internationally recognized museum with an annual operating budget of over $16M.- Directly responsible for day-to-day operations of Center for Audience & Civic Engagement (CACE), a high performance and visitor centric team. Managed four direct reports and supervised a staff of 30 across four departments with an operating budget of more than $1.5M.- Led the team producing the signature OMCA weekly festival, Friday Nights at OMCA, attracting more than 250,000 people per year, as well as OMCA education programs serving more than 40,000 students, teachers and adults per year.- Designed and launched the first OMCA Youth Access Pass (OYP), an institution wide initiative to engage 5,000 youth ages 9-18 and their families onsite by providing all access to OMCA galleries and programs during RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, impacting more than 30,000 people at scale.- Co-directed a $9M, multi-year institution wide community engagement initiative funded by the James Irvine Foundation to increase the participation of low-income & communities of color at OMCA.

San Francisco Bay Area

Grantmaking at the intersection of arts, culture and equitable community development. Determine the solicitation of grants and the response to nonprofit, government, and private agency requests for Foundation funding. Shaping local community development and anti-displacement grant making and investment strategies that increase the local supply of affordable housing, retain the current stock of affordable housing, protect vulnerable tenants from arbitrary and unjust eviction, link local development to local jobs and economic opportunities, and integrate arts and cultural practices within comprehensive community development solutions.

San Francisco Bay Area

Provide technical, operational, and project management support to advance place-informed grantmaking programs and initiatives.● Activate more than $10M in investments to prevent the displacement of low-income and communities of color and preserve the racial/cultural identity of the Bay Area.● Manage partnerships, special projects, a cohort of 15 regional arts and cultural institutions, and five merit-based awards and scholarships with combined annual budgets of more than $4.5M.● Strengthened organizational capacity as an internal advisor to cross-department teams. Developed arts and culture strategy for the Foundation’s grantmaking.● Tapped for content expertise and selected to represent the Foundation at local, regional and national convening’s, conferences and key speaking engagements.● Liaison and advisor to external partners, including City and County of San Francisco Arts Commission; City of Oakland Mayor’s Task Force on Artists Affordable Housing and Workspaces, and Northern California Grantmakers Arts Loan Fund Steering Committee.