Danielle Brazell Email & Phone Number

National arts and cultural leader Danielle Brazell, is passionate about the roles that arts, culture, and creativity play in advancing civic belonging, equity, economic prosperity, and social connectedness. Her career spans over thirty years, as an artist, teaching artist, presenter, arts administrator, and most recently as the General Manager of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). A passionate advocate, she continues to advance the support systems for creativity to thrive. As the former General Manager of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Ms. Brazell expanded funding programs, developed new public and community arts programs, and established new programs and policies that advanced access and equity. During her tenure, Ms. Brazell elevated the role the Department, and creativity plays to key stakeholders and authorizers leading to the largest budget and staffing allocation in the history of the agency. Appointed by Mayor Garcetti in July 2014, Ms. Brazell grew the agency from $13 to $22 million and formalized a robust $150 million portfolio of capital projects, facilities, programming, and initiatives of free/low-cost publicly accessible arts and cultural services citywide. Ms. Brazell, in collaboration with a dynamic staff of 84 full-time (and over 200 part-time including a robust roster of teaching artists), leveraged the city's investment in direct benefit to the 4 million residents, and 50 million visitors to Los Angeles annually. Prior to 2014, Ms. Brazell was the Executive Director of Arts for LA, a highly effective arts and arts education advocacy organization serving the greater Los Angeles region. Under her leadership, Arts for LA became a formidable coalition advancing the arts in the largest county in the country. During her tenure, Arts for LA developed a local advocacy platform that connected constituents with their local representative, created advocacy teams in communities throughout the County, launched Convergence, a regional cultural policy convening, and developed an open source policy platform model. Prior to her cultural policy roles, Ms. Brazell served as Artistic Director of Highways Performance Art Space and the Director of Special Projects for the Screen Actors Guild Danielle currently serves as the executive director of the California Arts Council and resides in Sacramento with her partner and their cat Maggie.

Listed skills include Grants, Community Development, Leadership, Policy, and 46 others.

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  Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School Of Government