Josephine Ramirez Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Greater Los Angeles Area

Supervising all arts and cultural programming at The Music Center (TMC) the performing arts center of Los Angeles County. TMC provides accessible, diverse, inclusive and equitable arts experiences to deepen residents’ cultural life by emphasizing low cost and free participatory, immersive, digital, and civic engagement activities. Programs take place at.

Specializing in arts leadership, organizational capacity-building towards cultural equity, and arts philanthropy. Developed a project about individual philanthropic giving in arts and culture at the University of Southern California's Center for Philanthropy and Public Policy. Also Advisor and workshop facilitator from 2016 to 2019 at Stanford University's.

San Francisco And Los Angeles, CA

As Program Director I exercised principal leadership for the then largest funder of the arts in California, awarding an average of $18 million per year in rural and urban California. I conceived, developed, launched, and implemented a new strategic direction for Irvine’s arts investments that aim for organizational transformation and a renewal of the arts.

Developed and launched a new programming department. Created, designed, developed, and launched “Active Arts at the Music Center”, year-round participatory dance, music, and storytelling programs, a national model for multi-disciplinary, participatory-based arts programming. Created and launched “Global Pop” in Walt Disney Concert Hall featuring Mexican.

At the Foundation (then known as the Getty Grant Program) managed portfolios related to undergraduate and international graduate internships, Los Angeles cultural organizations, arts education research, arts policy, museum collections cataloguing, and organizational capacity building. Coordinated and edited a report on a national arts education research.

Produced and Co-Curated a month-long bi-national exchange of performance and cultural-political dialogues in Mexico City and Los Angeles featuring Mexican and U.S. Latino performance, literary, visual artists. As a consultant, led major expansion and implementation of program and related organizational policies for low-income and homeless children from one.

Created and produced theatre productions for 40,000 elementary school students annually; produced and managed all programs for young people, including the creation and implementation of a high school education program; developed multi-year initiative to produce Latino theatre and community festivals.

Loeb Fellowship

Activities and Societies: This fellowship supported my ongoing research on informal, non-professional and participatory arts practices and.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa)

Activities and Societies: MFA magna cum laude, Theatre/Child Drama, and post-grad coursework, Urban Planning.

Ba In Theatre