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About YBCA
Opened to the public in 1993, YBCA was founded as the cultural anchor of San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Gardens neighborhood. Our work spans the realms of contemporary art, performance, film, civic engagement, and public life. Centering artists as essential to social and cultural movement, YBCA is reimagining the role an arts institution can play in the community it serves.
Our Mission
We believe that culture is an essential catalyst for change.
Therefore, it’s the responsibility of arts institutions to spur and support societal movement.
Our mission is to generate culture that moves people.
Leadership Team
Board of Directors
Sara Fenske Bahat
Chair, MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts
Board Chair
Dave Weber
EVP Wholesale Risk, Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA
Vice Chair and Treasurer
Renuka Kher
Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship,
San Francisco, CA
Secretary
Dale Cook
Director of Engineering
at McKinsey Academy,
San Francisco, CA
Member-At-Large
Jeff Chang
Vice President of Narrative,
Arts and Culture, Race Forward,
Oakland, CA
Board Member
Amy Eliot
Design Principal at Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture,
San Francisco, CA
Board Member
Nancy Levinson
Editor and Executive Director
of Places Journal,
San Francisco, CA
Board Member
Laura Livoti
Philanthropic Advisor and
Nonprofit Consultant,
San Francisco, CA
and New Orleans, LA
Board Member
Philip Sager
MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS, Consulting Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Board Member
Helen Sause
Former Deputy Executive Director,
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency,
Alameda, CA
Emeritus
Corinne Sklar
Chief Marketing Officer of IBM iX,
San Francisco, CA
Board Member
Zak Williams
Founder of New Co.,
Los Angeles, CA
Board Member
Annual Report
Our mission is made possible by our stakeholders, those invested in ensuring that we can continue our work. Explore this past fiscal year’s highlights.
2018–19 Audited Financial Statement
