YBCA Fellows
The YBCA Fellows program brings together creative citizens from across the Bay Area - artists and everyday people alike - to engage in a yearlong process of inquiry, dialogue, and project generation.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is the Bay Area’s creative home for civic action. We believe that culture precedes change, and it is the responsibility of arts organizations to spur and support societal movement. Each Fellowship cohort explores and responds to a question that emerged from our annual YBCA 100 Summit and together they’ll use art and culture to inspire community transformation. Fellows projects will be presented during our Fellows Forum (Feb) or as Public Programs (Mar-Jun) and can take the form of panels, performance or visual presentations, writing, screenings, visual arts, workshops, etc. These projects provide platforms to share new ideas and information and drive new possibilities into the public imagination.
2017-2018 YBCA Fellows questions:
- How do we find and empower TRUTH?
- Where is our PUBLIC IMAGINATION?
- Can we make CREATIVE DISSENT matter?
STELLA ADELMAN
Program Director, Dance Mission
Performer/Dancer
ANNIE ALBAGLI
Interdisciplinary Artist
LARRY (LAURA) ARRINGTON
Dance-Artist
CHRISTY CHAN
Artist / Writer
LORRIE CHANG
Program Associate for Arts, Culture, and Equitable Development
RAPHAEL COHEN
Writer, Performer, and Arts Educator
COURTNEY DONOVAN
Associate Professor in Geography, SFSU
KATIE FAULKNER
Choreographer/Performer/Teaching Artist
JOHANNA HOFFMAN
Designer. Associate, Urban Fabrick. Founder, SHIFTWORKS
ALEJANDRO JIMENEZ JARAMILLO
Interdisciplinary Storyteller, Facilitator & Community Builder
SAM LEW
Editor of the Street Sheet
ERICA MOLESWORTH
Artist/ Educator
VIVIENNE MULLER
Writer, Dancer, Researcher
NKECHI NJAKA
Neuroscientist, Multi-Disciplinary Artist/ Choreographer + Meditation Guide
ADRIENNE SKYE ROBERTS
Organizer and Educator
ERIK SCHMITT
Partner and Creative Director, studio1500
VIVIEN SIN
Artist, Product Manager at LinkedIn
JACINDA TOWNSEND
Novelist/Professor
ANIA TROSZKIEWICZ
Artist & Designer
JEREMY VILLALUZ
Artist and Lecturer (San Francisco State University)
RACHEL WYLEY
Vocalist, Songwriter, Composer, International Performer
JUSTIN CARDER
Designer, Founder at Wolfman Books
SAROLTA JANE CUMP
Conjuror at Chimera Obscura
JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA
Writer/ Community-Organizer/ Historian
SAMANTHA “SAMMAY” DIZON
Interdisciplinary Artist; Activist; Kinetic Storyteller; Founder of URBAN x INDIGENOUS
COURTNEY FERRIS
Design & Engagement
CLAIRE FITZSIMMONS
Co-Founder and Director, Storefront Institute
BRITNEY (BRIT) FRAZIER
Actor/ Director/Educator
YOLANDA HIPPENSTEELE
Social Change Strategist, Organizer and Convener
CYNTHIA HUA
Artist and Researcher
KAYLA JONES
Designer, Visual Artist & Art Director
DARRELL JONES III
Organizer and Co Founder of TechEquity Collaborative
MARGARET MCCARTHY
Performance artist, San Francisco Neo-Futurist
MOKSHA OSGOOD
Designer and Builder of small dwellings
PAUL PILLITTERI
Designer. Contributor. Thinker. Maker.
JESIKAH MARIA ROSS
Media Artist & Senior Community Engagement Strategist, Capital Public Radio
ZOE SAMUDZI
Writer, PhD student in Sociology at University of California, San Francisco
ANNA SERGEEVA
Artist
KATE SPACEK
Artist / Facilitator / Producer
THUY TRAN
Artist | Events Producer
Public Programs Coordinator, JCCSF
ALEX WERTH
Geographer & DJ
MISHA ABBAS
California College of the Arts
MICKEY BELMER
San Francisco State University
CYNTHIA M BELTRAN-ISLAS
San Francisco State University
RIVER BLACK
California College of the Arts
JULIA BLUME
San Francisco Art Institute
JENNIFER BRANDEL
California College of the Arts
BARRETT COONEY
San Francisco Art Institute
KATIE CURRY
San Francisco Art Institute
LIEYAH DAGAN
University of California, Berkeley
PAIGE DAVIS
University of California, Berkeley
MOLLY DOW
MPA Candidate, Columbia University
BEATRIZ ESCOBAR
California College of the Arts
ALLYSON FUENTES
San Francisco State University
CAMILLA HAMMER
California College of the Arts
GERALD HENDERSON
High School Teacher
AUSTIN INMAN
San Francisco State University
JACKIE KATZ
California College of the Arts
STACY KELLNER
University of California, Berkeley
JEAR KEOKHAM
University of California, Berkeley
PATRICIA LEAL
California College of the Arts
YVETTE MARTHELL
San Francisco Art Institute
CARLOS ALBERTO MAYER
San Francisco Art Institute
STEFANIE MCGINNIS
University of California, Berkeley
XENIA MOSELEY
California College of the Arts
ANNA MUESSIG
Founder of West Coast Women Unite, Project Manager at Gehl
HOLLY NGUYEN
San Francisco State University
MAIA NUNES
Artist
JUAN OCASIO
California College of the Arts
CHAYE PAGEL
San Francisco Art Institute
YULA PALUY
Recovering academic and aspiring Renaissance woman
MARY PETERSEN
San Francisco State University
ELLEN PONG
University of California, Berkeley
RANDY REYES
Choreographer-dance Artist-Curanderx
IMRI RIVAS
Anarchist Organizer and Writer
CATIA ROMERO
San Francisco State University
JOANNA RUCKMAN
San Francisco Art Institute
SUZANNE RUSSELL
San Francisco Art Institute
JULIA SCHEINMAN
University of California, Berkeley
ETHAN SILVER
University of California, Berkeley
CAROLINE SINDERS
Designer, Researcher, Artist
KAVLEEN SINGH
University of California, Berkeley
BRADLEY SMITH
San Francisco Art Institute
SOPHIA SOBKO
Artist and Educator; PhD Student, Education, UC Berkeley
KARLY STARK
Experimental Filmmaker, Curator, and Lecturer at San Francisco State University
JAMIE TURNER
California College of the Arts
RAPHAEL VILLET
Artist, Publisher
RACHEL WEIDINGER
Artist, Researcher & Community Organizer
ANNA XU
Designer and Activist
VANESSA ZAGAROLI
San Francisco State University
MARIA ISABEL ZAMARRON
San Francisco State University
See our YBCA Fellow cohorts from past years