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2025 YBG Festival Season Press Release
Opportunities
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Team Members
22 Seasons
Managing Director
10 Seasons
Special Events Director
25 Seasons
Director of Programming
18 Seasons
Communications Director
7 Seasons
Marketing Coordinator
1 Season
Office Manager
8 seasons
Programs &
Production Manager
17 Seasons
Special Events Coordinator
2 Seasons
Consultants & Curators
Resident Composer
YBG ChoreoFest Curators
Poet-in-Residence
Promotions & Public Relations
Bookkeeping
Creative Campaign Designers
Photographer
Photographer
Photographer
Videography
Seasonal Staff
Brett Abramson
Rafael Sarria
Jason Del Rosario
Linda Fung
Lily Gee
Elena Kobylina
Cindy Kuang
Mika Lemoine
Michael Leo
Aracely Lopez
Karina Lopez
Carlo Ricafort
Tatianna Steiner
Robin Silver
Conrad Talamantes
Christopher Wise
Hannah Woolfenden
Roger Young
Vicky Bhundhumani
In Memoriam
Christopher James Lafond
12/15/1986 – 7/13/2015
YBG Festival Event Staff and Friend
Rest in Peace
Board of Directors
Affiliations for identification purposes only.
Aaron Grizzell (President)
NorCal Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation
David de la Torre
Arts Consultant
Elaine Elinson
Educator/Writer
Elizabeth Gessel
Museum of the African Diaspora
Sean Jeffries
Millennium Partners
Al Levitt
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLC
Jennifer Norris
Arts Advocate
Julie Pollock
Berger Montague PC
Chi-Hsin Shao
CHS Consulting Group
Sylvia Sherman
SF Community Music Center
Judy Tsang
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Helen Sause
(Emeritus in Memoriam)
Retired SFRA
Arts Advisory Council
Affiliations for identification purposes only.
Renée Baldocci
Producer, Arts Consultant
Peter Bratt
San Francisco Native Village Project
Mario Garcia Durham
Arts Advocate
Greg Landau
Music Producer, Educator
Chelis Lopez
KPOO-FM
Bill Martinez
Attorney, Producer
Alleluia Panis
KulArts
Anastasia Powers Cuellar
Brava Theater Center
John Santos
Musician, Producer, Historian
Cynthia Taylor
Educator, Vocalist
Roberto Gutiérrez Varea
USF Perf. Arts & Social Justice
Dept.
Dina Zarif
Artist & Red Poppy Art House
FUNDERS & SPONSORS
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HISTORY
Before there was a Festival, before there was even a park…
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