Staff
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Danielle Brazell
Brazell transitioned Arts for LA from an ad-hoc steering committee comprised of local executive arts leadership to a highly visible arts advocacy organization. Under her stewardship, Arts for LA has surveyed candidates running for election in each Arts for All district, built an online communications infrastructure that allows for a greater exchange of information and resources among the arts and arts education community and, with strong input from the field, launched a policy platform to guide the field’s collective advocacy. Brazell brings over fifteen years’ experience to the field. She is the former Director of Special Projects for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Artistic Director of Highways Performance Space. Ms. Brazell is the recipient of numerous grant awards, including the 2000 Getty Fellowship, a 2009 CLEAR Communications Fellowship sponsored by the James Irvine Foundation, a 2010 SHero Award from CA State Senator Curren D. Price, and is currently participating in Leadership LA with a generous scholarship from The Boeing Corporation. Brazell represents Arts for LA on the Policy Committee of the California Alliance for Arts Education and sits on the Board of Directors for California Arts Advocates.
DEVELOPMENT & OPERATIONS MANAGER: Camille Schenkkan
Camille Schenkkan has been with Arts for LA since summer 2008. She also serves as the Development Director for Circle X Theatre Co., a small theatre company focusing on new and innovative work. Schenkkan is a Masters of Arts Management candidate at Claremont Graduate University/Drucker School, graduating in December 2010. Schenkkan loves nonprofit tech and web tools and has taught workshops on social media and technology for arts managers. She graduated from Scripps College in 2006 (BA in Honors English/Theatre, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa), where she won the English Senior Thesis Award for her exploration of the work of playwrights Tom Jacobson, Sarah Ruhl and Carson Kreitzer. Camille was a National Merit Scholar and a Scripps New Generation Scholar. She is an animal rights advocate and lives with several ridiculous bunny rabbits and her husband, Zack. She's a proud member of Emerging Arts Leaders/LA.
ADVOCACY MANAGER: Abe Flores
Abe graduated from California State University, Los Angeles in 2011 with a M.S in Public Administration and in 2006 he received his B.A in Political Science from Cal State Long Beach. He served as the Executive Assistant at the Learning Rights Law Center, a non-profit law firm dedicated to education equity, where he assisted in day-to-day management and worked with parent groups. He then worked as the Deputy Campaign Manager in a candidate’s run for Montebello USD Board of Education. Abe interned with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission’s Arts for All initiative, where he facilitated a data-collection project that mapped arts provision equity in the County. He is the first in his family to graduate from college, a proud parent of a three-year old boy, a music lover, and lives with his family in Boyle Heights.
