Natalia Vigil

Natalia is responsible for grantmaking in arts education and the Creative Work Fund. She was most recently executive director at the Queer Cultural Center and is active in the Bay Area with her multimedia curation and writing, and as co-founder of Still Here San Francisco, for which she was honored as a Local Hero by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Born and raised in San Francisco, she is a big sister of six, and identifies as a queer Xicana with Native heritage. Natalia brings insight into Bay Area arts ecology, and a powerful reputation for equity and inclusion in the arts community. She is passionate about community-driven creativity; youth leadership; Black, Indigenous, and people-of-color (BIPOC) leadership; and cultural preservation through artist sustainability.