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Miko can provide executive coaching for nonprofit leaders, business leaders, administrators, teachers and teaching artists. She can assist with big picture thinking, strategic planning, budgeting, development, and the ability to share your story.

Currently on the leadership team of:

Formerly: Executive Director of Youth in Arts, Director of Art & Pubic Education at East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Artistic Director of Theatre of Yugen, Producing Associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, NEA Teacher Institute Advisory Panel, Integrated Learning Specialist Program Lead Design Team, California’s Special Education + Arts Working Group, Theater Bay Area Steering Committee.

Selected list of grants received: Aroha Philanthropies, California Arts Council, California Department of Education, Creative Work Fund, Crescent Porter Hale Foundation, Dean & Margaret Lesher Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, Fenwick Family Foundation, Gerbode Foundation, Heller Foundation, Irvine Foundation, Japan Foundation, Kimball Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Mechanics Bank, Morris Stulsaft Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Potrero Nuevo Fund, San Francisco Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Foundation, Thomas Long Foundation, Tides Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, Walter & Elise Haas Fund, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Zellerbach Family Foundation.

Served on grants panels for: 3Arts, Asian American Scholarship Fund, California Arts Council, Creative Sonoma, Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley, Five Sisters Foundation, Grants for the Arts, San Francisco & National Endowment for the Arts.

Miko Lee is full of passion and knowledge for arts education, and she is an excellent leader and mentor. In her capacity on the Executive Committee for Teaching Artists Guild, she has helped us grow from a small local organization to a national one in just a year. Her shrewd thinking, sense of humor, and knowledge of the field make her an enjoyable person to work with, as well as a huge asset to the team!

— -Jean Johnstone, former Executive Director, Teaching Artist Guild