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Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
info@cccsf.us
415-986-1822
Photo by Pamela Gentile
Jenny Leung is the Executive Director of the Chinese Culture Center and Foundation of San Francisco. She has dedicated her career to cultural diversity, equity, and creating access to the arts and community building. Her experience growing up in a working class immigrant family and in affordable housing has cultivated her passion as a strong advocate for the underserved. Jenny has over a decade of leadership experience and success in forging cross-sector collaborations, funders in philanthropy and government to champion cultural equity. Her leadership for cultural equity for Proposition E, in collaboration with the City’s major cultural institutions as well as community-based arts organizations, resulted in increased City funds for the arts. Jenny was honored for her work in District 3 by President on the Board of Supervisors. She is Chair of the Programs Committee for the Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative; Chinatown Arts and Culture Coalition, serves on the Steering Committee on the Asian Pacific Islander Council and participates on CCC's behalf at the SF Arts Alliance. Born and raised in Hawaii, Jenny earned her Masters degree in Asian Studies from University of California, Berkeley, and her Bachelors from the University of Washington. She is a Getty Leadership Institute NextGen Fellow 2017, 2023 Aspen Executive Leadership cohort, and has served on panels for the California Arts Council and San Francisco Arts Commission.
As Managing Director, Barbara Mumby brings over 25 years of experience supporting staff, programs, and operations in non-profit and governmental settings. She has spent over 15 years dedicated to the philanthropic field designing equity-based grants programs to support various sectors, including: arts and culture; early childhood education; workforce development, and; social services. Prior to joining CCC’s team, Barbara provided consulting services to a variety of arts and culture nonprofits, was the Vice President of Programs and Partnerships for the Native Arts and Culture Foundation in Portland, Oregon, and the Director of Community Investments for the San Francisco Arts Commission.
Barbara has used the arts to push policy and has been instrumental in various movements, such as: establishing the American Indian Cultural Center in San Francisco; co-authoring San Francisco’s Indigenous Peoples Day legislation; participating as an inaugural member of San Francisco’s Cultural District working group - advocating for an American Indian Cultural District; mobilizing the community around the removal of the ‘Early Days’ statue, and; conceptualizing and implementing San Francisco’s first citywide American Indian Initiative, entitled “The Continuous Thread” which celebrated the contributions of contemporary Indigenous Peoples. As a result of this work, she was awarded an Open Society Racial Equality Fellowship in 2019 to develop a tool kit to support BIPOC communities as they assess and address racism in public art. As a practicing artist, she was recently awarded a CAC emerging artist fellowship which has afforded her the ability to expand her work in documenting women of color who speak truth to power and uplift communities.
Born and raised in California's rural Central Valley, her family's Native American heritage (Powhatan) and work as migrant farmers greatly influenced her passion for social justice. Being the first in her family to graduate from college, Barbara completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California Berkeley with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Arts and Native American Studies. She went on to earn a Master of Arts in Museum Studies and a Master of Business Administration from the John F. Kennedy University.
Hoi Leung is the Deputy Director and Curator of the Chinese Culture Center, overseeing the internal culture, programs and operations of the organization. Leung was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the US in 2004. As CCC's Curator, she established a distinct practice specializing in Asian diasporic contemporary art, developing emerging artists, and designing community engagement in immigrant neighborhood settings. Leung’s curatorial projects included “dawn_chorusiii: the fruit they don’t have here” by Sofia Cordova (2019 - 2021), an experimental video foregrounding the stories of six Bay Area women who journeyed to the United States as refugees, and “Interior Garden” (2022), a major solo exhibition of large-scale ceramic-based installations by Cathy Lu exploring the dream and dystopian states Asian America. Leung’s projects have received critical acclaim in KQED, Hyperallergic, Artforum, Artsy, and SF Arts Monthly. She was also named one of five new game-changing curators by SF Arts Monthly in 2021. Leung an emerging leader in the field as she devotes her unique background in artist support and community curation into building a healthy, sustainable, and imaginative arts ecosystem.
Yuanyuan Zhu
Director of Galleries and Programs
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(415) 986-1822 Ext. 024
yuanyuan@cccsf.us
As Director of Galleries and Programs, Zhu oversees arts programming and exhibitions across multiple venues, including the CCC Gallery, 41 Ross community gallery, artist communities, and public spaces. With over six years of experience as an arts administrator and cultural worker rooted in community-based arts, Zhu has successfully led impactful and transformative artist residencies, community based art projects, outdoor festivals and exhibitions, in collaborations with local and international artists, organizations and research fellows. Zhu has cultivated a strong network of artists and community partners through her leadership of projects such as “How I Keep Looking Up,” a trilingual, multiethnic art project in collaboration with the Latinx and Chinese communities, “Hungry Ghost Festival”, a large scale outdoor festival celebrating ancestors and community through contemporary art. She has served as a juror for the “Bernice Bing: Open Call” at the Asian Art Museum, and has served on panels for the California Arts Council and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Zhu is also an interdisciplinary artist with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Indigo Hua (They/Them)
Marketing & Communications Manager​
As Marketing & Communications Manager, Hua develops the branding and promotional content for the Chinese Culture Center's programming, exhibits, community work and festivals. Growing up in the Bay Area, Hua has over 4 years of marketing experience, most recently also within the museum field, working as the Marketing Manager at children's museum in Sausalito. They currently serve as the Communications Committee Chair for Bay Area Emerging Museum Professionals (BAEMP) where they work on programming and workshops that connect museum workers to leadership development and networking resources. Hua graduated from University of California Davis with a degree in Design and Asian American Studies. Hua also identifies as an artist and was a part of SOMA Arts Queer Ancestors Project from 2021-2022. They current art practice explores identity and intergenerational storytelling through collage. Hua is dedicated to sharing the narratives of underrepresented communities especially highlighting the voices of queer, trans and disabled Asian Americans.
Joon Park
Program Associate​
Xinling Wang (She/Her)
Program Assistant​
xinling@cccsf.us
Janet Chan (She/Her)
Gallery Associate​
janet@cccsf.us