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Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
info@cccsf.us
415-986-1822
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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.
Hoi Leung is the Deputy Director 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. Previously, Leung was the Curator at CCC for 4 years, where 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/
Exhibition Specialist
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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.
Janet Chan
Visitor Engagement Manager
Festival Entertainment Coordinator
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janet@cccsf.us
As the Visitor Engagement Manager, Janet is responsible for engaging visitors in viewing the latest innovative contemporary art exhibitions that bring an insightful engaging outlook on arts and culture. In her role, she aims to unite all races from all walks of life to engage in visual and performing arts. Janet is also the Entertainment Coordinator for CCC’s annual Chinatown Music Festival and Dancing on Waverly. In curating annual music and dance festivals, she is passionate about enhancing audience enjoyment and broadening their participation of diverse melodies, unique rhythms, multiethnic sounds and in diverse cultural dance forms. Janet believes that in this ever-changing world, by bringing and bridging local and world class acts to audiences and supporting all genres of performing arts, CCC touches everyone.
Joshua Gomes
Development Associate
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(415) 986-1822 Ext. 102
Laura Ng
Operations Manager
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415-986-1822 Ext. 106