Sarah Williams

Co-Founder & Executive Director

Sarah Williams is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Feminist Center for Creative Work. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sarah returned to the city in 2006 to attend USC’s Curatorial Practice in the Public Sphere M.A. program after receiving a B.A. in Art History from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since then she has been producing projects, exhibitions, programs, events and publications with ForYourArt, FCCW, CLOSING, and the Art Book Review.

Kamala Puligandla

Communications & Marketing Director

Kamala Puligandla is a writer of autobiographical fiction and essays, on queer love, friendship and futures. She has earned degrees in Creative Writing from Oberlin College and UC Riverside, and is the author of two books, Zigzags (Not A Cult, 2020) and her novella, You Can Vibe Me On My FemmePhone (Co-Conspirator Press, 2021).  Kamala has many years of experience working as a copywriter and content strategist at tech companies, and was the Editor-in-Chief at the lesbian culture site Autostraddle.com, before coming to Feminist Center for Creative Work. She is the one sending you Feminist Center for Creative Work emails, so you know how to get involved in the many great opportunities here!

Samantha Alexis Manuel

Programming & Operations Coordinator

Samantha Alexis Manuel (she/siya) is a cultural worker whose curatorial practice centers experimental formats and community-driven approaches. She fosters generative, collaborative relationships with artists — emphasizing care, dialogue, and co-thinking over content extraction. At UCLA, she curated In Discrete Fashion: Garment Workers of LA, the first VR exhibition presented at Undergraduate Research Week (2023), exploring labor injustices in fashion. She has held roles at Arts for LA, LACMA, LACE, and the Getty, where she coordinated Our Voices, Our Getty, the institution’s first exhibition featuring texts by interns. Samantha currently works part-time as a Curatorial Assistant at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, where she recently curated Suhn Lee: Memento Mori, the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition.

Sundhya Anthony

Graphic Designer

Sundhya (pronounced sund·yah) is a Black and Sri Lankan graphic designer based in Los Angeles. They received their BFA in Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts. They are a recipient of the AIGA Worldstudio award, and have received recognition from Reed college.

Sundhya also works at Polymode, and sometimes they play Fortnite Festival. They have designed brand identities, social media campaigns, publications, and photo-based illustrations for clients such as BIPOC Design History, The Vera List Center, Rizzoli, and Fisk Projects.

They grew up in Kentucky; where visual culture is a mix of folk, “low” culture, and surprises. They understand the value and, beauty that comes from vernacular. Living in Los Angeles has changed the type of vernacular that they take in. Storefront signage, graffiti, billboards, and other ubiquitous graphics made for everyday people inspire their practice currently.

Aandrea Stang

Board Chair

Aandrea Stang is an educator and curator/producer specializing in contemporary and socially engaged art practices. She is Director of the University Art Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she serves on the Art and Design Department faculty and is chair of the Women’s Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies Department. She was co-director of the University Art Gallery’s Getty PST ART project Brackish Water Los Angeles. Throughout her career, Stang has focused on institutional program development, creating and launching contemporary art and art education programs for diverse audiences at major cultural organizations, including Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Occidental College, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). Known for her innovative programming and cross-institutional collaborations, she led MOCA’s Engagement Party (2008–2012), a pioneering initiative supporting new work by emerging artists, and was the founding director of Occidental College’s Oxy Arts program.

Carolina Ibarra-Mendoza

Secretary

Carolina Ibarra-Mendoza (she/her) is a Chicana intersectional feminist, creative strategist, and graphic designer dedicated to using design as a tool for storytelling, community empowerment, and social change. She collaborates with artists, activists, and organizations to challenge dominant narratives and build more inclusive visual landscapes.

Jia Yi Gu

Jia Yi Gu is a Los Angeles-based architectural historian, curator, and designer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at Harvey Mudd College. She is one half of Spinagu, an architecture practice that builds, researches, curates, organizes, and writes — towards a systems repair of the field. For over a decade, she served as director of small and unusual architecture institutions: at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House and Materials & Applications, a Los Angeles based project space for experimental architecture. She develops environments, exhibitions, publications, and experimental programs investigating architecture, material ecologies, care work, and institutional practices.

Irene Georgia Tsatsos

Irene Georgia Tsatsos (she/her) is an artist with fluid life/work/art boundaries. For over 30 years, she has sustained a daily rhythm of writing, drawing, and reading, which informs her work in clay, textiles, installation, and curatorial projects. Her interests center on the interpersonal and psychosocial dynamics, norms, and values within families, relationships, workplaces, and communities. She explores family histories, migration stories, intergenerational trauma, loneliness, death rituals, cultural assimilation, attachment styles, the agency of infants and toddlers, and epigenetics. Until 2023, Irene served as Director of Exhibition Programs and Chief Curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA. She has also held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Getty, published extensively, and served on numerous award and program panels. After holding the honor of being founding chair of the early Feminist Center for Creative Work, she is back on the board for this next chapter.

Jessica Simmons-Reid

Jessica Simmons-Reid (she / her) is a writer, critic, and artist based in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California. Her criticism engages with contemporary art at the intersection of the political, the mythological, and the material, attending especially to feminist and somatic practices, ecological thought, and the poetics of language and form. Her writing appears in Artforum, Frieze, the Los Angeles Review of Books, T Magazine / The New York Times, Momus, and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla). She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Brown University and has worked in the curatorial departments at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2024, she received an Incentive Prize for Young Art Critics from AICA, the International Association of Art Critics.

Xtina Webb

Xtina Webb (she/they) is a Queer intersectional feminist and explorer based in Los Angeles and the Hi Desert. Their graphic and exhibition design work prioritizes cultural and non-profit institutions. This practice includes research projects that explore modes of participation and collaboration, site specificity, the examination of social constructs in public space, and their queering. This is also present in her teaching at Otis College of Art and Design.