Jennica Bisbee is an nonprofit administrator with nine years experience in arts education programming, emergency response, and fiscal sponsorship. In addition, she is a musician and an aspiring painter passionate about ensuring arts are accessible to all, especially young people. She was most recently Grants Associate for Community Partners, where she managed a portfolio of around 45 fiscally-sponsored projects, revamped grant operations through creation of templates and process documentation, and was member of the diversity, equity, and inclusion staff working group. In addition, for nearly a year and a half, she volunteered for the Kadampa Meditation Center in Los Feliz, eventually becoming Front Desk Coordinator and revamping front desk procedures.

Formerly Field Engagement Coordinator for Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), an emergency response nonprofit, she created outreach procedures around COVID education for multiple Los Angeles SPAs. As Assistant Site Manager for the Cal State LA COVID vaccination  site, she improved vaccination operations by creating training documentation, tracking vaccination data entry accuracy, and holding daily staff meetings. She was also Site Manager for the Hollywood Youth Orchestra program site at The Harmony Project, a community-based music education nonprofit and previously co-managed the YOLA at EXPO site in partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and EXPO Center. Before moving to Los Angeles, she worked at The Center for Arts Education for nearly four years where she coordinated both grant- and NYC Department of Education-funded arts programs in New York City public schools including for English Language Learners, professional development for teachers at cultural institutions, and federally-funded research programs. U.S. Department of Education programs she co-coordinated included research for the Arts in Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) grant and programming for the Arts in Education-Professional Development for Arts Educators grant. 

In 2017, she participated in Women of Color in the Arts’ Leadership through Mentorship Initiative and served on the initiative committee the following year. In addition, in 2017-2018 she participated in Race Forward’s Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab to develop an organization-wide racial equity strategy for The Center for Arts Education. Her additional experience includes arts administration, production, event management, artist management, and marketing from Lincoln Center Festival, Greenwich House Music School, IMG Artists, Atlantic Music Festival, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, Seattle Youth Symphony, Broadway Center for the Performing Arts (Tacoma, WA), University of Puget Sound, The Foundling Museum (London), Le Poisson Rouge, and Whitesmith Entertainment. 

Jennica has a M.A. in Music Business from New York University and a B.M. with Elective Studies in Business from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA.