Vanessa Ramos

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT VANESSA RAMOS

Vanessa Ramos believes that the arts, in all forms of expression, are an important part of everyday life and shares a great passion for music, theater, dance, modern and visual art. She has spent much of her adult life advocating for the arts and the power that these have to improve lives, to effect social change and to build community.Over the last few years she has become familiar with many companies across the Bay Area and has worked with them in different capacities. Some recent credits include American Conservatory Theater, Ballet San Jose, Central Works Theater, Indra’s Net Theater, Anton’s Well Theater, La Peña Cultural Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Those Women Productions, Performing Arts Academy of Marin, Diablo Valley Ballet, and La Lengua. Vanessa also has enjoyed teaching music, movement & storytelling to children in the Bay Area for just over a decade. She had the opportunity to teach at public school as well as private institutions. As well as run the administrative side of arts education. Eventually, she developed her own curriculum bringing about \'Treble Tales\', a program that encourages children to create simple, theatrical performances while playing and learning a variety of skills including basic music composition and choreography. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley where she studied \'Music\' and \'Theater and Performance Studies.\' She received her Orff Training at The San Francisco School, and is a member of NCAOSA, the Northern California American Orff-Schulwerk Association. She is currently a graduate student at Drexel University studying Arts Administration. She intends for her thesis to be centered around the shifting financial needs of arts nonprofits in the 21st century, post-Trump era. She enjoys furry creatures, hard cider and chocolate. A lover of nature and the outdoors, she can’t always be found at home during the weekends. Unless she has taken on a knitting project. Then, you can find her knitting in front of her fireplace, which she built herself.