Nancy Quinn has been working in arts management for more than 30 years. She received her MBA in Arts Administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1983, completing a two-year course of study and a six-month internship at New York City Ballet under the artistic direction of George Balanchine. After business school, she gained extensive managerial and fundraising experience in the arts through her work with the Sequoia String Quartet Foundation, Chamber Music America, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and San Francisco Performances. In 1988, Nancy founded Quinn Associates, which over a period of 25 years provided an array of arts administration and fundraising services for Bay Area non-profits, with a major focus on small and mid-sized performing arts organizations. Over the years, the firm’s client list included Dimensions Dance Theater, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Diablo Regional Arts Association, Afro Solo, Robert Moses’ KIN, the San Francisco Film Society, California Symphony, Jess Curtis/Gravity, Epiphany Productions, the Cartoon Art Museum, Mission Neighborhood Centers, LIEDER ALIVE!, Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers, El Campanil Theatre, Noe Valley Chamber Music, New Century Chamber Orchestra, Theatre Bay Area, Smuin Ballet, California Summer Music, the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, SAFEhouse, Flyaway Productions, Golden Thread Productions, the Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco Art & Film, DanceArt, Inc., Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Women’s Audio Mission, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and dozens more. Quinn Associates closed in October 2013, and since then Nancy has been working as a freelance consultant for many of her longtime clients under the auspices of Quinn Consulting. She is widely sought-after as a writer, organizational consultant, and executive coach, and also active as a teacher in the field of arts administration, having taught for The Foundation Center, San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, the Center for Cultural Innovation, and California College of the Arts.