Krista Smith (she/her)
Grants Specialist

Krista Smith brings over 23 years of Arts Nonprofit Development and Strategic Planning experience. She has previously served as the Director of Development for Fresh Meat Productions, the Queer Cultural Center and Frameline. Smith is a Grants and Strategic Planning Specialist, and provides income generation and programmatic coaching to artists and arts organizations. She views the arts as a foundational element to creating cultural equity and is thrilled to be putting her skills and experiences to use to work with Artists, Arts Organizations, and Artistic Entrepreneurs to increase their financial resources, create sustainable organizational strategies, and engage with their communities.

In addition to Aviva Arts, Smith serves over two-dozen artists and arts organizations including AXIS Dance Company, Intersection for the Arts, World Arts West, Peacock Rebellion, Foglifter Press, Cuicacalli, and Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits. Born and raised in the Bluegrass State, Smith, a White Fat Queer Femme, is also known as Kentucky Fried Woman, a multi-disciplinary artist who has produced and performed in hundreds of Queer cultural events. Her writing has been published in several anthologies including Queer Appalachia, Glitter & Grit, Femmes of Power, and the Register of Kentucky History. Smith lives in the ancestral territory of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe and Cherokee, also called Ohio with her Poet wife and Snacks, an orange polydactyl cat.