Kirsten Millan is a Philippine-American, multidisciplinary performing artist born and raised in San Francisco, CA. Her work explores identity in the context of race and culture through the arts, expanding awareness and access to arts programs for underserved communities, and helping to do her part to preserve the vast knowledge of generations before us. Kirsten's personal explorations of her background as a third culture kid and continued practice of decolonizing and unlearning drives her interests to the intersection of art and social justice and lead her to the work and collaborations that she is most drawn to today.

 

Kirsten graduated from San Francisco State University with dual degrees in History and Dance. She has worked as Marketing Associate of La Mezcla since 2020 and has helped build the position under Founder and Executive Artistic Director, Vanessa Sanchez, since 2019. She is also currently works as Communications Manager for Deborah Slater Dance Theater. Her work includes day-to-day management of all social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube; consistent updating of WordPress company website, promoting  events by sharing behind the scenes videos and clips, promoting opportunities for the community, creating content including videos and fliers for social media and to support grant writing and organizational development; support with developing marketing materials for local and national productions including photos and videos clips related to each project or production; being in communication with local and national presenters and/or producers to provide marketing materials; writing copy and drafting social media posts in alignment with each organization's mission statement and online voice; and consistently measure and track social media analytics.

 

 In addition to arts administration, she is also a touring company member of La Mezcla as a percussive dancer and is currently a performing artist with Parangal Dance Company. Kirsten performs regularly with the Richmond/Ermet Aid Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to raising funds for AIDS services, hunger programs and programs for underserved youth in the Bay Area. Since her professional debut as a performer in 2013, Kirsten has had her work chosen for the San Francisco Dance Film Festival and esteemed choreographers around the Bay Area, TEDx retreat in Carmel, and the King's Day Festival in the Netherlands, and most recently with La Mezcla at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Lincoln Center in New York City, Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, and Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris in Mexico City. She has taught tap dance and all the rhythm and history that accompanies the dance form to students of all ages in the Bay Area for since 2015.

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