Kirsten Kaye Millan
About Me
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 also currently works as Communications Manager for Deborah Slater Dance Theater and Social Media Manager for Broadway Bares SF. 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, Sans Souci Festival for Dance Cinema, and performed work by esteemed choreographers around the country, the TEDx retreat in Carmel, 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 since 2015.
Header photo credit: George Almanza
Photo Credit: George Almanza
Photo Credit: Amal Bisharat Photography, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival (2023)
Photo Credit: Gabriel Morales, Festival Internacional Cervantino (2023)
Photo Credit: John Paganiban | Flow State Media, Paglinang (2023)
Portfolio: Scope of Work
La Mezcla's 10 Year Anniversary Season, 2025
Key Goals & Responsibilities:
-
Manage and co-lead widespread promotion of the 10 Year Anniversary Season of La Mezcla including events such as: Performance, Workshops, and Community Gathering utilizing bi-monthly meetings with La Mezcla admin, coordinating as necessary with Brava marketing team, and clear communication channels within the project.
-
Consistent number of attendance between all events during the 10 year anniversary season, monitored by workshop registrations, ticket sales, and attendees.
-
Raised and continuous digital engagement of local and outward community, monitored by social media analytics.
-
Highlight and celebrate La Mezcla's various collaborators and achievements over the past 10 seasons in alignment with current aesthetic branding and online voice.
Proposed Plan & Steps:
-
Formulate internal social media calendar to keep online presence consistent and engaged with local community artists, locals, friends, partners, sponsors, and new faces to invite to the workshops & gathering surrounding the performance.
-
Create marketing collateral: poster design in collaboration with EAD & local artist; postcards to distribute; and social media posts (graphics, short form reels, interviews, behind the scenes, etc) in collaboration with presenting venue, Brava.
-
Digital and physical outreach to community organizations ranging from personalized messages on socials to posters and postcards in the neighborhood.
-
Collaborating with KRON4 and other local promotional organizations' social media and marketing team to leverage their wider social media audience maximize amount of non-follower engagement.
-
Highlighting collaborators to introduce them to new audiences and celebrate the honor of collaboration.
-
Create and compile video and photo documentation of events for internal organization and grant documentation and to keep audience engagement after each subsequent workshop, performance, and community gathering.
Work Samples
