Cheryl Ikemiya is the Senior Program Officer for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York City. She works together with the Arts Program staff to plan, implement, review and evaluate its strategy and programs. As co-chair of the New York Grantmakers in the Arts, she has organized programs for more than 60 arts grantmaking institutions in New York City to discuss issues related to grantmaking and to the visual, performing, literary and media arts fields. She serves on the Task Force for the New York State Cultural Data Project.
Prior to joining the foundation, Ms. Ikemiya was the Assistant Director of the Performing Arts Program at the Japan Society, Inc., a national nonprofit, cultural and educational institution in New York City. She produced and managed traditional and contemporary Japanese performing arts, artists’ residencies, commissioning projects, national tours and arts-in-education programs.
Ms. Ikemiya received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College and Master of Arts in Asian Art History from the University of Hawaii as an East-West Center grantee. She serves on the board and as a lay teacher at the New York Buddhist Church and is a volunteer at Beth Israel Hospital in its pastoral care program.