Anna Orias

Anna has an extensive background working as a teacher and an entrepreneur in the arts since 1989. She is the founder and director of Musically Minded Studio. She also ran Funk Works Urban and Ethnic Dance Studio, with live musicians accompanying each ethnic dance class, and East Bay Presents, and non-profit organization that presented concerts in intimate sized spaces in the East Bay.

She has had additional training in marketing, holistic health, childhood neurological development, and a graduate level study of psychology.
Her work as an arts administrator has always emphasized building community through a wide variety of performance events.