Malissa Feruzzi Shriver

Malissa Feruzzi Shriver co-founded TACA with architect Frank Gehry in 2014, was the founding Executive Director, and currently serves as Board Chair. She was appointed by California’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction to co-chair the state task force on Arts Education, and the Blueprint for Creative Schools, published in 2015. Malissa co-founded Create California, and was a Gubernatorial appointee to the California Arts Council for two terms, elected four years as chair. She has served as a trustee on the boards of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, the Western States Art Federation, the California Alliance for Arts Education Policy, the Actors Gang Theater, the California Institute for the Arts, and the Center for Research on Creativity. Malissa served on the advisory boards of Get Lit and the Arts, Humanities and Civic Engagement Lab, and is currently on the Newport Beach Film Festival’s Board of Governors. She was given the National Arts Education Award from Americans for the Arts in 2014, and an honorary doctorate from the Laguna College of Art and Design. Malissa holds a BA from UCLA, a certificate from the Harvard Kennedy School’s State and Local Leaders in Government program, and is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Religion from Harvard University.