State Humanities Program

FAIN: SO-253167-17

California Humanities (Oakland, CA 94612-2037)
Tricia Wynne (Project Director: May 2016 to May 2018)
Mary Valentine (Project Director: May 2018 to February 2020)
Bennett Peji (Project Director: February 2020 to February 2022)
Oliver Arthur Rosales (Project Director: February 2022 to May 2022)
Oliver Arthur Rosales (Project Director: May 2022 to October 2022)

Funding details:
Original grant (2017) $270,000.00
Supplement (2017) $2,105,050.00
Supplement (2018) $2,447,800.00
Supplement (2019) $2,543,600.00

To support local humanities initiatives and state humanities council operations.

In the past year, California Humanities developed a new strategic framework after analyzing information from a variety of constituents. In light of this new framework, we are in the process of creating a new suite of activities that will include both new and existing programs. Current regranting and direct delivery programs include: The California Documentary Project, which supports broad-reach film, radio, and interactive humanities-based media productions that enhance our understanding of California and its cultures, peoples, and histories. Community Stories supports public humanities projects that record and share, through a wide variety of products, little known stories and histories of significance about the California experience. Literature & Medicine is a nationally recognized humanities-based professional development program for health care workers, delivered through humanities expert-led reading-and- discussion groups held in clinical settings.