emerging leaders council

Charles Jensen
Development and Communications Manager
Arts for LA
1149 S Hill St Ste H-100
Los Angeles, California 90015-2212
T (213) 225-7580
E-mail: cjensen@artsforla.org

Charles Jensen

Charlie Jensen manages Arts for LA's communications and membership programs and assists with development activities.  He holds BAs in film studies and cultural studies & comparative literature from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University, where he also did graduate work in nonprofit management.  He is a founding member of the consulting think tank and enclave Radar Collective and has worked in the corporate, nonprofit, and higher education sectors.  He is the author of a poetry collection, The First Risk, and three shorter chapbooks of poems, most recently The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture.