Before she joined Leeway as Executive Director, Pia Kishore Agrawal (she/her) served as the Executive Director of Staten Island Arts, the arts council for the borough of Staten Island. Previously, Agrawal served as the inaugural Curator of Performing Arts at the Momentary, a multidisciplinary contemporary art space satellite to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR. From 2014-18, Pia was the Program Director at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts where she produced the Center’s public programming including the annual Mitchell Artist Lecture and sitespecific CounterCurrent festival. Prior to her work in Houston, Pia served as the Programming Director of FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA). Agrawal has been an advisor with the New England Foundation for the Arts’s National Theater Project and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital, the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and the MAP Fund, amongst others. She is the inaugural board chair of Rendezvous, a Houston, TX-based nonprofit supporting the creation of interdisciplinary artwork that examines the rich diversity of queer experiences. Agrawal is a graduate of Haverford College with a BA in sociology and lives with her blind cat, Butchie.