Cheryl Ikemiya is the senior program officer for the arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. She works together with the Arts Program staff to plan, implement, review, and evaluate its strategy and programs. As co-chair of the New York Grantmakers in the Arts, she has organized programs for more than 60 arts grantmaking institutions in New York City to discuss issues related to grantmaking and to the visual, performing, literary, and media arts fields. She serves on the Task Force for the New York State Cultural Data Project. Prior to joining the foundation, Cheryl was the assistant director of the performing arts program at the Japan Society, Inc. She produced and managed traditional and contemporary Japanese performing arts, artists’ residencies, commissioning projects, national tours, and arts-in-education programs. Cheryl received a B.A. from Oberlin College and M.A. from the University of Hawaii as an East-West Center grantee.