President Biden presents the 2021 National Medal of the Arts to Joan Shigekawa on March 21, 2023 at the White House
Joan Shigekawa is an American film and television producer, cultural grantmaker, and arts administrator. After a distinguished career as a senior executive at the Rockefeller Foundation,[1] she joined the Obama Administration in 2009 as senior deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and served as the agency's acting chairman from 2012-2014.[2]
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^"Joan Shigekawa". Design and Exclusion. 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
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