Analese Chandler-Nieves

Analese Chandler-Nieves started in 2022 as the Program Coordinator for Education and Racial Equity and Racial Justice Initiatives at the Cleveland Foundation. Previous to this role she was a Cleveland Foundation Public Service Fellow from 2019-2020 and became an Arts and Culture Strategy Fellow after the first fellowship ended. Throughout her fellowships, she worked on Arts and Culture grantmaking and supported the administration and management of the Cleveland Black Futures Fund. In her current role as Program Coordinator, she assists in implementing and managing major programmatic initiatives, processing internal and external grant requests, monitoring budgets and expenses, analyzing past and present grantmaking data, and acts as the point of contact for outside inquiries.

Analese graduated from Baldwin Wallace University with her bachelor's degree in Sociology and a minor in Psychology and Criminal Justice.