Biography:

Dwight Gee has more than two decades experience in the management, leadership and training of nonprofit organizations. He is currently executive vice president of ArtsFund, a fund-raising, grant-making and capacity-building nonprofit based in Seattle, an organization he joined in 1989. At ArtsFund he created more than a decade ago a highly regarded Board Leadership Training program which twice a year provides training in the fundamentals of board responsibilities to classes of 30 aspiring or current members of nonprofit arts boards. Dwight teaches the session on best governance practices. He has put those practices to use in Seattle as two-term board chair of the organization FareStart, which trains homeless people to work in the food service industry. He has also used all elements of his expertise abroad when, in 2002, as a consultant to the George Soros Foundation, he helped establish the Arts Council of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The following year, he created a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit Arts Council of Mongolia-US of which he is board president and volunteer executive director. As a volunteer, Dwight travels to Mongolia about once a year to provide leadership training in a variety of nonprofit topics to classes of senior or emerging arts leaders, to facilitate retreats of the ACM board and consult with the ACM staff. In Seattle in 2008, he worked with the University of Washington Evan’s School of Public Affairs, Social Venture Partners and United Way of King County to create an advanced board leadership program for highly experienced board members. Dwight is also a member of the visiting committee of Seattle University’s masters in Nonprofit Leadership Program. At ArtsFund, he also works extensively in public-sector advocacy, research, communications and strategic planning.