Felicia Rosenfeld has been involved in not-for-profit arts administration for most of her working life.  After graduating with honors from Swarthmore College, she worked at Pentacle (1983-1986), a not-for-profit management support organization, overseeing the public relations and fundraising efforts of dance companies’ New York City seasons, and assisting Mara Greenberg, Pentacle’s director, with fundraising and Board development.  During this time, Rosenfeld also worked for David Gordon Pick Up Company. Rosenfeld joined Pentacle’s Board of Directors in 1986.

Receiving a J.D. from Fordham Law School in 1989, Rosenfeld practiced law until 1994, concentrating in the areas of entertainment, copyright and trademark law. During 1994, DanceBrazil hired Rosenfeld as a consultant in the areas of development, management, and strategic planning. In 2002, Pentacle contracted Rosenfeld to work on several projects including: project assessment of Help Desk; design and implementation of Pentacle’s Arts Administrators Together program; fundraising and strategic planning for Pentacle’s arts in education programming; and assessment and oversight of Pentacle’s website (www.pentacle.org).

From 2003 to 2006, Rosenfeld focused her efforts on arts in education as Pentacle’s Director of Educational Programming.  Since relocating to Los Angeles in 2006, she has worked with Pentacle to bring administrative and infrastructure support programming to Los Angeles area for contemporary dance artists.

In 2009, she developed and launched Help Desk/L.A., a program supporting infrastructure and professional community in the Los Angeles contemporary dance community.  Rosenfeld launched a pilot program, Back Office, in 2011 that works to solve the management conundrum of small and mid-sized dance companies and independent artists. Under her direction, Pentacle now has Help Desk and Back Office programs in San Francisco and Chicago. In 2012, Rosenfeld became Director of Programming, overseeing all of Pentacle’s programs and working with Directors Mara Greenberg and Ivan Sygoda on the future of Pentacle as an organization.

Rosenfeld served on the New York City Department of Education’s committee that led to the creation of the dance section of the New York City Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts.  Additionally, she has served as a panelist for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and on the Advisory Boards of Dance Resource Center and Show Box LA. Rosenfeld spent eight years (1994-2002) as a partner in Civic Research Institute, a professional reference publishing company, where she remains on the Board of Directors. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of New Roads School.

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