Ken Ikeda

Executive Director
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)

For the past fifteen years Ken has been engaged in community work focused on creating opportunities to participate meaningfully in society through storytelling, media and technology.

Ken is the Executive Director of the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC). The 31 year-old organization is the leading independent non-profit media arts and training center in the United States, serving the digital media industry, producers and next-generation storytellers. Prior to BAVC he was the founding Executive Director of Youth Sounds, a network of after-school digital music and video programs which merged with BAVC in 2006.

In his previous work, he has been a program manager for New York City’s Department of Homeless Services, a policy analyst for New York University’s Institute for Education and Social Policy and a graduate researcher with the Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.

Ken is a founding member of San Francisco Mayor Newsom’s Digital Media Advisory Council and served as chair of California Governor Schwarzenneger’s Broadband Task Force Education working group. He is currently a board member of The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC), Cinegrid.org and the moving images and preservation focused New Art Trust which represents the collective interests of the Tate Modern, SFMOMA and MOMA.

Ken is also co-architect of the public interest media and education network, National Public Lightpath, as well as the Millennial Producer’s Network, which seeks to populate future fiber networks
and multi-platform environments as the next generation’s Children’s Television Workshop. He is a
graduate of Columbia College in New York and completed his graduate studies in Education Anthropology at Stanford University.