Nancy Fushan

Nancy Fushan is an independent consultant in philanthropy specializing in the areas of arts, culture, and public media.  From 2000-2009,  Fushan was a senior program officer for the Archibald and Edyth Bush Foundation in St. Paul, with primary responsibility for directing funding programs for theater, dance, music, the visual arts, literature, history, and media in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.  Fushan’s prior experience in philanthropy included a position as program officer with First Bank System Foundation. She also has served on various grant making panels for the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Wallace Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  In addition to her philanthropy career, Fushan spent more than two decades as a journalist, producer, and senior manager in public broadcasting.  She worked for Minnesota Public Radio in a variety of news and cultural programming and management roles. Fushan also served as an editor and associate producer for National Public Radio in Washington, DC.  Fushan is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin/Madison and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in literary criticism at the University of California/Berkeley.