STELLA RAMOS is a writer, baker, and creative from Seattle, WA. At Occidental College, she studied Religious Studies, with academic focuses on Environmental Ethics, Indigenous Futurity, and Subverting Settler-Colonialism. Following graduation, Stella started as the Press + Programming Assistant at the Feminist Center for Creative Work (then Women’s Center for Creative Work) through the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program. Stella was later hired as the Programming + Operations Manager for the Feminist Center for Creative Work, additionally supporting FCCW Projects Co—Conspirator Press and SALIMA Magazine. In 2021-22, Stella started working for individual artists and organizations/brands as a Studio Manager + Project Manager (Mandy Harris Williams, Ahree Lee, ricky sallay zoker/YATTA, LA Freewaves, Ophelia Byrne, and more).  

Stella’s motivations are to support the logistical frameworks, creative visions, and long-term goals of artists, creatives, brands, and organizations. With 5+ years of expertise in the structural support, mental flexibility, and abundant visioning it requires to maintain an artistic practice, Stella is intentional and grounded in her skills as a support for artists and creatives. Joking that she’s a “professional Virgo,” Stella is organized, efficient, grounding, warm, and generous in her work approach. 

B. 1999, Seattle, Washington
Lives in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

2020 Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

ARTIST + STUDIO MANAGEMENT

2022–Present: COO, Ophelia Byrne
Project management + oversight on all photoshoots, shows, collections, and collaborations. Production support through sourcing, cyanotyping, and pattern-cutting. Manages communications with all external collaborators, internal production team, and customers. Supports brand development and creative direction through calendar management, social media, budget oversight, and contribution to creative vision. Manages oversight of all manufacturing and business operations.

2022–Present: Studio Manager, YATTA / ricky sallay zoker
Supporting on project-basis with media and press outreach and archiving, social media management and strategy, communications with galleries and collaborators, and art supply sourcing and research. Invoice management, calendar oversight, and contribution to creative vision and timelines.

2021–2024: Studio Manager, Mandy Harris Williams
Supported ongoing management and operations through grant/award/opportunity research and development, calendar management, email management, website input and management, and invoice tracking and coordination. Supported on project-basis with research (licensing and acquisition, supplies, media, and more), communication with galleries, arts organizations, media spaces, and collaborations, and copy-writing, technical writing, and copy-editing. Coordinated and executed outreach strategy and bookings for lectures, collaborations, and partnerships.

2022–2024: Studio Assistant, Ahree Lee
Supported on project-basis with administrative organization and website management, design, and input. Executed digital archival coding, processing, and organization.


SELECT ORGANIZATIONAL POSITIONS

2020–Present: Programming + Operations Manager, Feminist Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA

2020–Present: Programming + Operations Manager, Co—Conspirator Press, Los Angeles, CA

2022–2023: Event + Program Producer, Freewaves, Los Angeles, CA

2020–2022: Administrative Assistant, SALIMA Magazine, Los Angeles, CA

2020-2022: Communications Associate, Bay Rising (c3) and Bay Rising Action (c4), Oakland, CA

Administrative organizing + system development
Project management

Website design + input (WordPress, SquareSpace, Cargo Collective)

Email management

Invoice tracking

Calendar management

Communications (with galleries, art organizations, media spaces, collaborations, and more)

Booking + outreach

Material + supply sourcing

Press outreach + press kits (pitch lists, technical writing, press release, media briefs)

Social media management (content curation, market research, analytics analysis)

Fundraising strategy

Technical and copy-writing

Copy-editing

Basic CSS + HTML coding

Graphic design (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva)

Archiving (digital + physical)

Quantitative and qualitative research projects (licensing and acquisition, supplies, media, and more)
Grant writing, research, and reporting

Creative visioning

Event planning, curation, coordination and production

Photoshoot/MV production