Alecia Kintner

Alecia Kintner was recruited to join ArtsWave in Cincinnati in 2013, and in September 2014 became chief executive officer, a role she feels she’s been preparing for her whole life. Prior to relocating to Cincinnati from the Northeast, she served as deputy director of the Greater Hartford Arts Council for a decade. While there, she doubled the size of the annual community arts campaign and helped to consolidate the functions of the city’s downtown business council and beautification programs into the Arts Council in order to maximize civic resources and leverage community assets. Alecia’s other professional experiences include serving as vice president for advancement at the Connecticut Science Center; development director at New York’s Dance Theater Workshop; and as dance writer for The Moscow Times in Russia.

In 2007, Alecia and her husband, Michael Kintner, took time off to live out a lifelong fantasy, giving up careers, home, and health insurance to move to the Caribbean island of Roatan for three years with their infant twins. There, Alecia built a development program from the ground-up for Clinica Esperanza.

Alecia earned a bachelor’s degree in performing arts journalism emphasizing dance history and an MBA from schools in her native Southern California. She currently serves as the chair of the Private Sector Network Council for Americans for the Arts.