Pia Kishore Agrawal (she/her/hers) is the Executive Director of the Leeway Foundation, a grantmaking organization serving women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming artists in the Greater Philadelphia area. Prior to her work at Leeway, Pia served as the Executive Director for Staten Island Arts, an arts agency that cultivates a sustainable and diverse cultural community for the people of Richmond County. Before returning to her Northeast roots, Agrawal served as the inaugural Curator of Performing Arts at the Momentary, a multidisciplinary contemporary art space satellite to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR. From 2014-18, Pia was the Program Director at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts where she produced the Center’s public programming including the annual Mitchell Artist Lecture and CounterCurrent festival. Prior to her work at the Mitchell Center, Pia served as the Programming Director of FringeArts (Philadelphia, PA).

Agrawal has served as an advisor with the New England Foundation for the Arts National Theater Project and as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Capital, the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and the MAP Fund, amongst others. Agrawal served on the inaugural board of Fernland Studios, an Oregon-based organization reimagining environmentalism through art and education.

Agrawal is a graduate of Haverford College with a BA in sociology. Aside from the transformative power of art, her interests include her blind cat, Butchie; Topo Chico; and Hallmark movies.