Leslie King
Business Development & Marketing Manager at Looking Up Arts Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeslie King is a Business Development & Marketing Manager based in San Francisco with 8 years of hands-on experience designing high-impact events, community programs, and creative marketing campaigns. She has led large-scale public festivals and corporate conferences—managing budgets up to $500K, recruiting and training hundreds of volunteers, and transitioning events for audiences of 7,500+ to virtual formats serving 65,000 attendees. A background in freelance graphic design and a self-described physicist-turned-engineer-and-artist informs her multidisciplinary approach, combining strong visual design skills with data-driven event and sponsorship strategies. Leslie has a proven track record of boosting revenue and attendance (including double-digit profit and attendance increases for virtual events) while maintaining high satisfaction scores. Comfortable navigating complex stakeholder environments—from city agencies to executive teams—she excels at turning logistical complexity into seamless community experiences. She brings entrepreneurial instincts (founder of an e-commerce venture) and a knack for creative problem solving to every project.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of OregonBachelor’s Degree, Advertising, cum laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Advertising, cum laude at University of San FranciscoDrew School
Github Skills (6)
rainbow9
react6
sculpture5
typescript4
artnet2
dmx5122
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kanthian/PinkTorch
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
kanthian/workshop
May 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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