In an detailed interview about her career posted to Canvas Rebel, Carolyn Campbell reflects on her decade long work with the David Bohnett Foundation.

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During my long career at UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture there had been five, severe UC-wide budget cuts. The last one saw the dean of the school eliminate the communications and marketing department and, subsequently, my position.

At this stage of my life, I had come to realize and accept that when one door closes another one opens. My next move after leaving UCLA was taking a few months off to navel gaze and travel, but the universe had other plans.

A colleague, Barbara Pflaumer, head of PR at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art called me to say one of the museum’s trustees was looking for some specific public relations assistance and would I be interested?

That next week, I was sitting in the Beverly Hills living room of Los Angeles technology entrepreneur and philanthropist David Bohnett who established his eponymous foundation. For over a decade, I worked alongside Mr. Bohnett and his team as my client on fulfilling the foundation’s mission of “improving society through social activism.” Funding included programs to prevent gun violence; refining society through arts, culture and civic life; supporting initiatives for the LGBTQ community, and empowering society through the next generation of leaders. There are no words to describe how my personal and professional life was enriched by this experience.

Read the full interview with Carolyn Campbell on Canvas Rebel.