Kiley Arroyo brings more than two decades of cross-sector leadership advancing cultural rights, social justice, and systems transformation across philanthropy, grassroots movements, government, academia, and the private sector. Her work is grounded in a core insight: systems are shaped not only by policy and capital, but by the beliefs, identities, and worldviews that determine how power, wealth, and well-being are distributed. Under her leadership, CSC integrates strategic rigor with deep cultural reflection — stewarding transformation that is structurally sound, culturally grounded, and relationally informed. She partners with visionary institutions and movements to shift not only what systems do, but how they see.

Kiley holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Management from University College Dublin and a Bachelor’s in Art History and Community Arts Praxis from the University of Oregon. She is currently pursuing a second Master’s in Integral Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, further strengthening CSC’s integration of developmental, relational, intercultural, and contemplative insight into strategic practice.

Her work has been widely published and has advanced bold, progressive approaches to investment and systems change. She has served as an adjunct professor and guest speaker in master’s programs across the United States and internationally, including UC Berkeley, Oxford, Stanford, Stellenbosch University, and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.

A lifelong learner, Kiley explores the intersections of collaborative leadership, intercultural dialogue, justice facilitation, and soil keeping — the living root of her work. For more than a decade, she has studied and practiced agroecology, permaculture, and biodynamics. She holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from Finca Tierra in Costa Rica, one of the few ecosystem regeneration programs grounded in Indigenous wisdom, and has apprenticed as a soil keeper at farms throughout Northern California, including Green Gulch Farm and the Zen Center. Through this embodied spiritual practice, she continues to learn from Nature — of which we are an intrinsic part — how to support repair and regeneration. She does this by reweaving diverse relationships, honoring our interdependence, and cultivating the conditions from which the new can emerge, applying these insights off the land to facilitate transformational change.