About Us

Kim Moody, Artistic Director and Founding director of Alwun House Foundation non-profit (1971), actively participated in the creation of Garfield Organization, a neighborhood alliance, a nonprofit neighborhood association since 1989. He has served as president of the board several times. An Arizona State University Graduate, Mr. Moody was a founding commissioner on the original Phoenix Arts Commission (early ‘80’s). Mr. Moody served on the Mayor’s Artist Issues Task Force which is responsible for drafting Downtown Arts and Small Business Overlay. This permits artists and creative entrepreneurs to live/work and adaptive reuse structures within its boundaries, among other benefits.

Dana Johnson, Alwun House Foundation President & CEO, managing programs and administrative responsibilities since 1990. Mr. Johnson joined Garfield Organization in 1991 as chair of the Revitalization and Economic Development Committee, and currently serves as President of the Garfield Organization Board of Directors. His leadership works to preserve the neighborhood contextual integrity, in collaboration with multiple City of Phoenix departments and private developers still today. In that context Mr. Johnson started serving on the City of Phoenix Central City Village Planning Committee; reviewing planning & zoning development issues in downtown since 1998. Mr. Johnson spent 14 years on the Board of Directors of Trellis, a nonprofit focused on building and lending for affordable housing, and financial education to increase economic stability for their clients.