Nichelle Bielinski

Executive Assistant to the President and Program Manager

Nichelle Bielinski is a program manager and executive assistant to the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation president. She supports the foundation's president and manages several grantmaking programs, including the Galveston and Legacy Programs. She also serves as the foundation's corporate secretary.

Before joining the foundation, Nichelle spent two decades in arts education, founding 26-Music School and spearheading music education advocacy and learning initiatives throughout Austin. For ten years, Nichelle worked in television news and entertainment law as production coordinator of the NBC News Houston affiliate’s consumer advocacy division and director of operations for a Los Angeles-based law practice specializing in celebrity cases.

Nichelle holds multiple Bachelor of Arts degrees in mass media, communications, and music from Houston Baptist University. She is an alumnus of Interlochen IAC Center of the Arts with a passion for sustainability and the arts.