Meet our staff

Grace Loescher (she/THEY)

Creation District program Director

Grace Loescher has served as the founding Director of the Creation District since 2015. Within this role, Grace has brought unbridled energy and a deep belief in the healing power of art, music, and youth leadership. Throughout her time with Creation District, Grace has envisioned and launched several groundbreaking initiatives, including Creation District Records, an independent youth-run label dismantling barriers to the professional music industry; Street ARTreach, a mobile pop-up studio expanding arts access across Sacramento’s unhoused community; and Project Heal, a peer mentor program at the intersection of music, mental health, and trauma-informed leadership. A passionate advocate for ending youth homelessness, Grace has served for over seven years with the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, first as a Board Member and now as Communications Lead. She also founded and continues to lead the Sacramento Continuum of Care’s Youth Action Board, ensuring that young people with lived experience help shape housing policy and systems change across the region. Beyond her work in homelessness, Grace is a community leader in Sacramento’s creative and LGBTQ+ communities. She is the longtime producer and host of Speak Out! Sacramento, one of the city’s longest-running open mics and artistic fundraisers for local nonprofits. Grace is a graduate of Rollins College with a degree in Studio Art and a minor in Theatre Arts. As a practicing artist, she has exhibited experiential installations and sculptures, performed on local stages, and produced collaborative shows that create space for emerging artists. At the heart of all her work is a profound belief: that creativity is essential to discovering who we are, and that every young person deserves the chance to grow a healthy, vibrant creative spirit.

daniel lizama (he/him)

STREET LEADERS/creation district co-director/front desk

Tsavo He/HIM

Creation District Recording Director

Tsavo is a multi-talented artist, producer, recording engineer & youth mentor who has been using music as medicine in Sacramento’s most poverty stricken communities for the last 10 years. Tsavo has worked directly with the City of Sacramento, UC Davis, Twin Rivers Unified School District & various non-profits over the years to bring youth of all ages special music programs aimed at alleviating the environmental traumas of poverty and redirect the energy of hopelessness to positive artistic expression and empowerment. As a Recording Director, Tsavo is committed to mentoring & transforming artists navigating homelessness to reach their fullest potential, and process/heal from their current situation through the music they create in the studio with him. Outside of his work in community, he is also a successful music artist with notable performances at BottleRock Music Festival  & San Francisco’s Kron4 News Live in the Bay TV show drumming for Oke Junior, as well as rapping at Harlow’s NightClub for ThePhilharmonik, Three Sisters Garden’s Indigifest & many SoFar Sacramento shows last year.