“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

— Rumi

About Trinity

I’ve never lived a linear lifestyle—because who I am was never meant to fit in a straight line.

I started as a child performer, eventually landing on television shows and Broadway before I even had a driver's license, as music has always been my anchor. Since then, life has kept widening the stage. Some career highlights include:

  • Trained Paramount Global writers and Trailer Park Group managers on psychological safety and effective communication, while co-developing a 6-month coaching program for creative leaders (Tosha Coaching & Consulting)

  • Positioned diverse leaders into pivotal C-suite positions thru executive search placement (Arts Consulting Group)

  • Worked alongside Smithsonian gallery educators and curators (ie, National Portrait Gallery, Anacostia Community Museum, Phillips Collection) on language justice and accessibility for multilingual learners

  • Founded an arts and culture program that uplifts trans and queer BIPoC communities and learners (Carlos Rosario Int’l PCS)

  • Supported the strategic planning and capacity building processes for numerous organizations—as an Executive Director (Public Art Reston) and parallel as a consultant (Arts Consulting Group)

  • Securing Sony Music as a client for a startup company (Buzz Marketing Group)

In 2023, I left the corporate and nonprofit worlds to remember who I am.

A healer. A musician. A truth teller.

Achieving titles for myself such as Managing Partner, Associate Vice President, and Executive Director became a piece of my ongoing journey—not the destination… and definitely not my identity.

Since then, I decided to invest in myself. Go back to school and get my MBA, start my own company, whilst relishing in being a full-time musician. This is me now.

With many ethnic ties to indigenous roots, I walk as a culture bearer and lifelong learner. I travel locally and internationally as a performing artist and cultural ambassador. I am raising a son rooted in love and sovereignty. I guide women, creatives, and caregivers to reclaim their bodies, their rhythm, their truth.

I am a student in Oli (Hawaiian chanting). I am also a student as a Diwataan under the Babaylan (shaman) Batara Gat Baya of the Mindoro tribe in Mindanao, Philippines.

My work doesn’t live in silos. It breathes across everything I touch—music, ritual, business, healing, and motherhood. It’s not about reinvention—it’s about returning.

This isn’t just a business to me.
I’m building a life that reflects my whole self.
And I want that for you, too.

I didn’t just build a business—
I built a life that remembers who I am.
— Trinity Villanueva

Recent Giving Back

National Art Education Association - Board of Directors

National Art Education Association - ED&I Commission, Associate Chair

Strathmore - Arts & Social Justice Fellowship Mentor

Arts Administrators of Color Network - Research Advisory Council

Anti-Racist Art Teachers - Advisor

Singing Hoosiers, Indiana University Bloomington - Advisory Council

Places I’ve studied/graduated from…

Indiana University Bloomington - Jacobs School of Music

Trinity College Dublin/ University of Maryland, College Park

University of Pennsylvania - School of Social Policy & Practice/ National Arts Strategies

Hablá Instituto - Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Harvard University - Graduate School of Education

National Art Education Association - School for Art Leaders

Institute for Coaching Excellence (completed two-thirds only)

OneDay - MBA in Entrepreneurship (current student)

Ho’aka Mana of Moloka’i, Hawaii - Oli (chanting) ongoing learning under Kumu Kanoelani Davis and Alaka’i Kane Shimabukuro

  • What I admire most is her ability to do so in different spaces, upholding values of equity and justice while challenging problematic behaviors and norms. She does so directly but with grace so that we all learn and grow, rather than retreat and ignore.

    DAT | SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY

  • Trinity is a visionary, thoughtful, and caring leader whose focus is on bring people and communities together…[her] work has a life-changing positive impact on the people she comes in contact with…

    NICOLÁS | LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

  • I’m beside myself with glee over the insights gained from one conversation…after so many therapy sessions that sort of skirted around some of this stuff and left me feeling disjointed.

    ALISON | HARVARD UNIVERSITY

  • Trinity has been my lifeline, especially on the days where I need a sounding board.

    TONYA | PENSKE MEDIA GROUP

  • Trinity is a fierce advocate for social justice issues and people forced to live in the margins. She is a tireless wounded warrior that who is dedicated to leaving the world better than she found it. I highly recommend Trinity for any opportunity in education, nonprofit, and public ventures.

    DURELL | CULTURAL INNOVATION GROUP

  • Since you helped me re-do my resume and interview prep, I have had a record year for getting interviews! I don't think my resume would be going to the top like this without your help to make it exude more confidence!

    ELIZABETH | CURATOR, CITY OF DENVER

  • She guided me in transitioning from my role as an artist educator to a leadership position, enhancing my qualifications as an applicant. Her coaching throughout the interview process proved highly successful.

    JAMES | ARTS LEADER, UTAH

  • Thank you again, you really radiate a special energy and aura to open these conversations, and to make us feel so comfortable when we're having them.

    STEPH, TELEVISION WRITER

  • I don't know how you did it, that CV was impossible. Thank you again! You did an amazing job. I greatly appreciate you!

    LESLIE, ACADEMIC ARTS LEADER