Therese Davis (Ms. Momos) is an Advanced Professional Coach (PCC)-level coach, multidisciplinary artist, arts administrator, and cultural strategist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the co-founder of Arts.Co.Lab, a cultural equity firm dedicated to strengthening the creative and economic sustainability of artists. Through coaching, professional development, and grant strategy, she has supported more than 300 artists in securing over $2.3 million in fellowships, grants, and stipends.

A Queer Rebels Resident Artist (2022), Therese co-created the Immigrant Artist Network, served as a Fellow and Mentor with the San Francisco Emerging Arts Professionals Program, and is the founder of The SF Songbird Festival. Her multidisciplinary practice brings together social practice, music, cultural organizing, leadership development, marketing, and event production.

Therese’s work is grounded in healing-centered practice, restorative justice, cultural equity, and community care. Her activism and cultural organizing have addressed human rights, fair housing, food justice, and dismantling the prison-industrial complex. Across her work, she approaches creativity not only as an artistic practice, but as a powerful tool for connection, belonging, collective care, and social change.

As a coach, Therese supports artists and cultural leaders in aligning their creative lives with sustainable, purpose-driven practices. She specializes in narrative development, grant and funding strategy, leadership development, and self-care frameworks, with a particular commitment to supporting BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, immigrant, and historically under-resourced artists.

Her coaching practice is rooted in care, clarity, curiosity, and deep listening. Rather than defining success solely through productivity, Therese helps artists strengthen their relationship to their purpose, recognize their own agency, and develop the tools, confidence, resources, and community they need to thrive—not simply survive—and lead transformational change.

Grant writing isn’t about becoming someone else, it’s learning to describe what you already do with clarity. 

– Therese