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2005 Report Julie E. Adrianopoli is the Public Policy Director at the Illinois Arts Alliance/Foundation. Her responsibilities at the Arts Alliance include organizing arts advocacy efforts on a local, state and national level, developing greater awareness about the need for increased public arts funding and coordinating a statewide effort to address the diminishing quality and quantity of arts education in Illinois public schools. Prior to joining the Arts Alliance in 2003, Julie was Director of Programs and Services at the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (The Partnership), a Northeast Ohio regional arts and cultural service organization. During her three years at The Partnership she managed capacity building programs that provide cultural organizations and individual artists with professional counsel; initiated research projects to analyze the regions' cultural characteristics; and, assisted with the development and implementation of strategy that worked toward the goal of obtaining adequate public funding for arts and culture. Julie also worked as a business management consultant for Ernst & Young from 1999-2001. Julie holds a B.S.B.A. in Marketing from John Carroll University and a M.B.A. from Case Western Reserve University. Ellen S. Alberding is president of the Joyce Foundation, which has assets of $800 million and makes grants of approximately $30 million a year on projects that affect the Midwest. She holds an honors degree in English from Brown University and a Masters of Management from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Recently, she served as co-convener of the Governance Committee for the national Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, and as a member of the Public Trust task Force for the Donors Forum of Chicago. She has been treasurer of Grantmakers in the Arts (a national organization of arts grantmakers), a member of the Cultural Advisor Board for the City of Chicago, a member of the Governor's Early Learning Council, and until June 2001 was president of the Chicago Park District pension fund. She also serves on the advisory boards of the Chicago Children's Museum, Human Rights Watch, and Facing History and Ourselves. Robert Alpaugh, a 20-year veteran of the not-for-profit and commercial performing arts arena is Director of Institutional Advancement at Chicago's Tony Award winning Victory Gardens Theater (VGT). Alpaugh is responsible for the design and implementation of strategies to raise funds to support the mission of Victory Gardens, the development of commercial and regional productions for VGT's world premiere productions, the attraction of new writers to the Theater and the management of the acquisition and rehab of Chicago's historic Biograph Theater as the new home for Victory Gardens Theater. Robert was the Managing Director at Arizona Theatre Company for six years and began his management career at the Whole Theatre with Artistic Director Olympia Dukakis. He has also served at The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Stony Brook Theatre Festival and Urban Gateways. His many volunteer experiences include serving as a founding Board member of People With AIDS Theatre Workshop; founding Board member and volunteer Executive Director of the Jamison Project; panelist for New Jersey Council for the Arts, Arizona Commission on the Arts, the NEA Theatre and Musical Theatre; member of Chicago Sisters Cities Commission - Paris; and board member of Arts and Business Council Chicago. He has taught at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Arizona State University, University of Arizona, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and University of Wisconsin at Madison. Mr. Alpaugh holds a BA from Florida State University and an MFA from the University of North Carolina. Thomas Appleton is the President of the Trustees of the Springfield Center for the Arts, a remodeled 80,00 sq. ft. former Masonic Temple. He also serves as a Trustee of Springfield Muni Opera. His day job is a Justice on the Illinois Appellate Court for the Fourth District. Jennifer Armstrong is the executive director of 40 North/88 West--the Champaign County Arts, Culture & Entertainment Council. At the national and state levels, she serves as Chair of Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council, is on the board of The Association of American Cultures (www.taac.com), and is a member of the Illinois Local Arts Network Committee. Locally, Jennifer is co-founder of individuals TOGETHER, and young professional organizations formed by both the Urban League of Champaign County and the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce. She moved to Champaign County one year ago from Phoenix, Arizona, where she served as the program coordinator for the Herberger College Department of Dance at Arizona State University. Her artistic side includes a lifelong study of theatre and dance and a passion for all things creative. Abena Joan P. Brown, a native Chicagoan, received a bachelor's degree from Roosevelt University, a Master's Degree in community organization and management from the University of Chicago and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree from Chicago State University. She is the co-founder, president and producer of eta Creative Arts Foundation, a 34-year-old full service and multi-disciplined cultural arts institution on the south side of Chicago. eta is the first Africentric cultural organization to purchase/renovate its own space and the first to establish an endowment, and it is now in the mode of facility and program expansion in response to service demand. Ms. Brown has been the recipient of over 100 awards attesting to the value that the broader community places on the work of the organization. Additionally, Ms. Brown has produced well over 175 theatrical productions. Among other leadership positions, Ms. Brown is currently the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Rosa Cabrera has held the title of Public Involvement Manager for the Field Museum's Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) since the summer of 2000. Her primary responsibilities include but are not limited to working with diverse communities to increase the use of museum resources and build deeper relationships between the Museum and its constituents; to promote the uses of anthropology to increase the Museum's knowledge of contemporary life in Chicago and to increase understanding of the importance of cultural diversity to civic life. A good portion of her time is dedicated to advancing the growth and development of the Cultural Connections program- a partnership between the Field Museum and twenty-two ethnic museums and cultural centers in and around Chicago. In addition, she is currently involved in the development of The Cultural Diversity Alliance. In 1999, Rosa received a M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology and researching the role of ethnic museums in the shaping of their community ethnic identity. Catherine Carabetta is director of public policy at the Donors Forum of Chicago. As public policy director, Catherine works to educate state and federal public officials about the value and needs of the philanthropic sector and advocates for policies that promote philanthropy and the nonprofit sector as a whole. She helped to create the Donors Forum Public Trust Initiative, which developed principles and practices on governance and management for grantmakers and nonprofits. Before joining the Donors Forum in 2004, Catherine worked in the Venture Fund at the Philadelphia-based Pew Charitable Trusts. Catherine has public policy experience from positions in the U.S. Senate as well as The Brookings Institution. She also was a lecturer for the political science department at Loyola University of Chicago. Catherine earned a BSFS in International Politics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and an MA in American Politics from Loyola University of Chicago. Deborah R. Card joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra association as President in August 2003. In this role, she oversees the operations of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Center Presents, the Civic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Chicago Symphony Singers, and the Symphony Center facility. Prior to joining the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Card was executive director of the Seattle Symphony, a position she held since November 1992. From 1986 to 1992, she served as executive director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and prior to that was orchestra manager for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Stella Carnahan started as a part time Administrative Assistant for the Decatur Area Arts Council in March of 1995. She proved herself a "stretcher" early in her working relationship and accepted various challenges put in front of her as she moved from Administrative Assistant to handling programming and administrative responsibilities. When the position of Executive Director was open, she was asked to "fill in" and so became the Interim Executive Director. Stella has been active in the business community for many years and is a former employee and business owner of Balloons a Bloomin' and Luv that Limo respectively. Growing up in a musical family, she is a charter member of the Greater Decatur Chorale and continues to sing with them. She and her husband, Charlie, have two married sons, Matthew and Mark, one married daughter, Molly, and two grandsons, Chase (8) and Ian (4). Allan Chambers is the Associate Artistic Director and Theatre Services Director of the Theatre Building Chicago. He has worked as dramaturg, director, actor, workshop coordinator and artistic director of projects for the TBC (formerly known as New Tuners Theatre). His responsibilities include negotiations and contracting for TBC with primary clients, scheduling late and off-nite presentations, rehearsal, audition, etc. Allan is the casting director for all musical programming at TBC including casting, scheduling, and coordinating the annual Stages Festival of New Musicals. Mr. Chambers holds an MFA in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University and a Bachelor of Science in Theatre from "the other U of I", in his home state of Idaho. Libby Lai-Bun Chiu has served as Executive Director for Urban Gateways: Center for Arts Education since January 1998. Urban Gateways mission is to provide high quality comprehensive arts education for children in Chicagoland with its roster of professional visual, performing, and literary artists. Ms. Chiu is a founding member of the National Conversation group which published Creating Capacity through the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, a manual that discusses the principles of professional development for teaching artists. She is currently serving as the primary technical consultant for The Chicago Community Trust's Arts Education Initiative. Ms. Chiu received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and a Masters in Education from Boston University. Her early schooling was in Hong Kong and she is bilingual in English and Chinese. She trained in classical ballet and modern dance for 30 years. Marvin S. Cutler, CPA, is Director of Finance and Administration for Spertus Institute and an Adjunct Professor teaching Budgeting and Finance for non-profit organizations in an accredited Master's of Science in Non-Profit Management program at Spertus College. He teaches for both the Illinois CPA Society and Illinois CPAs for the Public Interest, and has presented programs at the Illinois CPA Society Not-for-Profit Conference and in conjunction with the Donors Forum. Mr. Cutler has been a guest lecturer at several other conferences including a Graduate Certificate Program for North Park College and the Dollinger Conference held at DePaul University. His technical publications include several articles in Insight, the Journal of the Illinois CPA Society as well as many other articles that discuss financial issues for non-profit organizations. Toni Diprizio is an audit senior manager with Blackman Kallick's not-for-profit practice group. A graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, she began her career in public accounting and immediately served on several not-for-profit audit engagements. With 10 years of public accounting experience, Toni continues to develop her specialization in the not-for-profit industry by managing several of the firm's not-for-profit engagements and through her board service. Toni is the Treasurer of the Emerald City Theatre Company and a board member of the Eleanor Foundation. Andy Finch serves as Americans for the Arts' chief lobbyist on Capitol Hill and at the federal executive agencies. He served as Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of Education from 1999 to 2001, advising the Secretary and senior staff on arts education policy, and was a lobbyist for the American Association of Museums from 1990 to 1999. His political experience includes a stint as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Rep. Michael Strang (R-CO) as well as a series of campaigns throughout the 1980's, including Elliot L. Richardson's bid for the U.S. Senate and the presidential campaigns of Michael Dukakis and Al Gore in 1987-88. Andy holds a B.A. from Brandeis University in history and classics, and a M.A. in Latin from U.C.L.A. He worked towards the Ph.D. in classical philology from U.C. Berkeley before thinking better of it. Maggy Fouché handles marketing, audience development and membership for the Chicago Cultural Center, one of the most comprehensive free arts showcases in the United States. Maggy has experience in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, with a corporate career in advertising and marketing that includes twelve years developing growth plans for Alberto Culber Company's domestic and international markets. Throughout her professional career, Maggy maintained her connection with the arts by working with arts organizations on a volunteer basis in several areas, including strategic planning, marketing, and board development. In 2001 Maggy joined the Department of Cultural Affairs as the Associate Marketing Director, moving full-time into the non-profit sector. Maggy has a BA in Communication Arts from Marymount Manhattan College in New York, and an MBA in marketing from the University of Southern California. Elizabeth Gelman joined the team at the Children's Museum in Oak Lawn as Executive Director in April of 2003 just prior to the pilot museum's opening. Since opening, the museum has been overwhelmed by the number and diversity of children, families and caregivers eager to play and learn at the interactive exhibits. Recently, the museum was given the opportunity to expand to a much larger facility to be built at the newly created Oak Lawn Metra Station. Elizabeth's background includes stints at the DuPage Children's Museum and, most recently, the Terra Museum of American Art. She is also the creator of an interactive arts program known as Arts Attack! that brought assemblies and workshops to schools, libraries and performance venues throughout the Midwest. Rhonda Goldstein is an executive and life coach and a nonprofit consultant. She has twenty-five years of experience providing consulting services in Strategic Planning, Board Development, Group Facilitation and Fundraising. Her tested skills and energetic approach help clients achieve long-term growth by enhancing their capacity. Rhonda builds organizational effectiveness by strengthening Board and staff leadership and strategically linking mission to program priorities. She uses creative methods to generate revenue and build strong infrastructure, capitalizing on an organization's assets to motivate change. In addition, she is a certified executive and life coach who works with clients to achieve fulfillment, to live their passions and make powerful choices to balance the competing demands of their lives. Joan Gray, President, has been with Muntu Dance Theatre since 1977 when she became a principal dancer with the Company. She has been in her present capacity since 1986. She is responsible for the oversight of day-to-day operations, and has primary responsibility for fundraising. Ms. Gray currently sits in the Board of Directors for the African American Arts Alliance and the International association of Blacks in Dance. She has also served on the boards of Dance/USA and is a past president of the Chicago Dance Coalition. Ms. Gray is active in the national arts community and serves on numerous policy and review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, and several state arts agencies around the country. She is the recipient of the Sidney R. Yates Award presented by the Illinois Arts Alliance and the Paul Robeson Award presented by the African American Arts Alliance. In 2001, Ms. Gray was awarded a fellowship to the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders-Arts at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Sue Greenberg has been the part-time Executive Director of the St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts since 1986. During the summer, she is the company manager at The Muny. Sue teaches stage management at Washington University and legal issues in the arts for Webster University's Arts Leadership graduate program. Also a free lance writer and playwright, her numerous plays for children have been produced in Missouri, California, Indiana, and South Carolina. She is a graduate of Washington University where she majored in Arts History and Urban Studies. Joan Gunzberg joined the Arts & Business Council of Chicago as its Executive Director in 1989 and has built the organization into a major community resource that develops leadership, arts/business partnerships, collaborative initiatives, staff and board training and exposure to best business practices. Under her leadership, she launched the Council's OnBOARD program (to train and place business professionals on arts boards throughout metro Chicago), the Arts Marketing Project, now replicated in 14 U.S. cities, and smARTscope (on line organizational assessment tool for arts organizations.). Joan is a recognized authority, locally and nationally, on the intersection of the arts and business. Nancy Villafranca Guzmán is the Director of Education of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago. Nancy formed part of the MFACM family as a volunteer at the age of fifteen. Since 1993 she has worked in several departments of the Museum while finishing high school at Benito Juarez and college at DePaul University. Nancy graduated from DePaul University's School of Education with high honors in the year 2000. Prior to her responsibilities as the head of the Education Department, she coordinated teacher and school programs; developed curriculum for students; conducted workshops; assisted in coordinating various exhibitions; researched and written historical and cultural exhibition text; coordinated exhibition related public programming; and was directly involved in the research, and overall development of the Museum's milestone and first long-term exhibition, Mexicanidad: Our Past Is Present. Nancy curated her first exhibition, La Vida del Tejido Indigena: Textiles from the Permanent Collection, in the fall of 2003 at the age of twenty-five. In April 2004, she coordinated the largest event in the Museum's history, the Chicago Día del Niño Family Festival, which saw record attendance of over 10,000 children and adults. As Education Director, Nancy is now implementing new and innovative educational programming for all ages. Monica Haslip - As Founder of Chicago-based Little Black Pearl (LBP), Monica Haslip has combined her entrepreneurial spirit and passion for the arts into an innovative inner-city non-profit organization that has served more than 1,500 students over the past 10 years. Created in 1994, the organization's mission is to create an avenue for exposure to art and culture while teaching the profitable connection between art, education and business. LBP is designed to provide access to art and educational training opportunities in the arts. Little Black Pearl offers a series of programs and workshops engaged in various activities in pursuit of its mission. As a community based organization, LBP is also dedicated to contributing to the economic self-sufficiency of the community. A true artist at heart, however Monica has not always experienced the joys of the artistic community. Monica's drive and determination has led her from the comforts of home in Birmingham, Alabama to the photography department at Johnson's Publishing Company and later to Black Entertainment Television as Senior Marketing Manager for the Midwest region. Unable to ignore the pull of her greatest gratification, Monica's love for art led her to the creation of an art organization. Ms. Haslip has received numerous accolades and recognition for her work from individuals and organizations including Hilary Rodham Clinton, Columbia College, Systems Development Integration, the Illinois Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects, 100 Black Men, Essence Magazine, Crain's Business Magazine, African American Arts Alliance of Chicago, INOMA Community Service Award and Connections Black Pearl Award. Most recently, Monica received the prestigious recognition as one of the six 2004 Chicagoans of the Year by Chicago Magazine. Jim Hirsch has served as Executive Director of Chicago Sinfonietta since August of 2004. Prior to his work at Chicago Sinfonietta, Hirsch served as Vice President and Executive Director of the Chicago Association for the Performing Arts, managers and programmers of the Chicago Theatre, and as the Executive Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music. During his tenure at Old Town from 1982 until 2000, the organization became the oldest and largest institution of its kind in the country. The organization's budget grew from $300,000 in 1986 to $7 million in 2000. In 1999, Hirsch completed work on a $10.2 million capital campaign that funded the organization's expansion to the new Chicago Folk Center, a 43,000 square-foot building that the City of Chicago donated to the School, and established a $1 million endowment fund. Hirsch has served as a consultant for a number of arts and social service agencies. He was chosen by Crains Chicago Business for their annual 40 Under 40 article that honors Chicago's up-and-coming business executives under 40 years of age and was named Chicago Arts Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996. In 1998, he was chosen as one of Chicago Magazine's Chicagoans of the Year. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Inspiration Café. Dr. Chuimei Ho was born in Hong Kong. She received her BA from the University of Hong Kong in 1977 and her Ph.D., in art history and archaeology, from the University of London in 1984, and M.S.W. in social work from the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her main interests are the ancient and historical ceramics of Southeast and East Asia, maritime and neolithic archaeology in Southeast Asia, ceramic archaeology in China, traditional Chinese temples and temple furnishings, and court life in China during the Qing Dynasty. She has conducted archaeological research in several parts of China as well as Thailand and Indonesia, has been a collection or exhibition consultant to museums in Illinois, Missouri, South Carolina, North Carolina, California, Florida and Wisconsin, and has been a visiting curator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Denver Museum of Natural History. She is currently the President of the Chinatown Museum Foundation in Chicago an Adjunct Curator at the Field Museum, and a social worker at a medical center. She is the lead curator of the Splendors of the Forbidden City exhibition that opens at the Field Museum in March 2004. Halena Kays is the Co-Founder of Barrel of Monkeys. Halena's primary responsibility is to ensure that BOM's performance-based work is of the highest quality. She received a Bachelor of Science in Speech, Theater from Northwestern University. She oversees all school-based and public performances from initial schedule to final performance, as many as 40 per year. Halena also coordinates all marketing efforts and serves as a master BOM facilitator in the classroom. She directs all of our public performances, which shares the stories of children with the broader community. "That's Weird, Grandma" - a showcase of our favorite student-authored stories - plays every Monday night at the Neo-Futurarium and has received rave reviews and Critic's Choice in the Chicago Reader due, much in part, to Halena's wise and warm directing. She has worked as a professional actor and director in Chicago for the past six years where her primary affiliations include The Second City, The Factory Theater, Roadworks Productions, The Hypocrites and The Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Halena was nominated (best supporting actress) for her role as Kimberly in "Stupid Kids" and has won both After Dark Awards and Joseph Jefferson Citations for Acting and Directing in Chicago. Halena was recently listed as one of Chicago's "30 under 30" by SixOSix magazine. In addition, she is a clown with the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit, which serves children's hospitals across the city. She is also a correspondent for "Artbeat Chicago" on WTTW, Channel 11 where she has the pleasure of interviewing many of the country's most talented performers. Halena has been directing shows for Barrel of Monkeys as well as the company from which Barrel of Monkeys was born, since 1995. Kristie Koehler has been with Barrel of Monkeys since 1998 first as a workshop facilitator, performer and curriculum advisor, then as the Program Director, and is now serving in her fourth year as the organization's Executive Director. Kristie works closely with the board of directors and oversees staff to ensure that Barrel of Monkeys' programs, development, marketing and operations run smoothly, while also teaching, performing and dealing with the day-to-day logistics of the school-based residency program. Kristie graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and a minor in political science and Spanish. She is an
Americorps alum who worked for City Year San Jose, where she created the programming and curriculum for an after-school program that focused on creative writing workshops for at-risk children. The Beloved, Babbling, Baboonian Community of Imagination still exists today. She also served as camp director and corporate service director for an Americorps program in Edward A. Martenson is a consultant to nonprofit arts leaders and Lecturer in Theatre Management at the Yale School of drama. For National Arts Strategies, he directs five executive education programs and is co-director of the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders in the Arts at Stanford University. Previously, he was Executive Director of The Guthrie Theatre; Theater Program Director of the National Endowment for the Arts; Managing Director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and Associate Professor/Co-Chairman of Theatre Administration at the Yale School of Drama; and Managing Director of the McCarter Theater. Bruce Marquis is the executive director of the Bloomington Cultural District, planning, programming and raising funds for the three-block regional arts campus which will open in 2006. Before arriving in Bloomington in 2002, Bruce directed the Gallagher-Bluedorn Center in Cedar Falls, Iowa, leading the final stage of its capital campaign and the successful grand opening of the new $23 million center. Previously, he led the Lied Center at the University of Nebraska and directed programming at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has been a frequent grant panelist as well as an invited speaker on developing new facilities, programming trends, building community relationships and increasing audiences. Daniel Y. Mayer has been the principle of Parkway III Consulting since 1997 specializing in providing hands-on long-term consulting and management services to nonprofit arts organizations. For the last six years, Mayer has served many clients as an interim director leading a wide range of organizations through an organizational transition. Recently, he has led an arts school, a film festival, and an orchestra running the day-to-day operations and working with the board of directors to create a new vision and leadership for the organization. Mayer is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio and has taught art and entertainment law at Columbia College, New York University, and Columbia University School of Law. Mayer has lectured widely on art law and management at conferences sponsored by organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graphic Artist Guild, the American Society of Magazine Photographers, the Washington State Arts Alliance, and the Copyright Society of the United States. Joan Mazzonelli is the Executive Director of Theatre Building Chicago where she is delighted to be surrounded by the chaotic creativity of the numerous performing troupes that call Theatre Building Chicago home. She has also been privileged to produce many original musicals from Nightingale to Hans Brinker to Africa & Plumbridge. She currently serves on the boards of the Illinois Theatre Association and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and on the Artistic and Technical Team of the Joseph Jefferson Committee. She is past president of Child's Play Touring Theatre, past vice president of the Chicago Dance and Music Alliance, past treasurer of the League of Chicago Theatres and has lectured at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University and Roosevelt University. A long time ago she was a credit officer at Chemical Bank; now she is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Julia Fabris McBride is the founder of Community Collaborations, a consulting firm specializing in planning and leadership development for the arts, environment and community. Among her clients are the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute (St. Paul, MN); the Donors Forum of Chicago; Scrap Mettle SOUL (Chicago, IL); Friends of the Chicago River; the American Alliance for Theatre in Education; and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. Prior to founding Community Collaborations, Julia served as deputy director for programming at IAAF. She is a Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest (CLPI) Fellow and part of their national roster of advocacy and lobbying trainers. Julia is a mediator, certified by the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, and an avid organic vegetable gardener. Kate McGovern holds a J.D. and an LLM degree in Intellectual Property Law as well as a Doctorate degree in education and a Masters degree in Theatre and Communication. Presently, she sits on the Boards of Lifeline Theatre, the Dance Centre of Columbia College and is a Chancellor on the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Stratford, Canada. Kate is the Program Director of The Arts and Entertainment Management Project at The Athenaeum. She also teaches Entertainment Law, Theatre Law and Music Law at DePaul University College of Law. Catherine Meredith is the Director of Programs at Reading In Motion and has been working in the fields of both art and education since 1994. After receiving her BFA from DePaul University, Catherine spent two years teaching English as a foreign language in rural Japan through the Japanese Ministry of Education's JET Program. While in Japan, Catherine studied both the Japanese language and cultural arts, including taiko drumming, calligraphy, and Ohara Ikebana. As Director of Programs, Catherine supervises the Program Staff and Teaching Artists who implement Reading In Motion's programs, and serves as the staff leader of Reading In Motion's Organizational Design Task Force. Joshua J. Mintz is Vice President and General Counsel of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He joined the Foundation in 1994. As General Counsel, he is responsible for the overall legal affairs of the Foundation worldwide and is a member of the senior advisory team that advises the President of the Foundation on Foundation policy matters and strategic direction. Prior to joining the Foundation, Josh was a partner with the law firm of Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood specializing in commercial litigation and business reorganization (including real estate restructurings). Josh received his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, magna cum laude, in 1981. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in history/education from the University of Colorado. Josh is a member of the Board of Directors of the Donors Forum of Chicago and the Juvenile Protective Association, a not-for-profit organization providing counseling and other services to children at risk and their families. Nancy Moore, Principal of N.W. Moore & Associates, brings more than 25 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and management to her consulting practice, including eleven years as Executive Director of The Three Arts Club of Chicago. She has assisted many arts and educational institutions with strategic planning, board development and program development. She enjoys working with courageous organizations - organizations interested in revitalizing, transforming or improving themselves for the benefit of the communities they serve. Kit Morice is the Curator of Education of the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University. Morice organizes on- and off-site educational programs offered by the Tarble Arts Center, including a one-month, Arts-In-Education Residency, teacher in-services, classes and workshops, docent training, and curating exhibitions in conjunction with selected programs. Morice holds an MFA in Drawing and Printmaking from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Jean Parisi is a co-founder of the Pros Arts Studio, a community-based, multi-arts organization founded in 1978 in the Pilsen neighborhood. Jean is also Pros Arts Studio's Executive Director, a teaching artist (visual and performing), a performer with the Pros Arts Ensemble, and on TV Pros, the interactive children's series on CAN TV. Jean holds a BFA in sculpture and a MFA in Performance. She received an Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship, the Illinois Alliance for Arts Education Community Service Award, and served on the Citizen's Committee for Arts Education. She has taught Physical Theatre at SAIC, has conducted Illinois Arts Council Arts in Education Puppet Residencies, is an illustrator for Fra Noi Newspaper, and, of course, is a clown! Nick Rabkin directs the Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago, and is the co-editor of Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century. His writing on arts education and schools has also appeared in the Washington Post and Education Week. He was senior program officer for the arts at the MacArthur Foundation for ten years, the deputy commissioner of cultural affairs for Chicago, and the executive director of the Organic Theater Company. Philippe Ravanas, a native of France, is a marketing expert with close to two decades of experience in the entertainment industry and the Arts, and a successful track record in building bridges between business and academia. Mr. Ravanas is the past Vice President of Corporate Communications for Euro Disney in Paris. He participated in its launch and eventually served as the official spokesman for the Company. He then joined Christie's Auction House in London where he took charge of Client Development worldwide. Currently, Mr. Ravanas is an Arts Management Professor at Columbia College Chicago, where he teaches Marketing Applied to the Arts, Box Office Management, Sponsorship and Comparative Cultural Policies. He is a consultant for the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the European Parliament and the National Geographic Society. Elliot Regenstein is Governor Rod Blagojevich's Director of Education Reform, and his primary aide on issues regarding public K-12 and higher education in the State of Illinois. He is responsible for oversight of the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and the Illinois Community College Board. Regenstein is also the co-chair of the Governor's Early Learning Council. David Roche is a musician, writer, and ethnomusicologist. As Executive Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Roche leads the largest independent community arts school in the country with over 6,000 students taking lessons on a weekly basis. Currently a member of the Chicago Board of Governors for NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences—the "Grammys"), Roche is also the former Artistic Director for the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, director for folk and traditional arts programming at Oakland's Festival at the Lake, director of community programming for the Center for World Music, radio program producer for KPFA—FM ("World Musicmobile"), co-founder of ACTA, the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, adjunct professor of music at Sonoma State University and the University of California, Berkeley, and culture critic for Pacific News Service's New California Media Online. Roche has been a frequent consultant and panelist for state arts councils, private foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Alan Salzenstein has been an attorney, arts administrator, educator, theatrical producer, and arts consultant for the past 20 years. He is the coordinator and faculty for the Performing Arts Management Program at DePaul University. Salzenstein has been executive director of several performing arts organizations, has produced numerous productions and special events, and has served on various boards including the League of Chicago Theatres and Producers Association of Chicago Theatres. He is currently serving as interim director of Court Theatre. Jackie Samuel is a Chicago based, Professional Actress and Theatrical Director. She has served over 10 years as an Arts Educator and Consultant for Chicago Arts Partnership in Education (C.A.P.E.). Her teaching and arts consultant experiences have been published in two books, Teachers Doing Research, edited by Gail Burnaford, Joseph Fischer and David Hobson and Renaissance in the Classroom edited by Gail Burnaford, Arnold Aprill, and Cynthia Weiss. Jackie has also worked as a consultant for Jane Fonda to assist her in the redevelopment of her special arts education initiative, Performing Arts Program for Youth in Atlanta, Georgia and numerous arts organizations internationally. She is currently the founder and Executive Director of Emerge-N-Arts, an arts education organization that provides arts integration programming for schools and community based organizations. Melanie Scofield launched Scofield Communications with her husband Doug Scofield in 2003 following a 15-year career in public affairs and public relations in Chicago and Washington, DC. Scofield Communications provides government affairs consulting services for many statewide organizations, including the Illinois Cable Association, the Service Employees International Union, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the Illinois Primary Health Care Association. Melanie holds a B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University, where she also indulged her love of theater and which led to a short stint as stage manager for the Lookingglass Theatre Company. Melanie is a board member of the Illinois Arts Alliance and is delighted to be working with the Illinois Arts Education Initiative. Karen Shifo is the treasurer of the Boone County Arts Council. She is a founding member of the organization and over the years has served in a variety of capacities in the organization. She is a member of the Community Building Complex Committee of Boone County, serving as Building and Grounds Chairman. She serves on the board of The Rosecrance Health Network as well as other local boards. She served for seven years on the Illinois Arts Council from 1993-2000 and the Illinois Arts Alliance Board from 1986-89. Eva Silverman is the Director of Collaborative Programs for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). She oversees a division of DCA which develops, produces, and promotes citywide collaborative programs that involve participation by multiple cultural and civic institutions. Prior to this position, Eva served as the coordinator of the Chicago Millennium Celebration, producing and promoting a series of major cultural events in celebration of the arrival of the year 2000. Previously, she was the Cultural Programming Associate for DCA and was responsible for the coordination of several collaborative groups including the Cultural Network and the Arts Technical Assistance Providers Network. Eva began her tenure at DCA as the Media Relations Coordinator for the Chicago Office of Tourism, a division of DCA. Eva earned her B.A. in Economics in 1987 from Northwestern University and her MA in art history from the University of Chicago in 1992. Mark Slavkin is Vice President for Education at the Music Center, the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County. The Music Center Education Division provides arts programs in over 400 local K-12 schools and produces innovative programming for children and families at the Music Center. A former elected school board member, Slavkin plays a key leadership role in efforts to advance arts education in the 81 schools districts in Los Angeles County. Jon (Cody) Sokolski's real estate portfolio includes ownership in ownership of properties located in Champaign, New York City, and Los Angeles. In addition, in Champaign, where he resides with his lovely wife and their children, he is co-owner of Boltini Lounge and the weekly arts, culture & entertainment paper, the Hub. Beyond his real estate interests, Mr. Sokolski is actively involved in the community. He has spent the last year developing the newly established Champaign County Arts, Culture & Entertainment Council, 40N/88W and is currently president of 40N's board. He also currently serves on the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation board. In addition, Mr. Sokolski serves Krannert Center for The Performing Arts' Marquee Council. He also sits on the Mass Transit District's Business Advisory Committee. In his spare time, Mr. Sokolski plays guitar & sings with roadhouse warriors, the Delta Kings, voted Best Local Band and winner of Best Local Band CD for 2004 (for the 2nd time). Mr. Sokolski lives in Champaign with wife Marci, a music journalist and their two children, Lillian (piano) and Nate (drums). Since 2004 Sarah Solotaroff has been a Senior Advisor at The Chicago Community Trust and the Project Director of the Trust's Arts Education Initiative. When she came to the Trust in 1990, she was responsible for all of The Trust's grants in arts and culture. In October, 2000 Ms. Solotaroff was appointed Vice-President for Programs at the Trust. Ms. Solotaroff has served as a board member and President of CAPE, Chicago Arts Partnership in Education. She serves on the boards of Grant Makers in the Arts, and Music and Dance Theatre Chicago. Ms. Solotaroff has been awarded the Outstanding Achievement in the Arts Award from the St. Paul YWCA, the WCCO-AM Radio Good Neighbor Award and Outstanding Women of Minnesota for "Celebrating Women as Artists." She received the Grantor of the Year Award from the National Society for Fund Raising Executives in 1999, and was named in the July 2001 issue of Today's Chicago Women as one of the 100 Women in Chicago Making a Difference. Ms. Solotaroff holds a BA in Music from Oberlin College, BM in Piano from Oberlin College, and a MA in English from the University of Chicago. Nancy Jefferson Stemper is the Executive Director of Carbondale Community Arts, a local arts agency offering outreach programming and regranting services throughout Southern Illinois. She holds a B.A. in Urban Studies from Tufts University, and a J.D. from Northeastern University. (Prior to becoming an arts administrator, she practiced and taught appellate law and edited legal publications in New York, California and Wisconsin.) She has been a member of Carbondale Elementary School District 95 Board of Education since 1984 and its president since 1990. She is a member of the Secretary of State¹s Advisory Council on Charitable Giving and a frequent jury panelist for the Illinois Arts Council. Since 1998 Ms. Stemper has served on the board of the Illinois Arts Alliance, where she currently co-chairs Illinois Creates, a state-wide arts education initiative launched by the Alliance in cooperation with the Chicago Community Trust. Paul Sznewajs is the founder and Executive Director of Snow City Arts Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that provides educational programming to hospitalized children. He holds a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, and his poems and essays have appeared in various literary publications across the country. He has worked as a writer-in-residence at the acclaimed New Horizons program at Children National Medical Center (Washington, DC) and helped institute an arts residency program at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughter's (Norfolk, VA). In 1998, he helped found Snow City Arts Foundation to serve Chicago's underprivileged children. Since its inception, Snow City Arts Foundation has served more than 5,500 at-risk children, and now reaches 2,000 children annually in hospitals around Chicago. Russell Willis Taylor, President and CEO of National Arts Strategies (NAS) since January 2001, has extensive experience as a director and management consultant in strategic business planning, financial analysis and planning, and all areas of operational management, beginning her career in the arts as Director of Development for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in the early 80's. Immediately before joining NAS, Mrs. Taylor was the Managing Director of the English National Opera in London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. She has held a broad range of leadership and advisory posts in the non-profit and for profit sectors, and currently serves on the advisory board of George Mason University. Laura Wiley is co-founder and co-director of Albany Park Theater Project, a community-based theater company of teenagers and young adults in Chicago's ethnically diverse, working class Albany Park neighborhood. In her eight years leading APTP with her husband David Feiner, Laura has shepherded APTP from just an idea into a youth arts organization that is nationally recognized for excellence in the arts and youth development. Laura serves as an organizational leader, lead artist, and youth mentor at APTP. She has directed more than thirty original performances created by the ensemble, based on the real-life stories of people living in Albany Park; she oversees and choreographs much of the company's dance work; and she initiated and leads APTP's college counseling program, which in the last four years has helped thirty-five teens become the first in their families to attend college. Laura's work at APTP has earned her and the company local and national recognition: Laura was named one of 100 Women Making a Difference by Today's Chicago Women; she was named an Unsung Heroine by the Cook County Commission on Women's Issues; she and David were awarded the Susan F. Berkowitz Award for Outstanding Service to Youth; and this past December, Albany Park Theater Project was honored in Washington, D.C. by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities with the national Coming Up Taller Award. A graduate of Tufts University and the Yale School of Drama, Laura is an ovarian cancer survivor and has also been actively involved in her synagogue, the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, where she has served as chair of the social action committee and as a member of the board of directors. Daniel J. Windham is Executive Director of The Cleveland Music School Settlement, a position he accepted in February 2002. CMSS is a nationally recognized leader in community arts programming offering instruction, performance opportunities, and presentations in various arts disciplines, a music therapy division, and a fully staffed early education center. CMSS provides services annually to over 2,000 participants building social infrastructure through the arts. Prior to joining CMSS, Windham was President and CEO of Kansas City Young Audiences, Inc., a center for the arts and the study of culture. Through his leadership, Young Audiences became the largest arts education organization in the region, annually producing more than 1000 performances and 2000 workshops designed to improve student success in education and for the positive development of youth and communities. Windham is also an accomplished instrumentalist and vocalist; as a baritone he has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. Alene Valkanas is a national leader in arts advocacy and education. For twenty years, she has directed the Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation and its sister organization, the Illinois Arts Alliance, developing a number of innovative programs and research projects. She is co-chair of the State Arts Action Network, a member of the board of the Donors Forum of Chicago, and a founding board member of the Washington-based Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest. A national campaign to promote reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts, produced under her direction, received the Government Relations Award of Excellence from the American Society of Association Executives in 1990. In June 1994, she received the Double Emmy Arts Award from Mostly Music, in recognition of her contribution to the cultural life of Chicago. Alene's work at the Alliance was preceded by fourteen years in public relations, program development, and cultural affairs, and by several years as an educator in the field of English and art at the secondary-school level. She holds an MAT in art education from the University of Chicago. Illinois Arts Alliance/Foundation |
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