The Fund’s People: Officers, Advisors, Staff and Consultants

 
W. Richard West, Jr., is Chairman of The Fund. Founding Director and Director Emeritus, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, he is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and a Peace Chief of the Southern Cheyenne. He has devoted his professional life and much of his personal life to working with American Indians on cultural, educational, legal, and governmental issues. As director of the NMAI from 1990-2007, West was responsible for guiding the successful opening of the three facilities that comprise the museum. He oversaw the creation and completion of the George Gustav Heye Center, and consulted on the Mall museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. He also serves as consultant to international cultural institutions and is Of Counsel to Stetson Law Offices, P.C., where he focuses primarily on Native art and culture issues. Before becoming NMAI director, West practiced law at the Indian-owned Albuquerque, New Mexico, law firm of Gover, Stetson, Williams & West, P.C.; and before that, he was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He served as general counsel and special counsel to numerous tribes and organizations. In that capacity, he represented clients before federal, state and tribal courts, various executive departments of the federal government and Congress.
 
Paul H. Elicker, is Chairman Emeritus of The Fund. His background is in private industry and more recently in government-oriented service. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SCM Corporation, a $3.4 billion Fortune 500 conglomerate company. He was Executive Director of The Center for Privatization, the first and largest consulting firm devoted exclusively to privatization work in about eighty countries, and has personally participated in assignments in about thirty countries. By Presidential appointment, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Baltic American Enterprise Fund, which is responsible for U.S. foreign aid to small and medium-sized private enterprises in the Baltic countries.
 
Jillian H. Poole is CEO of The Fund, which she founded in 1991. She has a broad background in institutional development and management, having served a range of non-profit organizations. Her experience also includes journalism, corporate government liaison and public relations. During the twenty years before her present engagement she was responsible for planning and executing all the development programs of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, America’s National Cultural Center, a responsibility that ultimately included its partner The National Symphony Orchestra. Prior to that, she held a similar position at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She was Adjunct Professor of Arts Management in the graduate school of the American University for sixteen years. She has consulted for a variety of non-profit organizations including those in media and public service. Her trusteeships included The North Carolina School for the Arts, The George Mason University Foundation, The National Building Museum, and theater, music and dance companies. Her undergraduate degree in Diplomatic History is from George Washington University and she has an MA in English from George Mason University.
 
Sally Yerkovich is President of The Fund. She has over twenty-five years of leadership experience in major American institutions including the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, New Jersey Historical Society, South Street Seaport Museum, and Museum for African Art. She has been a volunteer with The Fund for over thirteen years.

Michael P. Daniels is Secretary of The Fund. He is currently President and founder of MPD Consultants LLC in Washington, D.C. His practice has included the Federal District and Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Court of International Trade, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Previously he practiced before the Department of Commerce, Department of Treasury, Department of State, the United States Congress and the World Trade Organization. He has served as an attorney primarily in the trade and investment fields representing governments, trade associations, businesses and individuals from the United States, East and South Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He is a Member of the State and Northern Virginia Opera Boards.

David F. Graling, CPA, has been Treasurer of The Fund since its inception. He is the Managing Partner of Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman.

 
Marc Breslaw is Executive Director of the U.S. Association for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Prior to this, he was Chief Operating Officer of the New Israel Fund and Associate Museum Director at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
 
Stephen Brown has an extensive 37-year career in international theatre, opera, and ballet management, which has included the Opera Company of Boston, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. After 18 years as Stage Manager for the Metropolitan Opera, he was appointed Company Manager in 1997.
 
Karen Franklin is a guest curator at the Museum of Jewish Heritage -- A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York, serves on the AAM/ICOM board, and is Co- Chair of the Board of Governors of Jewishgen. She is a past Chair of the Council of American Jewish Museums.
 
Lyndel King is Director and chief curator of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. She has a Ph.D. in art history and more than 25 years museum experience. She is adjunct professor of art history at the University of Minnesota and a professor of museum studies.
 
Patrick Sears has been in the museum profession since 1973. He is currently Chief Operating Officer of the Rubin Art Museum in New York City. Previously he was on the staff of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, ending his 20-year career there as Associate Director.
 
Rena Zurofsky is a consultant specializing in museum management and planning, as well as non-profit business development. Her clients have included art, history, and natural history museums, and historical sites throughout the eastern seaboard.

Robin Berrington, former Deputy Director of President Bill Clinton’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities and American Cultural Attaché to the Court of St. James in London, retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1999. During his 32- year career, much of it spent in Japan, he was awarded the U.S. government’s Meritorious Honor Award and the Superior Honor Award. For several years he ran the DC Youth Orchestra Program, and is currently on the boards of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and the Post-Classical Ensemble.

Harold Burson is Founding Chairman of Burson-Marsteller, the world’s largest communications counseling firm. He has been an Advisor to The Fund since 1991.
 
Martis Davis, a past Fund consultant, has an extensive background in public affairs, public policy, marketing communications, crisis management, branding, and advertising. His experience includes senior positions in public relations at the Washington Post, AT&T, Burson-Marsteller, New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, the AARP, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at HHS during the Clinton administration.

Robert W. Duemling served as President and Director of the National Building Museum in Washington, D. C. He is a member of the Trustees’ Council of the National Gallery of Art and of the Council of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and chairs the Advisory Council of the Center for the Study of the American Experience, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland.

Jay A. Levenson has been the Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1996. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director for Program Administration at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, also in New York.

Senator Richard G. Lugar is Ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Virgil Nitulescu is General Manager of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, after having served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs in Bucharest, Romania. He also served as Secretary of State at the Ministry, and as a senior counselor with the Committee on Culture, Arts, and Mass Media of the House of Deputies.
 
Marc Pachter is former Director of the National Portrait Gallery. From 1985 to 1990, he was Senior Cultural Advisor to the United States Information Agency. Dr. Pachter is an historian, author and editor.

Scott Pickens has 30 years executive experience in a variety of industries including information technology, healthcare, and consulting for government, industry, and non-profits. In 2003, he and Jamie Solak founded JSP Solutions Group, Inc. specializing in strategic planning, operations management, and organizational development for organizations in transition and growth. Scott is also a partner with Clinton Rubin, LLC where he leads the global healthcare practice.

Blair A. Ruble is Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. He also serves as Program Director for Comparative Urban Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
 
Jane Safer has consulted museums and performing arts organizations, including the Andrei Sakharov Museum in Moscow, the National Museum of Hungary, the Kunstkammer in St. Petersburg, and arts managers in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was Executive Director of Anthology Film Archives and of Survival International (USA) and held senior positions at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and at the New York Hall of Science. She is currently a trustee of the American Theatre Wing, the New York Hall of Science, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NYC).

John C. Whitehead is past Chairman of AEA Investors Inc., and a former Deputy Secretary of State. He is Chairman of the Boy Scouts of America GNY, and former Chairman of The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The Harvard Board of Overseers, the International Rescue Committee, the United Nations Association, Haverford College, The Asia Society, and the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund. In late 2001, he was appointed Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. He is also the Founding Chairman of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center.

Martis Davis, a Senior Advisor of The Fund. [more]
 
Mark Shoemaker, a principal in the architectural firm of Pelli Clarke Pelli in New Haven, designers of many buildings and projects throughout the world.
 
Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the Royal Academy in London.
 
Kathy Dwyer Southern is President and CEO of the National Children’s Museum in Washington, D.C. She has served on the Boards of the American Association of Museums, and the International Council on Museums.

 
Ruth Ann Coggeshall, was Chief Development Officer of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. She is now an independent consultant.
 
David Donath is President of The Woodstock Foundation, Inc., affiliated with the Marsh-Billings Rockefeller National Historical Park, and a Director of the Billings Farm & Museum. He formerly was the director of the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and he previously directed historic sites for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
 
Ward Mintz is Executive Director of The Coby Foundation in New York City. He was Deputy Director for Programs and Collections at The Newark Museum, responsible for curatorial, education and collections-related activities, including the exhibition program. Prior to that he was Assistant Director of Programs at The Jewish Museum in New York City.

Jillian Poole, CEO of The Fund. [more]
 
Kathy Dwyer Southern is President and CEO of the National Children’s Museum in Washington, D.C. She has served on the Boards of the American Association of Museums, and the International Council on Museums.

Hugh Southern, a staff member of The Fund. [more]

 
Nick Appelbaum is an education specialist and historian at Ralph Appelbaum Associates. He has been involved in planning Africa’s first Presidential Library in Nigeria, and supports other RAA projects in content development, writing and strategic positioning.
 
Ralph Appelbaum is President of Ralph Appelbaum Associates, a firm that plans and designs museums worldwide. Notable past projects include the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, the Newseum, the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, the National Constitution Center, and the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.

James C. Armstrong was a Principal in the management-consulting firm Armstrong/Stelzer in New York City.

Hubert Bari, an independent museum consultant. Works include the Neaderthal Museum and the Charles Rennie Mackintosh exhibit in Glasgow.

Paxton Barnes, an exhibit designer with projects at the Tyler Arboretum, Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden.

Guillermo Barrios, former National Director of Museums, National Council of Culture in Venezuela.

Graham Beal, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts. He has held directorships at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.

James Bradburne, a British-Canadian architect and designer and museum specialist, has designed World Fair Pavilions, Science Centers and international Art Exhibitions. He is Director General of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.
 
Michael Brewer was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra for four years and has been a member of the board since 1994. He also sits on the boards of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in Arlington, VA, the Joyce Foundation in Chicago, and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C.

Teresia Bush was Senior Educator, Department of Public Programs at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
 
Stefano Carboni is Curator and Administrator of the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Kathleen Charla, a Russian language scholar and a communications expert, has consulted for various Russian cultural institutions. She ran her own advertising/ marketing firm and was named Detroit Adwoman of the Year in 1991.
 
Barbara Fahs Charles is Managing Partner of Staples & Charles, Ltd., a museum interpretative planning and design firm in Alexandria, Virginia. Recent projects have been in conjunction with the Yale University Art Gallery, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Monticello.

Patricia Ciraulo was Deputy Director for External Relations, Russian National Orchestra, in Moscow.

Andrzej Choldzunski an award-winning Polish architect and teacher of architecture residing in France.
 
Charles Croce is Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations for the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and former Director of Marketing and Public Relations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has also worked with the William Paterson University in New Jersey, Lufthansa Airlines, N.W. Ayer, Inc., AT&T, and the New York Philharmonic.

Louise Douglas is Assistant Manager of the Audience, Programs and Partnership Division at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, the major institution charged with researching, collecting, preserving and exhibiting historical material of the Australian nation.

Jacqueline Duke recently retired as Deputy Director at the Museum of International Folk Art in New Mexico.
 
Deborah Edward was Founder of the Austin Children’s Museum, and later Executive Director of Greenlights for NonProfit Success, providing consulting, education and resources for nonprofits. She teaches at the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service at the University of Texas and she consults with museums around the globe on issues of governance, cultural policy, education, evaluation, planning and marketing, and assists with the development of children’s corners in Bulgarian museums.
 
Paul Elicker, Chairman Emeritus of The Fund. [more]
 
Patricia Ewer is principal of Textile Objects Conservation. She is a conservation professional, specializing in treating textiles, managing, developing and staffing conservation projects. She has held several conservation positions at the Historic Royal Palaces in the United Kingdom, the Midwest Art Conservation Center in Minnesota, and elsewhere. She has been a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works since 1989.
 
Stephen Feber has worked as consultant, development director, and chief executive for museums, National Trust properties, and interactive centers in the United Kingdom.

Miguel Ferná¡ndez Félix, Director of the National Museum of Viceroyalty in Tepotzotlán, Mexico. He was Mexico’s cultural attaché to UNESCO and followed this assignment with the directorship of the Dolores Olmedo Patiño Museum.

James H. E. Finke was President and Chief Operating Officer of Commodore International, Ltd., and Vice President of European Operations for Data General.
 
Barbara Franco, is Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Prior to this she was President and CEO of The Historical Society and the City Museum of Washington, D.C. She has wide experience in promoting community history and heritage tourism.

Karen Franklin, a Fund Board member. [more]
 
Jemima Fraser recently retired as Project Director of the Royal Museum Project at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where she was also Head of Education.

Patrick Gallagher, President and Founder of Gallagher & Associates, a leading professional design firm that creates exhibits for public and private sector museums, visitor centers, and natural science centers.

Anton Ginzburg, Partner in the design firm Studio RADIA. In 2004, he created a collection of products for Cooper-Hewitt and the National Design Museum.
 
Brent Glass is the Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. He was the former Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, where he oversaw a network of 60 historic sites and museums.

Jessica Glass, a video producer, editor, technical director, audio-visual installation consultant and technician, and film/video projectionist with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
 
Elaine Heumann Gurian has been a consultant/advisor to a number of clients including the Nassau County, New York Parks and Recreation Service, the Museum of the City of London, the National Children’s Museum, in Washington, D.C. and The National Museum of the American Indian, also in Washington.

Wayne Harvey is Comptroller for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He is a former CFO of several nonprofits including EastWest Institute, Big Apple Circus, Orbis International and Center for Reproductive Rights.

Kenneth Haas* was Managing Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
 
Honee A. Hess is the Director of Education at the Worcester, Massachusetts Art Museum and an Art History instructor at Bard College for The Clemente Course, which enables low-income out-of-school adults to obtain a foundational humanities education with which to succeed further in life. She was previously the Curator of Education at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Jonathan Hess, AIA, is Executive Vice President of Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf Architects in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Hess’ work has included museum design expansions, including the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis.

Michalann Hobson, an arts management consultant with extensive experience in theatre administration and programming.

Virginia Hubbell, is President of Virginia Hubbell Associates. She serves as Executive Director of The Mental Insight Foundation in Sonoma, California, and Grants Program Consultant to the Louis R. Lurie Foundation in San Francisco, California.
 
Melanie Yae Ide is an associate at Ralph Appelbaum Associates in New York.

Aldona Jonaitis, has been the Director of the University of Alaska Museum since 1993.

Robert C. Jones has served as President and Executive Director of Opera Pacific. He has extensive background in music and arts management, and previously worked with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra.

Jerold Kappel was Director, External Affairs, at Opera Pacific. He was Director of Development at the American Association of Museums in Washington, D.C.
 
Alan Knezevich is Principal and Creative Director of Alan Knezevich Design Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in museum master planning and capacity analysis, exhibition project development, and design services.

Brian Lacey, former Director of the Museums of Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Gilbert Levine, conducts worldwide. In 1986, Sir Gilbert Levine became the first American to head a major orchestra in the East Bloc when he was appointed Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Krakow Philharmonic.

Sharon Litwin, is Senior Vice President, External Affairs of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. She was formerly Assistant Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Elaine M. Lomenzo, was Managing Director of the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema.

Laura Longley was Director of Communications at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She is now an independent consultant.

Sandra Lorimer, an independent museum consultant from Ontario, Canada, specializes in the communication and management aspects of museum exhibition development.

Peter Lyman is University Librarian for The University of California, Berkeley.

Jack McAuliffe, founded Engaged Audiences LLC as an executive coaching service to help orchestra leadership teams develop the strategies, infrastructures, and skills necessary to retain engaged audience members. He is the former Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, American Symphony Orchestra League.
 
Christine M. Miles is Director of the Albany Institute of History & Art. Prior to that she worked at six museums, and has served as President of both the Museum Association and the Gallery Association of New York State.

Ann Mintz has twenty-six years of museum management experience. She has served as Director of the Berkshire Museum, and CEO of the Chester County Historical Society.
 
Amy Módly is the former International Liaison/Special Projects Director of the Cultural Office of Deputy Mayor of Budapest.

Valerie Morris is Dean of the College of Charleston, SC, School of the Arts.

Klaus Müller is a museum and web consultant, independent filmmaker, and European Program Coordinator for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Dr. Müller is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Pamela Myers is Director of the Asheville Art Museum in North Carolina. Prior to that she was Director of Exhibitions, Guggenheim Museum, which included responsibility for exhibition and public programming at New York City, Venice and Bilbao sites.
 
Susan Nichols is the Lunder Education Chair at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She was the founding director of Save Outdoor Sculpture! Heritage Preservation, an award-winning national cultural program to inventory all public sculpture in the United States.

Barbara Niemczyk was Director of St. Petersburg 2003 for CEC International. She has taught literature, culture and film of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in several U.S. universities.

Jane D. Norman was Exhibits Conservator for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, museums of Asian art of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Mark O’Neill is Head of Arts and Museums, Cultural and Leisure Services for the Glasgow City Council in Scotland. He was previously Head of Glasgow Museums, and also worked on the Heritage Lottery-funded redisplay of the collection of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.

Gary Osland is Principal of Osland Design Associates, Inc. in New York City.

Jack Pascarosa was formerly with Ralph Applebaum Associates.

M. Drake Patten is Executive Director of The Steel Yard in Providence, Rhode Island, and was formerly with the Millay Colony for the Arts in Columbia County, New York.

Elisa Phelps was the Director of Collections and the Curator of Anthropology at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, TX.

Jill Emery Phillips was Director of International Visitor Programs at the United States Information Agency.
 
Ihor Poshyvailo, Deputy Director of the Ivan Honchar Museum in Kiev, is a scholar and researcher in arts and crafts and has published numerous articles and several books. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2010.

Charles R. Ritcheson was Vice Provost and Dean of Libraries of the University of Southern California, and former U.S. Cultural Attaché in London.
 
Julius Rudel was General Director and Principal Conductor of the New York City Opera for twenty-two years, and now conducts worldwide.

Jane Safer, Senior Advisor of The Fund. [more]

Lady Sainsbury was prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet. She is a teacher and coach at the School of the Royal Ballet and the Ballet Rambert.

Lord Sainsbury is former chairman of Sainsbury’s Ltd., former chairman of the Board of the Royal Opera and Ballet and a member of the board of the National Gallery, London, and of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

A.N. Scallon, former Director of the Corporate Support Program for IBM.
 
Deborah Schwartz is the President of the Brooklyn Historical Society. She taught at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College; served as Deputy Director for Education at the Museum of Modern Art; and was Vice Director for Education and Program Development at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Sheldon Schwartz was Executive Director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
 
Catherine Schwoeffermann is Executive Director of the Stewart W. and Willma C. Hoyt Foundation in Binghamton, New York. She was previously Curator and Program Director at the Roberson Museum, also in Binghamton.

Patrick Sears, a Fund Board Member. [more]

George Stuart Sexton, III, Principal, George Sexton Associates, a Washington, D.C. consulting firm in architecture and museum services.

Ken Shifrin has been Principal Trombonist of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Radio Stuttgart Orchestra, and Associate Principal with the Israel Philharmonic.

Julian Spalding, was former Director of the Glasgow Museums and Galleries with overall responsibility for ten venues for the Museum.

Chris Stager, Principal of CR Stager, a marketing and audience development firm. He has consulted with The Cleveland Orchestra, The Boston Pops, Houston Grand Opera and many symphony orchestras around the U.S.

Robert Staples is Design Partner of Staples & Charles, Ltd. a museum interpretative planning and design firm in Alexandria, Virginia.

Mary Delle Stelzer, former Director of Corporate Advertising And Cultural Sponsorships for AT&T, and former Director of the Oklahoma Art Center.

Cathy Card Sterling, an independent consultant, served as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations with The Phillips Collection and Administrative Officer and Exhibitions Manager with The Corcoran Gallery of Art, both in Washington, D.C.
 
Gary Sturm is Chair of the Division of Music, Sports and Entertainment at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, and is responsible for its diverse collection of 5,000 musical instruments.

Martin Sullivan is Director of the National Portrait Gallery, and was Chief Executive Officer of Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland, an outdoor museum of history and archaeology in Maryland. He was Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Committee for the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Property.
 
Sonnet Takahisa has over thirty years of experience as a teaching and learning consultant for museums, art and cultural institutions, and schools. She was affiliated with the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the New York City Museum School, the Boston Children’s Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Larry Tamburri, President and CEO of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Wendy Tiffin, former Director of sponsorship for the Southbank Complex in London.

Allen Townsend Chief Librarian at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Formerly he was the Arcadia Director of Library and Archives at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
 
Linda Vadász is the former Executive Director of Arts Worcester in Massachusetts. She founded the Friends of the Budapest Fine Arts Museum, the first museum volunteer group in Hungary.
 
James Weaver was Curator of Cultural History at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Mr. Weaver is especially noted for creating public programs that expand the reach of individual exhibits to include concert performances, lectures, recordings, and radio and television broadcasts.

Albert K. Webster, an arts consultant and former Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the New York Philharmonic.

Peter Wexler Principal of Peter Wexler, Inc. which produces programs for organizations including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic and the Smithsonian Institution.

Robert Workman is Director of the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan, Kansas. Prior to that he was the founding director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, and deputy director of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
 
Carole J. Wysocki is the Director of the National Symphony Orchestra Education Program, and a senior staff member of the Education Department of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she has built the NSO Education Program into a vibrant force to further classical music education for young people.
 
David Young is the graduate research professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. For more than 15 years, he was the Producing Director of the American College Theater Festival (ACTF) at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
 
Deborah Ziska is Chief of Press and Public Information at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She has thirty-seven years experience in communications, marketing, public affairs and management.

 
Hugh Southern, Program Director. Hugh Southern, a graduate of King’s College, Cambridge (UK) has had a long and varied career in arts management. After working for Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan in the original Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, and for Kurt Herbert Adler at the San Francisco Opera, Mr. Southern was the founding Executive Director of the Theatre Development Fund in New York City in 1968. He established the TKTS half-price tickets booth in Duffy Square in 1974. In 1982 he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the position of Deputy Chairman for Programs at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he also served as Acting Chairman, until 1989. Mr. Southern has served on a number of nonprofit boards, and as a consultant to many arts organizations.

Nancy Robinette, Executive Assistant. Nancy Robinette is part-time assistant to The Fund. She is also a long-time professional actress, having appeared in shows on Washington, D.C. stages for over twenty-five years. She first worked with Jillian Poole in the development office of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as Manager of their Corporate Fund.

Monika C. Jansen, Editor. Monika Jansen, President of Jansen Communications, is a marketing writer and editor who specializes in website content, blogs, and newsletters. She joined The Fund in 2002 as Jillian Poole’s executive assistant. Since 2003, she has been editing the consultant and annual reports and overseeing website content.

The Officers of The Fund are also grateful
to Officers and Advisors who served in earlier years:

Madeleine K. Albright
Raymond J. Batla, Jr.
Grant Beglarian*
Charles C. Bergman
Livingston Biddle*
Alexander Brody
John L. Callahan*
Jean-Claude Carriere
Milton Cerny
C. Mathews Dick, Jr.
Milos Forman
Andre H. Friedman
Leo-Ferdinand Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck
Heyward Isham
Robert C. Jones
Bradford Kelleher*
Roger Kennedy
Martin Klingenberg
Charlotta Kotik
Robert Lantz*
Gilbert Levine
Wendy W. Luers
Lorin Maazel
Garrett Mitchell
Garrick Ohlsson
Senator Claiborne Pell*
Julius Rudel
Peter Shaffer
The Honorable Leonard L. Silverstein
Martin Sullivan
Alexander C. Tomlinson

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