Leadership
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Judith K. Brodsky, Chair, Founding Director, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers University
Howard Rothman, Vice Chair, Partner, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel
Karl Kellner, Treasurer, Director, McKinsey & Company
Michael Findlay, Secretary, Director, Acquavella Galleries
J. Whitney Stevens, Past Immediate Chair, Managing Director, Fanwood Foundation
Don Duet, Technologist, Former Partner, Goldman Sachs
William Draper, Founding Director, The Exetor Group
Sharon Held, Associate Broker, The Corcoran Group
Marc Jason, Senior Counsel, Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP
Mary Lang, Vice President, Dispositions, Prologis Inc.
Marjorie W. Martay, Founder, ArtW
J. Wesley McDade, Managing Director, Corporate Communications, Morgan Stanley
Nell Painter, Artist and Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University
Bonnie Podolsky, Retired Partner, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel
Said Sayrafiezadeh, Writer
Dread Scott, Artist
John L. Silverman, Founder/Chairman, SilverSeal Corporation
Anne Spalter, Artist and Academic
Carmelita Tropicana, Artist
Vladimir Vukicevic, CEO and Co-Founder, Meural; Co-Founder, RocketHub
John F. Williams II, Chairman & CEO, Impact Infrastructure, LLC
Elizabeth Yee, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Solutions, 100 Resilient Cities
NYFA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Sonja Berggren, Co-Founder and Co-Producer, Panndora Productions
Kerrie Buitrago, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Kathleen Chalfant, Actor
Yinan Cheng, Artist
Liz Christensen, Senior Curator, Head of the Americas, Art, Culture and Sports, Deutsche Bank
Ligia Cravo, Senior Program Officer, The Hearst Foundation
Marjorie Croes Silverman, Psychologist and former Dean, Barnard College
Joan Finkelstein, Executive Director, Harkness Foundation for Dance
Edmée de M. Firth, Executive Director, The Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation
A.M. Homes, Writer
Mary Kaplan, Trustee, J.M. Kaplan Fund
Meg Louis, Vice President, COO, and CFO, Global Cities, Inc., A Program of Bloomberg Philanthropies
Alton Murray, Manager of Arts and Culture Public Affairs, Consolidated Edison
Mira Nair, Filmmaker
Kathleen O'Grady, President, The O'Grady Foundation
Suzan-Lori Parks, Playwright
Frederick Peters, President, Warburg Realty
Sara Reisman, Executive Director/Artistic Director, The Rubin Foundation
Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, Program Director, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Carol Ross, Artist
Abigail Scheuer, Board of Directors, The Center for Arts Education
Dave Schroeder, Director, Jazz and Contemporary Studies, New York University
Justin Tobin, Founder, Discover Digital Group
ARTISTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Diana Al-Hadid (Crafts/Sculpture)
Desirée Alvarez (Poetry)
Orit Ben-Shitrit (Video/Film)
Mari Jaye Blanchard (Video/Film)
Niki Berg (Photography)
Geoff Chadsey (Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts)
Vince Contarino (Painting)
Daniel Thomas Davis (Music/Sound)
Ella Gant (Digital/Electronic Arts)
Ariana Gerstein (Digital/Electronic Arts)
Kate Gilmore (Interdisciplinary Work)
DeWitt Godfrey (Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design)
Julia Gutiérrez-Rivera (Folk/Traditional Arts)
Hiroyuki Hamada (Crafts/Sculpture)
Amina Henry (Playwriting/Screenwriting)
Susan Karwoska (Fiction)
Joseph Keckler (Interdisciplinary Work)
Rebecca Loyche (Photography)
Aeilushi Mistry (Folk/Traditional Arts)
Edwin Sánchez (Playwriting/Screenwriting)
Amanda Schachter (Architecture/Environ
Gwen Welliver (Choreography)
Trustee Liaisons to the Advisory Committee:
Carmelita Tropicana
Dread Scott
