Leadership
Board of Directors
Marc J. Jason
Chair
Senior Counsel, Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, Ret.
J. Wesley McDade
Vice Chair
Managing Director, Corporate Communications, Morgan Stanley
J. Whitney Stevens
Secretary
Co-Founder, Mend Nutrition Inc.
Lorin Gu
Treasurer
Founding Partner, Recharge Capital
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
At Large
Writer
Joe Baker
Co-founder, Executive Director, Lenape Center
Myrna Chao
Managing Director, Willis Towers Watson
Alexandra Chasin
Writer and Associate Professor, Literary Studies, The New School
Christopher Donini
Managing Director, The Raine Group
Michael Findlay
Director, Aquavella Galleries
Lesley-Anne Gliedman
Grace Angela Henry
President, Grace Angela Henry, Inc.
Eunbi Kim
Concert Pianist, and Cofounder, bespoken
Mary Lang
Managing Director, CBRE Global Investors
Ricardo Alberto Maldonado
Poet, Translator, and Managing Director, 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center
Sarah Young O’Donnell
Director, ENM Holdings Limited
Anna Deavere Smith
Actress, Playwright, NYU Professor
Justin Tobin
Founder, Gather Inc.
Carmelita Tropicana
Artist
Luis Valderas
Artist, Bishop & Valderas LLC – Large Scale
Print Makers, Arts Consultants
Board Counsel
Jennifer A. Suprenant, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig LLP
NYFA Advisory Council
Liz Christensen, Advisory Council Chair, Founder, Christensen Fine Arts
Kathleen Chalfant, Actor
Ligia Cravo, Senior Program Officer, The Hearst Foundation
Alessandra DiGiusto, Head of CSR Americas, Executive Director, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation
Allison Duignan, Manager of Arts and Culture Programs, Consolidated Edison
Jessica Keuskamp, Executive Director, Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation
Kathleen O’Grady, President, The O’Grady Foundation
Frederick Peters, President, Warburg Realty
Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas, Program Director, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Marjorie Croes Silverman, Psychologist, former Dean, Barnard College
Artist Advisory Committee
Elizabeth Colomba, Painting
Robert D’Alimonte, Crafts/Sculpture
Tim Davis, Photography
Wafa Ghaim, Folk/Traditional
Shanti Grumbine, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
Amir Hariri, Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts
Sarah Hennies, Music
Joyce Hwang, Architecture
Tama Janowitz, Fiction
Steffani Jemison, Video/Film
Sibyl Kempson, Playwriting
Monteith McCollum, Video/Film
Joseph Morris, Digital/Electronic
Rajesh Parameswaran, Fiction
Lina Puerta, Crafts/Sculpture
Yolanda Sharpe, Painting/Drawing
Tashi Sharzur, Folk/Traditional
Wenhua Shi, Interdisciplinary
Jayson P. Smith, Poetry
Tattfoo Tan, Interdisciplinary
Donna Uchinzono, Choreography
Ife Vanable, Architecture
