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BOARD & COMMITTEES

Dance/NYC Board

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Elissa D. Hecker, Esq., Chair

Law Office of Elissa D. Hecker Esq.

Camille Y. Turner

Camille Y. Turner, Vice Chair, Legal Committee Chair

Haug Partners

Jina Paik

Jina Paik

Nonprofit Finance Fund

 Brandi Glover

Brandi Glover

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Deborah G. Adelman

Deborah G. Adelman

Dance Patron

Edward A. Brill

Edward A. Brill

Proskauer Rose

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Gina Gibney

Gina Gibney

Gibney

Kathrin Heitmann

Kathrin Heitmann, Co-Treasurer, Finance and Audit Committee Co-Chair

Moody's Investors Service

Martha Newton
Susan Gluck Pappajohn

Susan Gluck Pappajohn

Reshma Patel

Reshma Patel

Four Rivers

Christopher Pennington

Christopher Pennington

Jerome Robbins Foundation and Trust

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Alice Sheppard

Kinetic Light

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Eduardo Vilaro

Ballet Hispánico

Shannon Zhu, Esq.

Shannon Zhu, Esq.

ViacomCBS

Alejandra is standing in front of a wooden wall. She is a fair-skin with short brown hair, a big smile, and a yellow blazer.

Alejandra Duque Cifuentes, Dance/NYC Strategy and Research Consultant + Founder & Principal, ADC Consulting

Finance Committee

Neil Pirie

American Express

Legal Committee

Dance/NYC Advisory Committee

Jody Gottfried Arnhold

Jody Gottfried Arnhold

Dance Educator and Advocate

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Karesia Batan, Founding Executive Director, Queensboro Dance Festival

Camille A. Brown

Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Ayodele Casel

Tap Dance Artist

Juan Castaño

Co-Founder, Calpulli Mexican Dance Company

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Sita Frederick

Director of Community Engagement Programs at Lincoln Center Education; Artistic Director at Areytos Performance Works

Tamrin Goldberg

Choreographer and Dance Artist

Virginia Johnson

Artistic Director, Dance Theatre of Harlem

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Leah Krauss

Senior Program Officer for Dance & Special Projects, Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Andrea Miller

Artistic Director & Choreographer, Gallim Dance

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Sydnie L. Mosley, Artistic & Executive Director, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances

Linda Murray

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Tiffany Rea-Fisher

Tiffany Rea-Fisher, Artistic Director & Choreographer

EMERGE125

Ben Rodriguez-Cubeñas

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Jeffrey Rosenstock

AVP External Relations and Governmental Affairs, Queens College - CUNY Dance Initiative

Carlota Santana

Flamenco Vivo

Elizabeth Streb

Artistic Director and Founder, STREB EXTREME ACT

Michele Wilson

Bay Street Theater

Janet Wong

Associate Artistic Director, New York Live Arts

Robert Yesselman, in memoriam

Disability. Dance. Artistry. Task Force

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Christine Bruno

Disability Inclusion Consultant

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Diane Duggan, PhD, ADTR

Dance Therapist, Dance Educator

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Heidi Latsky, Artistic / Executive Director

Heidi Latsky Dance

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Simi Linton, Arts Consultant, Author, Filmmaker & Activist

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Kitty Lunn, Founder and Artistic Director

Infinity Dance Theater

Zazel-Chavah O’Garra

Zazel-Chavah O’Garra, Founder and Artistic Director

ZCO/DANCEPROJECT

Elisabeth Axel

Elisabeth Salzhauer Axel

Art Beyond Sight

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Alice Sheppard

Kinetic Light

Nicholas Viselli

Nicholas Viselli, Artistic Director

Theater Breaking Through Barriers

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Alexandria Wailes, Freelance Artist

Immigrants. Dance. Arts. Task Force

Natalia Aristizabal

Make the Road

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Pelenakeke Brown

Artist, Writer, and Performer

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Kamala Cesar

Lotus Music & Dance

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nora chipaumire

company chipaumire

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Abou Farman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New School

Art Space Sanctuary

Sabrina Fong

New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs

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Ana Nery Fragoso, Director of Dance, NYC Department of Education

Felicity Hogan Headshot

Felicity Hogan, Director of NYFA Learning

New York Foundation for the Arts

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Pontus Lidberg

Choreographer

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Alberto Lopez, Artistic Director

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company

Maureen Loughran

Center for Traditional Music and Dance

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Hussein Smko, Founder/Director

Project TAG Dance Theater Company

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Dr. Layla Zami

Visiting Scholar, Pratt Institute; Artist, Oxana

Marketing and Communications Task Force

Ellen Bar

New York City Ballet

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Chris Bastardi

BARO Strategies

Ivy Li

Bloomberg Philanthropies & Bloomberg Associates

Symposium Programming Committee

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Ana "Rokafella" Garcia, Managing Director, Full Circle Souljahs

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Jeffrey Rosenstock

AVP External Relations and Governmental Affairs, Queens College - CUNY Dance Initiative

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Julia del Palacio, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Kupferberg Center for the Arts

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Dr. Layla Zami

Visiting Scholar, Pratt Institute; Artist, Oxana

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Leah Krauss

Senior Program Officer for Dance & Special Projects, Mertz Gilmore Foundation

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Michelle Mantione

Dance Educator

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Niya Nicholson, Managing Director

MOVE|NYC|

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Sita Frederick

Director of Community Engagement Programs at Lincoln Center Education; Artistic Director at Areytos Performance Works

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Sydnie L. Mosley, Artistic & Executive Director, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances

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zavé martohardjono, Multidisciplinary Dance and Performance Artist

Junior Committee

Danielle Iwata, Co-Chair

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Rebecca Fitton, Independent Artist Manager

Kelsey Kramer, Committee Coordinator

Loren Sass, Communications: Social Media & Email

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Brittany Wilson, Founding Director, B. Wilson Producing Scholars

Recruitment

Dance/NYC values justice, equity, inclusion, and diversity at all levels of its organization, including its Board, committees, task forces, and staff. Diversity in this context refers to groups and individuals identified by, for instance, race, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, status, religion, national origin, marital or partnership status, ancestry, political belief or activity, or status as a veteran. To foster the values of justice, equity, inclusion, and diversity, Dance/NYC seeks participation on its Board, committees, task forces, and staff from individuals who share and hold these values and reflect the diversity of the metropolitan New York City area, with a focus on majority African, Latina/o/x, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) participation and disability and immigrant representation. (According to Census data, the New York City population is approximately 77% ALAANA, 10% disabled, and 37% foreign-born. Source: US Census Bureau American FactFinder 2011–2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.) For a full overview of Dance/NYC’s values on justice, equity, and inclusion and the agendas that inform this work, please refer to Dance.NYC/equity/values.

Board of Directors Job Description
Advisory Committee Charter

If you are interested in joining Dance/NYC's Board or ad hoc committees, please write Executive Director Alejandra Duque Cifuentes at aduque@dance.nyc.

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