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OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS

CAPE's Board of Directors can be depended upon to share their many years of experience and knowledge to help to steer the organization to success.

Although our Board members come from a wide variety of different professional backgrounds, they share the desire to bring the positive influences of arts education into more classrooms.

CAPE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2009-2010
Officers

Mel Smith, President
Investment Concepts, Inc.

Paula S. Carlin, Vice President
Roosevelt University

P. Loreen Mershimer, Treasurer
Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (retired)

Jeffrey A. Byrnes, Secretary
UBS Financial Services Inc.
Directors

Richard M. Assmus
Mayer Brown LLP

Frank Baiocchi
Polk Bros. Foundation

Christine K. Buck
Morningstar, Inc.

Gerald Cadoree
cadoree & company

Philip J. Cote
Insurance Industry Executive (retired)

Dawnmarie Domingo
U.S. Trust, Bank of America

Carol P. Eastin
Starbucks Coffee Company (retired)



Sean D. Egan, Ph.D.
Kinzie Elementary School

Nancy Jones Emrich, Immediate Past President
Lilfest, Inc.

Steve Flisk
Chicago Public Schools

Kurt Johnson
Virtela Communications

Kylie M. Sorden, CPA
Grant Thornton LLP

Elizabeth Swanson
The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation

Jan Ellen Woelffer
The Chicago Tribune

CAPE ADVISORY BOARD, 2009-2010
National and International Members

Giselle Antoni – President/CEO, Big Thought, Dallas
Eduardo Aparicio – Editorial Director, Bill Smith Group, NYC and Austin, Texas
Eric Booth – Arts Education Consultant, New York
Deborah Brzoska – Arts Education Consultant, Bend, Oregon
Richard Burrows – Director of Arts Education, Los Angeles Unified School District
Pat Cochrane – Executive Director, CapeUK
Karen DeMoss – National Director of Research and Evaluation, New Leaders for New Schools, New York
Richard J. Deasy – Consultant
David Dik – Managing Director, Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York
Sylvia Dow – Arts Education Consultant, West Lothian, Scotland
Arlene Goldbard – Writer and Cultural Consultant, Kansas City, Missouri
Russell Granet – Founder, Arts Education Resource, New York
Hollis Headrick – Arts Education Consultant, Brooklyn
John Lithgow – Author and Actor, Los Angeles
Jorge Lucero – Artist, State College, Pennsylvania
Greg McCaslin – Senior Program Consultant, The Center for Arts Education, New York
Nobuko Miyamoto – Artistic Director, Great Leap, Los Angeles
Pamela Paulson – Senior Director of Policy, Perpich Center for Arts Education, Minnesota
Stephanie Pereira – Arts in Education Consultant
Steve Seidel – Director, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jeffrey Sweet – Playwright
Erica Tryon – Director of Residencies, Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany, NY
Kurt Wootton – Founder and Director, Habla: The Center for Culture and Language, Mexico
Lily Yeh – Founder, Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia
Chicago Area Members

Kassie Davis – Executive Director, CME Trust
Jorge Felix – Consultant and Curator
David Flatley – Executive Director, Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College Chicago
Paul Goren – Vice President, The Spencer Foundation
Jessica Hudson – Performing Artist
Nick Jaffe – Editor, Teaching Artist Journal
Suzanne Kerbow – Associate Director, Polk Bros. Foundation
Reginald Lawrence – Executive Director, Ma’at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre
Jacqueline Murphy – Arts-in-Education Literacy Consultant
Dia J. Penning – Associate Director of Civic Engagement, Columbia College Chicago
Jobi Petersen – Director, Chicago and Midwest Region, Human Rights Watch
Evan Plummer – Administrator, Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Program, Chicago Public Schools
Nick Rabkin – Arts Education Writer and Researcher
Mario Rossero – Director, Magnet Cluster Schools and Program, Chicago Public Schools
Corinne Rose – Manager of Education, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Laura Samson – Executive Director, Alphawood Foundation
Deidre Searcy – Senior Associate, Education Development Center
Gigi Schroeder-Yu – Arts Education Consultant
Sydney Sidwell – Program Officer, Arts & Culture, The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
Jacqueline Terrassa – Assistant Director of Public Programs, Museum of Contemporary Art
Cynthia Weiss – Associate Director, Project AIM, Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College Chicago
Mirtes Zwierzynski – Artist and Arts Educator
 

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