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.

Board of Directors, 2011-2012

Officers

President
Mel Smith
Investment Concepts, Inc.

Vice President
Paula S. Carlin

Treasurer
Richard M. Assmus
Mayer Brown LLP

Secretary
Jeffrey A. Byrnes
UBS Financial Services Inc.

Directors

  • Frank Baiocchi
    Polk Bros. Foundation
  • Dawn Bolles
    Educator and Philanthropist
  • Kylie M. Cichocki
    CPA, Grant Thornton LLP
  • Philip J. Cote
    Insurance Industry Executive (retired)
  • Dawnmarie Domingo
    Personal Office Management, Inc.
  • Carol P. Eastin
    Starbucks Coffee Company (retired)
  • Sean D. Egan, Ph.D.
    Hammond Academy of Science & Technology
  • Nancy Jones Emrich, Immediate Past President
    Lilfest, LLC
  • P. Loreen Mershimer
    Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (retired)
  • Lindsay Mueller
  • Victoria G. Priddy
    J.P. Morgan
  • Denise Schultz
    Hotel Palomar Chicago
  • Erwin G. Vreeman
    Project e.g.
  • Jan Ellen Woelffer
    The Chicago Tribune

CAPE Advisory Board, 2011-2012

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
  • 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
    Executive Director, Young Audiences, 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
  • 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
  • Mario Rossero
  • Director, Arts Education, Pittsburgh Public Schools
  • Steve Seidel
    Director, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Jeffrey Sweet
    Playwright
  • Jacqueline Terrassa
    Managing Museum Educator for Gallery and Studio Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • 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
    Consortium on Chicago School Research, Lewis-Sebring Director
  • 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
  • Evan Plummer
    Administrator, Fine and Performing Arts Magnet Cluster Program, Chicago Public Schools
  • Nick Rabkin
    Arts Education Writer and Researcher
  • Corinne Rose
    Manager of Education, Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • Laura Samson
    Executive Director, Alphawood Foundation
  • Deidre Searcy
    Senior Associate, Education Development Center
  • Gigi Schroeder
    Arts Education Consultant
  • Sydney Sidwell
    Program Officer, Arts & Culture, The Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
  • Cynthia Weiss
    Associate Director, Project AIM, Center for Community Arts Partnerships, Columbia College Chicago
  • Mirtes Zwierzynski
    Artist and Arts Educator

 

 

CAPE Board President Mel Smith visiting a classroom at Veteran Partnership school Daley Academy.

 

Boardmember Paula Carlin examines student artwork with Kinzie teacher Marcia Florescu-Kauss

 

Board member Jan Woelffer at CAPE Convergence.