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About Us - Board & Advisory Board Members
Board Members
Martha
Richards, President -
Founder & Executive Director of WomenArts. Richards has over
thirty years of arts management experience, including nine years
at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, and five
years as Managing Director at StageWest. Richards is licensed as
an attorney in California and was a founding board member of California
Lawyers for the Arts.
Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Treasurer - Arts management consultant. Bacon's work includes training, program
design, and evaluation for government arts agencies and national foundations.
Her recent clients include the state arts councils for New York, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, and Connecticut, as well as the Howard Heinz Endowment,
Pew Charitable Trust, and William Penn Foundation. Bacon previously
served as Executive Director of the Arts Extension Service at the University
of Massachusetts Amherst.
Eileen
Sorrentino, Clerk-
Attorney. Sorrentino specializes
in divorce mediation, children's issues, family law, domestic issues, and non-profit corporations.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Sorrentino worked as a children's book
editor at McGraw Hill and as a freelance writer and copy-editor.
She has served on the boards of StageWest, Early Childhood Centers, and
the Longmeadow Planning Commission.
Advisory Board
Members
Pearl Cleage - Playwright,
Novelist, Journalist
Kate Clinton - Comedian,
Author
Andrea Hairston - Artistic
Director, Chrysalis Theatre, Professor of Theatre
at Smith College
Lenelle Moïse - Playwright, Performer, Spoken Word Artist
Kate Nugent - Co-Artistic
Director, A Couple of Redheads Productions
Alice Tuan - Playwright, Director of Writing for Performance, CalArts
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