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Staff List
Martha Richards, Executive Director
Martha
Richards is the Founder and Executive Director of WomenArts, formerly known as The Fund for Women Artists.
Prior to WomenArts, Richards served as Executive Director of Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College and as Managing Director of StageWest, a regional theatre in Springfield, Massachusetts.
She writes and lectures frequently on arts and cultural policy issues.
Richards has been frequently recognized for her commitment to women and to the arts. In April 2006 she was one of three U.S. nominees (with Quincy Jones and Wynton Marsalis) for the prestigious international Montblanc De La Culture Award for outstanding service to the arts. In April 2009 she was inducted into the BayPath College 21st Century Women Business Leaders Hall of Fame for her work in philanthropy. She has been honored as one of three "founding mothers" of the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts.
Richards has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of Law. She is a member of the California bar, and she was one of the founding directors of California Lawyers for the Arts.
Melissa Wilks, Director of Design & Marketing
Melissa A. Wilks is the Director of Design and Marketing for WomenArts. She has 20 years of experience in the fields of design and marketing. From 1989-1996, she worked as an Art Director at advertising agencies in New York City. Melissa then formed her own design company in Burlington, Vermont and taught design at the Community College of Vermont. In 1999, she moved her company to San Francisco. She has also worked in San Francisco as Director of Creative Services for a video game developer and operated an online retail business. Melissa has a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont and did graduate studies in Communication Design at Pratt Institute.
Deborah Steinberg, Director of Artist Services
Deborah Steinberg is the Director of Artist Services for WomenArts. She is responsible for editing the WomenArts Network profiles, as well as writing and editing other on-line content and the monthly funding newsletters. Deborah holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Bard College and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Bordeaux. She is the founding editor and events coordinator of Louis Liard, a Franco-American magazine of creative writing and art, and she has over eight years of experience as a freelance editor and an instructor of English as a Second Language. Deborah writes fiction and has sung in musical projects in France and the U.S.
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