Our Mission
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization, identifies teenagers with exceptional artistic and literary talent and brings their remarkable work to a national audience through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
Alliance Staff
| Virginia McEnerney | Executive Director | vmcenerney@artandwriting.org |
| Jonathan Ettinger | Director, Development and External Relations | jettinger@artandwriting.org |
| Katherine Hendrix | Director, National Programs and Partnerships | khendrix@artandwriting.org |
| Katie Babick | Manager, External Relations | kbabick@artandwriting.org |
| Keren Davis | Project Coordinator | kdavis@artandwriting.org |
| Lisa Feder-Feitel | Editorial and Program Assistant | lfeder-feitel@artandwriting.org |
| Monica Johnson | Manager, Art & Exhibitions | mjohnson@artandwriting.org |
| Dominic Matar | Web Producer | dmatar@artandwriting.org |
| Rebecca Rutherfurd | Manager, National Programs | rrutherfurd@artandwriting.org |
| Mariana Sheppard | Manager, Affiliate Services | msheppard@artandwriting.org |
| John Sigmund | Manager, National Programs | jsigmund@artandwriting.org |
| Danniel Swatosh | Manager, Design & Production | dswatosh@artandwriting.org |
| Carol Tan | Associate Manager, External Relations | ctan@artandwriting.org |
| Michael Vinereanu | Assistant, Design & Production |
| Jessica Schein | Bookkeeper |
If you have general questions about the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, please click here.
Board of Directors
| Dwight E. Lee | Gagnon Securities, Chairman |
| Dr. William Walker Robinson | Fogg Art Museum, Vice Chairman |
| Gregory R. Miller | Greenhill & Co., Treasurer |
| Howard J. Rothman | Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel, Secretary |
| Charles C. Bergman | The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. |
| Thomas K. Carley | The New York Times |
| Gaynor Strachan-Chun | Ovation TV |
| Dr. Ernest B. Fleishman | Scholastic Inc. |
| Hugh J. Freund | Patterson, Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP |
| Craig Hatkoff | Tribeca Film Festival |
| James D. Kaplan | KB Financial Partners |
| Dr. David C. Levy | Cambridge Information Group |
| Andrew I. Merson | Command Web Offset Co., Inc. |
| Steven Merson | Command Web Offset Co., Inc. |
| Jennifer Mooney | The Mooney Group, LLC |
| Anne Morrill | Maurice R. Robinson Trust |
| Laurie L. Nash | Russell Reynolds Associates |
| Jeffrey Nesin | School of Visual Arts |
| Suzanne Randolph | Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts |
| Hugh Roome, PhD | Scholastic Inc. |
| Thane Rosenbaum | Novelist and Essayist |
| Scott D. Schulman | Dow Jones & Co. |
| Aaron Stratten | Fairfax County Public Schools |
| Kit White | Artist |
Affiliate Advisory Council
| Aaron Stratten | Chair, Fairfax County Art Region, Fairfax County Schools (Fairfax, VA) |
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| Clar Baldus | Iowa Art & Writing Region, University of Iowa, The Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (Iowa City, IA) |
| Andrea Haas | Connecticut Art Region, Connecticut Art Education Association (Sherman, CT) |
| Claire Munoz | Northern Nevada Art Region, The Nevada Museum of Art (Reno, Nevada) |
| Cassandra Pixey | Central/Southern Indiana Art & Writing Region, Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University and Hoosier Writing Project at IUPUI (Indianapolis, IN) |
| Diane Waff | Philadelphia Writing Region, Philadelphia Writing Project (Philadelphia, PA) |
Teacher Advisory Group
| Roberto Bonilla | Art teacher, Mississippi School for the Arts |
| Lara Candland | Asplund English teacher, Walden School of Liberal Arts |
| Jason Griffith | English teacher, Lamberton Middle School |
| Bill Jeter | Art teacher, Perpich Center for Arts Education |
| Adam Malek | Art teacher, Pasadena Memorial High School |
| Shannon McBride | Art teacher, Lakeridge High School |
| Janet Tan | English teacher, HS Humanities - Hong Kong International School |
| Matthew Varey | Art teacher, Etobicoke School of the Arts |
| Rebecca Wallace-Segall | English teacher, Writopia Lab |
| Peter Yuscavage | Art teacher, Jersey City Art High School Program at Henry Snyder High School |
Sponsors
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