Staff & Board
Alliance Staff
- Paola Arinci, Senior Accountant/Bookkeeper
- Jean-Paul Bass, Senior Manager, Production & Communications
- Manny Blasco, Associate Manager, Regional Partner Network
- Katie Bonner, Senior Manager, National Partners
- Grace Caiazza, Manager, Exhibitions
- Meg Callery, Director, Design
- Shannon Costello, Manager, Individual Giving & Special Events
- Jennifer DeLuna, Coordinator, Development & Executive Offices
- Kendra Dennis, Coordinator, Program Events
- Miranda Dubner, Administrative Assistant, National Student Poets Program
- Lyndi Hart, Manager, Program Marketing and Outreach
- Haydil Henriquez, Manager, NYC Scholastic Awards
- Sumin Hwang, Coordinator, Special Projects
- Sam Jeffords, Associate, Design & Production
- Hannah Jones, Manager, National Student Poets Program
- Tendo Mutanda, Deputy Director, Programs
- Christine Offermann, Consulting Director, Finance
- Connor Oswald, Assistant, Programs
- Laura Petrucci, Senior Manager, Institutional Giving
- Sébastien Sanz de Santamaria, Manager, Web & Information Services
- Michiko Simanjuntak Grasso, Deputy Director, External Affairs
- Eleni Stanifer, Assistant, Programs
- Emir Webster, Coordinator, Programs
- Christopher Wisniewski, Executive Director
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Board of Directors
- Dr. Hugh Roome, Chairman
- Dr. William Walker Robinson, Vice Chairman
- Steven Merson, Treasurer
- Tina Surh, Secretary
- Nancy Bergman
- Robert Buchsbaum
- Dawn Davis
- Bryan L. Doerries
- Dr. Ernest B. Fleishman
- Morgan Ford
- Derek Fordjour
- Dr. David C. Levy
- Andrew I. Merson
- Gregory R. Miller
- Olivia Morgan
- Karen Pritzker
- Suzanne Randolph
- Laurie Rubin
- Andrew Safran
- Rebecca Shapiro
- Gwenn Masterman Snider
- Greg Worrell
- Hannah Yang
Affiliate Advisory Council
- Jackie Downs, Chair, Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (Baltimore, MD)
- Deborah Canoura, Northeast Florida Art Education Association (Jacksonville, FL)
- Jasmine Brown, Greater Kansas City Writing Project (Kansas City, MO)
- Jessica Hougen, Sutter County Museum (Yuba City, CA)
- Michael Mannix, Philadelphia Writing Project (Philadelphia, PA)
- Rhonda Whitehurst, The Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley (Pulaski, VA)