Staff & Teaching Artists
Meet the Team
Ingrid Zimmer, Executive Director
Shannon Quinn, Director of Education
Shelley Brown, Managing/Artistic Director
Patricia Ruane, Director of Development
Carter Sligh, Production and Administrative Manager
Jessica Phillips-Silver, Senior Advisor
Dwayne Jeffrey, Education Program Manager
Melissa Strova-Valencia, Education Program Associate
Magpie, Teaching Artist
Sylvia Soumah, Teaching Artist
Marcia Daft, Teaching Artist
Sylvia Zwi, Teaching Artist
Kofi Dennis, Teaching Artist
Katie Macyshyn, Teaching Artist
Karen Brown, Teaching Artist
Imani Gonzalez, Teaching Artist
Sylvana Christopher, Teaching Artist
Steve Bloom, Teaching Artist (Copy)
Aunty Oye, Teaching Artist
Natasha Mirny, Teaching Artist
Valerie Carroll, Teaching Artist
Lauren Lanita, Teaching Artist
Karen Morales Chacana, Teaching Artist
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Teaching Artist
Rebecca Lallande, Teaching Artist
Diane Macklin, Teaching Artist
Board of Directors
Kelvin Coleman, Chair
IBM
Anya Grundmann, Vice Chair
National Public Radio
Debra Kraft Liberatore, Vice Chair
Choral Arts Society
Virginie Carey, Treasurer
NASTAD
Allan Borut
APB Enterprises
Mimi Carter
Proof Inc.
Thomas DiGenno
R.E. & N.P. Marriott Foundation
Diane Trister Dodge
Founder & President, Teaching Strategies, Inc.
Lars Etzkorn
Lars Etzkorn Law PLLC
Bernardo Frydman
International Finance Corporation
Suzanna Jemsby
Washington International School
Marcus Johnson
Performing Artist and Entrepreneur
Leah Johnson
American University
Maureen Katz, Esq.
Department of Justice
Stephen Kurzman, Esq.
Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare
Robert C. Liotta
Liotta & Dranitzke
Pinkie Dent Mayfield
Graham Holdings Company
Charles A. Miller, Chairman Emeritus
Covington & Burling
Gene Rigoni
Inertial Labs, Inc.
Margaret Siegel
MAS Consulting
Ronald W. Steele
Steele Foundation, LLC
Jocelyn Sturdivant
National Black Child Development Institute
Myrna Sislen
Middle C Music, Founder
Jonathan Weisgall
Berkshire Hathaway Energy
Constance Zimmer, Founding Director
Joan Burroughs, Emeritus
Tollefson Gustini & Company
Angelo Cicolani, Emeritus
R&D Associates
Rima Calderon, Emeritus
Graham Holdings Company