Who Runs It
Staff
Coordinator: Amber Espar
Program director: Christopher Ellinger
Events and fundraising: Zhaleh Almaee
IT & web design: Platform Strategies Group
Grantwriting consultant: Rachel Rhoades
Volunteers
Social media: Ani Nguyen
Web support: Priya Ravindran, volunteer
Outreach & Fundraising: Monica Hinojos, consultant
Research: Roseanna Almaee
Interview team: Shana Komittee, Kelly DuMar, Cat Gilliam, Zhaleh Almaee, Leslie Becknell, Holly Fulton, Eva Vander Giessen, Anne Ellinger, Carol Bass, Steve Johnson
Advisory Board
- Anne Orens, publishing and communications consultant
- Beverly Naidus, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences,
University of Washington - Bill Cleveland, Director of Center for the Study of Art & Community
- Cat Gilliam, Threshold Ensemble (& cofounder, Asheville Playback Theatre)
- Don Russell, Director of Provisions Library
- Holly Fulton, diversity trainer, exploring ways to use Playback in reconciliation work
- June Wilson, Operations Manager of Quixote Foundation (and formerly Director of National Performance Network)
- Leslie Becknell Marx, Unitarian Minister
- Maureen Scully, Professor at University Massachusetts Boston, Human Resource Management and Business & Society
- Michelle Coffey, Director of the Lambent Foundation
- Mountaine Mort Jonas, Asheville Playback
(and Board member of International Playback Theatre Network (IPTN) as North American Membership Secretary) - Pamela Freeman, Co-director Playback for Change
(and Board member of Centre for Playback Theatre) - Patricia Haines, Founding Director of Level Green Institute
- Rob Kanzer, Executive Coach
- Sarah Halley, Co-director Playback for Change
(and former Board President of IPTN) - Zhaleh Almaee, Playback Theatre Portland Oregon
(and former Coordinator of ArtsRising)
We gratefully acknowledge Threshold Foundation and many of its members for supporting the birthing of Arts Rising.