ARTS FOR BIDEN-HARRIS COMMITTEE
Professional Affiliations are for Identification Only; they do not constitute an organizational endorsement
of, or relationship to Arts for Biden-Harris.
Co-Chairs
Jay Dick, Sr. Director, State/Local Government Affairs, Americans for the Arts
Kristina Groennings, Lawyer, Non-Profit
Sonia Chala Tower, Arts Management Consultant; Former: President/SVP Corporate Relations - Ovation TV Foundation; VP of Development - Americans for the Arts; Cultural Affairs Director - City of Ventura
State Arts Directors and
Committee Chairs
Arizona
Bob Booker, Former: Executive Director,
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, Arizona Cultural Leader
Mitch Menchaca, Phoenix Arts and Culture Leader
Colorado
Margaret Hunt, Director, Colorado Creative Industries
Andy Vick, Executive Director, Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region
Florida
Connie Coopersmith, Trustee, Art Studio Inc.
Lorna Taylor, Director/Past Chair, Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts
Andrew Weinstein, Former Member, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Obama-Biden Administration
Susana Weymouth, Cultural Leader, Tampa Bay
Georgia
Aaron Berger, CEO of Developing Nonprofits
Former: Director, The Breman Museum
Virginia Hepner, Former: Pres. & CEO Woodruff Arts Center
Kenny Leon, Broadway and Television Director; Artistic Director Emeritus, True Colors Theatre Company; Former: Artistic Director, The Alliance Theatre
Halle Morse, Founder, Broadway for Biden; Artist; Producer; Consultant
Karen Paty, Former Director, GA Council for the Arts
Jan Selman, Former: Executive Director, Arts Leadership
League of Georgia
Iowa
Linda Langston Former: Museum Professional, Linn County Board of Supervisors; President of the National Association of Counties
Kansas
Peter Ellenstein, Director, Former Artistic Director,
William Inge Center for the Arts
Stan Herd, Visual Artist, Earthworks
Huascar (Nito) Medina, Kansas Poet Laureate
Kevin Willmott, Writer/Director/Professor, University of Kansas; Academy Award Winner for BlacKkKlansman
Maine
Linda Alder, Early Childhood Education Advocate
Hilary Barnes Hoopes, Museum Educator
Lauren Sterling, Non-Profit Consultant
Michigan
Sarah Gonzales Triplet, Deputy Director of Public Affairs, Governor Whitmer; former Public Policy and Advocacy Director, Creative Many Michigan
Deb Polich, President/CEO at Artrain and The Arts Alliance
Adrian Tonon, 24-Hour Economy Ambassador, City of Detroit, Mayor’s Office
Cezanne Charles, partner, rootoftwo, LLC., former Director of Creative Industries, Creative Many Michigan
Minnesota
Sheila Smith, Executive Director, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts
Ben Vanderkooi, President, Blue Mound Area Theatre; Life Trustee and fmr president, Minnesota Citizens for the Arts
Faye M. Price, Pillsbury House Theatre
Nevada
Ally Haynes-Hamblen, Las Vegas, Nevada Cultural Leader
Marguerite Nguyen, Artist Tour Manager
New Hampshire
Julianne Gadoury, Executive Director, Kimball Jenkins School of the Arts; former NH State Arts Council Arts Education Director
Peggo Horstmann Hodes, Former Chair, Arts4NH
New Mexico
Loie Fecteau, Former Director, New Mexico Arts,
New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
Jill Cooper Udall, Former: Officer of Cultural Affairs, State of New Mexico; Member of PCAH, Obama-Biden Administration
North Carolina
Robert Bush, Former: President, Arts & Science Council of Charlotte
Ohio
Steven Anderson, Former: Producing Director, Contemporary American Theatre Company, Columbus
Marc Folk, President & CEO, Arts Commission of Greater Toledo
Pennsylvania
Anne Marie Rhoades, Former: Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Mitch Swain, CEO, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Texas
Eugene Lee, Artist in Residence and Artistic Director, Black and Latino Playwrights Conference, Texas State University
Kaitlin Hopkins, Head of Musical Theatre, Texas State University
Ann Graham, Texas Arts and Culture Leader
Jennifer Scripps, Director, Office of Arts and Culture, City of Dallas
Virginia
Daphne Reed, Board of Directors, Virginia Humanities Commission
Margi Vanderhye, Former Director, Virginia Commission for the Arts; Former Delegate, Virginia General Assembly
Wisconsin
Anne Katz, Wisconsin Community Cultural Leader
David Lee, CEO, Imagine MKE
20 Million Votes
Michael Silek, UVA Cavalier Marching Band; Jefferson Literary and Debating Society; Member, Our Revolution
Zach Vincent, The Lincoln Project; Former: Fellow, Obama Foundation; Intern, U.S. House; Co-President, March for Our Lives, WashU;
Amanda Weinstein, Biden for President; Former: Co-President, March for Our Lives, WashU
Advisors: Marguerite Nguyen, Sonia Tower, Tanya Selvaratnam
Artists Outreach / Social Engagement
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Vice President, Kennedy Center
Rapid Cultural Response, 45 Lies
Ashley Bouder DeFlorio, Principal Dancer, New York City Ballet
Tod Lippy, President, The Esopus Foundation Ltd.
Halle Morse, Founder, Broadway for Biden; Artist; Producer; Consultant
Nora Halpern, Vice President of Leadership Alliances,
Americans for the Arts
Content Committee
Tanya Selvaratnam, Content Chair; Artist/Writer/Producer
Lisa Sharkey, Media Executive, Creative Director
Events | Production | PR
Tracy Morgenthau, Freelance Campaign Strategist & Producer
Thomas Parker, Marketing Strategy & PR
Lisa Dozier King, LDK Productions
AFBH Website Development, Artists for Biden-Harris
Joe Trentacosta, JT PR
AFBH Website Development | Artists for Biden-Harris
Special Thanks to: Megan Beyer, Henry Muñoz, George Stevens, Jr., Alfre Woodard, Robert Lynch,
Randy Cohen, Nina Ozlu Tunceli, Pauline Pereira, Hannah Powell, Sophia Sokolowski, Larry Strickling,
Ashley Allison, Elvir Klempic and Will Jenkins.