board of directors

Chair
Steven D. Spiess
Executive Director, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
New York, NY

Immediate Past Chair
William Lehr, Jr.
Chairman, President and CEO, Capital Blue Cross
Hershey, PA

Vice Chairs
Maria Bell
Arts Patron and Writer
Los Angeles, CA

Abel Lopez
Associate Producing Director, GALA Hispanic Theatre
Washington, DC

Julie C. Muraco
Managing Partner, Praeditis Group LLC
New York, NY

Michael S. Verruto
Managing Director, HPI Capital LLC
Charlotte, NC

Secretary
Michael Spring
Director, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Miami, FL

Treasurer
C. Kendric Fergeson
Chairman, NBC Oklahoma
Altus, OK

At Large
Ramona Baker
Consultant, Ramona Baker Consulting, and Director, Master of Arts in Arts Administration Program, Goucher College
Indianapolis, IN

Madeleine Berman
Arts Patron
Franklin, MI

Susan S. Goode
Arts Patron
Norfolk, VA

John Haworth
Director, George Gustav Heye Center National Museum of the American Indian
New York, NY

Glen S. Howard
President, Strategic Philanthropy Advisors
Washington, DC

Directors
Alejandro J. Aguirre
Deputy Editor and Publisher, Diario Las Américas
Miami, FL

Peggy Amsterdam
President
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia, PA

Chuck Block 
President, Bedrock Group, LLC 
Washington, DC

Elizabeth Cohen
Formerly with American Express
New York, NY

Susan Coliton
Vice President, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Seattle, WA

Nancy Glaze
Formerly with David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Los Altos, CA

J. Barry Griswell
Retired Chairman and CEO, The Principal Financial Group
President, The Community Foundation of Greater Des Moines
Des Moines, IA

Sheila C. Johnson
CEO, Salamander Hospitality; President & Managing Partner, Washington Mystics
Middleburg, VA

Margie Johnson Reese
Program Officer, Media, Arts and Culture, The Ford Foundation
Lagos, Nigeria

Fred Lazarus, IV
President, The Maryland Institute, College of Art
Baltimore, MD

Liz Lerman
Founding Artistic Director, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Takoma Park, MD

Timothy McClimon
President, American Express Foundation
New York, NY

Mary McCullough-Hudson
President and CEO, Fine Arts Fund
Cincinnati, OH

Dorothy Pierce McSweeny
Chair Emeritus, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC

Kathleen A. Pavlick
Arts Consultant
Bronx, NY

Barbara S. Robinson
Chairman Emeritus, Ohio Arts Council and Chair, Arts Midwest
Cleveland, OH

Barbara Rubin
Arts Patron
Stamford, CT and New York, NY

Harriet Sanford
President and CEO, The NEA Foundation
Washington, DC

Ann E. Sheffer
Secretary/Treasurer, Betty R. and Ralph Sheffer Foundation
Westport, CT

Charmaine Warmenhoven
Arts Patron
Saratoga, CA

Shirley P. Wilhite
Arts Patron
Shreveport, LA

Ex officio
Robert L. Lynch
President and CEO, Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC

In Memoriam
Peter Donnelly 
Arts Consultant 
Seattle, WA