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BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS
Theatre Professor at Smith College & free-lance costume designer In addition to her teaching and designing duties at Smith College, Smith has designed costumes for theatre, dance and puppet companies from New York to Maine, including Shakespeare and Company, Sandglass Theater, and Kristin Linklater's Company of Women.
Attorney and Managing Partner at Keyes & Donnellan, P.C. Bloom specializes in estate planning, probate, adoption, and personal injury. She has served on the boards of Brightside Children's Services, the American Cancer Society, Health Foundation of Western Massachusetts, and the Hampden District Mental Health Clinic.
Executive Director of The Fund for Women Artists Richards has over twenty-three years of arts management experience including nine years at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College and five years as Managing Director at StageWest. Richards is licensed as an attorney in California and was a founding board member of California Lawyers for the Arts.
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Arts management consultant Bacon's work includes training, program design, and evaluation for government arts agencies and national foundations. Her recent clients include the state arts councils for New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, as well as the Howard Heinz Endowment, Pew Charitable Trust, and William Penn Foundation. Bacon previously served as Executive Director of the Arts Extension Service at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Writer and co-owner of Market Street Research, Inc. Based in Northampton, Market Street Research provides market research and evaluation services to non-profit, health, and human service organizations throughout the U.S. Denny holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Massachusetts and is an expert in market research and program evaluation techniques. Denny also writes creative non-fiction on the topic of child sexual abuse.
Theatre Professor at Hampshire College Donkin co-edited Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater As If Gender and Race Matter, which is a collection of essays about feminist directing. Also, Donkin has just completed two years as President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst Folbre is one of the founding members of the Center for Popular Economics, and she is the author of The Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America and The War on the Poor. She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (a "genius" grant) in 1998.
Poet, playwright, performer, and teacher Gómez has worked as a theatre artist in the schools since 1979, and she has been a writer, teacher, and performer with Enchanted Circle Theater for five seasons. She is bi-cultural and fluent in both Spanish and English. Seventeen of her plays have been produced, and her children's story, The Daydreamer, will be published by Persia Books (New York) in May 1999. Gómez's poetry has been anthologized in El Coro edited by Martin Espada for University of Massachusetts Press and in Puerto Rican Writers at Home in the U.S.A.
Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst Hanson's research and teaching interests include telecommunications policy and the social impact of the media. She consults with the Trial Lawyers Association about telecommunications policy and works with message design issues for organizations. Hanson is also active as a performer with local theaters.
Reference librarian, Main Branch, Springfield Libraries Lantz was the chair of the capital campaign which raised $2 million for the Ronald McDonald House in Springfield, and she has been active on the boards of StageWest and many other non-profit organizations. Lantz holds a masters degree in Library Science from Simmons College.
Attorney and Partner at Egan, Flanagan and Cohen Sorrentino specializes in children's issues, family law, domestic issues, and non-profit corporations. Prior to becoming an attorney, Sorrentino worked as a children's book editor at McGraw Hill and as a freelance writer and copy-editor. She has served on the boards of StageWest, Early Childhood Centers, and the Longmeadow Planning Commission.
Member of the major gifts team at Smith College Wexler has fifteen years of experience designing and implementing donor development and fundraising programs for national non-profit progressive and women's organizations, including, but not limited to: MADRE, National Museum of Women in the Arts, NOW, NARAL, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Kennedy Center, and the International Center for Development Policy.
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