LEADERSHIP
Festival Team
Founders: Dale Heinen and Jeff Pence
Dale Heinen
Executive and Artistic Director
Yazmin Maldonado
Operations and Communications Manager
Tiffany Trapnell
Associate Producer
Eunice Cabrera
Ambassador Program Director
Donna Gracon
Development Manager
Sophia C. Gordon
Digital Marketing Manager
Palmer Event Solutions
Production + Event Logistics
Jetpack Group
Website Design
CLE Consulting Firm
Accounting + Professional Services
Board of Directors
Jon Bloomberg
(President) Attorney,
Squire Patton Boggs
Luis Cartagena
(Treasurer) President/CEO, Cartagena CPA & Consultants, LLC
Dr. Felicia Phillips
(Secretary) Master Business Strategist and CEO Of PPICW
Amb. Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley (ex officio)
Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Dept. of State, United States Ambassador (Ret.)
Joe Cimperman
President, Global Cleveland
Rachel Costanzo
Director & Senior Consultant, The Acuity Group
Patrick Espinosa
Managing Partner, Sus Abogados Latinos
Charlotte Fowler
Community Leader
Audra T. Jones
CEO, Krystal Klear Communications
Dan Moulthrop
Chief Executive Officer, City Club of Cleveland
Megan O'Bryan
VP, Development and President, Tri-C Foundation
Jenny Pykett
Senior Procurement Specialist
Rab Razzak
Palliative Medicine Physician
Terry Stewart
Advisory Board, The Museum of Jazz & Art (Oakland CA); Advisory Board, The Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience; Former CEO and President, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; Former President and COO of Marvel Comics 70
Founding Advisory Council
Fred Bidwell
Executive Director,
FRONT International
Raymond Bobgan
Executive Artistic Director,
Cleveland Public Theatre
Carrie Carpenter
SVP, Corporate Affairs
Huntington National Bank
Kathleen Cerveny
Poet, Artist, Arts Advocate,
Faculty member at Baldwin Wallace
Jason Drake
Education and Workforce Development,
Dan T. Moore Company
Itzik Giuli
Former Artistic Director,
Israel Festival
David Goodman
Partner, Squire Patton Boggs, (Ret.)
Former Board President at Playhouse Square
Roe Green
Arts Patron, Community Activist,
CEO of the Roe Green Foundation
Marvin Krislov
Former President of Oberlin College,
Current President of PACE Univ., NYC
Neil Mohney
Entrepreneur and Co-Founder,
NABER Capital
Nathan Motta
Artistic Director,
Dobama Theatre
Joy Roller
Fundraising Strategist and Grant Writer
Giovanna Sardelli
Director of New Works and New Works Festival at Theatre Works, Silicon Valley
Charna Sherman
Attorney, Philanthropist,
Civic Leader
Larry Simpson
Provost at Berklee College of Music, Boston
Founder of Tri-C Jazz Fest, Cleveland
Terrence Spivey
Former Artistic Director of Karamu House, Founding Director of Powerful Long Ladder, and Founder of the Tamir Reach Program
Gina Vernaci
President and CEO,
Playhouse Square (Ret.)
Graham Veysey
Developer and Entrepreneur,
Co-owner of Mancan
Thomas M. Welsh
Managing Director, Big Ears Festival
Pierre van der Westhuizen
Director, Gilmore Festival and Awards