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Credit: Jennifer Makholm
Featuring: Jennifer Makholm, Nadia Brown, Garen Scribner, Bill Donnelly, Rebecca Soldinger

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Our team

Carson Elrod

Executive Director 

Cofounder & Board Member

Actor, Teacher, and Advocate

Jenny Grace Makholm

Chief External Officer

Cofounder & Board Member

Angela Taylor

Head of People & Culture
Board Member 

DEI Specialist

Cathy Ford

Head of Development

Assistant To The Chief Of Staff
Jody Gottfried Arnhold Foundation

José Arteaga

Financial and Business Administration Volunteer

Investment Banking Associate
Guggenheim Partners

Flora Lindsay

Jr. Marketer

Ruby Huynh

Jr. Marketer

Graphic Designer

Aeneas Sagar Hemphill

Copywriter

Playwright & Screenwriter

Nikkole Salter

Board President 

Pulitzer Prize nominated
Playwright & Actress

Professor of Theater Arts
Howard University

Emmanuel Wilson

Board Secretary 

Dramatist

Former Co-Exec Director  
Dramatist Guild

Brooke Ishibashi

Board Member 

Cofounder

Matthew-Lee Erlbach

Board Member & Co-Founder
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Producer, Screenwriter, Actor & Filmmaker
WGA Captain & member Arts Leadership Council for Arts Alliance Illinois

Nhi Corcoran

Cofounder

building the most brilliant, passionate and effective staff in Arts Advocacy

That begins with diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility as cornerstones of our priorities. It is imperative that our organization reflect the country it seeks to serve in every way possible. That’s not just a boilerplate values statement, it’s also a commitment to doing our work to the absolute best of our ability.

Organizations with more diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility outperform organizations without it.

With your help, we'll build the most talented, skilled, qualified, diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible advocacy organization possible.

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A stage manager (Cherie B Tay) calls cues at their lighting and sound board.

Credit: Kay Elle
Featuring: Cherie B. Tay
January 22nd 2020

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