board of directors

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Jo Wood Brown

Board Chair

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Patricia Ali

Board Treasurer

William Parker

Board Member

Patricia Nicholson Parker

Board Member

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Tom Carhart

Board Member

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David Kreuter

Board Member

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Carter Mathes

Board Member

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Ashton Coughlan

Board Member

AFA Staff

Patricia Nicholson Parker

Executive/Artistic Director

Ricardo Sanchez

Creative Lead

Nathan Chamberlain

Communications Manager & Branding

Faye Kilburn

Fundraising & Education

Miriam Parker

Event Management

Isai Santos

Administrative Assistant

AFA Contractors

Michael Lucio Sternbach

Video Documentation & Archiving

Remzi Yildirim

Graphic Designer

Advisory Board

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Nabil Ayers

is a music industry entrepreneur, writer, and musician. He was named one of Billboard Magazine's Indie Power Players (2019, 2020). He founded record labels The Control Group and Valley of Search, and published in NY Times, NPR, People, GQ, and Huffington Post.

Todd Nicholson

Former Executive Director of Arts for Art. Current director of Major Gifts at The Japan Society.

Whit Dickey

Musician and record label, TAO Forms, was the first donor to Arts for Art and the Vision Festival. it was his vision to help make the festival a reality.

John Schiek

Former board member and champion of FreeJazz.

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Herman Milligan Jr.

Greg Cohen

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Sandeep Mehta

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Deborah Steinglass

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Anthony Jermaine Ross-Allam

Bradford Smith

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Anita Romero Warren

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