Board of directors
Jo Wood Brown
Board Chair
Patricia Ali
Board Treasurer
William Parker
Board Member
Patricia Nicholson Parker
Board Member
Tom Carhart
Board Member
David Kreuter
Board Member
Carter Mathes
Board Member
Ashton Coughlan
Board Member
AFA Staff
Patricia Nicholson Parker
Executive/Artistic Director
Ricardo Ervey Sanchez
Creative Lead
Faye Kilburn
Fundraising & Education
Nathan Chamberlain
Communications
Isai Santos
Administrative Assistant
AFA Consultants
Nathan Chamberlain
Video Documentation & Archiving
Advisory Board
Nabil Ayers
Music industry entrepreneur, writer, and musician. 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
Herman Milligan Jr.
Deborah Steinglass
Anthony Jermaine Ross-Allam
Bradford Smith
Anita Romero Warren
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