Mason Arts Board Members

Mason Arts Board Members

  • Steven Golsch, Chair
  • Victoria N. Salmon, D.A. - Vice-Chair
  • Annie Bolger - Treasurer
  • Mike Brown
  • Lavern J. Chatman
  • Gardner Gillespie
  • Robert Golden
  • Molly Grimsley
  • Kelly Harms
  • The Honorable Charniele Herring
  • Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah
  • Jolanda N. Janczewski
  • Nancy Jean-Louis
  • So Lim
  • Colette Loll, PhD
  • Kimberly Macedo
  • Willy Meaux
  • Val McWhorter
  • Paulette Miller
  • Ida Portland
  • Robert K. Purks
  • Mark Shugoll, PhD
  • John F. Speer Jr.
  • Anika Tené
  • Isaac Thweatt
  • Rose Mary Flores Troche
  • Edward Weiner
  • Mary Zigo

Ex-Officio Members

  • Jenna Day - Mason Community Arts Advisory Board
  • Jennifer L. Disano, Executive Director, OLLI
  • Jonathan Goldman - Faculty Arts Club
  • Linda Harber - President, Friends of Music
  • Eileen Kennedy - Associate Vice-President of Development, Units and Central
  • Mack Miller - represents Friends of Theater at Mason
  • Janice Sutera Wolfe, President, Friends of the Center for the Arts

CVPA Faculty/Staff Board Members, Appointed by the Dean:

  • Rick Davis, Dean 
  • Djola Branner, Director, School of Theater 
  • Whitman Brown, Chief Financial Officer
  • Zoe Charlton, Interim Director, School of Art
  • Niyati Dhokai, Program Manager, Veterans and the Arts Initiative 
  • Kirstin Franko, Acting Director, Marketing and Communications
  • Cynthia Fuchs, Interim Director, Film at Mason 
  • Adrienne Bryant Godwin, Director of Artistic Programming 
  • Susan Graziano, Director, CVPA Development
  • Mary Lechter, Director, Mason Community Arts Academy
  • Karalee Dawn MacKay, Director, Arts Management Program
  • Linda Monson, Director, School of Music 
  • Sang Nam, Director, Computer Game Design Program 
  • Kristin Johnsen-Neshati, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
  • Michael Nickens, Director, Green Machine Ensembles
  • Shá Norman, Director of Diversity
  • Karen Reedy, Director, School of Dance 
  • Emily Robinson, Interim Director of Development, Hylton Performing Arts Center
  • Don Russell, University Curator, School of Art
  • Emily Schneider, Acting Director, Marketing and Communications
  • Julie Thompson, Executive Director, Center for the Arts 
  • Lauren Wagner, Assistant Dean for Student Academic Affairs