Mason Arts Board Members

Mason Arts Board Members

  • Marilyn T. Smith, Chair
  • Annie Bolger, Treasurer
  • Mike Brown
  • Katie Chambers
  • Cheryl Edwards
  • Gardner Gillespie
  • Molly Grimsley
  • Kelly Harms
  • The Honorable Charniele Herring
  • Nancy Jean-Louis
  • Mary Sanders Jones
  • Kimberly Macedo
  • Lynette Matz
  • Willy Meaux
  • Val McWhorter
  • Paulette Miller
  • Robert K. Purks
  • Victoria N. Salmon, D.A.
  • John F. Speer Jr.
  • Sadhvi Subramanian 
  • Anika Tené
  • Isaac Thweatt
  • Rose Mary Flores Troche
  • Edward Weiner

Ex-Officio Members

  • Jenna Day, Mason Community Arts Advisory Board
  • Jonathan Goldman, Faculty Arts Club
  • Kim Fogelson, Co-President, Friends of Music
  • Linda Harber, Co-President, Friends of Music
  • Janice Sutera Wolfe, President, Friends of the Center for the Arts

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

  • Rick Davis, Dean  
  • Whitman Brown, Chief Business Officer 
  • James Casey,  Director, Virginia Serious Game Institute, VSGI 
  • Zoë  Charlton, Director, School of Art 
  • Niyati Dhokai, Program Manager, Veterans and the Arts Initiative  
  • Kirstin Franko, Acting Director, Marketing and Communications 
  • Cynthia Fuchs,  Director, Film at Mason  
  • Adrienne Bryant Godwin, Director of Artistic Programming  
  • Susan Graziano, Senior Director of Development, CVPA 
  • Nicholas Kfoury Horner,  Interim Director, School of Theater  
  • 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, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and International Programs 
  • Michael Nickens, Director, Green Machine Ensembles 
  • Shá Norman, Director,  Office of Belonging and Inclusive Engagement+ 
  • Susan Shields, Director, School of Dance  
  • Carolyn Hays, Executive Director, 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