Conversations on Music National Service
Attendee Bios
The Aspen Institute
January 31, 2008
Michael Blakeslee - Senior Deputy Executive Director of MENC: The National Association for Music Education
Jeannine Chartier - Executive and Artistic Director, VSA Arts of Rhode Island
Dr. J. Nathan Corbitt - President and Co-Founder, BuildaBridge International
Dr. Dennis W. Creedon - Administrator of The School District of Philadelphia's Office of Creative and Performing Arts
Dr. Sarah Cunningham – Director of Arts Education, National Endowment for the Arts
Rob Davidson – Program Manager, VH1 Save The Music Foundation
Gary Eichhorn - Executive Director and Co-Founder, Music & Youth Initiative
Joan Eichhorn - Treasurer, Secretary and Co-Founder, Music & Youth Initiative
Dawn M. Ellis - Consultant, Independent Scholar, Creative Artist
Cassandra Flipper, J.D. - Executive Director, Bread and Roses
Kiff Gallagher - Chair, Co-Executive Director, Music National Service
Dr. Ann M. Galligan - Associate Professor and Co-op Coordinator, Department of Art and Design, Northeastern University
Robert Gordon - Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Jodi Grant - Executive Director, Afterschool Alliance
Deb Jospin - Co-founder of Sagawa/Jospin Consulting Firm
Judy Karasik - Director of Development, The Corps Network
Dr. Max Klau - Senior Manager for Leadership Development at City Year, Inc
Jim Kurtz - Co-Executive Director, Music National Service
Laurie Schopp Lock – Director of Programs and Policy, VH1 Save The Music Foundation
Mary L. Luehrsen - Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations NAMM, the International Music Products Assoc.; Executive Director, NAMM Foundation
Gary Malkin - Founder and CEO, Wisdom of the World
Kevin Marlatt - Executive Director, Blue Bear School of Music
Fred Martin - Founder and President, Urban Entertainment Institute
Margaret Mertz, Ph.D. - Executive Director, Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts
James E. Modrick - Vice President, Affiliate and Education Services, VSA Arts
Chris Murphy - Executive Director, City Year Washington
Louise Packard - Executive Director, Trinity Boston Foundation
Aly Panichi - Singer-Songwriter, Frmr. Manager, Hearts and Voices, LIFEBeat
Nick Rabkin – Executive Director, Center for Arts Policy, at Columbia College Chicago
Phil Roy - Singer-Songwriter
Shirley Sagawa - Fellow, Center for American Progress, former managing director, Corporation for National and Community Service, and former Deputy Chief of Staff to the First Lady (Hillary Clinton)
Mark Schulz - Co-Founder and COO, Same World Entertainment; Frmr. Executive Director, Philadelphia Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
Cinthia H. Schuman - Associate Director, Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, The Aspen Institute
Clara Shin - Director, Litigation Department, Howard Rice; Frmr. Program Officer, AmeriCorps; White House Fellow
James Allen Smith - Historian, Author, Waldemar A. Nielsen Chair in Philanthropy at Georgetown University
Robert H. Smith, Jr. - Assistant Dean, Graduate Program in Orchestral Performance, Manhattan School of Music
Madeleine Steczynski - Co-Founder and Executive Director, Zumix
Shannon Stewart - Founder, All Ages Movement Project
Matthew B. Wilhelm - Founder, ConcertCorps.org
Rachel Mosher-Williams - Project Director, Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, The Aspen Institute
April Williamson - Advocacy Coordinator, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Warren Zanes - Executive Director, Little Steven's Rock and Roll Forever Foundation
