Staff & Teaching Artists
Meet the Team
Ingrid Zimmer, Executive Director
Shannon Quinn, Director of Education
Shelley Brown, Managing/Artistic Director
Patricia Ruane, Director of Development
Carter Sligh, Production and Administrative Manager
Jessica Phillips-Silver, Senior Advisor
Dwayne Jeffrey, Education Program Manager
Melissa Strova-Valencia, Program Manager, Arts Integration
Magpie, Teaching Artist
Sylvana Christopher, Teaching Artist
Sylvia Soumah, Teaching Artist
Sylvia Zwi, Teaching Artist
Marcia Daft, Teaching Artist
Kofi Dennis, Teaching Artist
Katie Macyshyn, Teaching Artist
Imani Gonzalez, Teaching Artist
Karen Brown, Teaching Artist
Aunty Oye, Teaching Artist
Lauren Lanita, Teaching Artist
Rachel Lawal, Teaching Artist.
Steve Bloom, Teaching Artist (Copy)
Natasha Mirny, Teaching Artist
Valerie Carroll, Teaching Artist
Karen Morales Chacana, Teaching Artist
Alison Crosby, Teaching Artist
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Teaching Artist
Rebecca Lallande, Teaching Artist
Diane Macklin, Teaching Artist
Joyce Coghill, Kidspace House of Ruth - Training Nest Teacher
Board of Directors
Kelvin Coleman, Chair
Cyber Eagle
Anya Grundmann, Vice Chair
Media Consultant
Virginie Carey, Treasurer
NASTAD
Allan Borut
APB Enterprises
Katie Cole
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation
Thomas DiGenno
R.E. & N.P. Marriott Foundation
Lars Etzkorn
Lars Etzkorn Law PLLC
Bernardo Frydman
International Finance Corporation
Suzanna Jemsby
Washington International School
Marcus Johnson
Performing Artist and Entrepreneur
Leah Johnson
American University
Stephen Kurzman, Esq.
Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare
Robert C. Liotta
Liotta, Dranitzke, & Engel
Pinkie Dent Mayfield
Graham Holdings Company
Charles A. Miller, Chairman Emeritus
Covington & Burling
Gene Rigoni
Inertial Labs, Inc.
Martin “Chip” Sherrill
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Margaret Siegel
MAS Consulting
Myrna Sislen
George Washington University
Jocelyn Sturdivant
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Tracy Washington
International Finance Corporation (retired)
Constance Zimmer, Founding Director
Joan Burroughs, Emeritus
Tollefson Gustini & Company
Angelo Cicolani, Emeritus
R&D Associates
Rima Calderon, Emeritus
Graham Holdings Company