Staff Directory
Kathleen Reckling
Chief Executive Officer
Spencer Moon
Chief of Staff/Chief Development Strategist
HR & Operations
Idanise Pagan
Director, People and Workplace
Development
Sarah Henry
Manager, Special Events & Membership
Barb Armstrong
Special Projects Coordinator
Grants
Susan Abbott
Director of Grant Programs
Jennifer Plick
Associate Director, Grants
Finance
Pamela Loscher
Director of Finance
Communications
Debbie Scates
Director of Communications & Marketing
Mary Alice Franklin
Communications Manager & ArtsNews Editor
Mia Castellano
Digital Content Manager
Meredith Duncan
Website Manager
Shanice Wilson
Graphic Designer
Julia Herceg
Communications Creative Manager
Public Programs
Aaron Paige
Director of Public Programs
Megan Meadowlark
Associate Director, Visual Arts Programming
Jessy Mendez
Director, Arts Education
Katori Walker
Senior Programs Manager, Arts Education
Logan Hanley
Public Programs Manager
Michael Keough
ArtsMobile Manager
Board of Directors
ArtsWestchester is fortunate to have a large, diverse and dedicated Board of Directors. Board members are involved in all policy-making matters, sit on committees, attend functions, fund raise and lend their expertise in countless other ways. They are the men and women behind the scenes, helping ArtsWestchester stay the course, keeping the organization fiscally strong and artistically relevant.
Kathleen Reckling
Chief Executive Officer
Marie Smith
President
Froma Benerofe
Co-Chairperson
John R. Peckham
Co-Chairperson
Janet Langsam
CEO Emerita
John J. Barnes
Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Suburban Division Reckson
*Froma Benerofe
Arts Patron
Natasha Caputo – Ex-Officio
Director
Westchester County Tourism & Film
Lucia Chiocchio
Partner
Cuddy & Fedder LLP
Catherine Cioffi – Ex-Officio
Director of Communications
Office of the County Executive
Terry Clements – Ex-Officio
Legislator (D11)
Westchester County
Michelle Coletti
Development Director
Lighthouse Living, LLC
Margaret Cunzio – Ex-Officio
Legislator (D3)
Westchester County
Taryn Duffy
President & CEO
Tarsam Public Affairs
Barbara Elliot
Arts Patron
Mark Ettenger
President
Emelin Theatre
Dawn French
Vice President of Marketing & PR
White Plains Hospital
Shelley Grantham
Executive Director
The Steffi Nossen School of Dance
*LaRuth H. Gray
Scholar-in-Residence
NYU Steinhardt
David Gross
Executive and Founding Partner
GF55 Architects
Jeremy Kohomban, Ph.D.
President and CEO
The Children’s Village
Peter Larkin, Esq.
Partner
Wilson Elser
Adam Levi
Executive Director
Rye Arts Center
Michael Madonia
Senior Managing Director
Peapack Private Bank & Trust
Thomas R. Manisero
General Counsel
PKF O’Connor Davies
Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe
Executive Director
Katonah Museum of Art
Richard Martinelli
Group Publisher
Today Media Custom Publishing / Westchester Magazine
Joseph B. McCoy
Market President Commercial Banking – Hudson Valley & Fairfield
Valley National Bank
*Michael Minihan
Managing Partner
BX3
Barbara Z. Monohan
Arts Patron
Wilfredo Morel
Executive Director
Arts 10566
John Peckham
President & CEO,
Peckham Industries
Nataly Ritter (in memorium)
Arts Patron
Tyré Robinson,
Regional President
M&T Bank
Sondra Craine Salley
Arts Patron
Tejash V. Sanchala
Executive Director
Westchester County Human Rights Commission
Judith S. Schwartz
Arts Patron
Barry Shenkman
President & Treasurer
Jacob Burns Foundation
Hannah Shmerler
Arts Patron
Leah Sills
Arts Patron
Marie A. Smith
Arts Patron
Bernard Thombs
President
BernardRaymond, Inc.
Brian Van Riper
Director of Construction
Robert Martin Company
*Jacqueline A. Walker
Arts Patron
Robert Wiener
Chairman
MAXX Properties
*Past President
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