Priscilla Rosenwald, President
Priscilla is the Principal of Leadership Recruiters, an executive search firm providing recruiting and leadership development for nonprofit and service organizations. She has served as a consultant and adjunct faculty member of Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University and the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. She also serves on several professional and civic boards, and is currently chair of Miro Dance Theatre. She holds a Master’s from Hunter College with a concentration in Group & Organizational Development.

Vanessa Christman, Vice President
Coordinator, Office of Intercultural Affairs and Student Leadership Cohort Coordinator at Bryn Mawr College. Vanessa has worked as a writer, actor, educator, and film consultant. She earned her MFA from Brooklyn College and her BA from Franklin and Marshall College, on whose Alumni Board she currently serves.

Joan Band, Secretary
Joan is a sales and marketing executive with over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 Companies, non-profits,emerging markets,and Government entities. A senior Account Executive for Sun Microsystems, she has worked at Hewlett- Packard Company and Xerox Corporation. She has served on various community boards and co founded the Rita S. Levine Public Sector Award at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Karen Shakoske, Treasurer
Karen has over 12 years of professional services marketing and communication experience spanning the legal and financial services industries. This experience includes creative strategy, marketing strategy, corporate and employee communications, community and media relations. She holds a degree in English literature from Allegheny College. A native of Pittsburgh, she has adopted Philadelphia as her new home and resides in Center City.

Linda Dubin Garfield
Linda Dubin Garfield is an award-winning printmaker and mixed-media artist who creates original one of a kind art inspired by nature. She sometimes creates installations that include public participatory art, especially when she is exploring themes relating to women in today’s culture. Linda combines elements of nature, texture and design along with the magic of the press, creating original pieces of art.

Tom Garrity
Tom is a Vice President at Harmelin Media with nearly 30 years of advertising and marketing experience in New York (Grey Advertising) and Philadelphia (Elkman Advertising and Harmelin Media) specializing in media research, planning and buying. He has vast experience on accounts across many industries including healthcare/pharmaceutical, restaurants, packaged goods and travel/tourism. Tom is a Pennsylvania State University graduate and lives in Havertown PA.

Pam Harper
Pam Harper is a principal with the Harper Group, a firm that specializes in providing strategic marketing, communications and planning advice to the private as well as public sector. The Group also assists foreign corporations in developing international market penetration strategies. Ms. Harper received her MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and her A.B., Cum Laude, from Princeton University.

Don Kligerman
Don Kligerman is founder and President of Fairmount Ventures, Inc., a Philadelphia-based consulting firm that provides academic and professional expertise in service to the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.  He has over 25 years of experience in resource development, strategic planning, and fostering organizational advancement.  In addition to serving on the First Person Arts Board of Directors, he currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Parks Alliance, the city’s leading parks advocacy organization, and has served on numerous other Board of Directors. Mr. Kligerman earned a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Susan G. Lowe (on sabbatical)
Senior audit manager with KPMG LLP, big four public accounting firm. Member of KPMG’s network of women involved in recruiting and mentoring students and staff. Graduate of Pennsylania State University. Recent graduate of the Arts & Business Council’s Business on Board Program. Treasurer, choir member and member of Emilie United Methodist Church.

Eileen Anita Mijlin
Eileen is a veteran marketing professional, having worked for 25 years in the financial services industry. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Temple University where she teaches Spanish in the undergraduate program.

Kristina M. Parker
Kristina is a senior audit manager with KPMG LLP with over 13 years of public accounting experience and currently serves clients in the Asset Management Practice of KPMG’s Philadelphia offices. She is a graduate of Villanova University with a B.S. in Accountancy and is a certified public accountant.

Stephen C. Red
Steve has spent the last 20 years in the ad business, 12 of those as proud owner of an ad agency called Red Tettemer. He’s an art director who writes and a creative director who has finally learned to creatively direct, instead of just doing it himself. Over the years, Steve has had a blast building and nurturing a bunch of brands from CNN to Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey. He believes people are smart and the only real martini is made with gin. And some day, he’ll settle down and start painting again, which is what his Dad says he should have done all along.

Vicki Solot
Founder and President of First Person Arts (formerly “Blue Sky”) and a long-time member of the Philadelphia arts scene. Prior to FPA, Solot ran Collaborations, Inc., a marketing and public relations firm that handled art and cultural programs promoting the work of socially responsible groups and activities.