Board of Directors
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Chair


Jonathan Jones

Program Administrator
NYU Steinhardt (New York)

 
 


 Past Chair


Joel Jason Rodriguez
Theatre & Dance Department Chair
South Texas College (Texas)

 

  


Treasurer


 Chad Dike
Program and Design Manager
Steps Learning and Development (Texas)

 

 

 

 


Chair Elect 


Aimee Reid

Executive Artistic Director
The Children's Theatre Workshop (Ohio)

 


Secretary

 
Penelope Caywood
Artistic Director
University of Utah Youth Theatre (Utah)

 


Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression, Equity, and Justice Chair


Morganne Evans

Senior Manager, Workforce Development Programs
The Public Theater (New York)


 


Board Members 


Michael Avila

Assistant Professor of Instruction
The University of Texas at Austin (Texas)

 




Nigel Semaj Barnes

Assistant Professor of Performance. Movement Director  +
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
UMBC (Maryland)

 

 

 


Jimmy Chrismon

Associate Professor of Theatre Teacher Education
Illinois State University
 (Illinois)

 



Lizzy Cooper Davis
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director 
Emerson College (Massachusetts)

 


Sarah Cronkleton-Kidd
Social Service Worker
Clay County Children's Division (Missouri)

 


Elizabeth Dunn-Ruiz
Faculty
CCNY: Graduate Program in Educational Theatre (New York)






 
Dana Edell
Assistant Professor 
Emerson College (Massachusetts)





Saya Jenks
Director & Facilitator
Improv for Real Life (Washington)


 

 

 


Nora Matthews
Middle school theatre teacher
Ana Grace Academy of the Arts (Connecticut)

 




Melinda Moore
Director of Theatre
Punahou School (Hawaii)

 

 




Tiffany Trent
Chair & Associate Professor, Department of Theatre & Drama
University of Michigan (Michigan)