Advisory Council

BE BOLD

Jody Arnhold Dance Educator and Advocate

Barbara Bashaw Executive Director, Arnhold Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University

Deborah Damast Program Director, NYU Dance Education

James Gandre President, Manhattan School of Music

Robert Garland Artistic Director, Dance Theatre of Harlem School

Taryn Kaschock Russell Founding Director, ArtsOrb

Pamela Levy Director – ABT/NYU Master’s In Ballet Pedagogy Program

Aubrey Lynch II Dean of Students and Director of ABT Wellness and ABT RISE

Monica Stephenson Director of Preparatory Dance, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Ellen Weinstein Artistic Director Emerita and Senior Advisor, National Dance Institute

Brad Wentworth Professional Musician, Educator, Composer, and Dance Accompanist

Royce Zackery Associate Professor, Coordinator of Dance Arts Program, Howard University

BE BOLDER

Carol Clements Author, Dancer, Personal Trainer

Ruth Finkelstein Rose Dobrof Executive Director, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College 

Heather Ikemire Executive Director, Lifetime Arts for Creative Aging

Rosanne Leipzig MD/PHD Geriatrician/Professor/Author & Vice Chair Emerita, Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College 

Royce Zachary Associate Professor, Coordinator of Dance Arts Program, Howard University