Who We Are

Board of Directors

Jane Beck
Founder and Executive Director, Retired
Vermont Folklife Center

Robert Baron
Folk Arts Program Director, Retired
New York Council on the Arts

Naomi Hawes Bishop
Professor Emerita, Anthropology
California State University, Northridge

Patricia Shehan Campbell
Professor of Ethnomusicology,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Odysseus Chairetakis
Independent Landman, Los Angeles, CA

Amanda Dargan
Education Director
City Lore, New York, NY

Barry Dornfeld
Center for Applied Research
Consultant and Visual Anthropologist

Gideon D'Arcangelo
Associate Principal, ARUP, New York, NY
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Communications,
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Don Fleming
Independent Archivist

Barbara Hampton 
Director of Studies in Ethnomusicology
Hunter College of the City University of New York

David Katznelson
Grammy nominated producer, writer and CEO of Reboot

Michael Minky
Treasurer

Forrestine Paulay
Dance Scholarship

Daniel Sheehy
Director, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Anna L. Wood
Anthropologist at large
Board President

Advisory Board

Jane Anderson
Assistant Professor, Center for Heritage and Society
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

John Bishop 
Film and Video Producer, Media Generation
Retired, Department of World Arts & Cultures
University of California at Los Angeles

Karen Bradley
Professor Emeritus in Dance and Performance Scholarship
University of Maryland, College Park

Katherine Chairetakis
Immigration Attorney

Andy Kolovos
Director of Archives and Research
Vermont Folklife Center

Christopher Mulé
Creatives Rebuild New York

Bill Pearson
Managing Member, Gallup Hill, LLC

Mu Qian
Ethnomusicologist
SOAS, University of London

Rosita Sands
Professor of Music and Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts
Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL

Patrick Savage
Associate Professor, Environment and Information Studies
Keio University SFC, Japan

Edmund Wood
Marshall, TX

Philip Yampolsky
Founding Director and Research Associate, Robert E. Brown Center for World Music 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Editor, Music of Indonesia series (Smithsonian Folkways)

Steve Zeitlin
Founder and Director
City Lore, New York, NY

In Memoriam

Edmund Snow Carpenter (1922-2011)
Lambros Comitas (1927-2020)
Jeffrey A. Greenberg (1960-2020)
Alan Lomax, founding director (1915-2002)
Bess Lomax Hawes (1921-2009)
Molly W. Sirignano (1943-2010)