Who We Are

Board of Directors

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

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

Noah Bishop
Attorney
Bishop Bankruptcy Law

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

Odysseus Chairetakis
Independent Landman, Los Angeles, CA

Katherine Chairetakis
Immigration Attorney

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

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

Michael Minky, CPA
Pacific Palisades, CA

Forrestine Paulay
Dance Scholarship

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

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

Alvin Singh
ARS Media

Anna L. Wood
Anthropologist at large

Advisory Board

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

Andy Kolovos
Director of Archives and Research
Vermont Folklife Center

Bill Pearson
Managing Member, Gallup Hill, LLC

Mu Qian
Ethnomusicologist
SOAS, University of London

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)