Honorary Board
Co-Chairs

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
United States Senate

Senator Jack Reed
United States Senate

Board Officers

Chair

Roger Blumberg
Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University

Vice Chair

Christina Bevilacqua
Program Director, The Providence Athenaeum

Treasurer

David M. Reville
Associate, Grand Street Capital

Secretary

Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History, University of Rhode Island

Board Members

Susan Heuck Allen, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Brown University & Anthropology Professor, Smith College

Al Basile
Writer/Performer, Kenoza Music/Sweetspot Records

Susan Berman
Assistant Director, Adult Services, North Kingstown Public Library

Marguerite (Peg), Brown, Ph.D.
Vice-President, Development and College Relations, Rhode Island College & Executive Director, Rhode Island College Foundation

Gladys Corvera-Baker, MSW
Owner and Founding Director of Galeria Internacional de Herencia y Cultura (International Gallery for Heritage and Culture), Cochabamba, Bolivia

Tim Duffy
Executive Director, RI Association of School Committees

Brian Dunckley
Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley

Gayle L. Gifford
President, Cause & Effect, Inc.

Kate Greene, J.D.
Interim Director, Center for Global & International Programs, Roger Williams University

Jeffrey R. Kelly
Hospital President, Retired

Kathryn Kilguss
Community Philanthropist

Allen Kurzweil
Visiting Fellow, Brown University John Nicholas Brown School for the Study of American Civilization

David Lux, Ph.D.
Dean of Arts & Sciences, Bryant University

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Associate Professor of Photography, University of Rhode Island

Robert William Martin
E-Government Specialist, City of Warwick

Marta V. Martínez
Independent Writer, Editor, Graphic Designer and Oral Historian

Anaezi Modu
Founder & President, ReBrand, Inc.

Ken Orenstein
Principal, Orenstein Real Estate Services

Mary Lee Partington
Teacher, Retired

Angela Renaud, Ed.D.
Dean, John Hazen White School of Arts & Sciences, Johnson & Wales University

Rebecca Rex
Director of Development, Newport Art Museum

Sarah Beinecke Richardson
The Prospect Hill Foundation