collaborative council
Board of Directors Executive Team
Chair: Lucinda Presley, ICEE
Secretary: Amanda Upton, NSTA
Treasurer: Kathi Levin, NAEA
Implementation Team
Executive Director: Lucinda Presley
Strategic Advisor: Jonathan Katz, former CEO, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Executive Director: Lucinda Presley
Strategic Advisor: Jonathan Katz, former CEO, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Board of Directors
Advisory Council
- Jeff Allen, Vice President, Federation of State Humanities Councils
- Donna DiBartolomeo, Director, Traveling Exhibitions & Project Management, Museum of Science, Boston
- Deborah Gaston, Director of Education, National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA)
- Wendy Hancock, Senior Program Manager, Professional Development, Association of Science - Technology Centers (ASTC)
- Michael Jay, President, Educational Systemics
- Kathi R. Levin, Collaborative Treasurer; Project Consultant, National Art Education Association (NAEA)
- * Roger Malina, Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas and Executive Editor, Leonardo Publications, MIT Press
- * Lucinda Presley, Collaborative Founder, Chair, and Executive Director; Executive Director, ICEE Success Foundation (ICEE)
- Juliana Texley, Adjunct Professor, Science Education, Lesley University
- Amanda Upton, Collaborative Secretary; Manager, Nominations and Teacher Awards, National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
- Andrew D. Watson, Fine Arts Instructional Specialist, Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia
- Hope E. Wilson, Assistant Professor, Department of Foundations and Secondary Education, University of North Florida; Research Network Chair, National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
Advisory Council
- Steve Barbato, Executive Director, International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA)
- Jane Best, Director, Arts Education Partnership
- Mike Blakeslee, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, National Association for Music Education (NAfME)
- Lance Bush, President and CEO, Challenger Center
- Sandra Bond Chapman, Distinguished Professor and Chief Director, Center for BrainHealth, University of Texas at Dallas
- Amy Holt Cline, High School Science and Art Educator, AIM Academy, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
- Jennifer (Cooper) Edelyn, Director, Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, Wolf Trap
- Mary Dell’Erba, Senior Project Manager, Arts Education Partnership
- * Kathryn Evans, Senior Lecturer in Music; Head, Vocal and Choral Music, University of Texas at Dallas
- Julie Fry, President and CEO, Cal Humanities
- Ginger Head Gearheart, Co-Director, Imagine Quest
- Margaret Honey, President and CEO, New York Hall of Science (NYSCI)
- Paula Hooper, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Masters of Science in Education Program, Northwestern University
- Gabriela Kane, Operations Manager, Texas Folklife Resources
- Jonathan Katz, Collaborative Strategic Advisor; former CEO, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA); Consultant
- Jim Kitterman, Fiscal Officer, Maryland Humanities
- Merrie Koester, Director, Project Draw for Science, Center for Science Education, University of South Carolina
- Denise Kopecky, Director of Education, Challenger Center
- Viondette Lopez, Policy Director, US Government
- Susan McGreevy - Nichols, Executive Director, National Dance Education Organization (NDEO)
- * Katherine Moriwaki, Director, MFA Design + Technology Program; Assistant Professor of Media Design, School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons the New School for Design
- National Art Education Association (NAEA) Research Commission
- Jim Palmarini, Director of Educational Policy; Executive Editor, Teaching Theatre Journal, Educational Theatre Association (EdTA)
- Mike Petrich, Director of the Making Collaborative, Exploratorium
- Patty Raun, Director, Center for Communicating Science; former Director, School of Performing Arts, Virginia Tech
- Kim Richards, Founder kdrpr.com and STEAM Insight
- Wendy Saul, Professor of Education, University of Missouri, St. Louis
- Leah Silverberg, Research Assistant, Afterschool Alliance
- Brian Smith, Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Information Science, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
- Ed Spitzberg, Founder and Principal, Spitzberg Advisors
- Cheri Sterman, Director of Education, Crayola
- Vignesh Subbian, Representative, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC); Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, The University of Arizona
- Ralph Tillinghast, Lab Director, Collaboration Innovation Lab, US Army
- Michelle Viotti, Principal Investigator; Science Apps and Data Interaction Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- Karen Wilkinson, Tinkering Studio Director, Exploratorium
- * Original SEAD members