Joan Jeffri, Director
Joan Jeffri is the Founder and Director of the Research Center for Arts and Culture housed first at Columbia University and now at The Actors Fund. She is former Director of the Program in Arts Administration at Columbia and past President of the Association of Arts Administration Educators and the International Arts Medicine Association. She is a Scholar-in-Residence in the Arts Management Program at American University and an honorary professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Learn more at joanjeffri.com.
Performers’ Advisory Committee
Carmen de Lavallade
Dancer, actor, choreographer
Martha Wilson
Founder and Director, Franklin Furnace
Legal Advisory Committee
Richard Heller
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz
June Besek, E.D.
Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts
Director, International Intellectual Property Program, Columbia Law School
RCAC Board Member
Steven Chaikelson
Professor and Head of Theatre Management & Producing Concentration
Columbia University School of the Arts
David Cohen
RCAC Board Member
Former Executive Director, AFL-CIO, Department of Professional Employees
Technical Advisory Committee
Michael Ashenfelder
Consultant
Former Director, Digital Personal Archiving, Library of Congress
Robb Detlefs
Director, West Coast Operations & Strategic Initiatives
Gallery Systems
Justin Goldberg
Technical Director, Performing Arts Legacy Project
Web & multimedia strategist, MMNTM
Doug Reside, PhD
Lewis and Dorothy Cullman Curator for the Billy Rose Theatre Division
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Farris Wahbeh
Director of Research Resources, Whitney Museum of American Art
Carmen Wiedenhoeft
Technology Coordinator, ART CART: SAVING THE LEGACY
Research Center for Arts and Culture
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