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JONATHAN HERMAN has been Executive Director of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts since 2004 and a staff member since 1995. At the Guild he has planned and managed national conferences, training and technical assistance programs, publications and special projects such as Creative Communities, a national initiative to foster the development of arts instruction programs in public housing communities. He was also the project leader for Partners in Excellence, a national initiative to identify and promote best practices in K-12 public school arts partnerships. Mr. Herman has also served as Program Director of the Rhinelander Center, an arts-based community center of the Children's Aid Society in New York City, and developed educational programs and materials at The New York Hall of Science. Mr. Herman holds an Ed. M. degree from Teacher's College, Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York, Binghamton. He is a recent graduate of the Executive Level Program at the Columbia Business School’s Institute for Non-for-Profit Management and serves on the board of the National Music Council and the Steering Committee of the Arts Education Partnership.
KENNETH T. COLE was appointed Associate Director in 2008. He had served as Program Director since joining the Guild in September 2004. Since that time, Mr. Cole has played a key role in the development of many Guild initiatives, including the MetLife Foudnation Partners in Arts Education Excellence Grant Program and "Creativity Matters: The Arts and Aging Toolkit." Prior to joining the Guild, he served for three years as Director of Advancement at the Levine School of Music in Washington, DC. From 1994–2001, Ken served as Executive Director of GALA Choruses, the arts service association of the lesbian and gay choral movement, where he established a series of new programs. Ken has also worked in the orchestral world, as Development Director for the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra from 2001 – 2004, and as a violist with orchestras in Louisiana, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Ken holds a BM and an MM in viola performance from Oberlin College Conservatory and Louisiana State University respectively.
KELLY MCHUGH joined the Guild in March 2007 as Program Associate. With a combined background in fine arts and development, Kelly brings experience in arts stewardship, practice and instruction. She has worked in children’s television production, conference management, and arts-in-education programming. Kelly holds a degree in studio art from Binghamton University and is an NYU-Certified Arts Administrator. Apart from her career, she is an avid supporter of a growing community of artists which she spotlights in an annual publication series entitled reunion.
HEATHER STICKELER, Marketing & Communications Manager, joined the Guild in June 2007. A Ph.D. candidate in Theatre for Youth, Stickeler has 10 years’ experience in community arts education as a practitioner and a scholar, including three years as marketing and public relations manager at the Madison Repertory Theatre in Wisconsin. She has led programs as a teaching artist in school and community-based settings, and has received numerous accolades as an instructor at Arizona State University’s School of Theatre and Film. Stickeler founded the arts-based civic dialogue project, Phoenix Speaks; her research on community arts education has been published in The International Journal of the Arts in Society and Perspectives on Public Affairs, among others. In 2006 she received the American Alliance for Theatre and Education’s Winifred Ward Scholarship for excellence in the field.
ANNIE WALKER was appointed Bookkeeper/Operations Coordinator for the National Guild in January, 2004. She previously served as part-time Bookkeeper for the Guild since April, 2002. Annie worked as Bookkeeper for both the Sanctuary for Families and the International Center of Photography, both in New York City. Annie served as Administrative Assistant for the Urban League of Bergen County in Englewood, New Jersey Her work experience also includes several positions in the for-profit sector. She received a diploma in Bookkeeping and Accounting from the New York School of Business and Certification from the Computer Career Training Center in Englewood, New Jersey.
CLAIRE WILMOTH, Administrative Coordinator, became a full-time employee in 2006. A Seattle native, Claire came to New York directly from the Chicago area after completing her Bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University, where she graduated with honors in 2005. While at Northwestern, Claire helped produce the Waa-Mu show, a nationally renowned, original musical revue by and for Northwestern students. She has held previous employment at Paul Allen’s Experience Music Project and as a teaching artist for the Experience Arts Camp, both in Seattle, WA.
