2012-2013 Board of Directors

Cicely E. Mitchell, DrPH (President and Co-founder)

Albert Strong, IV (Vice President and Co-founder)

Jocelyn Harper (Treasurer)

Sharon Mullen (Secretary)

Jesica Averhart, New Business Development at American Tobacco

Eric W. Hill, member-at-large

Michele Johnson, member-at-large

Marc Lee, Saint Joseph’s Historic Foundation & Blues Festival

Frank Myers, Sweet Life Studios

Benjamin Reese, Vice President of the Office for Institutional Equity at Duke University and Duke University Health System

Advisory Board

Connie Campanaro, former CEO of The Carolina Theatre

Aaron Greenwald (Director, Duke Performances)

Jim Ketch, President Jazz Foundation of North Carolina (JFNC), Inc. and Music Director of the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra (NCJRO)

Alice Sharpe, Development Officer for the Durham County Library and serves as the staff liaison to the Durham Library Foundation

Musical Programming Selection Committee

2013-2014 Season

Nnenna Freelon (Six time Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist)

Phonte Coleman (Grammy-nominated rapper/singer/songwriter/producer & member of The Foreign Exchange and former member of Little Brother)

Aaron Greenwald  (Director, Duke Performances)

Bob Nocek  (CEO, Carolina Theatre)

Sylvia Pfeiffenberger (freelance journalist for the Indy)

Eric Tullis (freelance journalist for the Indy)

2012-2013 Season

Branford Marsalis (world renowned saxophonist with three Grammy awards)

Aaron Greenwald (Director, Duke Performances)

Sylvia Pfeiffenberger (freelance journalist)

Carolyn Malachi (Grammy-nominated recording artist)

Yahzarah (2011 Rising Artist by Jet Magazine)

Phonte Coleman(Grammy-nominated rapper/singer/songwriter/producer & member of The Foreign Exchange and former member of Little Brother)