Congratulations to the 2016 Emerging Leaders Boot Camp Participants!

NYFA’s intensive professional-development program for arts administrators turns three.

NYFA’s Emerging Leaders Boot Camp is a FREE leadership development program for arts administrators. The year-long schedule includes five full-day intensives, check-ins and individual consultations, and a two-day final session.

After careful consideration of an impressive and competitive field of over 100 applicants, New York Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce the participants for the 2016 Emerging Leaders Boot Camp program.

NYFA firmly believes that through this program, we make an investment in the cultural infrastructure that will ultimately benefit the entire field, building stronger connections and shared knowledge between artists and arts administrators.

Now in its third incarnation, the program also includes an alumni component to support ongoing leadership development in the arts community.

2016 Emerging Leaders Boot Camp Program Participants

Amy Appleton, Arts Mentoring Program Manager
Free Arts NYC, New York, NY

Daniel Benavent, Associate Producer and Opera Studio Manager
Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY

Meredith Dixon, Business Manager
Atlantic Theater Company, New York, NY

Heidi Elbers, Director of Exhibitions and Alumni Affairs
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Dan Fishman, Programming and Events Associate
Bryant Park Corporation, Manhattan, New York

Lauren Flanigan, Founder/Director
Music and Mentoring House, New York, NY

Danielle Green, Marketing Manager
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Newark, NJ

Anjali Goyal, Development Manager
Asian American Arts Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

Vanessa Hadox, Manager of Institutional Giving
Groundswell, Brooklyn, New York

Gloria Hage, Executive Director
Robin Becker Dance, New York, NY

Joseph Hall, Deputy Director, Programming and Operations
BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx, NY

Bonnie Harris, Administrator for the MFA Program in Creative Writing
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

Lauren Haynes, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

PennyMaria Jackson, Marketing Manager
Alvin Ailey America Dance Theater, New York, NY

Maria Kelly, Dance for PD®, Program Coordinator
Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn, NY

Allison Kline, Director of Foundation and Government Relations
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

Anjanette Levert, Program Manager
The Documentary Forum, New York NY

Sarah McLellan, Managing Director
Clubbed Thumb, New York, NY

Christopher Mulé, Director of Folk Arts
Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY

Mary Prescott, Founder, Artistic Director and CEO
Lyra Music, Inc., Northampton, MA/New York City, NY

Tricia Sardo, Assistant Director of Individual Giving & Special Events
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY

Clement So, Artistic Administrator
92nd Street Y (Tisch Center for the Arts), New York, NY

Kendra Sullivan, Program Manager
The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY

Diya Vij, Digital Communications Manager
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), Manhattan, NY

Anne Wheeler, Assistant Curator
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Rishauna Zumberg, Program Director
Lineage Project, Bronx, NY

This program is made possible with the generous support of American Express and The Howard Gilman Foundation.