Board of Directors
Dr. Timothy Rice
President
Department of Ethnomusicology
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Dr. Lewis Peterman
Immediate Past President
School of Music and Dance (emeritus)
San Diego State University
Dr. Lance Nelson
Vice President
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of San Diego
Shari Johnston-O’Neill
Secretary
Sr. Manager, Business Process Management
Kaiser Permanente
Syeda Zahra Ahmed
Treasurer
Accountant
Dr. Purna Patnaik
Outreach Coordinator
Global Analytics Holdings, Inc. (retired)
Michael Donnelly
Entrepreneur, Writer,
Indonesian Law Consultant
Jonathan Fohrman
School of Arts & International Languages
MiraCosta College
Dr. David Harnish
Department of Music
University of San Diego
Dr. Tom Johnston-O’Neill
The Worldview Project
Connie Kaczmarczyk
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Private Practice
Natasha Kozaily
Kalabash School of Music and the Arts
Shibani Patnaik
Applied Data Finance
Mandyam Venkatesh
General Atomics
Sherry Zheng
University of California, San Diego
N.B.: All board members contribute financially.
Board Members Emeritus
Dr. Robert E. Brown (1927-2005)
Founding President
School of Music and Dance (Emeritus)
San Diego State University
Prof. Danlee Mitchell
School of Music and Dance (Emeritus)
San Diego State University
Music and Percussion Studies, Traditional World Musics
Dr. Arkal Shenoy
General Atomics, San Diego (retired)
Artistic Advisory Board
Dr. Ric Alviso
CSU Northridge
Ethnomusicology
Dr. William Bradbury
CSU San Marcos
Music Composition
Dr. Curtis Bouterse
Independent Scholar, San Diego
American Traditional Music and Organology
Dr. Holly Wissler
Independent Scholar, Cusco, Peru
Indigenous Andean and Amazonian Musical Rituals
Dr. Nyoman Wenten
California Institute of the Arts
Indonesian Dance and Music
Prof. Ty Constant
National University of Singapore
African Music
Susan Enowitz
Commissioner of Literary Arts, Coronado Cultural Arts Commission
Independent Scholar
Anthropology
Martin Koenig
Ethnographer and Dance Ethnologist
Balkan Music and Dance
John Suter
Nonprofit Arts Administrator (retired)
Executive Director, Center for World Music (1980-84)
Nonprofit Organization Management
Delores Fisher
Church Musician, San Diego
African-American Music
Sudakshina Alagia
Performing Artist, San Diego
Hindustani Classical Music
Farhad Bahrami
Performing Artist, San Diego
Persian Music
Mark Lamson
Director, Sol e Mar Events, San Diego
Lecturer, Latin Music Ensemble, San Diego State University
Latin American Music
Tony Petroulias
Ethnographer, Performer, and Teacher, San Diego
Music, Dance, and Culture of Greece
Yolanda Beniquez
Art Director, La Fiesta Danzantes de San Diego
Mexican Dance
Robert Ojeda
Director, Musica de Atzlan, San Diego
Chicano Music
Mary Ellen O’Malley
Visual & Performing Arts, Curriculum Coordinator
San Diego County Office of Education (retired)
Performing Arts, Puppetry
Jennifer Case Nevarez
Community Learning Network
Educational Travel and Immersion, Community-Based Learning
Victoria Howard
Collector of Musical Instruments
Organology