Board of Directors and Artistic Board

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)

Dr. Supeena Insee Adler
Department of Ethnomusicology
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Michael Donnelly
Entrepreneur, Writer,
Indonesian Law Consultant

Dr. Bernard Ellorin
Samahan Filipino American Performing Arts & Education Center
San Diego Community College District

Delores Fisher
Educator, International Blogger, Poet, Pianist

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

Tony Petroulias
Teacher/Ethnographer
Greek Folk Dance and Traditional Culture

Letitia Rogers
Former Regional Director (Western US)
Music & Memory

Preston Swirnoff
ARTI Global Education

N.B.: All board members contribute financially.

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)

Mandyam Venkatesh
General Atomics, San Diego (retired)