May 10, 2024 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Middleton Place Foundation
In August, Dana Hand Evans will become president and CEO of this group that raises money to support the Middleton Place National Historic Landmark, a rice plantation in Charleston, S.C., where 3,200 enslaved people lived and worked.
Currently she is executive director and CEO of the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley.
Legal Services NYC
Shervon Small will return to the legal-aid group as its executive director on June 17.
He previously was a staff attorney in the organization’s Bronx office, and currently is a lecturer at Columbia Law School and director of the economic-equities practice at the Legal Aid Society.
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Starlee Coleman, CEO of the Texas Public Charter Schools Association, has been tapped as president and CEO. She begins her new role in August.
Coleman succeeds Nina Rees, who stepped down in December after 11 years at the helm.
More New CEOs
Elysia Borowy, co-founder of the arts consulting group VHE ART, is now executive director of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Named for an artist who died from stomach cancer at age 30, the foundation makes unrestricted grants to cancer patients, emerging artists, and community-engagement projects in the arts.
Katia Jones has been promoted from vice president of community mobilization to CEO of the Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona. She has worked there since 2021.
Cathy Showalter has been promoted from grant coordinator to CEO and executive director of the Otto Schoitz Foundation, an Iowa grant maker that has $61 million in assets. She will succeed Shelli Panicucci, who is retiring in September.
Lane Wallace, executive director of USA Girl Scouts Overseas, will now serve as executive director of Let Me Run, a charity that offers running programs for boys in elementary and middle schools.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
The arts group in Washington has named four new senior leaders.
Kimberly Cooper has been hired as senior vice president of marketing. Previously she led small business and consumer marketing at Amazon Project Kuiper.
Matt Floca, associate director of the sustainability and energy division for the District of Columbia’s Department of General Services, is now vice president of facilities.
Frederick Owusu has been named chief human-resources officer. Most recently he was executive director of human resources at Johns Hopkins Medicine–Sibley Memorial Hospital.
Aswathi (Ash) Zachariah has been promoted from general counsel to executive vice president and general counsel.
Other Notable Appointments
Michael Gordon, a lawyer at Ballard Spahr LLP who specialized in growth strategy and regulatory compliance at companies and nonprofit groups, is now general counsel at Arabella Advisors.
Porsche Gordon has been appointed vice president of advancement at the Ronald McDonald House Charities Bay Area. A fundraising consultant, she is the former director of development of the Mothers & Babies Campaign at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health.
Kell Olson has been named the F. Curt Kirschner Strategist for LGBTQ+ Seniors at Lambda Legal, where he has worked as a staff attorney since 2021. The position was created in 2022 with a $1 million grant from the Jones Day Foundation in honor of F. Curt Kirschner Jr., a retired partner at Jones Day Labor and Employment.
Heather Slania, director of library and academic support services at the Maryland Institute College of Art, is now chief librarian at the National Gallery of Art.
Dan Wolfert will join the Ball Brothers Foundation as a program officer on June 3. He is currently vice president of development and marketing at Hillcroft Services.
Departure
On June 1, Michael Breen will step down after five years as president and CEO of Human Rights First.
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