Walton Family Foundation

Teresa Ish has been promoted to lead the Oceans Initiative within its environment program.

She joined the $5.6 billion family fund in 2010 and most recently served as a senior program officer for the environment.

Ballmer Group

Andrea Zayas, chief academic officer at Boston Public Schools, has been hired as the grant maker’s national director of K-12 education.

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Todd Graham has been tapped as acting managing director of its new environment program, and he will also serve as head of the foundation’s Montana office.

Graham is a partner at Ranch Advisory Partners, which works with ranch owners and investors to improve the ecological and financial performance of agricultural properties in the western United States.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Aaron Merki, managing director of programs and grants, has been promoted to chief program officer at the $2.9 billion foundation.

He has worked there since 2014.

More New CEOs

Michelle Detweiler has been promoted from chief operating officer to president and CEO of PARC, a social-services group for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Kristy Edmunds, director of the Center for the Art of Performance at the University of California at Los Angeles, has been chosen as the next director of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

David Savage, co-founder of Content Watch Holdings, has been named executive director of the Papal Foundation.

Jaymes Sime, executive director of the Micah House, has been tapped as president and CEO of the Child Saving Institute, in Omaha. He succeeds Peg Harriott, who is departing after 13 years. The group also named Lori Bechtold, chief development officer at the Omaha Home for Boys, to serve as its next chief development officer.

Joana Vicente, executive director and co-head of the Toronto International Film Festival, will take the reins of the Sundance Institute as CEO on November 1.

Other Notable Appointments

Jennifer Arnett has been named chief development officer at the Mayo Clinic, beginning December 1. Currently she is vice chancellor for university development and alumni relations at the University of California at San Francisco.

Neil Cox, a professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Edinburgh, has been named head of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art. He will begin his new role in December.

Sara DeWitt, vice president of PBS Kids Digital, has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager of children’s media and education at PBS.

Arwen Staros Duffy, assistant vice president for development at the University of Southern California, will become vice chancellor for advancement at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on November 15.

Mark Ford, director of community partnerships and tribal relations at Partnership With Native Americans, has joined Feeding America as director of native/tribal partnerships.

Wade Hart has joined Elmira College as associate vice president of advancement. Previously he was chief development officer at D’Youville College.

Meaghan Hogan, associate vice president of development at Temple University, has been appointed vice president of university relations at Long Island University, where she will lead fundraising.

Rebecca MacKinnon, founding director of the Ranking Digital Rights program at New America, joined the Wikimedia Foundation as its first vice president for global advocacy.

Samantha Maltin, chief marketing officer at Sesame Workshop, has been promoted to also serve as the media and education group’s executive vice president.

Chad Schwickerath, interim vice president for advancement at the Chicago Theological Seminary since April, will continue in the role permanently. Previously he was its manager of annual fund and alumni relations.

April Kim Tonin, deputy director of the education department at the Museum of Arts and Design, has been selected as head of education and public engagement at the Frick Collection.

Legacy

Walter Scott Jr., a billionaire in Omaha, died on September 25 at age 90. He was the former CEO and chairman of Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc., a construction company in Omaha where he worked for his entire career. Through the Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation, he and his wife gave millions to education, community development, and youth programs. Suzanne Scott died in 2013. Among his largest donations was a gift of $53.3 million in 2016 to Colorado State University for its College of Engineering. He also co-founded Heritage Services, which raised more than $1 billion for projects to enhance Omaha and provide services and programs for its residents.

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