People

Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (New York): Appointed Catherine Camera, president of Philanthropy Plus (Old Brookville, N.Y.), to be managing director and chief operating officer.

Amherst College (Mass.): Appointed Megan Morey, director of leadership giving at Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.), to be chief advancement officer.

Art Institute of Chicago: Appointed Meredith Mack, senior vice president of finance and operations, to be deputy director and chief operating officer.

Boston Center for the Arts: Appointed Alyssa DiPasquale, assistant at Hill Holiday (Boston), to be manager of communications; James K. Marko, consultant and executive director of Boston Cecilia, to be director for development and marketing; and Hank Pinkowski, senior manager for technology and publications, to be senior project manager.

Breakthrough Collaborative (San Francisco): Appointed Mialisa T. Bonta, associate director of strategic initiatives and legacy development at the Stupski Foundation (Mill Valley, Calif.), to be chief executive officer. Breakthrough Collaborative provides academic programs for middle-school children from needy families.

Center for Women’s Business Research (Washington): Appointed Lyn Chamness McGee, senior marketing officer at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (Arlington, Va.), to be director of marketing and communications.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta: Appointed Donna Hyland, chief operating officer, to be chief executive officer, effective in 2008. She will succeed James E. Tally, who plans to retire.

Cleveland Museum of Art: Appointed Cindy Fink, director of external relations and marketing at the Cincinnati Art Museum, to be director of marketing and communications.

College Access Foundation of California (San Francisco): Appointed Tamara L. Moore, program associate and grant maker at the California Endowment (Los Angeles), and Katie Tremper, project director at California Student Opportunity and Access Program Southern San Joaquin Valley (Bakersfield), to be program officers.

Cornerstones of Care (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Denise Cross, a consultant for program compliance and revenue enhancement at Maximus, based in Jefferson City, Mo., to be president and chief executive officer. She succeeds Paul Gemeinhardt, who has retired. Cornerstones of Care is a network of organizations offers therapeutic services for children and families.

Cultural Tourism DC (Washington): Appointed Leon Seemann, general manager at Studio Theatre (Washington), to be director of finance.

Emerson College (Boston): Appointed Robert R. Ashton, vice president for university advancement at San Jose State U. (Calif.), to be vice president for advancement.

Florida Bar Foundation (Orlando): Appointed Tim Bachmeyer, director of development at Audubon of Florida (Miami), to be director of major and planned gifts.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville): Appointed Jason Facio, director of public relations at the Nashville Opera, to be membership and individual-giving manager; Wendy McHugh, ticket-sales supervisor at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Nashville), to be membership coordinator; and Autumn Parrott, assistant director of development at the U. of Tennessee at Knoxville College of Arts & Sciences, to be sponsorship and major-gifts manager.

Goddard Riverside Community Center (New York): Appointed Carolyn Nash, director of the survival portfolio at the Robin Hood Foundation (New York), to be associate director.

Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana (Indianapolis): Appointed Martha Avery, marketing manager at BorgWarner, based in Indianapolis, to be marketing business-development manager.

Hollins U. (Roanoke, Va.): Appointed Meredith Pierce Hunter, director of advancement and planning for Harvard U.’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Cambridge, Mass.), to be vice president for external relations.

Insight Center for Community Economic Development (Oakland, Calif.): Appointed Chantel L. Walker, co-founder and principal of the Walkeryee Group (San Francisco), to be vice president. This group was formerly known as the National Economic Development and Law Center.

Kirlin Foundation (Bellevue, Wash.): Appointed Raj Manhas, former Seattle Public Schools superintendent, to be executive director of Seeds of Compassion, a partnership of business leaders, educators, foundations, and other groups that work to improve early-childhood development.

Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation (Baton Rouge): Appointed Flozell Daniels Jr., associate vice president at Tulane U. (New Orleans), to be president and chief executive officer.

Manhattan Outreach Consortium (New York): Appointed Kristen Edwards, program manager of the Outreach Coordination Center at Project Housing, Opportunities for Employment, Medical Care, Education (Philadelphia), to be director.

Minnesota Medical Foundation (Minneapolis): Appointed Patricia K. Porter, senior director for the health and life-sciences development team at the U. of Wisconsin Foundation (Madison), to be vice president of development.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago): Appointed Madeleine Grynsztejn, senior curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, to be director, effective in 2008. She will succeed Robert Fitzpatrick, who plans to retire.

Ohio Wesleyan U. (Delaware): Appointed Jeremy Ball, director of advancement services at Capital U. (Columbus, Ohio), to be director of development services; Lindsey Gale, assistant director of special giving, to be director of donor relations in the office of university relations; and Lee Harrell, a senior marketing associate for Great Lakes Educational Loan Services (Madison, Wis.), to be assistant vice president for admission and financial aid.

Olney Theatre Center (Md.): Appointed Amy Marshall, executive director of the Milwaukee Ballet, to be managing director.

ONE: the Campaign to Make Poverty History (Washington): Appointed David Lane, director of public policy and external affairs and the director of the East Coast office at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Washington, to be president and chief executive officer.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia): Appointed Edward T. Lewis, senior associate consultant at Academic Search (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. Also appointed: David R. Brigham, executive director of the Allentown Art Museum (Pa.), to be director of the Academy Museum.

Population Action International (Washington): Appointed Karen Hardee, a senior adviser at John Snow (Boston), to be vice president for research.

Preeclampsia Foundation (New Market, Md.): Appointed J. Thomas Viall, a consultant at Workplace Fairness (Washington), to be executive director.

Saint Mary’s U. of Minnesota (Winona): Appointed Joseph P. Sweeney, vice president for development and director of principal gifts at Loyola Academy (Wilmette, Ill.), to be vice president for development and alumni relations.

Santa Clara Family Health Foundation (Campbell, Calif.): Announced the resignation of Craig Walsh, executive director.

Signature Theatre (Arlington, Va.): Announced the resignation of Sam Sweet, managing director.

Southern Rural Development Initiative (Raleigh, N.C.): Appointed Omisade Burney-Scott, a project officer at Active Living by Design (Chapel Hill, N.C.), to be director of constituent relations.

Special Olympics Pennsylvania (Norristown): Appointed Harry A. Freedman, director for institutional advancement at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (Wynnewood, Pa.), to be chief development officer.

U. of the Arts (Philadelphia): Appointed Laura Armstrong, assistant director of alumni affairs and development for Cornell U.’s Johnson Graduate School of Management (Ithaca, N.Y.), to be director of alumni relations; Amanda Black, development associate and database manager at the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), to be associate director of development; and Paul Healy, vice president of marketing and public affairs at the Holy Redeemer Health System (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.), to be chief communications officer.

U. of Connecticut Foundation (Storrs): Appointed Kenneth R. Goebel, assistant vice president of annual giving, to be executive director of principal gifts; Joseph Hanrahan, director of development for the university’s School of Engineering, to be assistant vice president of development at the U. of Connecticut Health Center (Farmington); and Wendy M. Lux, director of development at the U. of Connecticut Health Center, to be assistant vice president of development at the U. of Connecticut Health Center.

U. of Georgia (Athens): Appointed Johnie Tucker, territory-sales manager at Swisher International (Jacksonville, Fla.), to be annual-giving coordinator for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

U. of Hawaii Foundation (Honolulu): Appointed Kristi Bates, a special-projects coordinator at the university’s School of Travel Industry Management, to be development associate; Mangmang Qiu Brown, deputy prosecuting attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, Appellate and Research Division, to be director of international engagement; Stacia Garlach, publications editor and creative director for the Office of Institutional Advancement and adjunct professor of communication at Chaminade U. of Honolulu, to be assistant director of alumni relations, communications, and marketing; Jennifer Hee, director of institutional advancement for Kapi’olani Community College (Honolulu), to be director of development for the William S. Richardson School of Law; Linh Hoang, associate director of estate and gift planning, to be director of development for Kapi’olani Community College; Cori Miller, student-affairs officer for the statistics department at the U. of California at Berkeley, to be assistant director of alumni relations for membership and chapter relations; Unyong Nakata, communications coordinator of estate and gift planning, to be assistant director of estate and gift planning; Margot Schrire, director of community relations at the Institute for Human Services (Honolulu), to be director of communications; Margaret Shiba, director of development at U. of Hawaii at Hilo, to be senior director of development at the U. of Hawaii at Hilo; and Amy Watari, alumni-relations coordinator for the Shidler College of Business, to be director of alumni and development and communications for the Shidler College of Business.

U. of Maryland at College Park: Appointed Peggy Boney, Web master at the Anne Arundel Medical Center (Annapolis), to be assistant director for Internet communications; Gina Callahan, research associate, to be associate director of leadership gifts; Daniel Froggett, manager of special events at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens (Va.), to be director of special events for the alumni association; and Cheryl Smith, director of marketing and development at the South Baltimore Learning Center, to be associate director of the university’s Maryland Fund for Excellence, Special Constituencies.

U. of North Carolina at Wilmington: Appointed Robert McInturf, director of alumni affairs at the U. of West Alabama (Livingston), to be director of alumni relations.

United Way of New York City: Appointed Sunita Subramanian, senior staff lawyer at Lawyers Alliance for New York, to be general counsel.

Venture Philanthropy Partners (Washington): Appointed Ellen Lazar, senior vice president for housing and community initiatives at the Fannie Mae Foundation (Washington), to be a partner who oversees projects with nonprofit groups that serve poor children and families.

Walkway Over the Hudson (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.): Appointed Amy Husten, special-projects director at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), to be executive director.

Washington National Opera: Appointed Mark J. Weinstein, general director and vice president at the Pittsburgh Opera, to be executive director, effective February 1.

GRANT MAKERS

Casey Family Programs (Seattle): Appointed JooYeun Chang, senior staff lawyer at the Children’s Defense Fund (Washington), to be director of public policy, based in Washington, and Regina B. Schofield, assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice (Washington), to be managing director of public policy, based in Washington.

J. Paul Getty Trust (Los Angeles): Appointed Patricia A. Woodworth, executive vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at the Art Institute of Chicago, to be chief financial officer and chief operating officer.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami): Appointed Trabian Shorters, a co-director of the U.S. program at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public (Arlington, Va.), to be vice president for the communities program.

Otto Bremer Foundation (St. Paul): Appointed Kaying Hang, a program officer, to be senior program officer.

Public Welfare Foundation (Washington): Appointed Seema Gajwani, a staff lawyer at the Public Defender Service of the District of Columbia (Washington), to be program officer for the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program.

Southern Partners Fund (Atlanta): Appointed Janine Lee, vice president at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation (Atlanta) and a co-founder of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (Washington), to be executive director.

Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation (Pittsburgh): Appointed Andrew Lane, senior vice president of foundation advisory services at U.S. Trust (New York), to be executive director, based in New York.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Carnegie Corporation of New York: Elected Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of the United Nations (New York), to the Board of Trustees.

City Parks Foundation (New York): Elected David Moore, chairman of Moore Holdings (New York), to be president of the Board of Directors.

Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education (Boston): Elected Deborah Cogen Swartz, a community volunteer in Newton, Mass., to be chair of the Board of Directors.