Panelists
2016-2017 Multidisciplinary Projects

September 25, 2015
9:00 AM - to conclusion
Teleconference (How to participate)

Chair: Glenn Lochrie
Program Manager: Hillary Crawford

Julia Black Andrews

Broward County

• Executive Director, Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida
• Previously, Curator & Program Manager for Art Serve, Ft. Lauderdale
• Portrait painter, specializes in pets
• Member, City of Pompano Beach Public Art Committee

Weiselande Cesar

Miami-Dade County

• Teacher, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
• Founding Director/Dancer/Choreographer, Tradisyon Lakou Lakay, Inc.
• Dancer/Choreographer ADDDFF, Delou Africa, African Dance & Drum Diaspora of Florida
• Author, The Colors We Feel and Loving Thyself: Discovering the Spirit Within
• 2009 Francisco R. Walker Miami Dade County Teacher of the Year from Miami Dade County Public Schools
• APD Human Services/Public Health from Walden University; ED.S. Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Instruction, and Masters of Science, Exceptional Student Education/Varying Exceptionalities both from Barry University

Mary Dillon

Hillsborough County

• Director of Research and Grants at the Museum of Science & Industry
• Former Executive Director at Rural Social Services Partnership
• Independent grant consultant since 2008
• Certified grant writer by Grant Professionals Association
• University of Tampa, MBA, Nonprofit Leadership

Maria Emilia

Pinellas County

• Grants writer at PARC, Inc
• Former Grants Manager, Florida State University at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
• Former Executive Director, Florida Craftsmen
• Artist whose work is in the collections of Polk Museum of Art, the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, USF and the Smithsonian American Art Museum
• MFA, University of South Florida

Susan Mitchell

Orange County

• Grantwriter and Project Director, Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida, Maitland, Florida
• Former concert pianist and theater producer
• Playwright for Fringe Festival
• Former Vice Chair, Laurel Foundation, Jefferson County Pennsylvania
• BA, Education and MA, English

James Moy

Hillsborough County

• Dean, College of the Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
• Former Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
• Member of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, the Association for Asian American Studies, the National Association of Schools of Theater, and the American Drama Society
• PhD, Cultural Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Elizabeth Young

Monroe County

• Executive Director, Monroe Council for the Arts, Key West
• Previously, Business Manager, Island Wellness; and spent nearly a decade in New York City as a Casting Director for film, television and theater
• Serves as Executive Board Member of Congregation B’nai Zion and Florida Association of Public Art Professionals
• B.A., Art History and Theater, Wheaton College