Nominate a Candidate to Join the Dance/USA Board of Trustees! The Dance/USA Trustees Committee is currently accepting nominations for potential candidates to be added to Dance/USA’s 2024 slate of new Trustees to join the Board and serve a 3-year term, commencing on January 1, 2024 and concluding on December 31, 2027. We invite you to share your suggested nominees by completing this form. The due date to submit candidate suggestions is Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at 11:59 PM PST.
| Anne Huang | Board Chair | World Arts West |
| Abdo Sayegh Rodriguez | Chair Elect | TU Dance |
| Debbie Blunden-Diggs | Vice Chair | Dayton Contemporary Dance Company |
| Denise Pate | Treasurer | San Francisco Arts Commission |
| Ellen Walker | Secretary | Pacific Northwest Ballet |
| Kathy Brown | At-Large | New York City Ballet |
| Antoine Hunter | At-Large | Urban Jazz Dance Company & Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival |
| Shane Fernando | At-Large | Cape Fear Community College & Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts |
| Iquail Shaheed | At-Large | DANCE IQUAIL! |
| Kellee Edusei | Executive Director | Dance/USA |
| Holly Bass | Holly Bass|360 | Washington, DC |
| Debbie Blunden-Diggs | Dayton Contemporary Dance Company | Dayton, OH |
| Kathy Brown | New York City Ballet | New York, NY |
| Geoff Chang | Arts Consulting Group | New York, NY |
| Andrea Clark Smith | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Kellee Edusei | Dance/USA | Chicago, IL |
| Nikki Estes | South Arts | Atlanta, GA |
| Shane Fernando | Cape Fear Community College & Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts | Wilmington, NC |
| Gina Gibney | Gibney | New York, NY |
| Jerron Herman | jerronherman.com | New York, NY |
| Anne Huang | World Arts West | San Francisco, CA |
| Antoine Hunter | Urban Jazz Dance Company & Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival | San Francisco, CA |
| Dr. Nancy Kadel | Orthopedic Surgeon | Bend, OR |
| Roger A. Kluge | DeWitt Stern, a Risk Management Company | New York, NY |
| Jim Leija | University of Michigan Museum of Art | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Sophie Myrtil-McCourty | Lotus Arts Management | Queens, NY |
| Denise Pate | San Francisco Arts Commission | San Francisco, CA |
| Vershawn Sanders-Ward | Red Clay Dance Company | Chicago, IL |
| Abdo Sayegh Rodriguez | TU Dance | Saint Paul, MN |
| Iquail Shaheed | DANCE IQUAIL! | Philadelphia, PA |
| Rosy Simas | Rosy Simas Danse | Minneapolis, MN |
| Traci Slater-Rigaud | United Philanthropy Forum | Fort Washington, MD |
| George Staib | staibdance, inc. & Emory University | Atlanta, GA |
| Victor Torres | California State University, Fresno; Los Danzantes de Aztlán (LDA) Mexican dance program at Fresno State; Asociación Nacional de Grupos Folklóricos | Fresno, CA |
| Ellen Walker | Pacific Northwest Ballet | Seattle, WA |
| Tamica Washington-Miller | Lula Washington Dance Theatre | Los Angeles, CA |
| Dorene Wiese | Black Hawk Performance Dance Company; American Indian Association of Illinois; Native American Education Services, Inc. | Chicago, IL |
More information on the required minimum commitments and responsibilities of the Dance/USA Board of Trustees is available for download:
DanceUSA Trustee Responsibilities
Responsibilities are reviewed annually by Board leadership and subject to change.
