Team Members
Michael Shannon
Founding President of Northern New Jersey Community Foundation
Michael Shannon, a resident of Englewood for 42 years, is founding president of the not-for-profit Northern New Jersey Community Foundation.
John Devol with John Legend
Founding Director of Arts Horinzons
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in business and in education.
John Merlino
Visual Arts Teacher
John Merlino taught visual arts at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood and at the Upper School in Englewood Cliffs for forty-two years.
Stephen L. Brown
Corporate Executive, Security Lawyer & Professor
Stephen L. Brown, a 23-year Englewood resident, corporate executive, securities lawyer, and professor, has provided volunteer and legal pro bono services...
Jane Keller Herzig
Artist
Jane Keller Herzig of Englewood, NJ and Sarasota, FL is a
prize-winning artist who works in several media. After receiving her...
Angela Davis
Englewood Board of Education ( Two Terms ), Special Needs Advisory Council
Recreation Programs Coordinator, Englewood Actors Fund Home, Special Education Teacher and, Child Development Specialist.
Sondra Greenberg
Mayor of Englewood, NJ. 1976 - 1982
Trained as an Art Teacher, Ardent Civil Rights Activist, and Promoter of Englewood's Multi Artist Festivals, Sandy Greenberg initiated the early Rehabilitation and Enhancement of Downtown Englewood over fifty years ago. Her tenure encompassed the opening of the John Harms Theatre ( forerunner to today's BergenPac ) and witnessed among other things the birth of the Englewood Historical Society...
Peggy King Jorde
Cultural Project Consultant
Peggy King Jorde is a Cultural Projects Consultant, Harvard Loeb Fellow, and a global expert in cultural heritage memorialization.
Linda Jackson
Artistic Administrator
Linda Jackson most recently served as Managing Director for Robert Wilson's Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation.
Marcy Dermansky
Author
Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie and Twins.
Irmari Necht
Fine Arts Artist
Irmari Nacht's art is featured internationally and at home in prominent corporate & public collections...
Lee Lobenhofer
Stage Director and Teacher
Lee Lobenhofer has been teaching acting at LaGuardia High School since 2000. He was the department coordinator from 2019-2021.
Calvin Hill
Prominent Bassist, Composer Arranger and Educator
Founder of Englewood's "Jazz Under The Stars" Bachelor of Arts Berkeley College of Music, Master of Special Education Hunter College " I'm glad to see they're moving ahead with the (Liberty School) project. I think it's a fantastic idea "...
Dr. Bernard F. Dick
Emeritus Prof. of Communications & English at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Bernard F. Dick is a Teaneck resident and the author of many books on film, including biographies of Harry Cohn, Hal Wallis, Rosalind Russell, Claudette Colbert, Loretta Young, and Jane Wyman.
Dr. William L. Lee
Englewood Municipal Historian
Liberty Square Project Committee
Emeritus Associate Professor of English
Yeshiva College New York City
Dr. Lee serves on the board of the Englewood Historical Society and on Bergen County's Historic Preservation Advisory Board...
Gina Maria Leonetti
Directors Guild of America/Film, Executive Producer, Assistant Director,2nd Stage Theater Company Board
Gina Maria Leonetti spent approximately twenty years as a Director Guild of America Film/TV Assistant Director, working on a variety of projects from television shows, commercials, and major motion pictures...
Robert Forman
Yarn Painting Artist
A graduate of Dwight Morrow High School, he credits art teacher, John Merlino, as one of his major inspirations to be an artist.
Patricia Malarcher
Visual Artist
Patricia Malarcher is a visual artist working in fabric and mixed media. She has had 20 solo shows and participated in group exhibitions nationally and in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Claudia Ospina
Registered Environmental Health Inspector
Ms. Ospina, currently serves as a Registered Environmental Health Inspector for both the Departments of Health in the city of Englewood and in the Township of Irvington, New Jersey.
Phil Ball
1st Vice - President, GNJ Wealth Management Group, ret.
Phil Ball's contribution to local government service, Rotary International, and a lifetime devoted to increasing educational opportunities, makes him an exemplar of civic responsibility.
Jeannette Curtis
Published Performance Poet
Jeannette Curtis – Rideau has been an Englewood resident for over 40 years. She is a retired Clinical Speech/ Language pathologist who worked in the school system in the latter part of her career on its Child Study Team.