Team Members

Michael Shannon, a resident of Englewood for 42 years, is founding president of the not-for-profit Northern New Jersey Community Foundation.

Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in business and in education.

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, a 23-year Englewood resident, corporate executive, securities lawyer, and professor, has provided volunteer and legal pro bono services...

Jane Keller Herzig of Englewood, NJ and Sarasota, FL is a
prize-winning artist who works in several media. After receiving her...

Harry Danner, leading actor, singer

Recreation Programs Coordinator, Englewood Actors Fund Home, Special Education Teacher and, Child Development Specialist.

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 is a Cultural Projects Consultant, Harvard Loeb Fellow, and a global expert in cultural heritage memorialization.

Linda Jackson most recently served as Managing Director for Robert Wilson's Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation.

Marcy Dermansky is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hurricane Girl, Very Nice, The Red Car, Bad Marie and Twins.

Irmari Nacht's art is featured internationally and at home in prominent corporate & public collections...

Lee Lobenhofer has been teaching acting at LaGuardia High School since 2000. He was the department coordinator from 2019-2021.

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 "...

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. Lee serves on the board of the Englewood Historical Society and on Bergen County's Historic Preservation Advisory 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...

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 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.

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'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 – 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.