Team
Megan L. Van Voorhis
President and CEO Megan Van Voorhis credits her love for arts and culture, as well as her own artistic faculty, to her parents. “The arts were important to them,” she says. “Which is kind of interesting, because neither was really an arts person. But they absolutely supported me and my brother when we showed an…
Read MoreValerie Schumacher
Director of Programs and Services Valerie Schumacher majored in studio art and arts management at Baldwin Wallace University, and she feels a gravitational pull toward drawing. She’d studied photography, including at Italy’s Umbra Institute, and has won awards for her work in that medium, but although she enjoys shooting pictures, she just isn’t as attracted…
Read MoreLeAundra Richardson
Associate of Programs and Marketing LeAundra Richardson discovered her love for music early — she began piano lessons at age six and was playing violin with her school orchestra by fifth grade. “I was just always talented at [music] and enjoyed it,” the Oberlin, Ohio, native says of her germinal attraction to and immersion in…
Read MoreKristin Puch
Senior Researcher Kristin Puch’s perspective on arts and culture is perhaps more numeric than aesthetic — as a researcher, she looks at arts and culture through the lens of data. “Data infuses all the work we do,” she says. “It’s a tool for understanding what’s going well [in the sector] and what the challenges are.”…
Read MoreMeg Matko
Community Relations Manager Meg Matko’s interest in artists and in arts and culture is personal — she’s a visual artist herself. “I know what it is to go to art school and graduate not knowing how to survive as an artist,” she remembers. And trying to figure out how to make a semblance of a…
Read MoreKristen Levy
Development Manager Kristen Levy wasn’t born and raised in Cleveland, but she’s been here her entire adult life (excepting a four-year sojourn to Los Angeles), and she’s “definitely a Clevelander,” she states. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Kristen moved northeast in 2002 to attend Case Western Reserve University. She’s passionate about her adopted city, its strengths…
Read MoreAbigail Del Rio
Business Manager Abby Del Rio’s feelings about arts and culture don’t fit the narrowly stereotypic outlook of a numbers- driven bean counter. “Life without the arts would be pretty boring,” she says, pointing out that there’s more to life than just one’s daily, prosaic routine. “I definitely appreciate [live theater],” she adds, and her amateur…
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