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She is currently the Executive Director of Bay Area Video Coalition where she’s able to support BAVC is a 43-year old media, film and tech organization that supports emerging storytellers, and the creation of media mostly underrepresented media makers and communities. Locally in the and film that inspires social change. Prior to San Francisco Bay Area, we’re a media hub for technical classes, workforce joining BAVC, Smith Arrigoni co-founded a development, youth engagement, and mediamaker events. Nationally we grant-making and mentorship program for support diverse documentary filmmakers through a fellowship program emerging, diverse narrative filmmakers in the and provide high-end video and audio production and preservation services Bay Area, and served as executive producer on organizations. a slate of narrative independent films, including two premiering at Sundance in 2019. Previously, SAN FRANCISCO, she was COO at Youth Speaks, a national leader CALIFORNIA in arts education and youth development, where she helped triple its annual operating budget and directed a national field-building initiative called the Brave New Voices Network Initiative. Smith Arrigoni developed her management expertise advising and investing in nonprofits for Nonprofit Finance Fund and the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund at the US Treasury Department. She’s also been an independent consultant to many Bay Area social impact organizations, and a Board member/Treasurer at Camp Reel Stories and Women’s Community Clinic, among others throughout her career. She currently rounds out her professional and creative activities teaching university students and professionals about nonprofit management issues, and is developing her first documentary feature about jazz in America. Smith Arrigoni studied sociology, urban planning and film and television producing at UCLA. Back to top STEPHEN BEAUDOIN The Washington Chorus Hailed by the Portland Business Journal as “a noted nonprofit leader,” Stephen Marc Beaudoin ABOUT THE WASHINGTON has nearly twenty years combined leadership CHORUS experience spanning the nonprofit, public, and private sectors - as a senior nonprofit executive, publicly elected school board Under the direction of Artistic Director Christopher Bell, The Washington Chorus (TWC), now chair, family foundation board member, and in its 59th season, is one of the foremost symphonic choruses in the nation. Noted for the superb artistry of its performances and recordings of the entire range of the choral repertoire, TWC is consultant. Driven by the belief that art, music, widely recognized as a cultural leader in the nation’s capital. and creativity are fundamental rights and that our world is better when we sing and create A three-time nominated and two-time Grammy Award winner, the 160-voice Washington Chorus together, Beaudoin has served as an agent of presents an annual subscription series at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, regularly performs at the invitation of the National Symphony Orchestra, and appears annually at positive organization and community change in the Music Center at Strathmore in Maryland and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts multiple communities across the United States, in Virginia. and his work has been profiled in the Boston ARLINGTON, Globe, Willamette Week, the Oregonian, and TWC was the first major Washington area chorus to be founded independent of a church or college. In 1961 Hugh Hayward, a medical doctor and classically trained musician, founded the Oratorio VIRGINIA other media outlets. As Executive Director Society of Montgomery County, which became known as the Oratorio Society of Washington, and of PHAME in Portland, Oregon for seven is now celebrated under the name of The Washington Chorus. In 1971, Robert Shafer succeeded years, Beaudoin fundamentally transformed Hayward as music director, leading the chorus for more than three decades with great distinction, a nearly defunct nonprofit serving adult artists and musicians with intellectual including two Grammy Awards. From 2008–2017 Julian Wachner led the organization with education and innovation at the forefront of his programs. or developmental disabilities into a robust and nationally recognized leader in arts inclusion, earning important recognition (the Skidmore Prize, the City of TWC’s commitment to the greater Washington community is evidenced by its Connections Portland’s “Making A Difference” and “Spirit of Portland” awards) and engaging Programs, including the Side-by-Side high school program; the DC Honor Chorus in partnership regional arts leaders to create systemic change and advance a more inclusive with DC Public Schools; and its new partnership with Arts for the Aging, offering therapeutic life enrichment interventions for memory-loss patients in Washington, D.C. creative world. As a publicly elected board member and Chair of the Multnomah Education Service District from 2015 to 2017, Beaudoin helped to restore Chorus America, the national association for choruses, has honored The Washington Chorus trust and faith in a troubled $81 million public education agency, especially with the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the ASCAP Alice Parker Award, which championing programs that foster equitable outcomes for students in Multnomah recognizes a chorus programming significant, recently-composed music that expands the mission of the chorus and challenges audiences in new ways. Other awards include the 2000 Grammy County. Now as Executive Director of two time Grammy award-winning ensemble Award for Best Choral Performance for the live-performance recording of Benjamin Britten’s War The Washington Chorus, he works collaboratively to fully realize a vision where Requiem and a 1996 Grammy Award for John Corigliano’s Of Rage and Remembrance with the everyone experiences the transformative power of singing together. A native of National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Leonard Slatkin. Kansas City, Missouri, Beaudoin now calls Arlington, Virginia, home, where he TWC has appeared at the invitation of leading orchestras including the National Symphony lives with his partner Joe, is a strategic advisor and board member of the HMF Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. TWC is proud to have sung with the NSO in Beaudoin Family Foundation, and serves as a mentor and coach for emerging more than 300 performances, under the direction of many of the world’s greatest conductors, nonprofit leaders. including Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Neville Marriner, Kent Nagano, Marin Alsop, Gustavo Dudamel, and many others. TWC has sung for numerous prestigious events throughout its history— inaugurations, papal visits, with the Rolling Stones during their 50th anniversary tour, and at the White House in 2013 and 2014 for the President and First Lady. Back to top ELYSIA BOROWY-REEDER Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit As Executive Director of the MOCAD, Elysia Borowy-Reeder plays an essential role in ABOUT MUSEUM OF establishing the vision, goals, and strategic CONTEMPORARY ART DETROIT plans for the museum.