About Us
Barbara Mink, Founding and Artistic Director
Barbara Mink has taught oral and written communication for MBAs and Executive Coaching for EMBAs at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management since 1986. She is also a guest lecturer on American-style presentations at ESCP-EAP in Paris, France. Mink was News Director of WHCU radio in Ithaca for eight years, and received the 1982 Associated Press Award for a program on ethics in journalism. In 1989 Mink was elected to the Tompkins County Legislature, and served as Chair of the board for five years, stepping down in 2002. She is also an active painter (www.barbaramink.com), and runs a communications consulting firm www.minkinternational.net
Marie Sirakos, Executive Director
Marie Sirakos is a playwright, festival director, and theatre artist. She has worked as teaching artist for the Hangar Theatre for the past ten seasons and her various theatrical projects have included work with Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services, the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, and the Kitchen Theatre. She is the former Artistic Director of the Ithaca Festival (2005 & 2006) and Director of Operations for the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance (2007 & 2008).
Officers
Mary Beth Bunge, President; Director of Development, Hangar Theatre; Lecturer, Ithaca College
Nancy Ridenour, Vice President; Science Education Consultant; Artist
Lesley Yorke, Secretary; Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Cornell University
Barbara DiSalvo, Treasurer; Cornell Libraries (ret.)
Mary Helen Cathles, Co-Treasurer; Event Planning and Development Consultant
Members
Samantha Castillo-Davis, Associate Director, Alumni Affairs & Development, College of
Human Ecology, Cornell
Sarah Davidson, Science Cabaret
Karen Edelstein, Cartographer, environmentalist, and science educator
William D. Highland, Attorney
Jonathan Miller, Executive Director, Homelands Productions
Phil Wilde, VP & partner, Insights International
Advisory Board
James Byrnes, Retired Chairman and CEO of Tompkins Trust Company, Inc.
Thomas Colbert, Integrated Properties Management
Dale Corson, President Emeritus, Cornell University
Thomas Eisner, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology, Cornell University
Howard Hartnett, Vice President and Regional Manager, M&T Investment Group
Roald Hoffman, Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell University
Ron Hoy, Merksamer Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University
Jean McPheeters, President, Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce
Shelley Semmler, Vice President, Institutional Advancement, Ithaca College
Paul Winter, Musician, Environmentalist
Greg Woodward, Dean, School of Music, Ithaca College
Ex Officio
Bruce Stoff, Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau
