Barbara Mink, Founding 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. Mink stepped down as Light In Winter Festival Artistic Director in 2011.
Officers
Phil Wilde, President; VP & partner, Insights International
Barbara DiSalvo, Treasurer; Cornell Libraries (ret.)
Karen Edelstein, Secretary; Cartographer, environmentalist, and science educator
Members
David Bock, Math Teacher (ret.), Textbook Author and Consultant
Mary Helen Cathles, Event Planning and Development Consultant
Sarah Evanega, Research Associate, Cornell University
Kitty Gifford, Organizer, Ornithologist, Social Media Marketing and Consulting
William D. Highland, Attorney
Jonathan Miller, Executive Director, Homelands Productions
Frank Moon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Cornell; Curator Cornell Collection of Reuleaux Kinematic Mechanisms
Advisory Board
James Byrnes, Retired Chairman and CEO of Tompkins Trust Company, Inc.
Thomas Colbert, Integrated Properties Management
Dale Corson, President Emeritus, 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