Networking and Advocacy Leadership Team

The Arts|Learning Advocacy Group is led by a Leadership Team of individuals from across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that represent the arts-teaching workforce.  This includes K-12 art educators and administrators, teaching artists, arts education and cultural organization representatives, those in higher education and research, legislators, business leaders, and funders.

• Elizabeth Bacon, CultureLEAP
• Peter Cokkinias, Metrowest Symphony, Berklee College of Music
• Charles Combs, Berklee College of Music (Ret.), Advocacy Group Chair
• Catherine Connor Moen, Massachusetts Music Educators Association Representatvie
• Diane Daily, Massachusetts Cultural Council
• Lynn Feldman, Visual Artist
• Richard King, Newton Public Schools
• Henry Mastey, New Bedford Cultural Council
• Nancy Moses, Bridgewater State College
• Sandra Nicolucci, Boston University School of Music
• Kerri Quinlan-Zhou, New Bedford Public Schools
• Jonathan Rappaport, Arts|Learning Executive Director
• Nicole Smith, Boston Public Schools, Sumner Elementary School
• Lynda St. James, The Cameo Agency
• Linda Murphy Sutherland, Emerson College
• Wyatt Wade, Davis Publications, Inc.
• Charlie Washburn, VSA arts of Massachusetts
• Donna Wresinski, Framingham Schools, MA HS Drama Guild Representative