About Us
Making Opera Accessible

Our Team

Anne Hiatt

Artistic & Executive Director

About Anne

Victoria Davis

Education Director & Creative Producer

About Victoria

Samantha Nahra

Assistant Education Director & Social Media Director

About Samantha

Interns:

Kathryn Witkowski– Education Research Intern

Patricia Leonard

Development Director

About Patricia

Kayleigh Butcher

Systems Administrator & Creative Producer

About Kayleigh

Board of Directors

Officers and Executive Committee Members

David Gordon

Board Chair

Music Educator /Manhattan School of Music and freelance performer
About David

Donna Epstein

Board Treasurer/ Interim Secretary

Tax Lawyer/ Loeb, Block & Partners, LLP (retired)
About Donna

Directors:

Dr. Naomi André, David G. Frey Distinguished Professor in MusicUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Professor, University of Michigan (retired)

Jason Asbury, Associate Head of School at Saint Ann’s School/Music Director of Grace Chorale of Brooklyn

Katherine Delaney, Director of Development NYFA

Isabel Walcott Draves, Founder of Creative Tech Week/Consultant

Rachel Duval, Performance artist / Executive Speaker coach 

Nia Imani Franklin, Composer, Vocalist and Miss America 2019

Tanya Jones, Award-winning Producer + Founder, Mama Bear Media Group LLC

Sarah Moulton-Faux, Singer/Producer

Ramona Ponce, Theatre educator/ freelance costume designer, La Guardia Performing Arts Center

Lucia Rivieccio, Interim Executive Director, Midwood Development Corporation

Salima Ira Swain, NYC Public School Music Teacher (retired)

Equity Committee:

Victoria Davis
David Gordon
Ramona Ponce

HR Committee:

Katherine Delaney
Donna Epstein
David Gordon
Anne Hiatt
Lucia Rivieccio

Advisory Council

David Cote
Aaron Dworkin
Eve Gigliotti
Christine Goerke
Celeste Headlee
Adam Herskowitz
Sylvia McNair
Todd Perlmutter
Kyle Pfortmiller
Laura Pfortmiller
Kamala Sankaram
Prof. George Shirley
Mithuna Sivaraman
Alexa Smith
Russell Thomas
Cassandra Wilson

Education Advisory Council

Dr. James Duval
Adam Herskowitz
Karen Fierst
Emily Grad
Anna Hall
Rachel Powers
Paul Provencio
Jorge Sosa
Dr. Indre Viskontas

Recognition for Our Work