Placements

Morsink is owner and director of the Morsink Icon Gallery in Amsterdam, one of the leading international galleries specializing in Russian and Greek icons dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Morsink exhibits annually at the famous international art fair TEFAF Maastricht and has collaborated on icon exhibitions and publications with a wide range of museums, including the Recklinghausen Ikonen Museum in Germany, the Bible Museum in Amsterdam and the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht. He has also served as an advisor on icons to private collectors, auction houses and institutions worldwide 

Haenel is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of Cultural Vistas, a nonprofit exchange organization based in Washington, DC, and Berlin, Germany whose mission is to promote global understanding and collaboration among individuals and institutions. Prior to that he spent 20 years at the Robert Bosch Foundation in Stuttgart, Germany, one of Europe’s largest private foundations. He served most recently there as a Senior Vice President, Future Issues and Foundation Development and before that as Senior Vice President, International Relations overseeing the foundation’s portfolio in America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. He also served for eight years at the Foundation as an Executive Board Member. 

Malloy is an accomplished museum director, curator, scholar, and community builder who will lead the University of Chicago’s fine arts museum and its exhibitions, public and arts education programs, and student and faculty collaborations.  She joins the Smart Museum from the Syracuse University Art Museum where she was appointed Director and chief curator in 2019.

Eric Bridges brings to AFB over 20 years of national leadership on issues impacting people with vision loss, having most recently served for 16 years as American Council of the Blind’s Executive Director, Director of External Relations and Policy, and Director of Advocacy and Governmental Affairs.  Bridges previously served as a Congressional Fellow at the Brookings Institute, and as Legislative Affairs Manager at the National Industries for the Blind.

Kim most recently served as Director, Museum Services for the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Prior to her role at the Asian Art Musuem in San Francisco, she spent 12 years as the Director of the Tyler Museum of Art in Texas, and was also Director of the Crow Collection of Asian Art and as Associate Director at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Thor has over 25 years of experience leading affordable housing and community development projects. He most recently served as the Principal of Kaslovsky & Associates, an innovative advisory firm operating at the intersection of government, private and nonprofit enterprises involved in stewarding and developing community assets. Previously, he also worked as the Development Director for the Parkmerced project at Maximus Real Estate Partners, as a Project Manager on OCII’s Hunter’s Point Shipyard, and held various roles for the City of New York ‘s Department of Homeless Services and Mayor’s Office.

Britta has over 20 years of experience addressing the needs of diverse housing insecure and homeless people. She recently served as Executive Director of the City & County of Denver’s Department of Housing Stability (HOST). She has served both Republican and Democratic Governors in Colorado, including on the Blue-Ribbon Panel on Housing, the State Housing Board, and the Affordable Housing Strategy Group convened by US Senator Michael Bennett, and also serves as Chair of the High-Cost Cities Housing Forum. Prior to her tenure at HOST, Britta served in Executive Director roles at mpowered, Localworks, and Housing Justice, and previously worked for CCH.

Deeply steeped in schools, systemic change, and the needs of students and teachers, Becky brings a strong practitioner and systems-awareness lens to her work which guides her approach to providing operational and strategic leadership. Becky has served as a leader in education for more than twenty years, most recently with PBLWorks where she coached school leaders to equitably implement and scale project based learning and managed one of the premier professional development consulting teams in the country. A graduate of University of California at Berkeley, Becky holds a Masters of Education from Stanford University, with credentials in Education Leadership and Secondary Teaching.

Williams served as Executive Director of Between Friends where she successfully led the organization through the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic while also strengthening and diversifying its board of directors, expanding programming, and developing a strong financial foundation for the organization. She previously provided leadership and management of the residential and community-based domestic violence services of YWCA Evanston North Shore.

As a non-profit professional for nearly 30 years, Bent most recently served at Chief Operations Officer for Samaritan House, and previously was a senior executive within the YMCA movement. She is an active volunteer with a number of San Mateo County organizations and lives by the philosophy that each person should “Be the change they wish to see in this world.”

Michael Green has served as the Senior Programmer at Chicago Humanities Festival for over a year and prior to that was Director of Innovation and Creativity in Learning and Public Engagement at the Art Institute of Chicago and Programmer of Public Events at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Lauren M. Pacheco is a curator, civic practice artist, and community organizer who was previously Director of Arts Programming and Engagement at the School of the Arts at Indiana University Northwest (Gary, Indiana) and co-founder of the Chicago Urban Art Society and the Slow & Low: Chicago Lowrider Festival.

Glab is a Detroit native who has served as the FIA’s Curator of Collections and Exhibitions for the past 13 years. She has overseen more than 100 exhibitions, 40 of which she curated herself, worked extensively with both local and international contemporary artists, and has also supervised fifteen publications. Previously, she worked for 10 years at the Detroit Institute of Arts across many departments, including curatorial, publications, and education. Glab earned her MA in Art History from Wayne State University and BA in Art History from University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Jenny brings extensive nonprofit and for profit professional experience. Most recently she was CFO of Community Housing Partnerships (HomeRise) and previously with MidPen Housing Corporation as VP and Controller, as well as with several for profit companies early on. A CPA, Jenny has a LEAD Certificate in Corporate Innovation from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with double majors in Accounting and International Business having graduated Magna Cum Laude from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Melanie joins from FIRST 5 Santa Clara County where she has worked for the past two decades. She is known for her unequivocal commitment to the health and well-being of those in need, her skill in building partnerships and collaborations among agencies and across systems, and her enthusiasm for supporting, coaching and developing staff. She will be a key contributor in moving Community Solutions forward while maintaining the vision to be the provider, employer, and nonprofit of choice.