COMMUNITY BOARD

We are very pleased to work with these accomplished professionals, who have agreed to help guide this project, acting as a sounding board and reflect the interests of their communities and adding their special expertise to Spark initiatives

CHRISTIAN BANFELD, Principal, Schmick TV
OTIS BROWN, President, Billingsly & Brown Productions & Audio/Visual, SF
MIKE CARPENTER, Director of Strategic Alliances, Josephson Institute of Ethics, LA
MARK CHARMER, Executive Director, Movement Design Bureau, Marketing/Communications Director, the Akvo Water & Sanitation Project
CONSTANCE CRUMP, Writer, Ann Arbor
KATHLEEN CREIGHTON, Chair, Communications Design, Pratt Institute, NY
RICHARD DELVY, President, Atmospheres Music, LA
RICHARD GANS, Principal, Richard M. Gans Consulting, Providence
DAVID GOTTLIEB, Producer, City Beach Films, Raleigh
JARED HENDLER, Worldwide Executive Creative Director, Edelman Digital.
DR. ROBERT HOLKEBOER, Assoc. VP of Graduate Studies & Research, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
JOHN E. JOHNSON, Chief Writer, Beljan, Ann Arbor
KEN KLEPPERT, CDO, Kleppert Design, Emmaus
MIKE MAHARRY, Editor at Large, Tucson
MALCOLM MCCULLOUGH, Assoc. Professor, Taubman Architecture College, U of M, Ann Arbor
ANDREW R. PALUMBO, Principal, Paradigm Network, NY
KRISTEN RICHARDS, Editor, Ocular Magazine and ArchNewsNow, NY
STEVE SAMUELS, Principal, Work With Your Brain, NY
MANUEL SAEZ, Principal, Manuel Saez Design, NY
STEVE SMITH, Partner, Toward Consilience, NY; Sr. Managing Partner, Ritchie Capital
HARRIS SILVER and SHAROZ MAKARECHI, Founders, Thinktank3, Directors, Citystreets, NY
BETH TUDOR, Vice President, DMM - Furniture & Lighting, the Pottery Barn, SF
TOM VECCHIONE, VP and Design Director, Gensler, NY
ANDREW WAGNER, Editor in Chief, American Craft Magazine, NY
EDDY YU,  Chairman, the Hong Kong Designers Association