Smithsonian Institution

Lonnie Bunch, Secretary
Meroë Park, Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer
Kevin Gover, Under Secretary for Museums and Culture
Ronald Cortez, Under Secretary for Finance and Administration | Chief Financial Officer
Richard Kurin, Distinguished Scholar | Ambassador-at-Large

Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Leadership Team

Marquinta Bell, Administrative Officer
Halle Butvin, Director of Special Projects | Interim Communications Director
Stacy Cavanagh, Interim Deputy Director
Amalia Córdova, Supervisory Museum Curator
Maureen Loughran, Smithsonian Folkways Director and Curator | Interim Archives Director
Sabrina Lynn Motley, Festival Director
Clifford Murphy, Director

Advisory Council

John Boochever, Chair
Selina Morales, Vice Chair
Heidi Kühn, Chair, Of the People Council
Rohit Agarwal, Jere Broh-Kahn, Gretchen Gonzales Davidson, George Edwards, Violet Grgich, Emily Hilliard, Karen Ann Hoffman, Robert N. Johnson, Dorothy McSweeny, Flavia Panza, Council Members
Brian Pertl, Ex officio

Smithsonian Folklife Festival

Administrative Support

Suzanne Amoonarquah, Financial Management Specialist
Paloma Catalan, Asia Lynch, Management Support Specialists
Keisha Martin, Aaliyah Puma, Gail Sutton, Admin Support Specialists

Advancement

Claire Morgan, Donor Relations Specialist

Design

Josué Castilleja, Art Director

Documentation & Communications

Cecilia Peterson, Dave Walker, Documentation Coordinators
Annika Young, Communications and Digital Media Coordinator
Elisa Hough, Editor and Web Content Manager
Toby Dodds, Luke Hatfield, Web Support

Festival Services

Sharon Arana, Festival Services Coordinator

Participant Support

Karen Stark, Participant Coordinator
Taylor Russell, Housing Coordinator

Program Staff

Michelle Banks, Cristina Díaz-Carrera, Rebecca Fenton, Marjorie Hunt, Sojin Kim, Curators
Arlene Reiniger, Senior Program Coordinator | Intern Coordinator
Sophia Fedus, Morgan Joiner, Pablo Molinero-Martinez, Angelina Rios-Galindo, Program Coordinators
Eloy Neira de la Cadena, Andrea Mayorga, Curatorial Assistants

Program Support

Emily Lawson, Foodways Manager
Lirit Gilmore, Foodways Coordinator
Erin Younger, Material Culture Research Associate
Kirby Ewald, Sloane Keller, Cultural Vitality Program
Philippa Rappoport, Lead for Education and Engagement, Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology
Ashleigh Coren, Education Project Coordinator
Betty Belanus, Volunteer

Production

Sarah Roffman, Production Manager

Tech Team

Tyler Nelson, Technical Director
Gus Redmond, Matthew Vegiard, Assistant Technical Directors
Connor Marks, Administrative Assistant
Francisco Fialho, Madelyn Southard, Carpenters

Marketplace

Ashkhen Khudaverdyan, Lesli Robertson, Artisan Engagement Coordinators