Festival Staff
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
Leia Maahs, Project Manager
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
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