Mentors and Advisors

Meet Our Mentors

Our advisors and mentors represent a wide range of educators and arts professionals committed to providing students with networking opportunities, graduate school preparation, career guidance and more.

Mentoring Workshop Leaders

Pamela Adams (Atlantic Theater Company)
Lina Attel (Center for Culture and Performing Arts/King Hussein Foundation)
Alana Atterbury (TDF)
Ella Baff (The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
Courtney J. Boddie (The New Victory Theater)
Victoria Cairl (Show-Score.com)
Courtenay Casey (National Sawdust)
Clive Chang (Lincoln Center)
Deepsikha Chatterjee (Hunter College)
Sharon Counts (New York City Center)
Elke Dehner (The Rubin Museum)
Laurie Duke (Grey Art Gallery)
Ariel Estrada (Leviathan Lab)
Gabriela Estrada (Ballet Hispanico)
Isabelle Fernandez (Frick Collection / Mellon Arts Alum)
Latifa Fletcher (Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center)
Jillian Flexner (former Bloomingdale School of Music)
Erika Floreska (Long Island Children’s Museum)
Derek Fordjour (Artist and Hunter College Alumni)
Isabelle Gaffney (Met Opera)
Kimball Gallagher (Pianist & Entrepreneur, 88 International)
Anna Glass (Dance Theater of Harlem)
Aimee Good (The Drawing Center)
Caitlin Henningsen (Frick Collection)
Carmen Hermo (Brooklyn Museum)
Rachel Himes (former Frick Collection)
James C. Horton (former Carnegie Hall)
Jim Joseph (Samuel J. Friedman Theater/Alliance of Resident Theatres)
Sue Jeong Ka (Artist and Hunter MFA Alumni)

Jack Kenigsberg (Rockowitz Writing Center)
Ilan Kravic (Met Opera)
Kyla Kupferstein (former Hunter College)
Stephen Lassonde (Ruth and Harold Newman Office of Prestigious Scholarships)
Amy Lehman (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts)
Andrew Leynse (Primary Stages)
Nick Luckenbaugh (Atlantic Theater Company)
Zatara McIntyre (Hunter College)
Lucy Oakley (Grey Art Gallery)
Dionis Ortiz (Visual Artist, Laundromat Project)
Bruce Payne (former Hunter College)
Michelle Peterson (former Hunter College)
Nigel Philip (former Hunter College)
Eric Pryor (Harlem School of the Arts)
Vanya Quinonez (Hunter College)
Evans Richardson (Studio Museum of Harlem)
Lindsey Sag (Manhattan Theater Club)
Florie Seery (Manhattan Theater Club)
Arden Sherman (former Hunter East Harlem Gallery)
Gilbert Small (Gibney Dance)
Ashley Thomas (Manhattan Theater Club)
Nasha Thomas (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
Emily Vartarian (General Mischief Dance Theater)
Abigayl Venman (The Sphinx Organization)
Jasmine Wahi (The Bronx Museum)
Dennis Walters (ABT)
Charmaine Warren (Hunter College)
Philemona Williamson (independent artist)
Eva Yaa Asantewaa (Gibney Dance)

The Mellon Arts Fellowship Program gave me valuable advice and experience that has allowed me to understand the hard work it takes to pursue and maintain an administrative career in the arts."
Ana Paredes (Cohort 2)

Hunter College Faculty Advisors

Art/Art History Department

Drew Beattie
Lisa Corinne Davis
Laura Frantz
Lynda Klich
Katerina Lanfranco
Meredith Mowder
Juan Sanchez
Joachim Pissarro
David Wilson
Tara Zanardi

Dance Department

Jamie Chandler
Kathleen Isaac

Theatre Department

Deepsikha Chatterjee
Benjamin Moore
Claudia Orenstein

Music Department

Leah Batstone
Susan Gonzalez
Shafer Mahoney