Board of directors
Sara Mraish Demeter is an artist, educator, mother of three, and founder and executive director of Art Resource Collaborative for Kids, a nonprofit delivering creative programs with social justice themes in Boston Public Schools since 2012. As an immigrant herself who has lived the experience of being a new arrival, she works to promote cross-cultural inclusion and understanding among Boston’s children. She is passionate about using art as a vehicle to reimagine education and unlock each child’s full potential. With ARCK, she has forged many partnerships with schools, businesses, institutions, and artists to bring youth voices to the wider community through projects such as “I Am, We Are,” a collaborative public art mural, and “Walls that Speak,” a showcase of immigrant students’ stories. Internationally, during the summers of 2013-14, she led art workshops for Syrian refugee children in Jordan. Sara was named a 2016 EXTRAOrdinary Woman of Boston by Mayor Walsh’s Office of Women’s Advancement and selected for the Power Launch inaugural Social Change Fellows cohort. She is an active member of the Beacon Hill Circle for Charity, which supports Boston children and women, and a former board member at the Center for Arabic Culture. She holds a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in French and completed the Nonprofit Management and Leadership program at Boston University.
Sara Mraish Demeter
President
Alexandria, a proud Bostonian, discovered her passion for health equity witnessing her family of Cape Verdean immigrants tackle multiple barriers to access quality and equitable healthcare. Throughout her academic and professional pursuits, Alexandria remains committed to expand quality care, access, and resources to medically underserved communities. For her undergraduate studies at Trinity College, Alexandria majored in Public Policy and Law, with a concentration in Health Policy. For graduate studies, she then attended The Wake Forest School of Business to better understand how health-focused entities, as either public organizations or private businesses, use data-driven decision making to serve their target populations and satisfy their stakeholders. Upon graduation, Alexandria worked at athenahealth where she used data and project management tools to optimize cloud-based clinical medical application integrations. From 2019-2020, Alexandria served as the Administrative Fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where she underwent leadership development as she worked closely alongside c-suite executives to drive Institute-wide initiatives. Alexandria then transitioned to a Business Operations and Provider Services Senior Project Manager to open Dana-Farber’s Chestnut Hill(140,000 sq ft) and Foxborough(30,000 sq ft) outpatient treatment facilities. In this role, Alexandria remains dedicated to supporting operations initiatives that will continue to expand access for those in need, in the advancement of the Institute’s greater vision to eradicate cancer through inclusive, innovative, compassionate, and comprehensive care. Since 2018, Alexandria has also served as a Board member and Board Secretary of The City School, an organization dedicated to uniting youth across race, class, gender, and neighborhood with tools to learn, develop leadership skills and create community-based social change.
Alexandria Monteiro
Clerk
IT and Accounting Consultant
Miguel Monteiro
Treasurer
Robert Ayan is Founder and CEO of Rayyan Systems, Inc., a leading provider of research collaboration tools that power the global research community in pursuit of accelerated scientific discovery. Robert was formerly Managing Partner of Cambridge Advisors, a consultancy specialized in human, social and economic development, where he delivered turn-key projects for public and private sector clients worldwide. He served as Senior Advisor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to a Presidential science diplomacy initiative. He served as Vice President of Business Development for Future Cities Development, Inc, a startup that aimed to build innovative autonomous governments starting with a start-up city in Honduras. He served as Chief Strategist to a Science Park in Jordan where he worked on the design of a national innovation system. Robert is a technology entrepreneur, and served as the Program Manager of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center where he helped entrepreneurs commercialize their innovations. He was a product manager at LiveVault Corporation, an early broadband enabled cloud based, B2B, SaaS, technology startup acquired by Iron Mountain. He earned his Master of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is an awarded Fellow of the MIT Carroll L. Wilson Circle, an intergenerational community of exceptional scholars, intellectuals and business entrepreneurs united around the concerns for global sustainability. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Boston University, where he studied Computer Science and Information Systems.
Robert Ayan
Member
Panos Demeter is the founder of Demeter Development Group, LLC and Concentric Management, LLC, a real estate investment and management business. Panos holds a B.A. in Finance and Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. He served as Chairman of the Board of Mercantile Bank and Trust Company for fifteen years, successfully leading the sale of the institution to Commerce Bank. Panos has also served the city of Boston as a volunteer on the Project Place Financial Literacy Program and the Mercantile Social Responsibility Committee.
Panos Demeter
Member
Gillian Feiner is Senior Enforcement Counsel at States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan organization advancing free, fair, and secure elections. Prior to joining States United, Gillian was Senior Enforcement Counsel at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where she led the state’s opioid investigations and litigation and oversaw cases under the state’s consumer protection and false claims laws, recovering tens of millions of dollars for Massachusetts consumers and agencies. Gillian received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law.
Gillian is excited to work with ARCK to advance its critical mission of helping educators integrate art into their curriculum in a way that deepens students’ academic achievements, builds their confidence and resilience, and provides them the tools they need to thrive and build their communities.
Gillian Feiner
Member
Roger is a successful early-stage enterprise venture capitalist. For over twenty years he has invested in a wide range of leading technology enabled solutions focused on improving the productivity and efficiency of businesses. Roger is a Partner at Monta Vista Capital. He seed funded or help start over 15 companies focused on enterprise software and cloud computing.
Roger is a frequent speaker and a writer on venture capital industry.
Roger earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in International Relations and Economics from Tufts University.
Roger is a mentor at TechStars Boston and in the past TechStars Cloud / New York and IoT as well as the business accelerator Accelprise. He is on the Board of the Tisch School at Tufts University, the Greenlight Fund Boston, Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy and ARCK Boston. He is also a Trustee for the Boys and Girls Club of Boston.
Roger also manages his family office called Blantyre Partners.
Roger Krakoff
Member
Christopher Medeiros has served in both the public and private sectors for the last two decades safeguarding American interests at home and abroad, and helping to protect colleagues and business operations from the risks of doing business in challenging environments. In his present role at Merck pharmaceutical, Chris is responsible for strategic management of a team that monitors around the clock for disasters and crises that put employees, operations, and partners at risk globally. During his time at Merck, Chris’ program has doubled in size and greatly expanded support to the business. Prior to his time at Merck, Chris served in the US Intelligence Community performing high level strategic interagency coordination to rally cross-government, integrated support to secure American personnel overseas during large international events and political summits. During this time Chris worked extensively with agency leaders to build consensus, enable seamless collaboration, and build support for significant resource allocations to strategic initiatives. He was awarded several citations by the US Government for his work. Earlier in his career, Chris also supported the US Department of State, working directly with the US private sector to provide risk management consulting. In this capacity, Chris enabled US Government support to for-profit and non-profit organizations alike operating in challenging environments overseas. This included providing risk consulting, programming engagement activities, and providing incident response support to assist US private sector and NGOs operating abroad better secure their people and operations. Chris is excited to have a potential opportunity to apply his skills and experience to serve an organization like ARCK, which provides a great public service bringing expanded potential to underprivileged areas and youth, a cause Chris identifies with personally based on his own upbringing and background.
Chris Medeiros
Member
Kristen Standish serves as Founder & Chairman of the Board of RazHer, a company she founded in 2021.
As an accomplished leader in driving sales for a variety of businesses over her career, she believed that it was time to build a "razher" sharp, women-led company for "razher" sharp clients looking to get closer to their audience, reach more customers, and increase sales. Helping female and minority-owned brands raise awareness and grow is important to her and is a reason why RazHer was founded.
Kristen served as the CEO of RazHer from its inception until November 2023 when she was named CEO of VizSense.
VizSense helps brands and marketers better understand their consumers by using AI and human insights to mine the internet and find conversations real people are having about real products. By partnering together, VizSense's technology will enable RazHer to offer the most advanced AI influencer capabilities.
A single mom to 13-year old Abigail and a creative and quantitative “deal maker,” Kristen believes female leaders are the future and stands by these core values and beliefs: Be authentic. Get behind something you love, and you are passionate about. Empower and promote other women. Don’t ask permission, take risks. Do not be intimidated by raising capital. Her passion for female founders and creators has helped lead to the launch of RazHer.
Kristen is a WBZ NewsRadio guest host on Cindy Stumpo's Tough as Nails radio show and podcast, and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, The Big Orange Couch and Mass Conference for Women. She serves on the Scholarship Committee for Kingsley Montessori School in Boston and is a member of the St. Botolph Club. At age 51, she bravely learned to sail, got a sailboat, received her RYA Day Skipper certification, and currently serves as the Nahant Dory Club Social Chair. In 2023, she received her American Sailing Association 104 certification.
Kristen Standish
Member
advisory board
Karen Bressler served as CEO of AGAR Supply Co., Inc., a New England's largest foodservice distributor from 2001 until the time it was sold in September 2012. Since the sale of AGAR, Karen has kept active in multiple business ventures. She currently serves as a partner/director for both Rantoul Foods and Trim-rite, its affiliate. In 2015, she opened a successful authentic Mexican restaurant, Amuleto Mexican Table in Waltham, MA where scratch, gluten free Mexican food is served and created by an amazing group of devoted staff. Karen taught Food and Entrepreneurship at Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition in the Spring of 2018 and continues to stay involved in the Derby Entrepreneurship Center as well as serve as an advisor at the Friedman School of Nutrition. Karen enjoys mentoring students who are considering entering a family business or starting their own. Karen graduated Boston University, summa cum laude and holds a Master's Degree in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Karen Bressler
NAVSTAR Advisors, LLC
Evie Black Dykema was drawn to ARCK by its mission and the passion of the leaders that are pursuing it. In 2003 Evie founded growth strategy consultancy NAVSTAR Advisors, following many years of CEO- and board-level experiences at two other strategy firms. Although the pursuit of an MBA at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business (First Scholar Program) paved her path for two decades of roles with for-profit organizations, her undergraduate degree is from the Institute of Public Policy Studies major at Duke University.
Evie Black Dykema
Noreen is a strategic leader with over 20 years of experience launching, building, growing, and optimizing global businesses across the advertising, streaming media and blockchain industries. Noreen is regarded as a collaborative team builder driving transformative change within high-pressure environments.
As head of Product Marketing at Akamai, she directed corporate-wide product launches and training focused on the media streaming business, enabling profitable growth and margin acceleration through effective workforce strategies. Noreen has held leadership roles across a blockchain start-up, fortune 500 tech companies and one of the largest online advertising networks. She excels at building global teams and working cross-functionally to establish company wide positioning and go-to-market strategies enabling global sales teams, corporate marketing stakeholders and partners. Noreen played a key role in rebranding and launching new video channels and a content management platform leading to an acquisition within 2 years. She also established the marketing strategy framework, partner program, and competitive analysis program for a Blockchain start-up.
Noreen Hafez
Lukas Karlsson is an accomplished innovator, leader, and entrepreneur with a passion for helping companies succeed with technology. He is the Founder and Chief Consultant at Altissimo, where he helps software teams leverage automation to accelerate software delivery, modernize their applications, and migrate to the cloud. He is also the Founder of Alienwebshop, a hosting company started in 1999 that is now a Google Cloud Partner providing Google Workspace services and support for small and medium-sized businesses and non-profit organizations. Lukas previously spent 20 years supporting scientific research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he was responsible for automation, cloud technologies, devops, and innovation. Lukas is an avid speaker and community organizer. He leads GDG Cloud Boston, the Google Developer Group in Boston focused on cloud technologies, as well as Slack Boston, the official Slack Community in Boston for admins, developers and enthusiasts. In his spare time, Lukas enjoys solving cryptic crossword puzzles, collecting art, and taking photos of graffiti and street art.
Lukas Karlsson
Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning Arts & Entertainment Anchor for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV1981-2008), and inductee into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, including the Oscars, Emmys, Tony’s, and Grammys. As the first arts reporter/critic in the U.S. to appear every weeknight as part of a local TV news team, Kulhawik gave journalistic stature to arts reporting and greatly enhanced her station’s commitment to community service.
Kulhawik is currently President of The Boston Theater Critics Association ElliotNortonAwards.com and a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics. Since 2013, Kulhawik has hosted the Simmons University Leadership Conference here and abroad, the longest-running conference for professional women in the world. She has also co-hosted nationally-syndicated movie-review programs. Find her reviews online at JoycesChoices.com.
Joyce Kulhawik
Sandy Larson is a freelance writer and editor covering urban and social problems and solutions. A longtime contributor to Boston's Bay State Banner weekly newspaper, her work also has appeared in The New York Times, Next City, The Guardian, Shelterforce, HealthCity, Exhale magazine, and ArtsEditor. Sandy holds a bachelor’s degree in Conservation Biology from University of Wisconsin-Madison and master’s degrees in Journalism from Harvard University and in Urban and Regional Policy from Northeastern University. She is the parent of a Boston Public Schools graduate and was an active member of Friends of the Arts at Boston Latin School. She currently volunteers as a literacy tutor and serves on the board of the Community Music Center of Boston.
Sandra (Sandy) Larson
Ron Lawner is the former Chairman & Chief Creative Officer of Arnold Worldwide. Ron graduated from Adelphi University, New Rochelle High School, New School University Ron led Arnold Worldwide to international acclaim and creative honors, including the ’98 Cannes Grand Prix for Volkswagen, Emmy Awards, the Grand Effie, D&AD, Kelly Awards, One Show Pencils, Clios, London International Awards, and the International Andy Awards. Ron is a veteran advertising executive who helped craft award-winning campaigns for Volkswagen, Fidelity Investments and the American Legacy Foundation's "Truth" anti-smoking campaign and serves on a variety of boards.
Ron Lawner
Zena Lum is the Development Director for Major Gifts at Harvard Kennedy School. Zena previously served as Executive Director at Boston Latin Academy Association, and has served as Senior Advisor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Lindauer, having been a member of the Lindauer team for more than 9 years. This role synthesizes her depth and breadth of knowledge of the nonprofit sector; her experience as a recruiter and fundraiser for mission-driven organizations; and her deep professional and personal networks. As Senior Advisor for DEI, Zena ensures that Lindauer sustains, enhances and continues to activate its leadership in diversity, equity and inclusion across nonprofit leadership and advancement. Building on Lindauer’s longstanding position as the nation’s #1 firm for advancement search, the firm is committed to leveraging its growth to influence hiring, retention and professional advancement of BIPOC individuals across broader segments of administrative and leadership roles.
Zena Lum
Myran Parker-Brass is an educator, administrator, musician, and consultant with thirty plus years experience providing access to quality arts and arts education. Myran retired as Executive Director for the Arts for the Boston Public Schools (BPS) in June 2019, a role in which she provided strategic vision, implementation and management for the systemic building and deepening of arts education focused on quality, equity, and access for all students preK-12. Before joining BPS, Myran was Director of Education for the Boston Symphony Orchestra; in her twenty-year tenure she developed model programs to support arts education for all Massachusetts communities. Myran also served as Chair of Experiential Education at Longy School of Music at Bard College developing the graduate teaching artist training program. Currently working as a strategic and cultural planning consultant, Myran serves on the board of many prominant arts organizations in Boston. Myran has received local, national, and international recognition for her work in arts and culture, arts education, and arts policy reform. She continues to work as a professional musician and is co-founder of the New England Spiritual Ensemble.
Myran Parker-Brass
Christine Petersen holds an MBA in Marketing/International Economics at Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Christine has more than 25 years of leadership experience, as she was vice president of Financial Services Product Marketing at American Express (1996-1997), President of TripAdvisor for Business (2010-2013), and CEO of Time Out Digital (2016-2018). She is currently President & CEO of smarTours.
Christine Petersen
Kim is the CEO of Milestones Day School and Transition Program, a therapeutic special education school and college/career readiness program for students in the elementary grades up to age 22. At Milestones, Kim collaborates to oversee strategic planning, compliance, school and business operations, and staffing practices, and she supervises all Senior Leadership. Kim earned a Masters in Education (Ed.M.) from Harvard University Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, cum laude, from Dartmouth College. She was previously an Associate Director of Research Projects at Emory University School of Medicine where she collaborated on international genetics, psychiatric, and developmental research and was selected by a private foundation to serve on multi-university committees targeting best practices in protocol development and research strategy. She has co-authored numerous published manuscripts related to autism, genetic syndromes, mental health disorders, and neuropsychological assessments and enjoys volunteering as an Alumni Career Mentor for Harvard, Admissions Interviewer for Dartmouth, and as part of working groups affiliated with the Massachusetts Association of 766 Approved Private Schools (MAAPS). Kim has a deep appreciation for the Arts and extensive experience leading programming and HR initiatives related to social-emotional learning.
Kim Rockers
Vice President & CTO at Ironshore Insurance, a Liberty Mutual company. In his tenure with Liberty Mutual, Andreas Wetterwald’s primary focus has been on leading teams to deliver innovative underwriting and information management solutions. He led one of Liberty’s first deployments to the cloud via Amazon Web Services and transitioned the Global Specialty (GS) organization to paperless processing. Andreas has been with Liberty Mutual’s GS and now Global Risks Solutions (GRS) division since 2013, leading global strategic technology initiatives. His areas of expertise include enterprise IT architecture, systems integration, information management, cloud computing and emerging technologies. As part of the May 2017 Liberty Mutual/Ironshore merger, he joined Ironshore as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and in 2018, he took over the NAS segment as Head of IT. In 2016, Andreas assumed the interim CTO position, in tandem with his information management role, for the Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) division of GS in London. LSM distributes a broad range of specialty, commercial and reinsurance products on both Liberty and Lloyd’s platforms.
Andreas Wetterwald
Honorary Trustees
Craig Bassett
Craig Bassett holds a B.A. in French from the State University of New York at Albany and an MBA from Columbia University. Craig’s career in marketing has spanned the Weight Watchers Frozen Food division of Heinz, Cadbury Adams (now Mondelez), where he led integrated marketing campaigns with companies like General Mills, Nickelodeon, and IMAX and ran the Bubblicious bubble gum business, and and AT&T, where he helped to launch the first iPhone, built the industry’s leading customer referral program, and helped lead a variety of marketing partnerships. Craig now provides marketing services to a variety of technology start-ups and ARCK.
Craig Bassett
Liz Byron strives to be a compassionate and culturally responsive art educator. She is a dynamic presenter, author, and the K1-8th Grade Visual Art, Special Education, and ESL Teacher at a Boston Public School. She has been a keynote speaker on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and visual as well as having presented on the topic at numerous conferences, professional development workshops, and taught graduate-level courses on UDL, most recently as a teaching fellow for the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Liz shares some of her experiences in her book, Art for All: Planning for Variability in the Visual Art Classroom. She has six professional teaching licenses and education degrees from Boston College, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Lesley University.
Liz Byron
Michael Fogarasi is a senior product manager at Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company based in Brooklyn, NY, where he focuses on designing actionable and intuitive academic insights for teachers. He previously worked as a producer at Boston-based children’s media & educational technology company, FableVision Studios. Michael also previously served as ARCK’s treasurer for two years. Michael holds an MBA from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a BA from Boston College.
Michael Fogarasi
Mojgan Lefebvre is Executive Vice President, Chief Technology & Operations Officer for Travelers. She joined Travelers in October 2018 with over two decades of experience successfully leading both employee- and customer-facing technologies. Prior to Travelers, Mojgan spent eight years at Liberty Mutual, where she was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Global Risk Solutions business. Previously, she held leadership positions across a variety of industries, from medical device company bioMérieux to strategy consulting firm Bain. Mojgan earned her undergraduate degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her MBA from Harvard Business School. In 2017, she was honored by Digital Insurance with a “Women in Insurance Leadership” award, and in 2015, she was named a “Woman to Watch in Science and Technology” by the Boston Business Journal. She has lived in six countries and speaks three languages.
Mojgan Lefebvre
Scott Ruescher is the administrator for the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has worked in arts education for many years. Scott is the author of Waiting for the Light to Change, a collection of poems published by Prolific Press in 2017 and is the winner of a public service award from Cambridge School Volunteers, Inc., for his participation in the Reading Buddies/Lectores program at the bilingual, public Amigos School. He has contributed poems to Agni, Ploughshares, Solstice, Origins Journal, the Harvard Educational Review, and other publications, and has won annual poetry awards from Able Muse, Poetry Quarterly, and the New England Poetry Club. In recent years, he has offered still-life drawing workshops at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School and Gardner Pilot Academy, which led to his happy affiliation with ARCK.
Scott Ruescher
Joelle Tomb, who is from Lebanon was born into a family of artists and grew up in her father’s art school. When she moved to Boston, she became involved with various arts organizations, as a former board member at ARCK, and as a docent at the Institute of Contemporary Art. She has organized a number of public art projects; including I Am, We Are, Walls That Speak, and the Webster Court Project. She also helped launch the Artist in Residence Program at Central Café and is part of the community of artists at the New Art Center in Newton.
Joelle Tomb
Artist Ambassadors
Mark Cooper is an internationally recognized artist known for large-scale and site-specific installations and public commissions. His commissions and grants vary from Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Medical Center, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a Gund Grant, Daynard Grant, and an Open Society Fellowship among others. Mark Cooper had recent major exhibitions at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi, Vietnam, the University of Fine Arts, the DaNang Museum of Fine Art, Vietnam, the Doris Duke Mansion Museum, the Yuan Art Museum, the Kemper Museum, Kansas City, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, and The Street Museum: Connect in Seoul, Korea; As well as the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, the Corcoran Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Peabody Essex Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the City Museum of Paris, France, the Westlicht Museum in Vienna, Austria and in over one hundred individual and group international exhibitions. "My creative practice is a combination of my individual creations, collaborations, and public projects, teaching and lecturing. It includes singular objects, collage, assemblage, installation, and site-responsive projects. My work is often intended to be a positive vehicle and metaphor for change."
Mark Cooper
Jamaal Eversley is an eccentric abstract artist intertwining business with the arts in order to serve the community. Jamaal holds Literary Visual Arts degree from Babson College. His art has been exhibited twice in the Massachusetts General Hospital Illuminations program and shows throughout the South Shore and Boston area. He has received several public grants to bring his colorful patterns to the community and has been featured in the Boston Globe.
Jamaal Eversley
Percy Fortini-Wright is a Boston based artist who received both his BFA and MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. While in his youth he wrote graffiti, most active during the late 1990s, becoming a technician of wild style graffiti letters, tags, and bubble letters while simultaneously he evolved as a traditional painter of scenes, abstraction, and portraiture to his characters the Children from Beyond. In graduate school, he mentored artists Paul Rahilly, Ken Beck, Paul Goodnight, Vanessa Platacis, and Dike Blair. His inspirations range from painters like Anders Zorn to John Singer Sargent, to wild-style graffiti pieces and tags. Exhibiting within both the public and private spheres and creating large and small-scale pieces, Percy merges the worlds of classical painting and graffiti techniques boldly pushing the boundaries of his work, without being confined by stylistic stereotypes.
Percy Fortini-Wright
Michelle is a visual artist and co-founder of Atelier ID Global and Juniper Rag visual art and lifestyle magazine. Creativity and community have driven her professional work. As visual artists and design project leaders, Michelle and Payal began their professional careers in stationery. In marketing roles, Michelle developed and managed company-wide growth strategies and the social media strategy of one of the oldest paper companies in the US with over 200,000 retail stores. Michelle is also the founder of and contributor to many cultural and tech events. An active curator and event organizer in Worcester, she showcases local artists and contributes to awareness of the culture of the city.As an artist herself, Michelle currently works mostly in abstract, inspired by travel, all things organic, as well as natural and coastal atmospheres and architecture especially when in the state of decay or growth. In 2018, together, they co-founded Atelier ID Global, a Massachusetts-based design and marketing agency. Atelier has grown their portfolio of local and international clients from varied industries. Because of their commitment to artists and their professional skills in marketing with a design legacy in luxury paper, they founded Juniper Rag in 2021, a visual art and lifestyle magazine.
Michelle May
Rebecca McGee Tuck is a sculptor and a collector of lost objects. Her work is inspired by the bits and fragments of land and sea debris that she gathers. Every object picked up has energy like an emotional artifact, containing a relation to an action, a person or an intriguing unknown. The depth and textures that are built up through sculptural experiments, become a layered narrative. On the surface, the objects within may only be unwanted debris, but the sculptural outcome that is composed is a multilayered storyline of what was left behind.
Rebecca McGee Tuck
Silvina Mizrahi was born in Tucuman, Argentina, and has been living in Boston, MA, since 2001. She received a Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Tucuman, in 1991. She then moved to Buenos Aires, where she trained in sculpture under the supervision of different artists, including Maestro Antonio Pujia and Maestro Antonio D'aniello. In 2012, Silvina was awarded “one of the 100 most influential people for the Latino Community in Boston” and in 2017 was selected for the Unity Magazine to be the Artist representing the Spanish Heritage Month, and received the Director’s Choice Award at the Menino Center for the Arts in Boston.
Silvina Mizrahi
Payal is a visual artist and co-founder of Atelier ID Global and Juniper Rag magazine based in Massachusetts. Payal graduated from Clark University with a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and Economics. She has always been drawn to both - the creative and business side of design. In her early career, Payal was a design director who developed and led product lines for one of the country’s top fine stationery and luxury goods businesses, while growing strategic partnerships with leading retail and fashion brands in the country. In Payal’s personal work as an artist, she celebrates nature, personal growth and emotions through watercolor and mixed media. Over the last year, she has shown in galleries in Newton, Boston & Worcester.
Payal Thiffault
Chicago-based artist Dwight White straddles the line between fine art, sociology, and experiential design. White is a multi-disciplinary creative, with ideas and strategy that originate by thoroughly understanding how consumers think and make decisions in regards to brands, products, and the arts. He utilizes insights to inspire, innovate and explore relevant material with culture through creativity. He has worked to build strategies for growth with organizations across industries by understanding complex societal structures and the current behaviors of consumers.
Dwight White
Jennifer is a hapa who grew up in Philadelphia. She describes art and being an artist as therapy for her physically, psychologically, and spiritually. Mine NOW reflects her dual Buddhist-Catholic heritage. Jennifer's work frequently explores the relationship between humans, nature, and objects. She thinks of art as an objective homage to her Eastern and Western traditions and the raw architecture and sounds of the city—adding conflict, balance, and harmony to shape her work’s form and energy in my constant search for new noise and passion. Okumura is the 2021-24 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (COPA) Artist in Residence completing 'the Arts in the Court project' for judge's chambers where eight 60x48 inches oils give viewers a glimpse into an earlier period of Philadelphia history where the city was the “workshop of the world”. Okumura has relationships with Manhattan, Westport, Boston, and Charleston galleries and exhibited at Swiss Art Expo ZÜRICH, Art Metropole Europe Barcelona, Spain Urbanside Gallery, Red Dot Miami, Artexpo New York Art Fair. I