Board of Directors
Lucy Wilson Benson, Chair Emerita
International Consultant
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Kenneth Rosenthal, Chair
President (Retired)
The Seeing Eye, Inc
Frederick W. Byron Jr., President and Treasurer
Emeritus Vice-Chancellor for Research & Professor of Physics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Rita M. Bleiman, Vice President
Writer
Lou Cove, Vice President
Writer / Producer
Barton Byg
Founding Director, DEFA Film Library
Professor, German and Scandinavian Studies / Languages,
Literatures and Cultures
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Deborah Christakos
Former Chair of Fundraising and Events
Bridge Street Elementary School
Northampton, MA
Victoria Cliche
Former CEO The Creative Education Foundation
Former Director & VP Instinet
Bill Dwight
City Councilor at Large
Northampton, MA
Jennifer Keller Jackson
Grants Manager, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)
Hadley, MA
Eleanore S. Lash
Early Childhood and Elementary Educator (Retired)
Samuel Masinter
Director of College Relations
Smith College
Donald T. Sanders
Executive Director/Artistic Director
MIFA, Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts











