BILLIE - Key Persons


Antonia "Toni" Yuille Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD

ARCELL CABUAG

Job Titles:
  • Director of Education

Bedford Stuyvesant

Job Titles:
  • Restoration Corporation Taps Veteran Executive Shadawn Smith to Lead Billie Holiday Theatre and Arts & Culture Programming Amid Major Campus Expansion

Blondel Pinnock

Job Titles:
  • President & CEO, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation / Member

Camille Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BILLIE REIMAGINING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
  • Tony Award - Nominated Choreographer

Cey Adams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BILLIE REIMAGINING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
  • Internationally Renowned Creative Director and Visual Artist

Colvin Grannum

Job Titles:
  • President Emeritus, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation / Member

Dafina McMillan

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder Crux VR

Dr. Durell Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Founder & CEO, Cultural Innovation Group / Adjunct Instructor, the City College of New York and New York University / Vice Chair

EDNA FULTON

Job Titles:
  • Community Connections Manager

Fiona Rudin

Job Titles:
  • Board Chair, 42nd Street Theaters
Lauren Ruffin, Co-founder Crux VR; nonprofit and for-profit policy, marketing, business development, and strategic planning expert

GEORGE T. GARY - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing

HOLLIS KING

Job Titles:
  • Creative Director

Kamilah Long

Job Titles:
  • Interim Senior Director of Individual Giving & Development Operations, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Karen Brooks Hopkins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BILLIE REIMAGINING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
  • President Emerita, Brooklyn Academy of Music Jerome L Greene Foundation Board Member Senior Advisor to the Onassis Foundation

KAREN THORNTON

Job Titles:
  • Youth Arts Academy Program Manager

KARLVY SMITH

Job Titles:
  • Development & Administrative Manager

Kerry McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Philanthropic Initiatives, New York Community Trust / Secretary

Latoya Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD

Lauren Ruffin - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Policy, Marketing, Business Development, and Strategic Planning Expert

Maria Rosario Jackson - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

MARTHA SAMUEL - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance

Michele Shay

Job Titles:
  • Tony Award - Winning Actor and Director Professor at NYU, Juilliard, and Columbia

NAOMI JOHNSON

Job Titles:
  • Youth Arts Academy Administrative Assistant

NINA FLOWERS

Job Titles:
  • Public Relations Lead

Pauletta Pearson Washington

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BILLIE REIMAGINING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
  • Co - Chair, Actress and Philanthropist

Rasu Jilani

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Brooklyn Arts Council Member

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Job Titles:
  • Tony Award - Winning Director, Leading August Wilson Interpreter

SHADAWN SMITH

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

SHEVRON GOFFE

Job Titles:
  • Production Coordinator

Stephen Byrd

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BILLIE REIMAGINING ADVISORY COMMITTEE
  • Co - Founder, Front Row Productions 2019 Broadway Global Producer of the Year

Stephen McKinley Henderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BILLIE REIMAGINING ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Taneshia Nash Laird

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BOARD
  • Inaugural President & CEO, Greater Roxbury Arts & Cultural Center / Treasurer

TAQUASIA WILSON

Job Titles:
  • Social Media Manager

Tonya Lewis Lee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the BILLIE REIMAGINING ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Wendell Pierce

Job Titles:
  • Actor, Producer and Businessman / Member