Design: FY 2025 Grants Panelists

Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel A
June 26, 2024

Lida Aflatoony
Assistant Professor, Design and Merchandising 
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO

Alison Espindola
Director, Community Development
Idaho Commission on the Arts
Boise, ID

Colin Fanning
Assistant Curator, European Decorative Arts and Sculpture
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA

Wil Marquez
Creative Director/Owner
w/Purpose
Detroit, MI

Verse Shom (Layperson)
Professor of Practice, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
New Orleans, LA

Jeannine Vail
Assistant Professor, Design
University of North Texas
Argyle, TX

Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel B
June 26, 2024

Chloe Hawkins 
Founder and Director
Cohort
Lecturer, Landscape Architecture
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA

Matthew Leavell
Owner
Leavell Design Consulting, LLC 
Homewood, AL

Jacob R. Moore
Executive Director
Architectural League of New York
Brooklyn, NY

Cathi Schar
Assistant Professor/Director
School of Architecture University of Hawai'i Community Design Center
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Honolulu, HI

Jessica Venegas (Layperson)
Principal for Strategic Partnerships
Common Ground Communities, Inc.
Washington, DC

Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel C
June 27, 2024

Kelli Mirgeaux
President
Southeast Neighborhood Development, Inc. (SEND)
Indianapolis, IN

Dean Proctor 
Principal Designer
Vandewalle & Associates
Madison, WI

Doris K. Sung 
Associate Professor 
Director of Undergraduate Architecture Programs
University of Southern California
Rolling Hills, CA

Kristen A. Williams 
Executive Director
RiverzEdge Arts Project Inc.
Warwick, RI

Jeannette Yen (Layperson)
Professor of Biology
Director, Center for Biologically Inspired Design
Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Atlanta, GA