Board of Directors
Todd Nicholson is the Executive Director and AFA Board member. From 1998 thru his joining AFA as director in 2015, he worked as a bassist with Billy Bang, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell, Satoko Fuji, Michiyo Yagi and Keisuke Ohta among others. For the last 3 years he has taken on the considerable task of strengthening AFA to create a sustainable future for Free Jazz.
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Patricia Nicholson Parker is the Founder and AFA Board Member. She is a dancer, poet and organizer of movement, music and causes. She continues to envision an expansive, creative and just future for FreeJazz improvising arts.
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Jo-Wood Brown, AFA Board Secretary, is a NYC based painter / installation and multimedia artist. Supported AFA since
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David Kreuter, AFA Board Chair, is the founder and president of VM Resources Ltd., a technology consulting and education firm specializing in mainframe computers.
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Patricia Ali, AFA Board Treasurer, is the co/owner with her husband Rashied Ali of the famous Ali’s Alley (part of the loft era).
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Fred Moten, AFA Board Member, teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and critical theory. He is a professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
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Tom Carhart, AFA Board Member, has long experience in managing equity and fixed-income portfolios, especially for not-for-profit institutions, wealthy family groups, Japanese insurance companies, and European mutual funds.
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Ross Brooks, AFA Board Member, is an attorney at Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP, and Co-Chair of the Firm’s whistleblower practice. He also advises the arts organizations Arts for Art, The Musicians’ Aid Society of New York and DMNDR, LLC, and is a moonlighting jazz musician.
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William Parker, founding member of AFA Board, was born and raised in the Bronx, and has been living in the Lower East Side since 1975. He has been a key figure in the NY creative jazz scene.
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Whit Dickey, is a founding board member and the first important donor for Arts for Art and the Vision Festival. It was his vision that helped make the festival a reality.
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Advisory Board
Nana Carmen Ashhurst is an independent filmmaker, and former hip hop entertainment executive, who is currently fundraising for major non-profits.
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Sandeep Mehta, Vice President of Technology at Wells Fargo.
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Gregory Cohen is a Senior Associate at Cause Effective where he provides coaching and training to board & staff.
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Hope Carr, former manager of bands and currently in the music publishing industry.
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Jeff Evans is a Credit and Risk Analyst at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and profoundly supportive member of the NYC jazz community.
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Ian Zimmerman is the Director of Telefundraising at the Metropolitan Opera. Previously worked with DCM – an arts telemarketing firm.
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Herman Milligan Jr., is a Managing partner at the Fulton Group. He has experience in non-profit through board service, commission/task force participation, consulting, and grant review panels for national, regional, and local arts granting organizations
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