Media Arts: FY 2024 Grants Panelists

Kimel Fryer
Executive Director
Indie Memphis
Memphis, TN

Ru Kuwahata
Animation Filmmaker
Providence, RI

Barry J. McKnight (Layperson)
Access and Engagement Manager
La Crosse Public Library
La Crosse, WI

Dan Moore
Executive Director
The Bigger Picture Film Group
Indianapolis, IN

Clarivel Ruiz
Founder/Creative
Dominicans Love Haitians Movement
Brooklyn, NY

Allison Whitmer
Film Commissioner
Montana Department of Commerce
State of Montana Ravalli County
Helena, MT

CR Capers
Founder/CEO
Harlem Film House, Inc.
New York, NY

Vivian Marthell
CEO/CCO
Living Arts Trust, Inc.
Biscayne Park, FL

Sophia Minor (Layperson)
Admissions Diversity Counselor
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Roanoke, VA

Jen May (Jennifer) Pastores
Director of Education
Hawaii International Film Festival
Honolulu, HI

John Van Wyck
Executive Director
Cine Fe
Englewood, CO

Katharine Wang
Executive Director
Park City Film Council
Park City, UT

Xavier Blake
Community Programming and Engagement Coordinator
The Nickelodeon Theater
Columbia, SC

Maya Goldberg-Safir
Co-Executive Director
Third Coast International Audio Festival
Chicago, IL

Matthew Mitch Hashiguchi
Filmmaker
Associate Professor, Communication Arts
Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation
Savannah, GA

Christopher Hope
Executive Director
The Loop Lab
Cambridge, MA

E. Rosey Robards
Director, Alaska Teen Media Institute
Spirit of Youth
Anchorage, AK

John Fink
Artistic Director
Buffalo International Film Festival, Inc.
Pompton Lakes, NJ

Esther Hibbs (Layperson)
Event Planner
Washington, DC

Angelo Madsen
Associate Professor of Time-Based Media
School of the Arts
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Burlington, VT

Christine McWhorter
Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism
Howard University
Hyattsville, MD

Ted Richane
Co-Founder
Consequential LLC
Santa Monica, CA