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Mission Artist's Statement Artist Biography Board of Directors Funders Contact Us |
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Board of Directors Jennifer Monson, President, Artistic Director Choreographer, Improviser, Teacher Barbara Bryan, Vice President Executive Director, Movement Research E.J. McAdams, Secretary Associate Director of Philanthropy, Nature Conservatory of New York John Monson, Treasurer CEO of The Nile Project, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Headlands Center for the Arts Dr. John Waldman Professor Dept. of Biology, Queens College CUNY Phaedra Doukakis, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Pew Institute for Ocean Science Jennifer Monson - See Artist Biography Barbara Bryan is currently the part-time Executive Director of Movement Research. She is also an independent arts manager, producer and curator currently working with John Jasperse Company, Wally Cardona Quartet, Sarah Michelson, and Jennifer Monson. She is Dance Program Director for Lexington Center for The Arts (Lexington, NY) and is Curator for Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival's Inside/Out Series (Becket, MA). Ms. Bryan was the Associate Director of Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church from 1997 - 1999. She has served as a faculty member, guest speaker and panelist at various events including Dance USA's Winter Council, PICA's TBA Festival in Portland, Oregon, On the Boards in Seattle, Hunter College, the National Performance Network's Annual Conference, the Pacific Northwest Dance Lab conceived by the National Dance Project, and Dance Theater Workshop's Laboratory for Dance Management. Ms. Bryan currently serves on the Board of Directors of Movement Research and was President of the Board from 2000-2005. She has served on the boards of The East Village/Lower Eastside Chamber of Commerce, SoHo Partnership, and the SoHo Tourism Council. She received her MFA in Dance from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, a BFA in Dance and a BA in Classics from the University of Utah. E. J. McAdams has served as Secretary for the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art Nature and Dance (iLAND) since its founding. He is an executive director with CCS Fundraising, a world-class, fund-raising consulting firm headquartered in New York City, and has over 10 years of experience in the non-profit and government sectors. Prior to joining CCS, E. J. served four years as Executive Director for New York City Audubon, a dynamic conservation and education organization with over 10,000 members. Formerly, E.J. worked as the wildlife manager for NYC Parks, reintroducing eastern screech owls to Central Park, and also as a teacher for three years at Central Park East 1, a public school in East Harlem, NY. E.J. holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the College of the Holy Cross. He has had his poems and essays published in The Paris Review, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, and NY Newsday among others. John Monson is currently a founder of the online travel startup Nile Project and coach for non-profit executives. Prior to Nile Project he was COO of PayCycle. John also spent nine years at Intuit where he led the marketing for Quicken and was the General Manager of QuickBooks and other small business products. He is also a fledgling painter and spends as much time as possible in the outdoors. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Headland's Center for the Arts. Dr. John Waldman joined the faculty of Queens College as a tenured professor of Biology in Autumn 2004, following his twenty year career at the Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the Joint Program in Evolutionary Biology between the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York. His research interests focus on the ecology and evolution of fishes, especially the diadromous forms, the historical ecology of rivers and urban waterways, and estuarine biology. Dr. Waldman has authored more than 60 scientific articles and several books, including one on the environment of New York Harbor, Heartbeats in the Muck, another on marine phenomena and coastal pleasures, The Dance of the Flying Gurnards, and one on the ages-long battle of wits between mankind and fishes, 100 Weird Ways to Catch Fish, and is an occasional contributor to the New York Times and various periodicals. He lives not too far from Long Island Sound in Sea Cliff, New York. Phaedra Doukakis is a conservation biologist working in aquatic systems. Dr. Doukakis holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Yale University. Her doctoral dissertation research focused on conservation genetics of sturgeon and paddlefish, the fish that produce black caviar. Since obtaining her doctorate in 2000, Dr. Doukakis has held positions at the Wildlife Conservation Society, American Museum of Natural History and Pew Institute for Ocean Science and conducted research in diverse countries including Madagascar and Kazakhstan. Phaedra currently works on projects that include field and laboratory science as well as policy and outreach components in order to further her goal of making a meaningful contribution to environmental conservation. Most of her current work focuses on fisheries, presently in the Caspian Sea region. She is currently on the Board of Directors for the Marine Section of the Society for Conservation Biology. A lover of the arts, Dr. Doukakis has pursued a parallel life as a dancer, most recently studying African and Afro-Caribbean forms. The intersection of dance and science brought her to the board of iLAND. |