Deborah Davidson (she/her) is an artist, curator and educator. She received her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and B.A. from Binghamton University. She is the founder and artistic director of Catalyst Conversations, a non-profit organization devoted to the dialogue between art and science. She is currently part of the core faculty of the MFA in Visual Arts program at Clark University, maintains a studio practice and directs the Suffolk University Gallery.

Jason Weeks (he/him) is the executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council, a city department and public nonprofit agency that engages residents and visitors through programming designed to stimulate awareness, participation, and support for the arts. Jason works with an advisory board, trustees of the nonprofit Cambridge Public Art Commission, elected officials, city administration, and agency staff to oversee an award-winning Public Art/Percent-for-Art program, the Cambridge Arts Grant Program, Cambridge Street Performer Program, and a variety of annual produced events including Cambridge River Festival, Summer in the City, and Cambridge Open Studios.

Alberta Chu (she/her) is founding director of ASKlabs, a digital content production company, established in Boston in 2004. As cultural producer and documentary filmmaker, Chu works collaboratively to develop engaging content and experiences science programming, art documentaries, to mobile apps that bring creativity and innovation to global audiences. Alberta's award-winning documentaries often explore the intersection of science and art and the process of making. In 2022, Chu launched Facetopo, a global personalized beauty and wellness software platform.

Meagan Hepp (they/ them) is a Providence based artist, educator, administrator. Along with being cited as Kingston Gallery’s Emerging Artist for 2021-2022, they are also the Ceramics Studio Manager at Jamestown Arts Center in Jamestown, RI. Hepp is also an Adjunct Professor at Suffolk University. Hepp is interested in creating accessible public art including, Rainbowland, a mural commissioned by the Boston Paintbox Program, and other temporary public art including, Pet Rock Pile, which was on view at the Beal's Preserve in Southborough, MA in 2023 and Shimmer, on view at Monmouth Park in Brookline, MA in 2020. 

Jameson Johnson (she/her) is a writer, editor, and independent curator based in Boston. She is the founder and editor-in-chief at Boston Art Review and the marketing associate at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Her research practice is rooted in the exploration and preservation of narratives through contemporary information archives.

Linda Pagani is a multidisciplinary artist and experiential designer, exploring the interconnectedness of space and time. Her work is rooted in the influences of environment on the personal. Pagani has pursued diverse creative collaborations in art, design, fashion and travel, aspiring to bring more attention to collective synergies. She utilizes her education in Economics, Interior Architecture and Fine Arts to promote the intersections of art and the social sciences. Pagani’s interest in cultural understanding is woven into her creative practice and stems from her Polish heritage. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and held in private and public collections, including MFA Boston.

Eva Zasloff MD (she/her) is a family physician and a painter.  She is the founder of Tova Health, a home-based model of care for newborn and postpartum medicine. She is also one of the sisters of Sisters Body, a clean hair and body line that donates 40% of their profits to reproductive rights organizations. She is an artist who focuses her work on birth and the biology that surrounds it. Her work is gestural and experimental — often working on large surfaces and incorporating natural materials including wood resin, egg, and clay. She has a studio / work space at the barn of Schwamb Mill in Arlington, MA where she hosts and curates art exhibits and community gatherings.

Jill Slosburg Ackerman (she/her) was born in Nebraska and loved the idealism and pragmatism of the Pioneers who settled the Great Plains. She is a part-time activist and has been a teacher. Slosberg Ackerman recently retired after 47 years of teaching from MassArt. She is a mother and now a widow, who cooks for those in need. Still, she treasures the soliloquy of the studio more than anything. Jill’s work mediates between opposing notions and her public and private selves. She continues to be grateful to inhabit this space of wonder and discovery. Jill was one of the 2022 Artists-In-Residence at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

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Laura Zittrain (she/her) is a curator, teacher and writer who studies science and spirituality, including the rituals and practices of those disciplines. She designs and leads workshops, classes and exhibitions that concern technology, mysticism, and the body. Her work extends from archival research in the history of chatbots and AI, to organizing hackathons like “Make the Breast Pump Not Suck,” and creating immersive soundscapes of celestial and human bodies. She is partial to dystopian science fiction and Busby Berkeley numbers, and can often be seen in a cowboy hat in Cambridge, MA where lives and works.

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Emily Foster Day

Mellisa Gallin

Graham M. Jones

AMBASSADORS

Eric Gunther

Murray Robinson, PhD

PAST BOARD MEMBERS

Molly Akin, Claudia Fiks, Mags Harries, George Fifield, Clara Wainwright, Anne Lilly, Lori Damon, Ari Daniel Shapiro

PAST ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Patty Rosenblatt, Yu-Wen Wu, Todd Golub, Ellen Band, Marcia Lloyd, Paul Ha, Debra Wise, Piek Larsen, Judith Larsen, Seth Mnookin, Mary Sherman, Todd Machover, Dan Shannon, Donald Rubin, Lisa Monrose, John Durant, Judith Barry, Eli Kintish, Heidi Kayser, Carrie Fitzsimmons, Stella Aguirre McGregor

Nitasha Manchanda PhD (she/her) is a geneticist and philanthropist.

Catheline van den Branden (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and seasoned non-profit executive. She is the former president and executive director of the French Library/French Cultural Center in Boston and a former cultural attaché for the government of Québec. In 2018 Catheline was named Knight in the Order of Academic Palms (Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Académiques).  In 2021 Catheline was awarded the Robyn Gittleman Teaching Fellowship at Tufts University. Aside from art-making, teaching and doing related research, Catheline is also a long-time committee member and supporter of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.