2025 Folk Arts Partnership Professional Development Institute Staff and Cohort Leaders
Taylor Burby (Independent), Eric Giles (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies), Laura Green (Independent), Leia Maahs (National Endowment for the Arts), Rina Rossi (Independent, Community of Practice) Cassie Rosita Patterson (Project Manager, American Folklore Society), Sylvia Prickett (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies), Ryan Stubbs (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies) Jessica Turner (Project Director, American Folklore Society).
2024 Folk Arts Partnership Professional Development Staff and Framework Advisors
Jessica Turner (Executive Director, American Folklore Society), Cassie Rosita Patterson (2024 PDI Project Manager, American Folklore Society), Sylvia Prickett (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies), Cheryl Schiele (National Endowment for the Arts), and Jennie Terman (National Endowment for the Arts).
NASAA Folk and Traditional Arts peer group preconference Steering Committee members: Jessabet Vivas Capos (Institute of Puerto Rican Culture), Ellie Dassler (Mid Atlantic Arts), Kendell Henry (Virgin Islands Council on the Arts), Elisha Oliver (Texas Folklife), Elena Calderón Patiño (Rhode Island State Council on the Arts), Cassie Rosita Patterson (American Folklore Society), and Virginia Siegel, (Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts).
Mentorship Impact Consultant: Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Co-Executive Director, LeaderSpring Center
Community of Practice Consultant: Rina Rossi, Independent
2023 Folk Arts Partnership Professional Development Staff and Framework Advisors
Jessica Turner (Executive Director, American Folklore Society), Cassie Rosita Patterson (2024 PDI Project Manager, American Folklore Society), Sylvia Prickett (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies), and Cheryl Schiele (National Endowment for the Arts).
Framework Advisory Team: Troyd Geist (State Folklorist, North Dakota Council on the Arts), Thomas Grant Richardson (Director, Center for Washington Cultural Traditions), Laura Marcus Green ( Folklife & Traditional Arts Director, South Carolina Arts Commission), Ashanti McGee (Grant and Access Manager, Western States Arts Federation), Rina Rossi (Folk and Traditional Arts Program, Minnesota State Arts Board), Zoe Van Buren (Folklife Director at North Carolina Arts Council)
Mentorship Impact Consultant: Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Co-Executive Director, LeaderSpring Center
2022 Folk Arts Partnership Professional Development Staff and Framework Advisors
Jessica Turner (Executive Director, American Folklore Society), Thomas Grant Richardson (2022 PDI Project Manager, American Folklore Society), Sylvia Prickett (National Assembly of State Arts Agencies), and Cheryl Schiele (National Endowment for the Arts).
Framework Advisory Team: Norma E. Cantú (Trinity University), John Fenn (American Folklife Center), Amy Kitchener (Alliance for California Traditional Arts), Selina Morales (Botánica Pictures), Lisa Rathje (Local Learning), Thomas Grant Richardson (Center for Washington Cultural Traditions), Jessica A. Turner (American Folklore Society), Langston Collin Wilkins (University of Wisconsin-Madison).