BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF

      STAFF

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• Nancy J. Herro

  Executive Director

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     BOARD OF DIRECTORS

• Kent Tess-Mattner

  PRESIDENT
  Attorney and President, Schmidt, Rupke, Tess-Mattner & Fox, S.C., freelance trombonist
   

• Robin R. Engl
  PAST PRESEIDENT
  Executive Director and Conductor of Youth Wind Orchestra of Wisconsin, freelance trumpeter, retired Director of Bands, Wauwatosa East High School, consultant, Youth Music of the World, Board of Directors, UW-Milwaukee Youth Wind Ensembles and Carroll University Jazz program
   

• Jonathan Winkle    
  VICE PRESIDENT       
  Arts Administrator and Consultant, Musician
   

• Andrew Lato

  TREASURER
  Accountant, Kerber, Eck & Braeckel, LLP
   

• Don Weinberg
  SECRETARY
  Assistant Director of Music, Wauwatosa Presbyterian Church; Employee Band Director and Project Manager and Consultant, Northwestern Mutual, retired
   

• Jane Borden

  Nationally and locally lauded elementary educator specializing in arts integration, retired from Milwaukee Public Schools; founder, Arts and Science Literacy Camp; adjunct faculty, Cardinal Stritch University, Mount Mary College and Alverno College; instructional coach, Arts@Large
   

• Janet Day
  Director of Music Ministry, Unity Lutheran Brookfield, 
  Freelance musician, composer, arranger, editor, teacher

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• Morgan Dixon

  President, MacDowell Montessori School PTO
   

• Donna Dudenhoefer
  Retired career Milwaukee Public Schools Music Educator  (General K-8, Choral and Band)
   

• Kathy Grogan

  Retired early childhood and reading specialist teacher, Milwaukee Public Schools, Woman’s Club of Wisconsin member
   

• Joe Hausch
  Owner, Hausch Design Agency; President/CEO/CCO, PHOTAVIA: The Visual Network
   

• Pete Lange   
  Director of Sales, Tim O'Brien Homes; Band/Choir Director, Catholic Memorial High School, 2009-2017; performing and recording artist, trumpet, vocals     
           

• Stephanie Lippert

  Freelance Professional Musician and Teacher
   

• Tina Nogrady

  Registered Nurse, Aurora Health Care
   

• Michael Poytinger

  Retired K-12 Music Chair and Band Director, Waukesha School District; member and Associate Conductor, City of Waukesha Parks & Recreation Band; WSMA Master Adjudicator
   

• Katherine Swoboda

  Para Education Assistant-School to Work/CATP, Milwaukee Public Schools;  Military Veteran, USAF, CMS, retired
   

• Jacqueline Wheeler
  Attorney, Wheeler Professional Practice Group
   

• Sarah Zawadiwsky
  Instrument Specialist, Milwaukee Public Schools
  Private Woodwind Teacher