membros da diretoria

Tina Rizack | Diretor do Conselho, Presidente

Tina Rizack é hematologista e oncologista em Fall River e professora associada clínica de medicina e obstetrícia e ginecologia na Alpert Medical School da Brown University. Tina faz parte do conselho consultivo da MomDocFamily da Brown University, uma organização com a missão de oferecer orientação e apoio a mulheres médicas que enfrentam os desafios e as recompensas de combinar uma carreira médica com a maternidade, e faz parte do comitê da Harvard Art Museums Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture. Ela cresceu em Nova Jersey, cursou a faculdade (com especialização em história da arte) e a faculdade de medicina em Atlanta, e fez residência em Chicago. Mudou-se para Providence em 2002, onde conheceu seu marido, Christopher Langlois, e mais tarde concluiu sua bolsa de estudos. Atualmente, ela é esposa de um militar aposentado e esposa de um piloto comercial. Ela é mãe de dois meninos muito ativos em idade escolar.

Kate Hewitt | diretor da diretoria, secretário

Kate Hewitt é a diretora da Lower School na Wheeler School. Há mais de 25 anos na área de educação, ela foi professora, bibliotecária, consultora e líder escolar. Trabalhou com alunos de todas as idades, desde a primeira infância até a décima segunda série, em escolas públicas e independentes. Os valores fundamentais da prática de Kate são a empatia, a justiça e a reflexão, além de sua profunda crença no poder das histórias para nos ajudar a entender as semelhanças que sustentam as diferenças. A imersão em histórias contadas a partir de uma série de perspectivas ricamente diversificadas capacita todos nós a sermos os melhores alunos e os melhores seres humanos que podemos ser - culturalmente competentes, de mente aberta, empáticos e prontos para trabalhar juntos em prol de um mundo mais justo e equitativo. As primeiras lembranças de Kate ao assistir a filmes giram em torno de cópias VHS surradas de A Princesa Noiva e O filme dos Muppets que ela sempre pedia para usar nas noites de cinema em família.

Nisha Lulla | diretor da diretoria, tesoureiro

Nisha Lulla, MHS, serves as Chief of Staff at Nabsys, partnering closely with the CEO and executive leadership team to advance strategic initiatives, drive cross-functional execution, and strengthen organizational effectiveness as the company scales.

With over 20 years of experience, Nisha has built her career helping organizations translate strategy into action. She has served as a trusted advisor to executive leaders across healthcare, public health, and complex enterprise organizations, leading governance, strategic planning, operational transformation, communications, and executive decision support. Before joining Nabsys, Nisha held leadership positions at Brown University School of Public Health, Tufts Medicine, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and Rush University Medical Center.

Nisha earned a Master of Health Science in Health Finance and Management from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Nisha and her family have spent many years enjoying the Providence Children’s Film Festival and her daughters in particular love volunteering during the week of events!

Claudeline Cherry | Diretor da Diretoria

Claudeline Chery is an Associate Director at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she leads community partnerships and civic engagement for the institution. Her career spans more than two decades, beginning with work that placed her at the ground level of legal and cross-cultural systems, moving through direct service, and culminating in the systems-level strategy work she does now. She believes education happens well beyond the classroom, that the systems, structures, and relationships institutions build are themselves a form of human development, and that getting those right is consequential work. Across Boston and Providence, she has designed partnerships, governance structures, managed grant portfolios, and translated community partner data into planning and resource decisions at the executive level. Her work sits at the intersection of institutional strategy and community accountability, and she has spent most of her career trying to close the gap between what institutions say they want to do and what actually gets built.

Peter Crump | diretor da diretoria

Quando Peter Crump fundou a Site Specific em 2004, foi o ponto culminante de uma vida dedicada à construção e fabricação de objetos.

Criado em Connecticut por pais que eram artistas e designers, ele estudou na Parsons School of Design, em Nova York, e obteve um BFA em pintura e escultura no campus da escola em Paris, em 1990. Trabalhando como assistente de artistas de renome mundial, Peter projetou e construiu instalações em museus e galerias em Nova York e no exterior.

Em 1997, ele voltou sua atenção para a construção de residências e butiques comerciais de alto padrão para clientes do mundo artístico e editorial de Nova York. Combinando sua visão criativa com seu amor pela construção, esses projetos estabeleceram a base para a empresa de construção que ele trouxe para Providence alguns anos depois.

Hoje, Peter concentra seu tempo no desenvolvimento das estratégias de negócios e crescimento da Site Specific, enquanto continua a supervisionar o trabalho de construção de projetos da empresa. Como designer e construtor, ele gosta dos desafios que inevitavelmente surgem em cada projeto de construção.

Joann Flaminio | Diretor da Diretoria

Joann E. Flaminio, moradora de Providence desde 1993, é membro do Conselho de Governadores da Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) desde 1996. Em janeiro de 2011, tornou-se a 23ª Presidente da B.A.A., a primeira mulher a liderar a organização atlética centenária. Ela esteve à frente da organização após os atentados da Maratona de 2013 e ajudou a moldar sua resposta positiva à tragédia. Durante seu mandato, ela fez parceria com o Boston Chapter of the Links para estabelecer uma iniciativa bem-sucedida de saúde e bem-estar na M.L.K. School em Boston, que levou a uma parceria de longa data com o Dimock Center e sua iniciativa Road to Wellness. Mais recentemente, a Sra. Flaminio atuou como Presidente Fundadora da 261 Fearless New England, uma organização criada por Kathrine Switzer dedicada a empoderar mulheres em todo o mundo através da corrida. Ela é treinadora do capítulo de Providence da 261 Fearless New England. Ela é aposentada da Fidelity Investments e foi anteriormente Diretora Executiva do Employees Retired System of Rhode Island.

Tucker Schuldt | Diretor da Diretoria

Tucker Schuldt, is the former Senior Vice President Strategy & Planning for Sodexo Healthcare Services, a global €5 billion revenue business unit serving leading hospitals and senior living facilities in 30+ nations. In addition, Mr. Schuldt formerly served as the Senior Vice President Strategy & Planning for Sodexo’s North American operations a $10 billion revenue employee business unit serving the Fortune 500, Health Care, Education and Government segments. In addition to his 20+ year career in strategic planning, he also has extensive experience in human resources having served as the top human resource executive for a $2 billion revenue division of Sodexo Marriott.

Previously, Tucker volunteered as a Board member of the Becket Chimney Corners YMCA, an outdoor education center and summer camp focused on youth development, for 9 years ending in December 2024. During his tenure, he served as head of the Development Committee, Vice Chair and Chair of the Board helping to guide the organization through the Covid pandemic.

Tucker is passionate about providing youth opportunities and has volunteered as a reading tutor at Hope High School and currently serves as a Docent at the RISD museum primarily providing tours to K-12 school groups.

Always a fan of the movies, he fondly recalls seeing Disney’s Herbie The Love Bug (original … not the sequels!) in 1968.

Tucker earned his BA in Economics, including studies at the London School of Economics and Denison University and currently resides in Providence, RI with his wife, Robin. He is excited to continue “giving back” to the City of Providence.

Margot McIlwain Nishimura | Board Director, Founding Board Member

Margot McIlwain Nishimura é diretora de bibliotecas da Rhode Island School of Design e co-fundadora da PCFF. Formada como historiadora de arte medieval, começou sua carreira como acadêmica, lecionando na Universidade da Cidade do Cabo, Smith College, Mt. Holyoke College, Brown University e RISD, e trabalhando em exposições no Metropolitan Museum of Art e no Getty Museum. Ela atuou em outras funções administrativas na RISD, na Biblioteca John Carter Brown da Brown University e na Newport Restoration Foundation. A base de todo esse trabalho tem sido uma crença duradoura nos poderes inspiradores e transformadores da arte, do design e do estudo de suas histórias. Ela tem uma queda terrível por Buster Keaton, e seu filme favorito na infância foi Willy Wonka e a Fábrica de Chocolate.

Kimberly Wright | Diretor da Diretoria

Kimberly recently co-founded Double Take Casting & Consulting, LLC (DTCC), a boutique casting and consulting agency specializing in film, television, theater, live events and speaking engagements. DTCC supports productions, organizations, and institutions seeking intentional casting and creative guidance that promotes equity, inclusion and representation, a mission near and dear to Kimberly’s heart.

Before launching DTCC, Kimberly was the Senior Producer for the PBS preschool series, Work it Out Wombats! which premiered in February 2023. She worked in close collaboration with the Executive Producers and Creative Producers to develop all key creative ingredients of the production: scripts, talent, animation, designs, music, and all other elements affecting the format, substance, and style of the series.  She acted as a liaison with the series’ animation partner during all production phases: design, casting, storyboards, audio records, rough cuts, fine cuts and mixes. Kimberly also helped lead initiatives for culture and inclusion, including identifying prospective writers and advisors with the goal of diversifying the team. While at GBH, Kimberly also served as Casting Producer for the new PBS Kids series America’s Awesome Kids. She worked closely with multiple PBS affiliate stations across the country to do outreach and cast kids for the project.

Prior to joining the GBH family, Kimberly was the Film Producer at Sesame Workshop for 11 years.  While in that role she commissioned live action, animated, and mixed media short films for Sesame Street.  Kimberly worked closely with filmmakers and animators to guide them through the creative process in order to shape the films to best meet the show’s specific letter and thematic needs, while also staying within the films’ budget.  She oversaw all aspects of creative development of the short films and animations, from conception and deal-making, to production and delivery.  As a means of finding new content creators to partner with, Kimberly attended various children’s film festivals and media conferences throughout the US and abroad, including Canada, Germany, Trinidad, Jamaica, Australia, and New Zealand where she participated as a keynote speaker, panelist and juror.  She made it her mission to not only diversify the pool of filmmakers and animators creating content for Sesame Street, but to also provide opportunities for young, up and coming BIPOC content creators.

Before getting her start in the children’s television world, Kimberly had been daytime television producer for 12 years, working for Telepictures, NBC, and Paramount Pictures, and producing several national daytime talk shows, including The Queen Latifah Show, The John Walsh Show and The Montel Williams Show.   In 2006, as Montel’s Senior Producer, she had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change lives by traveling all the way to the Persian Gulf to help Montel surprise the troops for the holidays with messages from their loved ones, and give them the opportunity to share their personal stories. It was an experience Kimberly says she will never forget, and it definitely helped shape her career.

Kimberly  has a BA in Radio/Television from The George Washington University.  She lives in northern New Jersey with her husband and two children. She is a self-proclaimed “foodie” who loves to try new restaurants and travel, and says when she isn’t busy working, she can often be found on a soccer field or a basketball court with one of her kids.

Daytime Emmy-Award winner – Sesame Street  (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022) (Outstanding Preschool Series)

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