board of directors

Vittorio Mezzano
President
Business Manager
Hewlett-Packard Company
Cambridge, MA

David Karp
Interim Treasurer
Director of Marketing
Currensee
Boston, MA

Lynne Allen
Director, School of Fine Arts
College of Fine Arts Boston University

Eric Almquist
Partner
Bain & Company
Boston, MA

Joseph F. Bernardi, Jr.
Attorney
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Boston, MA

Peter Fiedler
Vice President of Administrative Services
Boston University
Boston, MA

Alan Geismer
Attorney
Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C.
Boston, MA

Rick Grossman
Co-owner
Ligne Roset
Boston, MA

Chehalis Hegner
Fine Art Photographer &
Assistant Professor of Photography
UMass Lowell
Lowell, MA

Andrew Kessler
Founder/President
Coffee Pond Photography
Natick, MA

Gary Leopold
President and CEO
ISM
Boston, MA

Olivia Parker
Fine Art Photographer
Manchester, MA

Neal Rantoul
Independent Photographer
Professor Emeritus
Northeastern University
Boston, MA

Kim Sichel
Associate Professor, Art History
Director, American and New
England Studies Program
Boston University
Boston, MA

Peter Vanderwarker
Independent Photographer
West Newton, MA

staff

Glenn Ruga
Executive Director
Ruga received a BA from the University of Massachusetts in Social Thought and Political Economy and an MFA from Syracuse University in Graphic and Advertising Design. In 1984, he started Visual Communications, a graphic design firm working primarily with non-profit organizations. From 1993-2009 Ruga was the volunteer Executive Director of the Center for Balkan Development. In 2008 he founded SocialDocumentary.net, a website for documentary photographers to create online galleries of their work. He has produced four traveling documentary photography exhibits, two of which were based on his work in the former Yugoslavia.

Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis
Program & Exhibition Manager
Yuskaitis received her BA from the University of Virginia in art history and archaeology. After a brief stint in New York City, Yuskaitis worked in the arts nonprofit sector in Birmingham, Alabama for five years before receiving her MA from the University of Alabama in American Studies. Prior to graduate school, she served as the Assistant to the Directors/Curatorial Assistant at Space One Eleven, a nationally recognized gallery space that provides cutting edge exhibitions of Southeastern artwork and arts education to inner-city youth. Most recently she served as the Program Manager at VSA Alabama, a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to serving children and adults with disabilities and chronic illnesses through the arts, where she handled art auctions, curated and facilitated exhibits and satellite gallery spaces, and coordinated 30 programs with partnering organizations in community, education, and healthcare settings. Yuskaitis is an active athlete who recently earned her black belt in Taekwondo.

Julie Kukharenko
Membership & Administration Manager
Kukharenko received her BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has worked as a freelance digital retoucher as well as a photographer and postproduction assistant in photography studios. Working and volunteering with non-profit organizations since 2007, Kukharenko focuses on arts administration, membership, and volunteer training. She is also Managing Director of Anna Myer and Dancers, a Cambridge based modern dance company.

Laura Norris
Communications & Membership Associate
Norris earned her MS in Arts Administration from Boston University and BA in Graphic Design and Communications from Stonehill College. Throughout her undergraduate career she held internships at ArtSpace in New Haven, CT and Cushing Martin Gallery at Stonehill College in Easton, MA. It was through an internship that she first joined the Photographic Resource Center in the fall of 2009.