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Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University2013‐2014 Friends Board <strong>Bios</strong>Michelle Beischer is a graduate of Smith College and Wake Forest University School of Law. Uponobtaining her law degree, she moved to Durham where she practiced law. She is a community volunteerand has been active with the Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties, Westminster PresbyterianChurch and Durham Academy. She is current past President of the Durham Academy ParentsAssociation and a former board member of the Durham Academy Board of Trustees. She lives inDurham with her husband David and sons Will, Nick and Davis.Gail Belvett received her B.Sc. in Microbiology and Immunology with a minor in Linguistics from McGillUniversity in Montreal, Quebec. In 1997, Gail moved to Chapel Hill to attend UNC‐Chapel Hill School ofDentistry. She was awarded her doctor of dental surgery in 2001. After a hospital residency in NewYork City, Gail moved to Atlanta and joined a dental practice. In 2007, Gail returned to Durham andopened a private practice, Southpoint Family Dentistry. In May 2011 she opened her second practice inMebane, NC. Gail’s appreciation of the arts began early in life—her parents were avid art collectors.She completed an internship at the Royal Ontario Museum and studied piano and music theory with theRoyal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. Gail is a member of the Old North State Dental Societythrough which she mentors current and aspiring minority dental students at UNC School of Dentistry.Gail also serves on the Millennium Development Goals Subcommittee (part of the Episcopal Diocese ofNorth Carolina's Chartered Committee for Global Mission).Brad Brinegar has been chairman and CEO of McKinney since 2002. An anthropology major atDartmouth College with a finance MBA from Columbia University, Brinegar worked for two decades atglobal advertising giant Leo Burnett in Chicago. He co‐founded the Durham Roundtable Committee onCrime and is the new chairman of the board of the Hill Center. He and his wife, Michelle, live in Durhamwith two teenage sons.Jennings Brody owns and operates Parker & Otis, established in Durham in 2007. She is a volunteer inthe community currently serving with the Volunteer Center of Durham and Sustain‐a‐Bull, Durham’snon‐profit independent business alliance, which strives to promote and support locally owned,independent businesses in the Durham community. Jennings lives in Durham with her husband andbusiness partner, Jonathan Kea and their daughter, Miller. Jennings grew up in Connecticut andgraduated from Bates College in Maine where she majored in Art History and Political Science.Ruth Caccavale Since her recent move to North Carolina, Ruth Caccavale works part‐time in theeducation department of the Nasher Museum. She works primarily as a gallery guide, sharing theexhibitions with school children, college students and the adult community. She works on othereducational projects such as special events and visits to school classrooms. Ruth also teaches art historyin Duke University’s continuing education department. For ten years prior to this, she taught a varietyof art history classes at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Ruth worked for Tiffany & Company as theircurator for antique silver and jewelry and was a free‐lance lecturer during a three‐year period inEngland. Her first jobs after college were in the education department of the Metropolitan Museum ofArt and the Cloisters Museum in New York City. She has been involved in philanthropic activities andtogether with her husband, raised three children. Her husband John, currently runs the Financial

Economics Center at Duke Universtiy. Ruth received her undergraduate degree from Duke Universityand a masters in art history from Rutgers University.Deborah DeMott joined the faculty of Duke Law School in 1975 after practicing law with a large law firmin New York City. She taught at other universities in the United States, Canada, and Hungary, and was aFulbright Senior Scholar in Australia in 1986. From 1998‐2000, Deborah held a secondary appointmentin the Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Over her career, shehas taught courses in corporate law and other aspects of business law and, more recently, she teachestort law to first‐year law students. Her books and articles focus on fiduciary obligations, corporatetransactions, the law of agency (i.e. relationships in which one person represents another), among othertopics. She graduated from Swarthmore College and New York University School of Law and spent herearly years in DuBois, PA, where her mother was a practicing artist and a public‐school art teacher. Shedeveloped the first course in Art Law at Duke Law School five years ago. In the course, studentsexamine legal concepts that underpin transactions and legal interests in art objects, including questionsof ownership and authenticity. The course also examines specific legal issues associated with artmuseums as distinctive cultural institutions. She has taught versions of this course as well to graduatestudents in law at the University of Sydney and Central European University in Budapest.Kathi Eason of Durham, NC relocated from Dallas, TX where she served on the Dallas SymphonyOrchestra board and was president of their young patrons group. A native Texan, Kathi also served onthe board of the Dallas Auxiliary Gladney Center and a luncheon committee for the Komen Foundation.In Durham, she has served on the steering committee for the <strong>Full</strong> Frame Documentary Film Festival. Herhusband, Stephen A. Eason, is Executive Vice President of Smith Breeden Associates, Inc.Pierce Freelon is a musician, professor, and artivist with a passion for creativity and community. He isfront man of the genre‐bending The Beast, hailed as a "natural, engaging blend of jazz and hip hop," byJazz Times Magazine. He has taught music, African American studies and political science at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University. Freelon is the cofounderof ARTVSM ‐ a company merging art and activism by any medium necessary.Christopher Gergen is founding Executive Director of Bull City Forward, a non‐profit focused oncatalyzing sustainable enterprise in Durham, NC—an effort that is quickly becoming a model for othercities including the launch of Queen City Forward in Charlotte. Bull City Forward complementsChristopher’s role as an adjunct faculty member at the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative at DukeUniversity within the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy's Hart Leadership Program as well as hisposition as “Innovator in Residence” at the Center for Creative Leadership. Christopher is also afounding partner of Life Entrepreneurs, LLC, a leadership development and consulting firm, and coauthorof the nationally acclaimed book Life Entrepreneurs: Ordinary People Creating ExtraordinaryLives (Warren Bennis Leadership Series; Jossey‐Bass). Christopher also co‐authors a bi‐weekly columnon social innovation for the Raleigh News & Observer and the Charlotte Observer titled “Doing Better atDoing Good.” Christopher received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Duke University, a Master'sDegree in Public Policy from the George Washington University, and his MBA from GeorgetownUniversity. He lives with his wife and two children in Durham, NC.Michael Goodmon leads one of the country's most dynamic urban mixed‐use developments, theAmerican Tobacco Campus in Durham. As vice president of real estate for Capitol BroadcastingCompany, Inc., the campus' owner and master developer, Michael manages the day‐to‐day activities ofapproximately 1,000,000 square feet of class A office, restaurant and retail space. He scopes and

develops new projects and opportunities, and has assembled a multitude of complex Historic and NewMarket Tax Credit transactions. He earned a B.S. in Mathematical Economics from Hampden‐SydneyCollege and a Masters in Trust and Investment Management from Campbell University. Michael is anadvocate and leader of the Durham and Triangle communities and serves on several boards toencourage growth, entrepreneurship and community development. These boards include: City ofDurham Workforce Economic and Employment Development, East Durham Children’s Initiative, HealingPlace of Wake County, Downtown Durham, Inc., NC Rails to Trails, CAHEC, and the Museum of DurhamHistory.Bryan Huffman is the Executive Branch Director of the Durham YMCAs, a division of the YMCA of theTriangle, the 10th largest Y in the country. Bryan has been with the YMCA for 17 years, the last six inDurham. Under his leadership, the Durham YMCAs have become one of the premier non‐profits inDurham serving over 20,000 Durham citizens annually in youth development and healthy living. Bryanhas an undergraduate business degree and an MBA, both from North Carolina State University. He livesin Durham with his wife and two young children.Virginia “Ginger” Jernigan is a graduate of Converse College, and a dedicated wife, mother andvolunteer. Her volunteer work has included a longtime commitment to Christ Church, including servingas President of the Altar Guild, as a member of the Church Leadership Council, as a member of theMinisterial Search Committee, as a Diocesan Delegate, as a Lay Eucharist Minister and as a ChaliceBearer. Ginger was on the Junior League of Raleigh Board of Directors for many years, serving as aChairman of committees and as Treasurer, was one of three Ravenscroft Day School's first Auction Co‐Chairs, an Interact Auction Co‐Chair, a Co‐Chair of the Wake County Heart Ball, and a member of the NCTheatre Board. She has been a member of the Raleigh Fine Arts Society for 17 years and on the Board ofDirectors for the past 12 years. While serving on the RFAS Board, she was Chairman of the ArtistsExhibition (2001‐2002), Secretary (2002‐2003), Treasurer (2007‐2008), President (2008‐2009) and iscurrently Chairman of the New Members Committee for 2010‐2011. Ginger lives in Raleigh, NC with herhusband, John, who is a lawyer. They have two children, Lee‐Ashley, a graduate of Duke University, andFrank, a graduate of Davidson College.Stefanie Kahn attended Columbia University (MBA) and Washington University (BA). Stefanie served onthe Mary Semans Gala Host Committee 2009. She has served on the Board of the Carolina Ballet for thepast five years, and the Board of the Raleigh/Cary Jewish Federation. She has been a docent at the NorthCarolina Museum of Art. Stefanie worked in Credit Card Marketing at American Express for 10 yearsprior to moving to Raleigh 17 years ago. Stefanie is married to Douglas James Kahn. They have threechildren: Lauren, a senior at Duke and Michael, recent graduate of Duke, and Daniel, who attends CaryAcademy.David Lindquist has been an antiques dealer, appraiser, author and educator since 1974, when hefinished his Graduate School work in Political Science at Duke University and opened a business ratherthan accept a university teaching position. He converted his passionate hobby (and graduate schoolsideline) into a business in order to keep his family in the Triangle‐‐a region with which they had fallen inlove. David has his undergraduate degree from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri‐‐his home state.(Ironically Drury won this years NCAA Division II national championship!) He has served on a variety ofnational boards in the antiques field (including President of The National Association of Dealers inAntiques) as well as area civic and church boards. For the past fifteen years he has served as Chairmanof the Board of The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (www.thecot.org) guiding the effort to create forThe COT a permanent home at the Durham Carolina Theater where over the last fourteen years

attendance at concerts has grown from less than two hundred to frequently filling the theater. He andhis daughter Elizabeth own Whitehall Antiques in Chapel Hill, located in the Villa Tempesta which thefamily restored in 1990. David's life partner is Paul Hrusovsky, artist and beloved art teacher for over 30years in St. Louis and Chapel Hill. They are in the process of moving to a 140 West Franklin Streetcondominium where in addition to their years of support for Durham arts organizations and the NasherMuseum, they will continue their involvement in the arts scene of Chapel Hill as Paul prepares to openhis new studio and art gallery in downtown at The Courtyard.Mac McCaughan is a founding member of the rock band Superchunk, and co‐founder of Merge Recordsalong with Laura Ballance. He also heads the band Portastatic, which began as a lo‐fi side project andhas blossomed into his main musical project. Prior to this, he was the head of another lo‐fi band namedBricks with Andrew Webster of Tsunami, Josh Phillips and Laura Cantrell. In 2002, McCaughan teamedup with Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices to form the group Go Back Snowball. The duo recorded andreleased an album in 2002, titled Calling Zero. On October 24, 2007, McCaughan gave expert witnesstestimony in the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on the topic "The Future of Radio."Lori O’Keefe Triangle Community Foundation’s Vice President for Philanthropic Services and ChiefOperating Officer, helps cultivate relationships with the Foundation’s fundholders to createopportunities for strategic grantmaking within the Triangle nonprofit community. In addition to directlymanaging more than 150 donor‐advised funds, she also works with members of the donor engagement,community engagement and development teams on fundholder and community outreach andinitiatives. In her role as Chief Operating Officer, Lori is responsible for the day‐to‐day operations andservices of TCF, which manages more than 750 funds and $145 million in charitable assets that supportthe region. A life‐long devotee of the arts with an MBA specializing in arts and nonprofit administration,Lori has held positions in the areas of development and events management in various arts venuesincluding Carolina Ballet, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and New York University. Lori has participatedin the Leadership Triangle and Leadership Raleigh programs, and has presented locally and regionally onphilanthropy and charitable giving. Lori lives in Wake Forest with her husband and two daughters.Pilar Rocha‐Goldberg is a native from Bogotá, Colombia and currently works as President/CEO at ElCentro Hispano, Inc. a non‐profit organization that helps the Latino community to integrate with thecommunity at large in Durham and Orange County, NC. A nutritionist for 20+ years, she arrived in theUnited States in 2004 and immediately started working on programs helping Latinos. In collaborationwith Duke University, she translated and then implemented a Nutrition Program into Spanish, and moreimportantly, tailored it in order to fit the Latino culture. She joined El Centro Hispano in 2004 and hasworked on many projects. She has served as secretary, vice‐president and president of El CentroHispano’s board of directors. Since becoming involved with the community, she has been invited andparticipated in many forums, conventions and seminars and groups including: Chair of the ChronicDiseases Team, which was part of the Hispanic/Latino Health Advisory Group at the Office of MinorityHealth and Health Disparities in Raleigh, NC.; and North Carolina Representative at the NationalPartnership for Action in Atlanta, GA. She is also a member of Triangle Colombian ResourcesAssociation, The Durham County Project Access Board of Directors, North East Central DurhamLeadership Council, The Governor’s Advisory Council of Hispanic/Latino Affairs, Habitat for HumanityBoard of Directors, Lincoln Community Foundation Board of Directors and the Durham YMCA Board ofDirectors.Arthur Henry Rogers III heads Eno Ventures, a commercial real estate investment and managementcompany with office and retail properties in Durham and Albemarle, NC. Prior to 2002, he worked in

international sales with Collins and Aikman Products Company and was based in Roxboro, NC withfrequent travel to California and Japan. After leaving Collins and Aikman in 2000 to pursue his interestin commercial real estate, Arthur worked for two years as a broker with Borden Real Estate in Durham.Henry Sappenfield is a trial attorney at Kennon Craver, PLLC in Durham where he represents the firm’slocal and regional clients. Henry was born and raised in Tulsa, OK. After receiving his undergraduatedegree from the University of Tulsa, Henry worked as an archaeologist and completed graduate work atthe University of Toronto. Henry received his J.D. from Boston College Law School and practiced inBoston for seven years. Henry, his wife Elizabeth, and their young son attend St. Phillips EpiscopalChurch and are actively involved in Durham, supporting the Nasher Museum, Preservation Durham,Triangle Modernist Houses, Urban Ministries of Durham and the Greater Durham Chamber ofCommerce.Kim Saunders is the President and CEO of Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank, a $280+ millioninstitution based in the North Carolina's five major cities, Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro,Winston‐Salem and Charlotte. Before coming to M&F, Kim was President and CEO at Consolidated Bankand Trust Company from 2003 to 2007. She was the second female President and CEO in CB&T'shistory, a distinction she also holds at M&F Bank. Prior to joining Consolidated, Kim was the ExecutiveVice President and Chief Lending Officer for City First Bank of D.C. ("City First"), a $100 millioncommunity development bank chartered by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that isdedicated to promoting investment in Washington, D.C.'s under‐served communities. Prior to joiningCity First Bank of DC, she served as the Chief Lending Officer and Executive Vice President at EnterpriseFederal Savings Bank in Largo, Maryland from 1995 to 1998. Kim serves on the Boards of the NCMuseum of Art Foundation, Triangle United Way, and the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce. Shewas recognized as one of the state's exceptional women leaders in 2009 by both NC Magazine and theTriangle Business Leader Media Magazine. She also has been recognized as one the Nation's 75 MostPowerful Women in Business by Black Enterprise Magazine (Feb. 2010). Kim holds a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Economics (Finance major) from the Wharton School of Finance andCommerce at the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary doctorate from Shaw University.Angela Terry retired in 2002 as Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at North Carolina Central University,where she created the Freshmen First program. She holds a PhD in Psychology and, before relocating toDurham, had a 26‐year career in Connecticut. While in CT, Angela worked for the State Department ofEducation as a State Consultant for School Psychological Services from 1973‐ 1981, as well as workingfor the University of Connecticut where she retired as the Associate Vice President of Student Affairs in1997 (her first attempt at retirement!). She is a member of the Durham County Women’s Commission,president of the Association of Retired NCCU Personnel, President of the Nasher Museum Friends Board,and a Diamond Life Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Durham Alumnae Chapter. Angela isalso the proud mother of two adult children.Kelly Braddy Van Winkle represents the third‐generation within her family's company, King of TexasRoofing Company, L.P. After 30 years of being in business, King of Texas Roofing Company, L.P. is one ofthe largest commercial roofing contractors in the United States. Kelly is becoming heavily involved withcommittee work for the NRCA (National Roofing Contractors Association) Kelly has been a member ofthe Dallas chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization since 2006, and is the current CommunicationsChair. Her community involvement includes work with the Dallas Zoo, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra,the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Dallas Junior League. She has held numerous leadership roles withinthose organizations. Kelly received her Bachelor degree from Duke University and her MBA in

International Management Studies from University of Texas at Dallas. She is very active in the Dukecommunity in Dallas, including conducting alumni admissions interviews for potential Duke students.She resides in University Park, Dallas with her husband, Lance Van Winkle.Carl Webb is president of Forty/AM Consulting and a native of Durham, has been involved in several ofthe largest, most successful real estate development projects in Durham in the past decade. A 27‐yearveteran of the advertising and marketing communications industry, he has developed relationships anddelivered powerful communications programs for a portfolio of real estate clients. He has been involvedin several public‐private partnerships. While serving as a partner at Greenfire Development, Carl ledrelationship strategy and communication planning efforts for the Durham, NC‐based communitydevelopment company. Prior to joining Greenfire Development, Carl was co‐founder of Webb PattersonCommunications serving clients such as McDonald’s, GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Ministries Inc., Allergan,the State of North Carolina, Zondervan Publishing, Focus on the Family, and Thomas Nelson Publishing.Carl attended North Carolina Central University and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. Hegraduated from Leadership Triangle and Leadership North Carolina, as well as the minority businessexecutive program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Carl and his wife, Bridgette, reside inDurham and have three children, Chaunesti, Samantha, and Carl Jr.John White has served as the Director of Public Policy for The Greater Durham Chamber of Commercesince January 2009. He is responsible for setting The Chamber's annual legislative agenda and managingthe Chamber's Public Policy and Transportation Committees. In this capacity, John is responsible forserving as a community liaison for the Chamber as well as building relationships with elected officials,nonprofit agencies, Chamber members and other key resources and institutions within Durham and thesurrounding area. John graduated from North Carolina Central University in 2005. Since graduating,John has served as Legislative Assistant to North Carolina State Representative Alma S. Adams, Ph.D.,and as Community Director for GenerationEngage, a nonprofit organization focused on helping youngpeople, ages 16‐30, gain a better understanding of politics. In addition to his professional work, Johnserves his community by sitting on the Board of Directors for Preservation Durham, the Women’s Centerof Wake County, Youth Villages, and as vice chair of the North Carolina Legislative Black CaucusFoundation along with other local committees or charities.