Report To The Community 2022
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njpa leadership<br />
board of directors as of January 1, 2023<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honorable<br />
Clifford M. Sobel<br />
Gary St. Hilaire David S. Stone, Esq. Michael A. Tanenbaum,<br />
Esq.<br />
Peter J. <strong>To</strong>rcicollo<br />
Rishi Varma<br />
Ricardo A. Watson Nina M. Wells, Esq. Josh S. Westo Karen C. Young<br />
Co-Chair<br />
Charles F. Lowrey<br />
Co-Chair<br />
Carmen S. Villar<br />
Treasurer<br />
Marc E. Berson<br />
Assistant Treasurer<br />
David Jones<br />
Secretary<br />
Michael E. Griffinger<br />
Assistant Secretary<br />
Yan Gu<br />
Founding Chair<br />
Raymond G. Chambers<br />
ex officio<br />
Chair Emeritus<br />
William J. Marino<br />
Chair Emeritus<br />
Arthur F. Ryan<br />
Lara Abrash Lawrence E.<br />
Bathgate II, Esq.<br />
James L. Bildner, Esq.<br />
Daniel M. Bloomfield,<br />
M.D.<br />
Modia “Mo” Butler<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honorable<br />
Ras J. Baraka<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honorable<br />
Joseph N. DiVincenzo<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honorable Elizabeth A. Mattson<br />
Elizabeth Maher Muoio<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honorable<br />
LaMonica McIver<br />
Jacob S. Buurma, Esq. Nancy Cantor, Ph.D. Regina Carter Mindy A. Cohen Matthew Connor Edwan Davis Enrico Della Corna<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honorable<br />
Philip D. Murphy<br />
President & CEO<br />
John Schreiber<br />
Faith Taylor<br />
<strong>The</strong> Honorable<br />
Tahesha Way<br />
Pat A. Di Filippo Robert H. Doherty Debbie Dyson Anne Evans Estabrook Christine C. Gilfillan Savion Glover Steven M. Goldman,<br />
Esq.<br />
in memoriam<br />
<strong>The</strong> Arts Center mourns the loss of several friends this season — creative<br />
and devoted individuals who impacted our community through their<br />
leadership, their artistry and their dedication to NJPAC.<br />
Ryan P. Haygood, Esq. William V. Hickey Jeffrey T. Hoffman Ralph Izzo, PhD <strong>The</strong> Honorable<br />
Thomas H. Kean<br />
Scott A. Kobler<br />
Christian McBride<br />
Stephen<br />
“tWitch” Boss, 40<br />
<strong>The</strong> dancer,<br />
actor and television<br />
personality who played<br />
Dad in <strong>The</strong> Hip Hop<br />
Nutcracker on Disney+<br />
passed away in December.<br />
Edward<br />
Fleming, 72<br />
A head usher at<br />
NJPAC for 25 years,<br />
retired postal carrier<br />
and a member of the<br />
Actors’ Equity Association,<br />
passed away in July.<br />
Carlos Medina D. Nicholas Miceli Barry H. Ostrowsky,<br />
Esq.<br />
Deepak Raj Stephen O. Richard Richard W. Roper fayemi shakur<br />
Wayne<br />
Shorter, 89<br />
<strong>The</strong> legendary jazz saxophonist,<br />
composer and Newark native who<br />
redefined the art form and last<br />
played NJPAC in 2017 during the<br />
celebratory Wayne Shorter Weekend,<br />
passed away in March 2023.<br />
Morris<br />
Tanenbaum, 94<br />
A world-changing scientist and<br />
inventor, as well as a Founding<br />
Director of NJPAC, and the<br />
Vice Chairman and CFO of AT&T,<br />
passed away in March 2023.<br />
Rona<br />
Brummer, 89<br />
A member of<br />
Women@NJPAC and<br />
Council of Trustees, as well<br />
as a teacher, a classically<br />
trained pianist and the<br />
owner, with her family,<br />
of Hobby’s Delicatessen in<br />
Newark, passed away in July.<br />
Belva<br />
Moody, 59<br />
A box office staffer and<br />
former guest services<br />
representative at NJPAC,<br />
passed away in November.<br />
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