Members
Jamie Bennett
Deeply committed to creative placemaking, community development, and participatory grantmaking, Jamie Bennett plays a pivotal role in positioning arts and culture as core elements of a healthy society.Advisory Board MembersDaniel Alfonso Colón-Ramos
In Daniel Alfonso Colón-Ramos’s lab, studies of how synapses are formed, maintained, and modified during learning are changing long-held views about how neurons connect to transmit and store information. Advisory Board MembersElizabeth Diller
From New York City’s High Line to Moscow’s Zaryadye Park, the design studio co-founded by Elizabeth Diller—Diller Scofidio + Renfro—has transformed spaces around the world and won widespread critical acclaim.Advisory Board MembersMichele Elam
Through interdisciplinary research that examines changing representations of gender and race, Michele Elam examines the cultural narratives that shape the public imagination about emergent technologies.Advisory Board MembersEllen Galinsky
Avid photographer and author of the best-seller Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, Ellen Galinsky researches child development, parental relationships, work-life issues, and youth voice.Advisory Board MembersMacy Gray
Since releasing her award-winning album On How Life Is, soul singer Macy Gray continues to earn her the status of pop culture icon and enchant fans around the globe.Advisory Board MembersDavid Hellmann
David Hellmann’s own illness, coupled with his medical training, led him to found a think tank and incubator to build on his commitment to medicine as a public trust.Advisory Board MembersElizabeth Jameson
A former public interest attorney with multiple sclerosis, Elizabeth Jameson transforms MRI images of her compromised brain into artwork designed to explore the meaning of illness.Advisory Board MembersSheila C. Johnson
Co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Sheila Johnson is an entrepreneur, partial owner of professional sports teams, and an engaged philanthropist committed to empowering women and minorities.Advisory Board MembersSara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Trained as a sociologist, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is an author, educator, researcher, public intellectual, and portraitist who is, in her own words, “witness, archeologist, spider woman, storyteller, and mirror.”Advisory Board MembersJodie Lesh
An innovation leader at Kaiser Permanente, Jodie Lesh focuses on the social impact, technology, and operations, with special attention to human-centered design and novel approaches to care delivery.Advisory Board MembersDavid Leventhal
Founding teacher of Dance for PD®, a program of the renowned Mark Morris Dance Group, David Leventhal uses dance as a health tool for people with Parkinson’s disease.Advisory Board MembersDaniel J. Levitin
Daniel Levitin is a true polymath—neuroscientist and musician, best-selling author and cognitive psychologist—who studies the mood-enhancing and performance-boosting power of music.Advisory Board MembersCharles Limb
Charles Limb uses a rigorous scientific method to understand improvisation, mental agility, problem-solving, and other aspects of creativity, convinced that harnessing the relevant brain processes can change civilization.Advisory Board MembersVivek Murthy
As Surgeon General and then author of Together: “The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World,” Vivek Murthy promotes art as a rich tool for promoting social interaction.Advisory Board MembersEmmanuel Pratt
Emmanuel Pratt’s work lies at the intersection of architecture, urbanization, race/identity, gentrification, and the transformative processes of community economic development.Advisory Board MembersIvy Ross
Well-designed spaces can foster comfort, enliven the senses, and promote creativity, believes Ivy Ross, an award-winning jewelry designer who has overall design responsibility for Google’s hardware.Advisory Board MembersJill Sonke
Jill Sonke oversees faculty research and degree programs built around arts in medicine and manages artists-in-residence who provide visual, performance, and literary arts experiences to hospitalized patients.Advisory Board MembersStacey Springs
Attention to narrative, both spoken and heard, plays an essential role in translating evidence into health policy and practice effectively, believes Stacey Springs, who calls the mind “a story-making machine.”Advisory Board MembersLaurie M. Tisch
Supporting the arts as a tool for healing is a philanthropic priority to Laurie Tisch, who focuses especially on mental health stigma, trauma, aging-related diseases, caregivers, and frontline health care workers.Advisory Board MembersPhilip Yenawine
Building on studies of aesthetic and cognitive development, Philip Yenawine has created curricula to teach visual skills techniques that use art to build critical thinking, language, and literacy.Advisory Board MembersAdvisors
Emmeline Edwards
Passionate about neuroscience and dedicated to scientific rigor, Emmeline Edwards oversees a broad portfolio of complementary and integrative health research at the National Institutes of Health.Advisory Board AdvisorsSunil Iyengar
Poet, critic, and book reviewer, Sunil Iyengar builds public and private partnerships to grow the evidence for art as a tool for advancing health, well-being, and economic development.Advisory Board Advisors