Board Of Directors
Tallal I. ELBoushi, Chairman
Head of Total Rewards & HR Operations
Imani E. Lewis, DDS, MS, Treasurer
Board Certified Periodontist and Collector
Sheila Rohan, Secretary
Estate of Nanette Bearden
Akosua Barthwell Evans
C.E.O., The Barthwell Group
Johanne Bryant-Reid
Retired, First Vice President, Merrill Lynch
Emilie de Brigard
Independent Scholar and Curator
Darryl Crompton, JD, MPH
Lawyer, Educator, and Collector
Walter K. Evans
C.O.O., The Barthwell Group
Alva G. Greenberg
Philanthropist, Independent Curator
Irie K. Harris
President, Irie Incorporated
Ronald David Jackson
Educator and Multimedia Artist
Rhonda Mims
Retired, CEO & Founder of the Mims Lab
Eric Shiner
Artistic Director
Mickalene Thomas
Multi-Media Visual Artist
Dianne A. Whitfield-Locke, DDS,
Dentist and Collector
E.T Williams, Chair Emeritus
Marie Rohan, President Emeritus
Staff
Linda P. Steele
Executive Director | linda.steele@beardenfoundation.org
Johanne Bryant-Reid
Co-Director | johanne.bryantreid@beardenfoundation.org
Diedra Harris Kelley
Co-Director | diedra.harriskelley@beardenfoundation.org
Board of Advisors
Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell
President, Spelman College; Bearden biographer
Allan L. Edmunds
President, Brandywine Workshop
Josianne Fleming-Artsen
Director of Education, St. Martin University
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Chair, Department of African and African American Studies,
Harvard University
Fabian Badejo
Author and Creative Director, St. Martin
Irene Gumbs
Fundraiser
Agnes Gund
Trustee & Former President
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Tonya Lewis Lee
Author and Producer
Glenda Noel-Ney
Vice President of Institutional Advancement
Bethune-Cookman University
Dr. Robert O’Meally
Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English, & Director, Center for Jazz Studies Columbia University
Dr. Richard J. Powell
John Spencer Bassett Professor, American, Afro-American and African Art, Duke University
Grace Stanislaus
Principal, Celestina and Associates Consultancy