Advisory Board

Erica has built a wide-ranging career spanning music performance, media production and editing, licensing and rights management, festival coordination, and arts and environmental nonprofits. A former Voting Member of the Recording Academy, she has also been a leader in corporate and community sustainability initiatives. As a vocalist, Antonelli performed with the Oratorio Society of Washington and The Washington Chorus, including appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Wolf Trap, as well as in Europe. She has also performed as a keyboardist and harmony singer throughout the Washington, D.C., area. Her honors include a 2000 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for Britten’s War Requiem and a 2010 Emmy Award for HBO’s 24/7 Road to the Winter Classic, as well as two additional Emmy nominations for Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín.

New York, New York

Since graduating, Barbara worked at Christie's before joining The Heller Group, where she is now Collections Manager/Logistics Director. The role entails managing private fine art collections across the country.

Williston, VT 

Major: Food Systems

Chris is an accomplished higher education professional who has spent most of her career building strong relationships between universities and the community. She was most recently the Director of Community Relations at Ohio Northern University. Chris has a passion for theatre and music and has been a strong partner for the UVM School of the Arts for several years.

Paul is an award-winning composer whose work spans film, television, documentary, theater, and recorded music. He has received three Emmy Award nominations for his scores for Full Battle Rattle, The Devil Came on Horseback, and The Trials of Darryl Hunt, and received the International Documentary Association’s inaugural Best Music Award for Better This World. He was also nominated for a Golden Reel Award for the Netflix series Bobby Kennedy for President. Brill’s credits include Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Page One: Inside the New York Times, Freakonomics, and the Emmy, duPont, and Peabody Award-winning PBS series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. He collaborated with U2 on HBO’s Burma Soldier and composed the theme and incidental music for the Peabody Award-winning NPR podcast Believed. His work also includes scores for numerous Netflix, HBO, Showtime, CNN, National Geographic, and ESPN productions, as well as Off-Broadway theater.

New York, NY 

President, Jacques 

Major: Art History

Corey is an advertising/marketing specialist with 25+ years of experience in working with major international companies to build their brands. Before Jacques, Corey was a leader at BBDO, TBWA/Chiat/Day, and Ogilvy, driving campaigns for IBM, CVS, Macy's, Yahoo, Gap, and many others. Corey also serves on UVM's College of Arts and Sciences board.

New York, New York

Michele serves on several boards that center the arts and education, including Chair of the Board of the Museum of Arts and Design, the Board of Trustees of Alfred University; and the inaugural board of the UVM Foundation and the Foundation Leadership Council. She and her husband's generosity brought the Cohen Hall for the Integrative Creative Arts to life at UVM, which was the catalyst for the School of the Arts.

Boston, MA

Chief Operating Officer, New England Foundation for the Arts

Major: Art History

Steven is the Chief Operating Officer at the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), a national social impact organization that builds, sustains, and fights for arts and culture through grantmaking, partnerships, and advocacy. Steven is a nonprofit operations specialist with 17 years of experience across roles in higher education and the arts. Steven leads all administrative functions within the organization ensuring NEFA’s systems and processes operate strategically and in alignment with NEFA’s values. Steven is deeply involved in the local arts scenes in both Boston and Provincetown, MA with particular interest in film, theater, and dance.

Since 2008, Billy has served as Director of Partnerships for the Newport Festivals Foundation, producer of the annual Newport Folk and Newport Jazz Festivals. In this role, he develops partnerships and brand activations while also serving as the Foundation’s archivist. He built the Newport Festivals archive from the ground up and has produced six recordings featuring historic performances from the festivals’ storied past. Glassner began his career in San Francisco, where he founded an artist management company and developed his expertise in the music business. He later held marketing and sales positions with major brands including Levi Strauss & Co., Reebok, Timberland, Burton, Adidas, and KEEN before returning full-time to the music industry.

New York, NY 

Director of Post-Production, HBO 

Major: Theatre

Shannon is a twenty-plus-year veteran of the television and feature-film post-production industry. She has worked in several industry-leading post-production facilities both in Los Angeles and in her current home of New York City. Shannon has worked on documentary feature films, scripted features films (including Choke, Hick, and Thanks for Sharing), has directed and post supervised in the independent feature-film arena, and is currently a Director of Post-Production for HBO & Max.

Calvin graduated with a degree in Music Business and Technology and a minor in Film and Television Studies. While at UVM, he was a communications intern with the SoA and a part-time substitute preschool teacher at ONE Arts Community School, and on campus at UVM. He performed regularly with UVM’s a cappella group, Zest, for which he was also the music director and arranger.

Jonathan is an award-winning theater director whose career spans more than two decades of plays and intimate musicals. His productions have featured leading actors including Kate Baldwin, Kathleen Chalfant, Marsha Mason, Derek Klena, George Salazar, Michael Urie, and Deirdre O’Connell, among many others. Two of his productions have received Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Ensemble. From 2012 to 2025, Silverstein served as Artistic Director of the award-winning Off-Broadway Keen Company. During his tenure, he produced more than 25 acclaimed productions, expanded the company’s development of new work, and significantly increased its visibility within the New York theater community. His directing is particularly associated with character-driven stories that explore outsiders and pivotal moments of personal change.

Park City, Utah

Major: Studio Art

Since graduating from UVM in 1988, Sallie has built an impressive career in photojournalism, working around the world to document climate change, extreme sports, diplomacy, and humanitarian aid efforts. Her home base is in Salt Lake City. Her work has been published and exhibited widely and UVM students will be able to see it first hand in a spring exhibition at Burlington City Arts. Her website with full bio and some of her photography is here: Sallie Dean Shatz.