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Our Team

Staff

Beth Given-Sorensen (she/her) • Executive Director

Alisha Martin (she/her) • Program Manager

Amanda Albert (she/her) • Assistant Residency Manager

Devon Kelley-Yurdin (they/them) • Summer Residency Manager

Kim Largey (she/her) • Interim Residency Manager

Linnea Goodridge (she/her) • Head of Housekeeping

Rich Ela (he/him) • Maintenance & Groundskeeping

Left to Right: Mike Dana, Diana Greenwold, Samaa Abdurraqib, Dan Willett, Kate Burch, Will Garcia, Susan Ruhlin, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Paul Denis - August 2026 at Hewnoaks. Not pictured: Louisa Donelson, Isaac Kestenbaum, and Emily Sano

Board of Directors

The Hewnoaks Artist Residency Board is composed of community members, arts and business leaders, and former Hewnoaks residents.

Samaa Abdurraqib (she/her), Chair
Poet & Writer
Executive Director, Maine Humanities Council
Hewnoaks Resident, 2021
Brunswick, Maine

Kate Burch (she/her), Vice Chair
Senior Planner, CommunityScale
Cumberland, Maine

Louisa Donelson (she/her), Secretary
Director of Programming and Events, Portland Museum of Art
Visual Artist
Co-Producer, Maine Outdoor Film Festival
Portland, Maine

Gibson Fay-LeBlanc (he/him), Treasurer
Writer
Executive Director, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Hewnoaks Resident, 2015
Portland, Maine

Mike Dana (he/him)
Director, Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center
& Pace Galleries of Art @ Fryeburg Academy
Founder/Program Director, FA Film Workshop
Fryeburg, Maine

Paul Denis (he/him)
Freelance Analyst; Retired Attorney
McLean, Virginia/Lovell, Maine

Will Garcia (he/him)
Creative Director, The VIA Agency
Cumberland Foreside, ME

Diana Greenwold (she/her)
Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Lunder Curator of American Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian
Hewnoaks Resident, 2017
Washington D.C.

Isaac Kestenbaum (he/him)
Director, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Co-Founder, Future Projects
Portland, Maine

Susan Ruhlin (she/her)
President and CEO, Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
Founder, JoynaTable
Industry, Maine

Emily Sano (she/her)
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Director Emerita
Senior Advisor for Asian Art and Co-Interim Director, San Antonio Museum of Art (retired)
Lovell, Maine / San Antonio, TX

Dan Willett (he/him)
University of Maine Foundation (Retired)
Gorham, Maine