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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
Zoe Flavin (she/her) • Summer Residency Manager
Ben Tripp (he/him) • Groundskeeper
Linnea Goodridge (she/her) • Head of Housekeeping
Rich Ela (he/him) • Maintenance Custodian
Board of Directors
The Hewnoaks Artist Residency Board is composed of community members, arts and business leaders, and former Hewnoaks residents.
Diana Greenwold (she/her), Co-Chair
Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Lunder Curator of American Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian
Hewnoaks Resident, 2017
Washington D.C.
Christi Lumiere (she/her), Vice Chair
Executive Director of Annual Giving, Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine
Samaa Abdurraqib (she/her), Treasurer
Poet & Writer
Executive Director, Maine Humanities Council
Hewnoaks Resident, 2021
Brunswick, 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
Kate Burch (she/her)
Senior Planner, CommunityScale
Cumberland, 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
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc (he/him)
Writer
Executive Director, Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Hewnoaks Resident, 2015
Portland, Maine
Will Garcia (he/him)
Creative Director, The VIA Agency
Cumberland Foreside, ME
Isaac Kestenbaum (he/him)
Director, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Co-Founder, Future Projects
Portland, Maine
Susan Ruhlin (she/her)
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
