Board Member
Lorna Harris – Board Member is a strategist, cultural curator, advocate, and producer who provides solutions that enhance performance, operational, governance, and fiscal success for individuals and organizations. With 40 years of expertise in cultivating and presenting diverse cultural experiences, she specializes in bringing complex artistic and cultural projects to fruition. As a seasoned producer of acclaimed jazz festivals, dance performances, visual art exhibitions, symposiums, and convenings, Ms. Harris has a proven track record of audience development across African, Latin, Asian, and Native Indigenous cultures within the United States. Noteworthy productions and events include Universal Temple of the Arts Staten Island JAZZ Festival, Museum Hue 10th Anniversary Symposium, the Harlem Fine Arts Show, Immigrants Are US: The Generation Project, the Romare Bearden Homecoming Celebration, and the Green Roof at SilverCup Studios. Through her dedication to education and the arts, Ms. Harris helped establish the Center School, a sustainable arts-based public middle school in New York City, as well as the first social-emotional curriculum K-5 charter school in Richmond County, N.Y. As a visionary, she has held leadership roles at the Ford Foundation, Canvas Institute, the Alliance of NY State Arts Organizations, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment of the Arts, National Performance Network, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Lorna serves on the Board of Sundog Theatre, Hue Arts, New Yorkers for Culture & Arts (NY4CA), and is an Advisory Board Member with Staten Island Arts and Honk NYC. Ms. Harris holds a professional Certificate of Leadership from Cornell University School of Labor and is an alumna of Beloit College.
