All that we do is made possible by the community that supports us.  

Advisory Council

B/S P is grateful to be operating with the support of the following people: 

Janis Brenner: Artistic Director of Janis Brenner & Dancers, faculty at Juilliard, and a Bessie Award winner. Ms. Brenner performs with Meredith Monk and is a former soloist with the Murray Louis Dance Company. She received a best choreography award from United Solo Festival, a Lester Horton Award for choreography in Los Angeles, a Copperfoot Award, a Leach Fellowship from Empire State College, and a New York Dance On Camera Festival award.

Roberto Carrasco: Former Associate Professor at Northern Arizona University, awarded a Ph.D., M.Ed. and Ed.D. from Harvard

Richard Debs: Advisory Director of Morgan Stanley and member of its International Advisory Board, former Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Chairman Emeritus of Carnegie Hall. Mr Debs is also a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Institute of International Education, the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, and the Barenboim Said Foundation.

Fiona Tilley: CEO and President of GURHAN and former board member of the Joyce Theater Foundation

Marilyn Simons: President of the Simons Foundation, board member of the East Harlem Tutorial program, treasurer and former president of the LearningSpring School, former board member of the Churchill School, and President of the Board of Trustees at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Patricia Weisenfeld: M.P.A., Vice President for Special Initiatives at the Simons Foundation, former Vice President of Operations for Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, spent ten years in Southeast Asia working for Pathfinder International, Planned Parenthood, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations