Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe joined us in 2022, as Executive Director. She brings extensive nonprofit leadership in arts, culture, and social impact. Her career spans national advocacy, coalition building, fundraising, and strategic communications-- focused on advancing equitable access to the arts and humanities.
She previously served as Executive Director of the DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative and the Future of Music Coalition. Past roles also include Development Director at the Pittsburgh Glass Center and MoMA PS1, and Programs Director at the American Council for the Arts (now Americans for the Arts), where she led national Arts Advocacy Day during the “culture wars” of the 1990s.
Incorporating her passion for arts and culture with broader social change, Lissa also served as National Program Director at PAX: Real Solutions to Gun Violence (now part of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence), and as National Corporate Sponsorship Officer and National Senior Team Director at MZA Events, where she helped produce AIDS Walks and Dance-a-thons, raising awareness and millions for AIDS service organizations across the country.
Her background also includes leading public relations and program development for major cultural, food, and community events in Pittsburgh and New York City. She holds degrees and advanced study in Art History, Fine Arts, and Museum Studies, and currently serves on the boards of the National Cherry Blossom Festival and Arts Lab of South County.
Lissa lives on the Western Chesapeake, where most evenings are spent listening to music and making sculpture. Personal interests include anything square, plastic, and pickled. She likes to wear black.