callahan (at) ForTheArts.org
Suzanne Callahan, CFRE, founded Callahan Consulting for the Arts, LLC in 1996, to help artists, arts organizations and funders realize their vision through a range of services that includes strategic planning, resource development, program evaluation, philanthropic counsel, and meeting facilitation. Among the company's clients served nationally are Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Urban Bush Women, Chicago Community Trust, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Washington Performing Arts Society. Callahan served as Senior Specialist for the Dance Program at the National Endowment for the Arts for nine years, where she was responsible for annual funding programs, reviewing over 6,000 applications and providing technical assistance to artists and arts organizations. Also while at the NEA, she received a Distinguished Service Award for her leadership as Chair to the agency's AIDS Working Group and for her efforts to address the issues of AIDS and health insurance for artists.

She has served as panelist or site visitor for the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation's US-Mexico Fund for Culture, The Pew Charitable Trusts' Dance Advance Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. A Certified Fund Raising Executive based in Washington, DC, she has spoken and published for many national and local arts organizations and funders including Dance/USA, the National Performance Network, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers and the Association Foundation Group. A former dancer and dance teacher, Callahan holds a Master's Degree in Dance Education from George Washington University, where she was awarded a graduate teaching fellowship, Professional Certification in Fundraising from George Washington University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Social Policy from Northwestern University. She completed post-graduate study in program evaluation and research methods at George Washington University.

Brooke Belott brings experience in dance, administration, writing, research and publishing. Based in the New York City area, she currently works as Development Associate at Movement Research. Over the past several years, she performed extensively with choreographer/visual artist Ed Tyler in works including Cipher, Blind Spot, Sanctuary, E X P O S E and Ataraxia. She is currently dancing with Pele Bauch and SHUA Group (Joshua Bisset and Laura Quattrocchi). She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a double major in Dance and English. Brooke played a major role in the completion of the book Singing Our Praises.

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Jane Jerardi, a DC-based choreographer and artist, has worked for the past nine years with a range of organizations that support artists, including the British Council, the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, and a local arts council. Her experience includes strategic planning, grant writing, communications strategy and website development, as well as research and writing. Her choreography has been commissioned by the Washington Performing Arts Society and supported through the Creative Communities Initiative and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In addition to producing and presenting her own work, she is trained as a facilitator for artists' workshops with The Field and she teaches yoga to adults.

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Barbara Russo received her BA with honors in Dance and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. She currently dances in New York with the Next Stage Project. Barbara has performed the works of Antony Tudor, Donald McKayle, Bill T. Jones, David Dorfman, Trinette Singleton, Bebe Miller, and David Parsons. She has taught at Steps on Broadway, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Innovations, Newbury School, Columbus Preschool, and Early Years. Barbara is also a grant writer for the Next Stage Project.