Lane Alexander
Founder & Director

Elaine Cohen Rubin & Richard G. Weinberg
Honorary Founders

Kelly Michaels (1957 – 1995)
Founding Artistic Director  

Michael Foster (2010)
Board Chair
Senior Sales Manager, The Whitehall Hotel

Claudette Smith (2010)
Vice-Chair
Vice President (Data Management, Operations, & Technology), Northern Trust

Kwaku Osebreh (2018)
Vice-Chair
Attorney, Mayer Brown LLP

Ben Koppel (2017)
Treasurer
Founder, Koppel Consulting

Lane Alexander (1988)
Founder & Director
Chicago Human Rhythm Project

Brenna Conway (2018)
Director of City Scholars, University of Illinois

John Gingell (2016)
SVP (Midwest Regional Manager), Segal

Irene Michaels (2016)
Founder, I On The Scene

Emmanuel Neal (2020)
Business Development Consultant

Joyce Selander (2017)
Retired, Commodities Broker
Chicago Board of Trade
 
 

Z. J. Tong (2011)
President, ChinaPro Marketing Partners

Alex Felton (2010)
Vice President, Business Relationship Manager
BMO Harris Bank

Terrence Coakley

Gail Kalver

Marilyn Miglin

Lou Conte

Marilyn Katz

Peggy Sutton

Diana E. Harris

Bill Kurtis

Dianne “Lady Di” Walker

Bill Irwin

Donna LaPietra

Lane Alexander
Founder & Director
lalexander@chicagotap.org
ext. 201

Emmanuel Neal
Interim Managing Director
eneal@chicagotap.org

Daniel Borak
Guest Artist
dborak@chicagotap.org
Learn more about Dani here.

Lior David Shragg
Festivals Coordinator, Rhythm World/STOMPING GROUNDS
lior.shragg@chicagotap.org

Canisha Russ
Program Associate, Outreach and Arts Education
canisharuss@chicagotap.org

Derrion Davis
Program Associate, American Rhythm Center
ddavis@arcchicago.org

Margaret Nelson
Production Stage Manager

Jill Villanueva & Yvonne Afable
Business and Financial Management

Christopher W. Frerichs
Grant Management

Fredric Brewer
Marketing and Graphic Design

Catherine Painter
Patron and Database Management