Ellen Kodadek, Executive and Artistic Director, has over 30 years experience in non-profit arts administration, including multi-disciplinary program development & implementation, public relations and marketing, fundraising and managerial oversight.  She has served as Chief Executive Officer of Southern Tier Celebrates in Binghamton, NY, facilitating the merger of two non-profit organizations: First Night Binghamton & the Binghamton Summer Music Festival; expanding those two programs into a year-round multi-disciplinary arts organization including arts-education programs, arts-enrichment for underserved audiences, such as seniors and at-risk youth, and multiple community revitalization initiatives. Kodadek also served as Director of Presentations as well as Director of Public Relations & Marketing for Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, NY. Kodadek’s consulting projects include: as Management Consultant & Co-Artistic Director of 171 Cedar Arts Center in Corning, NY; as a Management Consultant, to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Reel to Real “On the Road” Program.  Kodadek is the recipient of 2005 Broome County Arts Council Heart of the Arts Award, 2007 Binghamton Mayor’s first Restore the Pride Award for Community Development.  Kodadek has served on numerous committees; as invited speaker on programming, presenter-artist relationships, festivals and outdoor presenting; and on numerous grants panels, including, as an ongoing Panelist for NYSCA’s Presenting Program.

ekodadek@flushingtownhall.org

    

Marialaura Leslie, Deputy Director, has worked with several arts organizations in Puerto Rico and South Florida including as Associate Director of Development for Miami City Ballet. In 2008, she was named one of the “Top 25 Most Powerful People in the Nonprofit Arts” (Barry’s Blog) and in 2005 she received the Arts and Business Council of Miami’s Emerging Arts Leader Award. A Past Chair of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Council, Marialaura has served on many local and national grants panels and has presented at various national arts conferences.  She is a graduate of the University of Miami’s Theater Management program. Prior to joining Flushing Town Hall, she served as Chief of Information and Outreach with the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.

mleslie@flushingtownhall.org

Betsy Enright, Director of External Affairs, joined the organization in 1985 as Executive Assistant to the Founder and Director, and was promoted to the position of Development Director in 1988. In July, 2004, Ms. Enright was appointed Director of External Affairs, an FCCA department that merged the Development Department with the Marketing Department. Ms. Enright is a graduate of Marymount College.

benright@flushingtownhall.org

Gabrielle M. Hamilton, Director of Education & Public Programs, joined the organization in August 2011, is a folklorist with extensive expertise in the Indigenous and Latino traditions of the Americas. From 1999 to 2011, Hamilton served as Project Director at the Center for Traditional Music and Dance where she conducted research and developed programs in collaboration with master artists in New York’s Colombian community and launched the Center’s Community Cultural Initiative: FolkColombia Música y Danza. From 2003 to 2008, she founded and directed Pachamama Peruvian Arts which develops the Peruvian traditional performing arts in partnership with local community organizations. This award-winning program is now an independent non-profit with Hamilton as Board Chair. She has served as the Acting Manager/Senior Researcher of the Repatriation Office at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian; as a consultant for Blood Tribe of the Blackfoot Confederacy, where she is an honorary member. Hamilton serves as the President of the Board of the New York State Folklore Society, where she launched the Annual Graduate Student Conference.

ghamilton@flushingtownhall.org

Clyde Bullard, Jazz Producer. Producer of Flushing Town Hall's Jazz Live! series since 1998, Mr. Bullard is also a professional musician who has performed in over twenty-five Broadway and off Broadway shows. A principal bassist for the Boys Choir of Harlem for over seventeen years, Mr. Bullard toured nationally and internationally. He has performed with Tony Bennett, Freddie Jackson and Vivian Reed among others. Mr. Bullard has produced numerous large-scale productions both in the United States and abroad. Bullard has served as a panelist for the NYSCA Presenting Program for several years.

cbullard@flushingtownhall.org