Eleanor Savage has been with Jerome Foundation since 2007. She is active in the philanthropic and arts community as an agitator for equitable practice and involved with the national organization, Grantmakers in the Arts, as the Co-Chair of the Support for Individual Artists Committee. She is a media artist, an activist and has instigated many community-focused/artist-centered events in the Twin Cities: Naked Stages; Forbidden Fruit Radio; Vulva Riot; and Dyke Night at the Walker Art Center. She was previously the Associate Director of Event and Media Production at the Walker Art Center for sixteen years.

Eleanor's life-long commitment is promoting human rights as a guiding force and working actively as a white, gender-queer butch against racism and all the other intersecting oppressions. 

Andrea Brown joined the Jerome Foundation in 2016. She came to the Jerome Foundation after five years at the Walker Art Center, where she was Associate Director of Strategic Marketing, and prior to that Associate Director of Digital Marketing and Marketing Manager. She worked in the New York office of the American Academy in Berlin before taking a 7-year detour into software at Marketing Bridge/Gage Marketing where she was Lead Account Supervisor.

Andrea has a B.A. in American Studies from Smith College.

Eleanor Savage has been with Jerome Foundation since 2007. She is active in the philanthropic and arts communities as an agitator for equitable practice. Eleanor is the Vice Chair on the Board of Directors for Grantmakers in the Arts. She is a media artist, an activist and has instigated, curated and produced many community-focused/artist-centered events in the Twin Cities: Naked Stages; Forbidden Fruit Radio; Vulva Riot; and Dyke Night at the Walker Art Center. She was previously the Associate Director of Event and Media Production at the Walker Art Center for sixteen years.

Eleanor's life-long commitment is promoting human rights as a guiding force and working actively as a white, gender-queer butch against racism and all the other intersecting oppressions.

Libby Hlavka has been a Jerome Foundation Member since 2015. She is a member of the Hill family and grew up in St. Paul hearing wonderful stories about Jerome Hill, a first cousin of her grandfather. Several of his paintings hang in her home and remind her daily of Jerome’s legacy—his vivid example of a passionate life devoted to creating art and supporting artists. 

Hlavka has over twenty years of experience in strategic planning, program development, and financial management within academic, corporate, and non-profit organizations. She currently serves as President of the Driscoll Foundation. Before returning to Minnesota, she held several senior administrative positions within Stanford University, focused on strategy and curriculum development. Prior to Stanford, Hlavka was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She began her career as a financial manager at GE.

In addition to the Jerome Foundation, Hlavka serves on the boards of the Northwest Area Foundation, the Minnesota Historical Society, and Minnesota Public Radio/American Public Media. Her past board experience includes College Possible, Franconia Sculpture Park, Milkweed Editions, and St. Paul Academy and Summit School, and she is an active volunteer and fundraiser for a number of other schools and non-profit organizations.

Hlavka received a BA in History from Yale University, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an MFA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bennington College. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and their three children.

Lori Lea Pourier, (Oglala Lakota) (elected 2018) served as the President/CEO, First Peoples Fund (FPF) from 1998-2024, and transitioned to her new role as Founder & Senior Fellow in March 2024. Dedicated to a vision of restoring and strengthening cultural assets within tribal communities for nearly 30 years, she focuses her efforts on bringing philanthropic resources to Native artist entrepreneurs and culture bearers. Through its Indigenous Arts Ecology program, FPF partners with Native CDFI's and community-based nonprofits to strengthen the support for arts and culture in tribal communities.

Her early work began at First Nations Development Institute and the executive director of the International Indigenous Women’s Network (IWN). She is a 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a 2013 Women’s World Summit Foundation Prize for Creativity in Rural Life, and a 2013 Louis T. Delgado Distinguished Grantmaker Award. Pourier is an alumnus of the American’s for Indian Opportunities (AIO) American Indian Ambassadors Leadership Program where she stands with more than 350 Indigenous leaders.

Lori is a 2025 Bush Foundation Fellow and a 2024 American Academy of Arts and Sciences inductee. In 2022, Lori was recognized as one of The Kennedy Center’s “Next 50”— fifty leaders and organizations that are lighting the way forward through sustained excellence of artistic, educational, athletic, or multi-disciplinary work. She is a 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a recipient of the 2013 Women’s World Summit Foundation Prize for Creativity in Rural Life, and a 2013 Native Americans in Philanthropy Louis T. Delgado Distinguished Grantmaker Awardee.  As an alumnus of the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO) American Indian Ambassadors Leadership Program, she stands with more than 500 Indigenous leaders worldwide. 

Lori serves on the Board of Directors of the Jerome Foundation and is an appointee of Librarian Carla Hayden at Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center Board of Trustees. She served two terms on Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) and Native Americans in Philanthropy boards of directors. Lori also contributed to the National Endowment for the Arts’ publication, How to Do Creative Placemaking. Lori is a Core Partner with Arts in a Changing America, the Cultural New Deal and the Intercultural Leadership Institute (ILI), a collaboration between First Peoples Fund, Alternate ROOTS, the PA’I Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture She holds a Master of Science degree from New Hampshire College Graduate School of Business.

Unpredictable & unbound, Daniel Alexander Jones (elected 2017) is an artist whose wildflower body of work has long been recognized by a wide range of communities. Jones extends traditions of art-making rooted in Black & Queer histories of performance, music, literature, and civic practice. 2023 marks Jones’s 30th year of professional practice. This year, Jones has thus far released his new album Aquarius; presented May As Well Be a Rainbow, an offering commissioned by the McCarter Theatre honoring Toni Morrison & her archive; & Altar No. 3: I Choose to Remember Us Whole, an installation at The Henry Gallery in Seattle & public processional produced by The Meany Center at UW. Jones’s past projects include Black Light (Public Theater); Duat (Soho Rep); Radiate (Soho Rep & national tour) and Phoenix Fabrik (Pillsbury House Theatre). As his “altar-ego” Jomama Jones, named “a true theatrical original” by Backstage Magazine, he has released six albums and toured widely to critical acclaim. Jones’s ongoing ALTAREDSTATES initiative is housed at CalArts’ Center for New Performance and may be encountered at www.aten.life.

Daniel Alexander Jones is a TED Fellow, a Doris Duke Artist Award recipient, a Guggenheim Fellow, a USA Artists Fellow, a two-time Art Matters Grantee, a five-time MAP Fund recipient, an inaugural Creative Capital Grantee, an Alpert Award in the Arts Awardee, and has received the PEN/America Laura Pels Award in Theatre and the IDEA Award in Theatre. A collection of his plays and performance texts, Love Like Light, is available from 53rd State Press alongside a volume of conversation with Alexis Pauline Gumbs entitled Particle & Wave. All These Things, a volume of discussion with Sharon Bridgforth is forthcoming in Summer 2023. Jones apprenticed with legendary artists Robbie McCauley, Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Rebecca Rice, and Aishah Rahman and is considered an innovator for his own contributions to the field, and a mentor to dozens of young artists. Jones is delighted to serve as a Producing Artist at CalArts’ Center for New Performance. He is on the board of the Jerome Foundation. He lives in Los Angeles.

Linda Earle has been a Jerome Foundation Member since 2024. Now retired, Earle is a former Professor of Practice in Art History at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is especially interested advancing artists, cultural managers and curators who will create new platforms for cultural practice, participation, and discourse, and challenge institutions to define and adopt equitable practices.

Previously Linda worked as Executive Director the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New York Arts Program, as Director at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and as a senior Program Director at the New York State Council on the Arts where she crafted the Individual Artists Program and worked in program and fiscal analysis of and support for museums and contemporary visual arts organizations. She has taught film and cultural studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Hunter College, and Barnard College and has served on numerous grants and commissioning panels and artist advocacy groups. She has also worked in independent film, theatre, and visual arts curatorial projects over the years.