Lori Lawonn is a controller in CliftonLarsonAllen’s Nonprofit Business Operations (Biz Ops) group.  Lori has been with CLA since 2014, and brings with her fifteen years of experience serving as the Finance Director for the National Youth Leadership Council, a national nonprofit based in Minneapolis Since joining CLA, Lori has served as the Controller for several nonprofits with annual budgets ranging from approximately $500k to $100M.

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.

Ben Cameron, Senior Adviser and former President (2015–23), was Program Director for the Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (2006-15), where, during his tenure, the Foundation created the Doris Duke Artists Awards and received the National Medal of the Arts from President Barack Obama. He previously served as the Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group, as the Senior Program Officer for the Dayton Hudson Foundation and Manager of Community Relations for Target Stores, and as the Director of the Theater Program at the National Endowment for the Arts. He received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, a BA with honors from UNC-CH and is a recipient of three honorary degrees. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Council on Foundations.

“Jerome Hill’s relentless curiosity, his dedication to experimentation and humor, his essential humility, his embrace of traditions and heritages outside of his own and his remarkable sense of humor, continue to inspire us all,  as we respond to and embrace a new set of challenges, dreams and goals. All of us at the Jerome Foundation are deeply honored to support artists and organizations in both Minnesota and New York City in a way that we hope would make him proud today.”

William Sheeline has been a Jerome Foundation Member since 2013. Prior to that he was a Trustee of the Camargo Foundation from 2005 to 2013. His father, Paul Sheeline, was a friend of Jerome Hill’s and a Trustee of the Camargo Foundation from its early years in the 1970s until 2003.

Sheeline spent the first part of his career as a journalist with Fortune Magazine and then spent the 1990s as a member of the investment team at GEICO, the insurance company. Today his company, Longview Research Partners, serves investment firms and specializes in deep due diligence on companies, an approach to investigative field research that assesses the quality—of people, processes and culture—of businesses in order to better understand their associated risks, opportunities and prospects as investments.

Sheeline also serves on the Board of Directors of the Oyster Bay Youth & Family Counseling Agency. He is a past Trustee of East Woods School in Oyster Bay and a current member of its Investment Committee. He is also a member of the Station Committee of the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum, a local effort to renovate the abandoned train station first used by Theodore Roosevelt.

William Russell has been a Member of the Jerome Foundation since 2004. He has been closely associated with the Hill family for three generations, and considered Jerome Hill (“Uncle Romie”) an informal mentor and exceptionally formative influence on his intellectual maturation and appreciation for the importance of the arts in human life. In the 1960s, Russell spent many summers at Jerome’s estate in Cassis, France—now home to the Camargo Foundation.

After Harvard College and a semester at Harvard Divinity School, in 1963 began teaching at Noble & Greenough School. He then became an assistant dean at Harvard while doing graduate work in the philosophy of education at Boston University. After completing his doctorate in 1971, Russell taught at Emerson College. He then worked in the Division of Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1973–79, followed by his management of Norton Company’s corporate foundation. In 1981 he became a consultant, working with the Project on Private Philanthropy and Voluntarism at the Institute for Educational Affairs in NYC, the Boston Cardiovascular Health Center, and a variety of start-up and early-stage companies. In the early 1990s, Russell went to Boston University’s School of Education to serve as the Senior Development Officer.

Since 2002, Bill has focused his consulting on nonprofits and foundations, and has served on many boards. His wife and three adult children provide the greatest of his many blessings.

Christine Ljungkull, a friend of the Hill family, was elected as a Member of the Jerome Foundation in 1998. She has served on planning committees for both the Centennial Celebration of Jerome Hill’s birth with events held in Minnesota, New York, and Cassis, France and the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Jerome Foundation with events in Minnesota and New York. She has also served as Member Liaison to numerous Jerome Foundation committees.

Ljungkull was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota where her early love for painting and drawing often had her spending summer weekends at Art-in-the-Park events meeting local artists. She eventually settled in the beautiful Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada where she became Director of the Bishop’s University Artists’ Centre in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

After retiring, Ms. Ljungkull joined the Board of Directors of the Lennoxville Historical and Museum Society, serving as President of the Board and working on the management of their property, archival collection, exhibition preparation, and fundraising. Most recently she served on the Board of Directors of The Eastern Townships Research Centre and their Archives Committee dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of the area.

Since moving to Ottawa, Canada in 2014 Ljungkull continues to pursue volunteer opportunities. She and her husband are fitness and outdoor enthusiasts enjoying a wide range of activities, most recently a passion for running. They have five children and nine grandchildren.

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.