Sarah Bellamy (elected 2018) is a nationally renowned racial equity facilitator and practitioner of racial healing. Her methods are holistic, profound, and foster powerful intimacy and authenticity for clients. She brings a wealth of scholarship, strategic acuity, and deep compassion to consultative and coaching relationships. Her writing focuses on memoir, personal essays, plays, and short stories. She is a stage director and the president of Penumbra, a center for racial healing that houses one of the nation’s oldest and largest African American theatre companies.

Sarah is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and holds an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Macalester College, the University of Minnesota, and served as Visiting Professor of Theatre and Culture at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Her lectures on the power of race and representation have been presented across the country illuminating the ways in which images, narratives, and media influence perception and ultimately shape lives. She is a skilled and dynamic public speaker offering audiences fresh, big-hearted, and courageous perspectives on a wide range of topics. She is especially recognized for her work on racial healing, authenticity, and resiliency. 

Sarah has been awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey Public Leadership Award, a Bush Foundation Fellowship, and served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Jerome Foundation. More at www.sbellamy.com

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Kate Barr (elected 2016) advises nonprofits locally and nationally on strategy, finance, and governance as a speaker, author, and trainer. She currently serves as Senior Advisor for the Minnesota CDFI Coalition.

Previously, she was the President and CEO of Propel Nonprofits, a Minnesota-based nonprofit whose mission is to fuel the impact and effectiveness of nonprofits with guidance, expertise, and capital. During her tenure at Propel, Kate led the team in developing and implementing innovative financing and programming and worked with the board of directors to direct organizational planning and growth. She joined Propel after serving as a bank executive and began her professional life as business manager of a performing arts nonprofit.

Kate holds an MA in Leadership from Hamline University. She teaches courses on nonprofit governance and finance at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She currently serves on the boards of directors of the Jerome Foundation and Center for Victims of Torture and the advisory board for Minnesota Bank & Trust.

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.