{"id":231,"date":"2016-01-20T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gfisk.com\/locallearning\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:57:26","slug":"staff-and-board","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/locallearningnetwork.org\/about-local-learning\/staff-and-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff and Board"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a02026 Local Learning Board<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Reese Tanimura (Chair)<\/strong> is a fourth generation Japanese American who was born on the island of O\u2019ahu and raised between Hawaii and Illinois. Her passion for music was ignited the moment she began playing the ukulele and has grown steadily through numerous instruments and genres. Reese now serves as the Managing Director of Northwest Folklife, a sublime fusion of her personal endeavors with the organizational vision of \u2018Strengthening communities through arts and culture.\u2019 Reese earned a BA in Music Education from the University of Illinois and a certificate in Non-Profit Management from the University of Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Halle Butvin <\/strong>(Past-Chair) is director of special projects at the <a title=\"https:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/\" href=\"https:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639673121643000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3RsYntqqjdM5cm5qKODOYS\">Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage<\/a>. She leads the Center&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/cultural-sustainability\" href=\"https:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/cultural-sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/folklife.si.edu\/cultural-sustainability&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639673121643000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04Vo5-sKvNHsmEnL9qFQxc\">cultural sustainability work<\/a> around the world, designing collaborative projects to support communities in their efforts to safeguard their heritage, promote cultural expression, and elevate cultural practices to improve local economies. An experienced trainer, for more than 15 years Halle has designed and led creative industries projects, including festival-making, artisan craft development, enterprise development, and organizational development for non-profits in Europe, East Africa, and several countries across Asia.<\/p>\r\n<p><b>Lisa L. Higgins<\/b>\u00a0(Treasurer) has worked in public folklore since the early 1990s supporting traditional artists and organizations. In addition to publishing in the\u00a0<i>Journal of Folklore &amp; Education,\u00a0<\/i>Higgins has contributed to three collections of essays in the field:\u00a0<i>Culture Works: Folklore for the Public Good<\/i>\u00a0(2022);\u00a0<i>Expressive Lives of Elders: Folklore, Art &amp; Aging<\/i>\u00a0(2018); and\u00a0<i>Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Curriculum\u00a0<\/i>(2011). She\u00a0earned a PhD at the University of Missouri, as well as BA and MA degrees at Arkansas State University.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Jean Tokuda Irwin<\/strong> (Secretary) is the Arts Education Program Manager for the Utah Division of Arts &amp; Museums. From the beginning of her tenure in 1991, including folk and traditional artists as integral to arts education in school and community has been central to the Arts Education Program. She manages arts education partnerships such as the Native American Curriculum Initiative and professional development conferences. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_276789\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276789\" class=\"wp-image-276789\" src=\"https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Library-1-of-1-1024x768.jpeg?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Library-1-of-1-480x360.jpeg?strip=all 480w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Library-1-of-1.jpeg?strip=all&amp;w=806 806w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Library-1-of-1.jpeg?strip=all&amp;w=1612 1612w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Library-1-of-1.jpeg?strip=all&amp;w=2419 2419w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Library-1-of-1.jpeg?strip=all&amp;w=3225 3225w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Library-1-of-1.jpeg?strip=all 4032w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 600px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-276789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local Learning Board and Staff hybrid meeting at the 2025 AFS meeting in Atlanta.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p><strong>Fl\u00e1via Bastos<\/strong>, Ph.D. is Distinguished Research Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Cincinnati where she also serves as Associate Dean in the Graduate School. She is a native Brazilian and her scholarship honors educator Paulo Freire. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Art Education from Indiana University.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Marit Dewhurst<\/strong>\u00a0is the Director of Art Education and Professor of Art and Museum Education at The City College of New York. She has worked as an arts educator and program coordinator in multiple settings both nationally and abroad including community centers, museums, juvenile detention centers, and international development projects. Her research and teaching interests include social justice education, community-based art, youth empowerment, and the role of the arts in community development.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Maxwell Kofi Donkor<\/strong> is an African Master Drummer, Traditional Sculptor, Cultural Educator, and Director of Kofi &amp; Sankofa African Drum &amp; Dance Ensemble. He is an internationally recognized artist and master cultural educator who is most known for his performances and teaching in African Drumming and Dance. For many decades, he has focused on building communities through the arts \u2013 teaching students of every age about the authentic histories and cultural celebrations which are still observed to this day. A native of Ghana, Africa, Kofi learned drumming at the knee of his grandfather, a master drummer, as well as learning traditional dances.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Minuette Floyd<\/strong> is a professor of art education at the University of South Carolina in the School of Visual Art and Design. For the past 27 years, she has directed the Young Artist\u2019s Workshop, a Friday afternoon program in which art education majors design and teach comprehensive units of instruction to children from the greater metropolitan Columbia area. Her research interests focus on multicultural art education, interdisciplinary art instruction, and documentation of folk traditions through photography. She is the 2024 recipient of the South Carolina Governor\u2019s Award for the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Art Education at Florida State University.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><strong>Ian Hallagan<\/strong> (he\/him) is an independent folklorist currently based in Nashville, TN. Previously, he served as the Folk Arts Coordinator for the Utah Division of Arts &amp; Museums from October 2022 until June 2025. As state folklorist, Ian oversaw a variety of folklife programming, such as the annual Living Traditions Festival and Mondays in the Park, as well as an assortment of exhibits, public programs, digital storytelling projects, and more. Previously, Ian has worked as a public folklorist for the Bear River Heritage Area, Western Folklife Center, University of South Carolina McKissick Museum, and Texas Folklife. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Rosemary Hathaway<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Professor Emerita of English at West Virginia University, where she taught folklore, American literature, and young-adult literature, and coordinated the English-education major. She is a folklorist and longtime member of the American Folklore Society&#8217;s Folklore and Education section.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Sahar Muradi\u00a0<\/strong>is the Director of Education Programs at City Lore, which brings a a uniquely cultural and community-based lens to arts education by centering culturally-rooted arts, including folk and traditional arts, in meaningful ways that connect to young people\u2019s own heritages, identities, experiences, and communities. She is author of the collection OCTOBERS, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2022 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and a finalist for the National Poetry Series, as well as author of the chapbook [G A T E S ], the hybrid memoir Ask Hafiz (winner of the 2021 Patrons\u2019 Prize for Emerging Artists from Thornwillow Press), and the chaplet A Garden Beyond My Hand. Sahar is co-editor, with Seelai Karzai, of EMERGENC(Y): Writing Afghan Lives Beyond the Forever War, An Anthology of Writing from Afghanistan and its Diaspora; and, with Zohra Saed, of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature. Sahar has an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College, an MPA in International Development from NYU and a BA in Literature from Hampshire College. She dearly believes in the bottom of the rice pot.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Shanedra Nowell<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of Social Studies Education at Oklahoma State University. She taught middle and high school social studies and journalism courses before moving into higher education. Her research interests and publications include work focused on social studies education, Holocaust education, media literacy education, and content area writing. <span class=\"Linkify\">She has a PhD in Education-Curriculum Studies from Oklahoma State University &#8211; Stillwater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Cecelia Ottenweller<\/strong>,\u00a0Cultural Strategy and Inclusion Consultant,\u00a0is a solutions-focused cultural leader with 25+ years of experience helping for- and non-profit institutions shape compelling narratives and engage more deeply with their communities, fostering a deeper understanding of their &#8220;why&#8221; and forging more meaningful connections with their audiences.\u00a0Her projects expand understanding, deepen community connection, and result in strengthened cross-cultural alliances and improved trust. She has an MA in Cultural Sustainability from Goucher College and lives in Houston, Texas with her sweetheart Charles and extremely co-dependent pitbull Nickel.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Staff<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-275761 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/MJfeatured-e1631395566304-300x300.jpg?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Mira Johnson<\/strong>, D. Ed., is the Local Learning Director of Learning Networks and Training where she <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">works collaboratively with staff, artists, and community members on the design, development, and engagement of folk arts learning opportunities and resources<\/span>. She is also an adjunct assistant professor at Bronx Community College in the English Department and the First Year Seminar Program. She holds a doctorate in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning from Penn State University and an M.A. in folklore from the University of Oregon. Her research addresses the role of traditional knowledge and ecological relationships in community-based education, as well as regional belief practices. As a regional culture specialist for Pennsylvania\u2019s state folklife program she conducted fieldwork with rural and urban folk artists and tradition bearers, and served as the program coordinator at FolkArtPA, Pennsylvania\u2019s statewide folklife program. She later served as the Folk Arts and Education Coordinator at the Pelham Arts Center in Pelham, New York, where she oversaw the folk art performance and workshop series and worked to integrate folk art education into the center\u2019s studio art curriculum. This Local Learning position is supported, in part, by New York Folklore, and supports <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the larger Arts Education and Folklore ecosystems where Local Learning training programs happen, including with the wider folklore network of artists and cultural workers in New York State maintained by our partner New York Folklore.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>Email Dr. Mira Johnson at Mira (at) locallearningnetwork.org.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-276639 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Headshot-e1747426718445-277x300.jpg?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Dr. Lisa Rathje<\/strong> is Executive Director of Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education. She directs teacher and artist training institutes, develops learning resources and toolkits, and advocates for the inclusion of culture in diverse learning spaces. With Paddy Bowman, she is co-editor and founder of the <em>Journal of Folklore and Education<\/em> (JFEpublications.org), an international, freely accessed, multimedia juried journal published by Local Learning. She consults nationally, including currently a 5-year consultancy for the REACH program of the University of South Florida funded by the U.S. Department of Education to strengthen arts and culture programming in the nation\u2019s educational system. Through the project <em>Teaching with Primary Sources: Ethnographic and Oral History Collections<\/em> she directs a national consortium of folklife partners to develop curriculum and disseminate through teacher professional development and publication through the Library of Congress\u2019 premier educational program. Her work at the intersection of arts education, folklife, and cultural sustainability provides a unique, national perspective on the significant projects, trends, and research informing folk arts in education practices. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Folklore Society, the Arts Education Partnership National Advisory Council, and the AEP Systems Leader Network. Rathje also has taught courses on cultural partnerships and fieldwork in the Goucher College Masters in Cultural Sustainability degree program, and has multiple publication and film credits. She has a PhD in English from the University of Missouri.<\/p>\r\n<p>Email Dr. Lisa Rathje at Lisa (at) locallearningnetwork.org.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Senior Consultant<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-407 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PB8567Medium-1-e1631394753837-300x300.jpg?strip=all\" alt=\"PB8567Medium\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Paddy Bowman<\/strong> is the founding director of Local Learning and co-edits the <em>Journal of Folklore and Education<\/em>. K-12 teachers, community scholars, and arts administrators around the nation have benefited from her ability to connect non-folklorists with our discipline. Her influential university courses and professional development training programs in folklore for educators around the country, implementation of model school-based projects, authorship of seminal publications, and development of online and off-line curricular materials have significantly extended the reach of folklore to hundreds of teachers and thousands of students throughout the United States. She co-edited <em>Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Curriculum<\/em> (2011) and co-wrote a chapter in <em>Folklife and Museums.<\/em> She was awarded the 2013 American Folklore Society Benjamin A. Botkin Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Public Folklore and in 2016 was named a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. She has an MA in Folklore from the University of North Carolina.<\/p>\r\n<p>Email Paddy Bowman at pbbowman (at) gmail.com.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-276791 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Org-Chart-1024x778.jpg?strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Org-Chart-980x745.jpg?strip=all 980w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Org-Chart-480x365.jpg?strip=all 480w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Org-Chart.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=911 911w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Org-Chart.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=1367 1367w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Org-Chart.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=1823 1823w, https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-Org-Chart.jpg?strip=all 2279w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/>2025 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jfepublications.org\">Journal of Folklore and Education<\/a><\/em> Editorial Board<\/strong> <br \/>Cassie Rosita Patterson, Managing Editor<br \/>Taylor D. Burden, Reviews Editor<br \/>Fl\u00e1via Bastos<br \/>Betty Belanus<br \/>Norma Cant\u00fa<br \/>B. Marcus L. Cederstrom<br \/>Lisa Falk<br \/>Robert Forloney<br \/>Sandy LaBry<br \/>Rossina Zamora Liu<br \/>Sarah McCartt-Jackson<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>2026 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jfepublications.org\">Journal of Folklore and Education<\/a><\/em> Advisory Committee<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Bernadette Marie Calafell, University of Oregon<br \/>Norma Cant\u00fa, Trinity University<br \/>Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, Davis<br \/>Rachel Gonz\u00e1lez-Martin, University of Texas at Austin<br \/>Rosemary Hathaway, West Virginia University (Emeritus)<br \/>Rhonda Jackson Garcia (Joseph), Lone Star College<br \/>Andrea Kitta, East Carolina University<br \/>Lynne McNeill, Utah State University<br \/>Domino Renee Perez, University of Texas at Austin<br \/>David Puglia, CUNY<br \/>Emily Zarka, Arizona State University<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/efb8i89tsef.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/AEP-Partner-Badge.png?strip=all&w=2560\"><img 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