Board of Directors

Amy Wrzesniewski, Chairman
Amy Wrzesniewski is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management. She received her Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. She has conducted research with Sun Microsystems, IBM, Kelly Services, and KeySpan Energy on topics including virtual work, organizational identification, meaning of work in temporary work assignments, and leadership. At Yale, she teaches graduate courses on management and organizational behavior.

Joshua Lindland, Vice Chairman and Treasurer
Joshua Lindland, CFA (Vice Chairman) is a portfolio manager and investment analyst at Victory Capital Management. Mr. Lindland is responsible for research in the financial sector, Southern Europe and the Benelux, as well as providing quantitative and portfolio construction support across Victory's international strategies. He has 8 years of investment experience. Prior to joining Victory, he held a similar role at Fiduciary Trust International and before that he managed a team of analysts at RogersCasey. Mr. Lindland holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from Muhlenberg College and is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder (CFA).

Alanna Weifenbach, Vice Chairman
Alanna Weifenbach is a Director in Accounting Policy at Merrill Lynch. She received a BSBA with a concentration in accounting from Georgetown University and is a CPA licensed in the state of New York. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Alanna worked for Credit Suisse and Ernst and Young in New York and Zurich. During her years at Georgetown, Alanna was actively involved in the performing arts community, particularly in production and set design.

Alexandra Farkas
Alexandra Farkas is a freelance director, writer and actor. As a director, she has staged her own adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie (Red Room NYC), set in 1920's New England, a workshop of Alice O'Neill's Speed of Light at the New Georges' Perform-a-thon 2003 (Connelly Theater), O'Neill's What I Came For (Red Room NYC), Getting Out by Marsha Norman (Connecticut College), and the multimedia collaboration Phenomenal Woman (New Jersey Summer Arts Institute) among others. A member of the Inverse Theater Company, she has acted, production managed and stage managed numerous shows for the company. As a freelance copywriter and communications consultant, she works with non-profit, corporate and publishing clients.

Adam Forest Huttler (ex-officio)
Adam Forest Huttler is Fractured Atlas's founder and Executive Director. He has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.B.A. from New York University. Since forming Fractured Atlas in 1998, he has grown the organization from a one-man-band housed in an East Harlem studio apartment to a broad-based national service organization with an annual budget of $3.4 million. These days Adam is mainly responsible for Fractured Atlas's organizational leadership and strategy. He also manages the company's growing advocacy work, along with the design and implementation of its information technology systems.

Alexandra Gray (ex-officio)
Alexandra Gray is Fractured Atlas's Director of Development. Her background is in theatre, having trained at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She began her development career at Brooklyn's Target Margin Theatre.

Beverly Jones
Beverly Jones is Assistant General Counsel at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City. Beverly joined Vera in 2005 after practicing with the Tax Exempt Organizations group at the law firm of Preston, Gates & Ellis LLP in Seattle, Washington. Beverly served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Deborah T. Poritz of the New Jersey Supreme Court after graduating from Yale Law School in 2002. While at Yale, Beverly was a student director of the Advocacy for Parents and Children Clinic and executive producer of the Court Jesters, the law school's own theatre troupe. Beverly graduated with honors from Smith College in 1997 with a major in government.

Susan Longstreet
Susan Longstreet is a partner in the real estate/corporate practice of the law firm of Winston & Strawn. She serves on the boards of several non-profit housing groups in the District of Columbia. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Longstreet participated in several local theatre groups both on stage and off. In recent years she has pursued her interest in the performing arts through a variety of other ways, as a subscriber to several theatres in the Washington, D.C. area, as a participant in workshops and conferences with actor and playwright friends, and as a supporter of nascent acting ensembles.

Robert B. Middleton
Robert B. Middleton, Sr. has over 20 years experience in risk management and program insurance development. He is currently the Director of the Insurance Program for the Performing Arts, which is committed to providing excellence in service and products to the arts community. Bob received a BA in 1985 from The College of William and Mary and attended the USF&G School of Insurance. He lives with his wife and three children in Baltimore, where they are active supporters of the arts.

Marylyn Rosenblum
Marylyn Rosenblum works as an independent Education Market Consultant for such clients as Princeton Review and Houghton Mifflin Interactive. She has been involved in the sales, marketing, and distribution of educational software and other materials for three decades, serving in senior management roles at SoftKey International, Brøderbund Software, CBS Software, CBS Interactive Learning, and Grolier Electronic Publishing, where she led the development and distribution of the world's first successful CD-Rom Encyclopedia. Ms. Rosenblum also served for seven years on the Board of the Whitby School, the oldest continually operating Montessori school in America.

Larry Searcy
Larry Searcy has been active for over thirty years in the fields of fundraising and non-profit management. He has served as a consultant for and on the boards of a wide variety of organizations in the arts and human service fields, such as The United Way, The Epilepsy Foundation of America, and The Electronic Industries Association.

Susan Vargo
Susan Vargo is an independent producer whose projects include All Shook Up! on Broadway, Magician, by British television writer Katherine Knowles and a new play by Michael J. Nelson (headwriter of Mystery Science Theatre 3000). She is also producing a solo show for actor / comedian Baron Vaughn. Currently the Director of Live Theatricals for Paramount and Nickelodeon, Ms. Vargo previously worked as a manager on and Off Broadway for over 8 years. Show credits include Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Beauty and the Beast, Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, The Vagina Monologues, King David, The Last Five Years, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, The Thing About Men. Ms. Vargo is a graduate of The Theatre School at De Paul University in Chicago.

Kenneth Weinberg, M.D.
Kenneth Weinberg, M.D. earned his BA in TV and Film Production from the University of Wisconsin. After four years working in the field in New York, he changed career paths and went to medical school. Dr. Weinberg has been an emergency room physician for 20 years and for most of that time has been writing stories related to his experiences. He has also been politically active, starting as an antiwar 60's hippie and now focusing on pursuing universal healthcare in the United States. In that light he has been active on the board of Physicians for a National Health Program and provided medical support to protesters during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Dr. Weinberg is an instructor in writing at the Program in Narrative Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. He lives in Soho and Old Chatham with his wife Ona, a psychoanalyst, and his 14-year-old daughter, Georgia.