Our Team

Cathy Allen

Founder - Director
Associate Professor of Dance UNLV
Artistic Director: reddesertdance.org

Suzie Khalil

Founder - Associate Director
Conceptual Artist, Researcher, Cognitive Scientist
Fellowships at The Ohio State University (MFA) and Arizona State University (PHD)

Roberta Sabbath

Founder and Senior Advisor
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Religious Studies Director and Visiting Assistant Professor UNLV

Dana Blickensderfer

Advisory Board - Co Sponsor
Ms. Blickensderfer co-founded an international strategic digital ﬁrm
American artist, entrepreneur, and editor-in-chief

Jonatas

Advisory Board - Co-Sponsor
Brazilian-American Symbolist artist, author, academic, and public speaker

Steven Neuberg

Advisory Board
chair of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University

James Surwillo

Advisory Board
Performance Consultant Surwillo is also a writer of ancient Wisdom and Metamodern Leadership.

Kimberly Howard

Advisory Board
Executive Director, Caldera Arts
Chair, Oregon State Board of Education; Member of the board of directors for Portland Playhouse, and the Center for Performance and Civic Practice

Shahab Zargari

Advisory Board
Filmmaker, music lover, author and entrepreneur.
Video and Technical Support UNLV College of Fine Arts

Matthew Pruitt

Advisory Board
Lawyer - Focused on corporate law, contracts, litigation, judgment collection, entertainment, intellectual property, estate planning, and real estate

Dr David Hirschman

Advisory Board
Pediatrician having served 20 years providing emergency medicine care and leadership at Children's Minnesota Hospital

Michael Fong

Advisory Board
Assistant Professor of Art
Digital fabrication technology and research

Indranee Clarke

Advisory Board
Is a dancer, choreographer,model, Voice-over Artist, Actor, and Singer. Master Acharya, Classical Yoga and Meditation. Gold and Silver medals

Ari Hirschman

Advisory Board
Fine Art Sculptor - Specializing in abstracted figurative sculpture .
Past engineer with AOL network developer.

James Jeon

Advisory Board
Founding Artistic Director of Seoul Ballet, Seoul, Korea
Best choreography by Moomm Dance Magazine and Snow White

Chiao-Ping Li

Advisory Board
Former Chair of the UW-Madison Dance Department
Li Chiao-Ping Dance 1994 and co-directed the SF-based Dziga Vertov Performance Group with Douglas Rosenberg

Jill Kashiwagi

Advisory Board
Program Manager responsible to lead and execute the TOMODACHI Metlife Women’s Leadership Program for the 2021-2022 year.

Blake Kashiwagi

Advisory Board
Driver Experience Director- Executive for Truck Daimier North America
Head of Mechatronics Engineering - Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation

Cheselyn Amato

Advisory Board
Interdisciplinary visual artist, experiential designer, sanctity-imbued space/place designer, and a sound and spoken-text improvisational performer committed to the celebration and healing of self, others, humanity, the world, and the cosmos