Hensley Evens, WSW Board President, Executive Advisor imc2 health and wellness
Hensley Evans works with imc2 health and wellness, a marketing agency that focuses on connecting clients in the healthcare space with patients, consumers, and healthcare professionals, primarily via digital channels. Her professional career has also included more than 10 years of financial and strategic consulting at Price Waterhouse and Andersen Consulting. She lives in Rosendale, NY with her partner, Jason, and their 2 year old daughter, Kaia, who keeps her on her toes! Hensley is an avid supporter of the arts and is excited to be part of the WSW board.

Steve Andersen, WSW Board Vice President, trained as an artist but found work as a freelance journalist, editor and web content producer. He writes feature articles and creates multimedia reports for business magazines and websites on topics ranging from renewable energy generation technology to corporate crime. An avid rock climber and skier, he settled in Rosendale in 2006 for its proximity to the beautiful Shawangunk Ridge.

Laurel Sweeney, Associate Broker, ABR, Eco-Broker, Prudential Nutshell Realty, Stone Ridge, NY,
Laurel Sweeney was recently awarded Ulster County Board of Realtors 2008 Realtor Associate of the Year award. In addition to the WSW board, she also serves on the boards of the Stone Ridge Library Foundation and Rondout Valley Business Association, as well as Chair of the Public Relations Committee of the Ulster County Board of Realtors. This community service, coupled with support of Mohonk Preserve, the Rondout Valley Growers Association, The Episcopal Church of Christ the King in Stone Ridge, and Habitat for Humanity compliment the networking and marketing that has been a key factor in her real estate achievements.

Kenneth Burge, Artist, Professor of Art, SUNY New Paltz (retired), Board Secretary, New Paltz, NY
Kenneth Burge was Professor of Art at SUNY New Paltz until his retirement in 2003. He has served on WSW’s Board of directors since its inception. Former husband of WSW founder Barbara Leoff Burge and past instructor of founder Ann Kalmbach, Ken has provided continuity and historical perspective to WSW’s board. Ken graduated from George Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, earned an MFA from The University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and completed additional studies at Columbia Teachers College and Yale University. In addition to being a practicing artist, Ken is an involved political activist, whose perspective also informs his interest in the activities of WSW.

Lauri Martin, Financial Services / Private Wealth Management
Lauri Martin joined the Philadelphia office of Credit Suisse Private Bank in March 2010, providing client support services to high net worth individuals and families. Prior to pursuing a financial services career, Lauri's earlier professional work centered around non-profit organizations. Specifically, her work focused on the role of cultural organizations in sustainable development. While completing post-graduate work in at the Australian National University, Lauri worked for the United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on a museum-centered poverty alleviation project in Ha Long Bay World Heritage Area, Vietnam

Suzanne Stokes, Associate Professor of Art, SUNY New Paltz
Before coming to SUNY, Suzanne was the Outreach Director and a faculty member for K-12 Art Programs at MassArt in Boston, MA. Stokes is the creator and artistic director of Cave Dogs, a collaborative performance group that brings together visual artists, musicians, dancers, storytellers, and writers in the spirit of experimental inter-disciplinary collaboration. The performances consist of innovative, large-scale shadow projections cast onto a scrim from sculptures, props, and the human body, which move in concert with projected video imagery, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack. Stokes also independently shows her work in galleries, as installations, sound pieces and prints and at film festivals and cyber venues. Suzanne received her MFA from SUNY New Paltz and her BFA from Kent State University, OH.

Barbara Leoff Burge, WSW Founder, Artist, New Paltz, NY
Barbara is a founder of Women’s Studio Workshop. Her work is in university and museum collections, including Yale, Harvard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art. She’s a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a practicing and teaching artist in New Paltz.

Robert Stack, Owner, Reliant Group, NYC
Robert Lamar Stack is the owner of The Reliant Group, a real estate and business valuation and consulting firm based in New York City with a satellite office in Boston. Bob has been active in real estate since 1982 and holds the prestigious MAI, Member of the Appraisal Institute and MRICS, Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor designations. He has been active as an adult leader in Boy Scouts for over 20 years. His interests include hiking, kayaking, hunting and fishing. He has had a long interest in art supporting his wife Susan, BFA – University of Houston and MFA – SUNY New Paltz, and good friend and WSW founder, Barbara Leoff-Burge.

Kate Karrakassis, Attorney
Before moving to Red Hook full time in 2010, Kate worked as a litigating attorney for the NYC Law Department in the tort, commercial and risk management divisions, and as an administrative law judge for the Environmental Control Board. Currently she is in private practice. Kate is a member of the New York Mycological and the Mid-Hudson Mycological Societies.

Susan Shaw

Rich Forbes, Attorney