Full Bios on Friends Board members

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
2014-2015 Friends Board Bios
Michelle Beischer is a graduate of Smith College and Wake Forest University School of Law. Upon
obtaining her law degree, she moved to Durham where she practiced law. She is a community volunteer
and has been active with the Junior League of Durham and Orange Counties, Westminster Presbyterian
Church and Durham Academy. She is a past President of the Durham Academy Parents Association and a
former board member of the Durham Academy Board of Trustees. She lives in Durham with her husband
David and sons Will, Nick and Davis.
Lenore Behar received her B.A. in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1963 in clinical psychology from Duke University.
She completed postdoctoral work at Duke University and then worked at the Community Guidance
Center of Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas, before taking a faculty position in 1965 in the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1973, Behar assumed
the position of Chief of Child Mental Health Services in the state office of the North Carolina Division
of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services. In 2000, she assumed a
new role with the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse
Services as the first Director of Child Research and Program Development. Behar carried out the
responsibilities of this position in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke
University. In 2001, she lefther position with the State of North Carolina and became a full-time
faculty member at Duke, where she had an appointment since 1978. Her major responsibility at Duke
was to serve as Associate Director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.
Based on her professional stature, Behar was appointed by President Carter to the President’s
Commission on Mental Health and by President Bush to a similar commission. She chaired the Office
of Technology Assessment’s study of children’s mental health. She was appointed by the Federal
Court in Hawaii to oversee the state’s progress in complying with a lawsuit regarding the rights of
children. Behar is currently the director of Child and Family Program Strategies, an organization
dedicated to providing consultation on systems development and systems change. She has previously
served on the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority (1989-91, 1993-98), Duke’s Executive Leadership
Board and Development Council (1993-95), and several national professional organizations. She is
currently on the boards of the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle and the Medical Hypnosis
Foundation.
Gail Belvett received her B.Sc. in Microbiology and Immunology with a minor in Linguistics from McGill
University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1997, Gail moved to Chapel Hill to attend UNC-Chapel Hill School of
Dentistry. She was awarded her doctor of dental surgery in 2001. After a hospital residency in New York
City, Gail moved to Atlanta and joined a dental practice. In 2007, Gail returned to Durham and opened a
private practice, Southpoint Family Dentistry. In May 2011 she opened her second practice in Mebane,
NC. Gail’s appreciation of the arts began early in life—her parents were avid art collectors. She
completed an internship at the Royal Ontario Museum and studied piano and music theory with the
Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario. Gail is a member of the Old North State Dental Society
through which she mentors current and aspiring minority dental students at UNC School of Dentistry.
Gail also serves on the Millennium Development Goals Subcommittee (part of the Episcopal Diocese of
North Carolina's Chartered Committee for Global Mission).
Diane Bonner is a Senior Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Wells Fargo Private Bank, based in Chapel
Hill. She previously worked for SunTrust. Diane completed her undergraduate degree at Clemson.
Jennings Brody owns and operates Parker & Otis, established in Durham in 2007. She is a volunteer in
the community currently serving with the Volunteer Center of Durham and Sustain-a-Bull, Durham’s
non-profit independent business alliance, which strives to promote and support locally owned,
independent businesses in the Durham community. Jennings lives in Durham with her husband and
business partner, Jonathan Kea and their daughter, Miller. Jennings grew up in Connecticut and
graduated from Bates College in Maine where she majored in Art History and Political Science.
Farnum Brown is Arjuna Capital’s Chief Strategist and lead portfolio manager, and leads Arjuna’s
Durham, NC office. Farnum entered the investment business in 1980 and in 1987 established one of
the first socially responsible investment advisory services in the southeastern United States. From
1994 to 2012, Farnum worked at Trillium Asset Management, a pioneer in responsible investing. At
Trillium he was a senior vice president, technical analyst and the firm’s chief strategist. Farnum
founded the non-profit Open Media and Information Company Initiative (OpenMIC), a shareholder
coalition promoting an open, competitive digital ecosystem. He serves on the Boards of Directors of
the Future of Music Coalition, Open MIC, and of the Public Media Company. Farnum received his
bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in philosophy from UNC Chapel Hill. Farnum is the AT&T
shareholder and investment manager for the Beastie Boys. He is a big proponent of “net neutrality,”
and why it matters for musicians.
Nathan Isley is the co-owner of Isley Hawkins Architecture (founded by his father Max Isley), based in
Durham. Most of their projects are in central North Carolina and center around healthcare (Duke,
UNC), science, university and adaptive reuse projects. Preservation North Carolina presented a 2013
Carraway Award of Merit to Isley Hawkins Architecture for its role as preservation architect for the
restoration of St. Mary’s Chapel in Orange County, NC. Nathan is a graduate of NCSU.
Ruth Caccavale works part-time in the education department of the Nasher Museum, primarily as a
gallery guide, sharing the exhibitions with school children, college students and the adult community.
Ruth also teaches art history in Duke University’s continuing education department and assists with
other educational projects such as museum special events and visits to school classrooms. For ten years
prior to this, she taught a variety of art history classes at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Ruth worked
for Tiffany & Company as their curator for antique silver and jewelry and was a free-lance lecturer
during a three-year period in England. Her first jobs after college were in the education department of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters Museum in New York City. She has been involved in
philanthropic activities and together with her husband, raised three children. Her husband John,
currently runs the Financial Economics Center at Duke Universtiy. Ruth received her undergraduate
degree from Duke University and a masters in art history from Rutgers University.
Deborah DeMott joined the faculty of Duke Law School in 1975 after practicing law with a large law firm
in New York City. She taught at other universities in the United States, Canada, and Hungary, and was a
Fulbright Senior Scholar in Australia in 1986. From 1998-2000, Deborah held a secondary appointment in
the Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Over her career, she has
taught courses in corporate law and other aspects of business law and, more recently, she teaches tort
law to first-year law students. Her books and articles focus on fiduciary obligations, corporate
transactions, the law of agency (i.e. relationships in which one person represents another), among other
topics. She graduated from Swarthmore College and New York University School of Law and spent her
early years in DuBois, PA, where her mother was a practicing artist and a public-school art teacher. She
developed the first course in Art Law at Duke Law School. In the course, students examine legal concepts
that underpin transactions and legal interests in art objects, including questions of ownership and
authenticity. The course also examines specific legal issues associated with art museums as distinctive
cultural institutions. She has also taught versions of this course to graduate students in law at the
University of Sydney and Central European University in Budapest.
Pierce Freelon is a musician, professor and artivist with a passion for creativity and community. He is
front man of the genre-bending The Beast, hailed as a "natural, engaging blend of jazz and hip hop,” by
Jazz Times Magazine. He has taught music, African American studies and political science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University. Freelon is the cofounder of ARTVSM - a company merging art and activism by any medium necessary.
Michael Goodmon leads one of the country's most dynamic urban mixed-use developments, the
American Tobacco Campus in Durham. As vice president of real estate for Capitol Broadcasting
Company, Inc., the campus' owner and master developer, Michael manages the day-to-day activities of
approximately 1,000,000 square feet of class A office, restaurant and retail space. He scopes and
develops new projects and opportunities, and has assembled a multitude of complex Historic and New
Market Tax Credit transactions. He earned a B.S. in Mathematical Economics from Hampden-Sydney
College and a Masters in Trust and Investment Management from Campbell University. Michael is an
advocate and leader of the Durham and Triangle communities and serves on several boards to
encourage growth, entrepreneurship and community development. These boards include: City of
Durham Workforce Economic and Employment Development, East Durham Children’s Initiative, Healing
Place of Wake County, Downtown Durham, Inc., NC Rails to Trails, CAHEC, and the Museum of Durham
History.
Bryan Huffman is the Chief Business Officer for YMCA of the Triangle, the 10th largest Y in the country.
Bryan has been with the YMCA for 18 years, the last seven in Durham. Under his leadership, the Durham
YMCAs have become one of the premier non-profits in Durham serving over 20,000 Durham citizens
annually in youth development and healthy living. Bryan has an undergraduate business degree and an
MBA, both from North Carolina State University. He lives in Durham with his wife and two young
children.
David Lindquist has been an antiques dealer, appraiser, author and educator since 1974, when he
finished his Graduate School work in Political Science at Duke University and opened a business rather
than accept a university teaching position. He converted his passionate hobby (and graduate school
sideline) into a business in order to keep his family in the Triangle--a region with which they had fallen in
love. David has his undergraduate degree from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri--his home state.
He has served on a variety of national boards in the antiques field (including President of The National
Association of Dealers in Antiques) as well as area civic and church boards. For the past sixteen years he
has served as Chairman of the Board of The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (www.thecot.org)
guiding the effort to create for The COT a permanent home at the Durham Carolina Theater where over
the last fourteen years attendance at concerts has grown from less than two hundred to frequently
filling the theater. He and his daughter Elizabeth own Whitehall Antiques in Chapel Hill, located in the
Villa Tempesta which the family restored in 1990. David's life partner is Paul Hrusovsky, artist and
beloved art teacher for over 30 years in St. Louis and Chapel Hill.
Mac McCaughan is a founding member of the rock band Superchunk, and co-founder of Merge Records
along with Laura Ballance. He also heads the band Portastatic, which began as a lo-fi side project and
has blossomed into his main musical project. Prior to this, he was the head of another lo-fi band named
Bricks with Andrew Webster of Tsunami, Josh Phillips and Laura Cantrell. In 2002, McCaughan teamed
up with Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices to form the group Go Back Snowball. The duo recorded and
released an album in 2002, titled Calling Zero. On October 24, 2007, McCaughan gave expert witness
testimony in the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on the topic "The Future of Radio."
Lori O’Keefe Triangle Community Foundation’s Vice President for Philanthropic Services and Chief
Operating Officer, helps cultivate relationships with the Foundation’s fundholders to create
opportunities for strategic grantmaking within the Triangle nonprofit community. In addition to directly
managing more than 150 donor-advised funds, she also works with members of the donor engagement,
community engagement and development teams on fundholder and community outreach and
initiatives. In her role as Chief Operating Officer, Lori is responsible for the day-to-day operations and
services of TCF, which manages more than 750 funds and $145 million in charitable assets that support
the region. A life-long devotee of the arts with an MBA specializing in arts and nonprofit administration,
Lori has held positions in the areas of development and events management in various arts venues
including Carolina Ballet, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and New York University. Lori has participated
in the Leadership Triangle and Leadership Raleigh programs, and has presented locally and regionally on
philanthropy and charitable giving. Lori lives in Wake Forest with her husband and two daughters.
Beth Owen is the Associate Director, Finance & Administration at the Robertson Scholars Leadership
Program; prior she was a Business Analyst at Fuqua’s Executive MBA Programs. She lives in Durham.
Beth belongs to Lillian's List of NC (an independent political committee, dedicated to electing prochoice Democratic women to the North Carolina General Assembly). She received an MBA in 1995
from UCLA, an MS from the University of Michigan in 1993 in Natural Resources and Environment, and
a BS from Wellesley in Economics in 1988. Beth has two sets of twins at Duke School.
Pilar Rocha-Goldberg is a native from Bogotá, Colombia and currently works as President/CEO at El
Centro Hispano, Inc. a non-profit organization that helps the Latino community to integrate with the
community at large in Durham and Orange County, NC. A nutritionist for 20+ years, she arrived in the
United States in 2004 and immediately started working on programs helping Latinos. In collaboration
with Duke University, she translated and then implemented a Nutrition Program into Spanish, and more
importantly, tailored it in order to fit the Latino culture. She joined El Centro Hispano in 2004 and has
worked on many projects. She has served as secretary, vice-president and president of El Centro
Hispano’s board of directors. Since becoming involved with the community, she has been invited and
participated in many forums, conventions and seminars and groups including: Chair of the Chronic
Diseases Team, which was part of the Hispanic/Latino Health Advisory Group at the Office of Minority
Health and Health Disparities in Raleigh, NC.; and North Carolina Representative at the National
Partnership for Action in Atlanta, GA. She is also a member of Triangle Colombian Resources Association,
The Durham County Project Access Board of Directors, North East Central Durham Leadership Council,
The Governor’s Advisory Council of Hispanic/Latino Affairs, Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors,
Lincoln Community Foundation Board of Directors and the Durham YMCA Board of Directors.
Arthur Henry Rogers III heads Eno Ventures, a commercial real estate investment and management
company with office and retail properties in Durham and Albemarle, NC. Prior to 2002, he worked in
international sales with Collins and Aikman Products Company and was based in Roxboro, NC with
frequent travel to California and Japan. After leaving Collins and Aikman in 2000 to pursue his interest in
commercial real estate, Arthur worked for two years as a broker with Borden Real Estate in Durham.
Susan Rosenthal is a Senior Vice President and a managing partner of The Rosenthal & Puff Group at
Morgan Stanley. “Having been a female wealth manager for more than 30 years, I am happy to say that
it has been an extremely rewarding career. I was able to take my training (PhD) in Emotional
Disturbances in Children (emphasis in psychology) and use it in combination with my more quantitative
skills.” Susan’s career with Morgan Stanley began in 2012, following 31 years as a wealth management
advisor with Merrill Lynch. Registered Rep recognized Susan as one of America’s Top 50 Advisors in
2004. Susan was named to the Barron’s rankings of Top 100 Women Financial Advisors four
consecutive years (2006-2009). She was also named to “Barron’s” Top 1000 Advisors in 2009-2010.
Susan, who is based in Durham, North Carolina, was one of only 25 North Carolina Advisors recognized
by “Barron’s” in their Top Advisor rankings in 2010. She was the only female from the Research
Triangle honored in this ranking. Susan is very active in her community. She is a member of the
Carolina Women’s Leadership Council and the National Leadership Council for the Emily Kryzyzewski
Family Life Center. She also served on the Board of Visitors for The University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill from 2008-2012. She completed her BA, MEd and PhD at UNC Chapel Hill. She has also taken
courses at The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and at Harvard University.
Henry Sappenfield is a trial attorney at Kennon Craver, PLLC in Durham where he represents the firm’s
local and regional clients. Henry was born and raised in Tulsa, OK. After receiving his undergraduate
degree from the University of Tulsa, Henry worked as an archaeologist and completed graduate work at
the University of Toronto. Henry received his J.D. from Boston College Law School and practiced in
Boston for seven years. Henry, his wife Elizabeth, and their two young sons attend St. Phillips Episcopal
Church and are actively involved in Durham, supporting the Nasher Museum, Preservation Durham,
Triangle Modernist Houses, Urban Ministries of Durham and the Greater Durham Chamber of
Commerce.
Angela Terry retired in 2002 as Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at North Carolina Central University,
where she created the Freshmen First program. She holds a PhD in Psychology and, before relocating to
Durham, had a 26-year career in Connecticut. While in CT, Angela worked for the State Department of
Education as a State Consultant for School Psychological Services from 1973- 1981, as well as working
for the University of Connecticut where she retired as the Associate Vice President of Student Affairs in
1997 (her first attempt at retirement!). She is a member of the Durham County Women’s Commission,
president of the Association of Retired NCCU Personnel, President of the Nasher Museum Friends Board,
and a Diamond Life Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Durham Alumnae Chapter. Angela is
also the proud mother of two adult children.
Carl Webb is president of Forty/AM Consulting and a native of Durham, has been involved in several of
the largest, most successful real estate development projects in Durham in the past decade. A 27-year
veteran of the advertising and marketing communications industry, he has developed relationships and
delivered powerful communications programs for a portfolio of real estate clients. He has been involved
in several public-private partnerships. While serving as a partner at Greenfire Development, Carl led
relationship strategy and communication planning efforts for the Durham, NC-based community
development company. Prior to joining Greenfire Development, Carl was co-founder of Webb Patterson
Communications serving clients such as McDonald’s, GlaxoSmithKline, Urban Ministries Inc., Allergan,
the State of North Carolina, Zondervan Publishing, Focus on the Family, and Thomas Nelson Publishing.
Carl attended North Carolina Central University and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. He
graduated from Leadership Triangle and Leadership North Carolina, as well as the minority business
executive program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Carl and his wife, Bridgette, reside in
Durham and have three children, Chaunesti, Samantha, and Carl Jr.