Board of Directors

OFFICERS

WYNTON MARSALIS, President
World-renown trumpeter, bandleader and composer, NEA Jazz Master
Managing and Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Director, Jazz Studies, The Juilliard School
BIOGRAPHY

ROBIN BELL-STEVENS, Vice President
Director, Jazzmobile, Inc.
Executive Producer

DAVID CHEVAN, Secretary
Professor of Music, Southern Connecticut State University
Co-Founder, Afro-Semitic Experience

HOWARD SCHAIN, Treasurer
CPA, Schain Leifer Guralnick CPAs

MEMBERS

KENNETH R. ALLEYNE, MD, FAAOS
Orthopedic Surgeon, Healthcare Investor, Social Entrepreneur

ALVIN CARTER III

LISA COHEN
Vice-President, Associated Booking Corp.

SUSAN DEVENS
Co-Producer, George Devens Productions

JACKIE HARRIS
Executive Director LAEF, founder & producer
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp

JOSH MAYER
Adjunct Professor, Tulane University School of Business

MICHAEL MOSSMAN
Director of Jazz Studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College/CUNY

JONATHAN RASKIN, MD FCCP FACVPR
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York

JEFFREY ROSENSTOCK
AVP, Governmental Relations & External Affairs – Office of the President, Queens College, CUNY

DEBORAH H. ROSS
Executive Director, Joyce & George Wein Foundation

STAFF

JACKIE HARRIS
Executive Director

LISA COHEN
Sole and Exclusive Agent to LAEF, INC.

JENNA PURCELL
Administrative Coordinator

The sound of that horn was a pure spiritual essence, the sound of America and of Freedom.

~ Wynton Marsalis

Grantee: Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC)

Louis Armstrong publicity photo, mid-1960s

Louis Armstrong publicity photo from 1935

Publicity photo of Louis in Chicago, 1931

HONORARY MEMBERS

REGINA BAIN
Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum

EMERITUS

DAN MORGENSTERN 
Author, Historian, NEA Jazz Master

DAVID GOLD (deceased) Founder, President Emeritus
Executor of Armstrong Estate

STANLEY CROUCH (deceased), President Emeritus
Author, Journalist, Critic, Playwright
BIOGRAPHY

PHOEBE JACOBS (deceased) Founder, Executive Vice President
Publicist, Marketing Specialist

OSCAR COHEN (deceased) Founder, Sole & Exclusive Agent of LAEF
President, Associated Booking Corp

EVELYN CUNNINGHAM (deceased) Founder
Journalist, Civil Rights Activist, Special Assistant to Governor Nelson D. Rockefeller

PHILIP LESHIN (deceased) Marketing Director, Media Advisor

JEROME A. CHAZEN (deceased)
Chairman, Chazen Capital Partners

GEORGE WEIN (deceased)
Chairman, Newport Festivals Foundation, Inc., NEA Jazz Master

Address

MAILING ADDRESS:
The Louis Armstrong Educational
Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 20681
New York, NY 10021

LOCATION:
10 East 40th Street - Suite 2710
New York, NY  10016

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