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
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.
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
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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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