UPDATE on Partners:
1700 Sansom Street
10th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
[email protected]
www.sacredplaces.org
(215) 567-3234
Board of Directors
The Reverend Dr. Thomas E. Frank, Chair
The Reverend Dr. Roy G. Almquist
The Reverend Dr. Eugene C. Bay
The Very Reverend Msgr. John F. Canary
David R. Cooper
Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA
John J. DiIulio, Jr., Ph. D.
The Reverend Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr.
The Reverend Pierce W. Klemmt
Corlis S. Moody
James R. Nader, FAIA
The Reverend R. Scott Sheldon
Gordon R. Woodrow
National Office
New Faces
Partners welcomes two staff members to our Pennsylvania Office:
Karen DiLossi joins us as the director of the Making Homes for the Arts
in Sacred Places program, and Scott Schnur as the new Programs and
Administrative Associate.
Karen, a native Philadelphian, holds a B.A. in history and drama, and
an M.A. in theatre. She has worked in the theatre since 2000, both
onstage and off, as an actress, stage manager, director, and producer
for numerous theatre companies. She sits on the Board of Directors’
Executive Committee of the Flashpoint Theatre Company, is the coArtistic Director of Madhouse Theater Company, and serves as a panelist
for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.
She was the Director of Programs & Services for the Theatre Alliance of
Greater Philadelphia for eight years, where she produced the Barrymore
Staff
A. Robert Jaeger, President
Tuomi Joshua Forrest,
Executive Vice President
Karen DiLossi,
Director of Arts in Sacred Places
Daniel Duffy, Project Manager,
Pennsylvania Office
Leanne Gehrig, Project Manager,
Chicago Office
Gianfranco Grande, Vice President for
Philanthropy and Business Development;
Director, Chicago Office
Marie Malloy, Director of Operations
Scott Schnur, Programs and Administrative
Associate, Pennsylvania Office
Elizabeth Ann Terry, Director of Training
Suzanne Yowell, Project Manager,
Texas Office
Sacred Places Production
Neeta McCulloch, Editor
Partners’ summer interns include (l. to r.) Fabiana Mileo, Lizzie Hessmiller,
Vanessa dela Torre, Simone Gadpaille, Lynn Alpert, John DiIulio, Rachel
Hildebrandt, and Levi Gikandi. Partners’ new Programs and Administrative
Associate, Scott Schnur, is on the far right. The interns are working on
a range of projects: researching congregations with separate 501(c)3
organziations; generating case studies for the Making Homes for the Arts
in Sacred Places program; interviewing congregations for the Halo Effect
project; searching for examples of adaptive re-use of church and synagogue
buildngs in cooperation with KSK Architects Planners Historians, Inc.;
writing articles for Sacred Places; and revamping our website. Molly Lester
(not pictured), who returns to Partners as a summer intern, is developing
a database of historic religious properties, in coordination with the
Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Historical
Commission.
3 • Sacred Places • www.sacredplaces.org • Summer 2011