Board

Chris is the parent of a 2017 Creative Writing graduate from DSA and has served on the DSAFF board since 2012. He is a principal at Semple Brown Design, a Denver architecture firm, and remembers fondly working on the design of DSA’s current facility.

Tam developed, directed, taught, and managed education programs for 23 years at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and held the position of Director of Education.

Susan D. Daggett is a land use and environmental attorney and is currently the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver.  

Aaron Miripol has 25 years’ of real estate development experience. He has overseen more than $175M in affordable housing and nonprofit facility development. Aaron is the President & CEO of the Urban Land Conservancy (ULC).

Tamara Acevedo is the Lead Instructional Superintendent for Denver Public Schools in Network 1 – NW Denver.   Prior to this position, she was the principal of Carson Elementary School in Denver for five years.

Dirk has spent nearly 20 years working as a development professional and has vast experience with many forms of philanthropy and philanthropic planning.

In January, 1984 Andy Burns started a career in commercial real estate. Shopping Center sales, leasing and brokerage were Andy Burns’ focus until a 1995 transition to developing and owning commercial and residential properties.

As the Executive Director of the Broadway division for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), John oversees all Broadway and theatrical touring operations for the organization. He assumed the position in 2014 after holding the roles of Business Manager, General Manager and Director of Programming.

 Peter Han is Vice President, Chief of Staff, for Colorado School of Mines, and has advocated for higher education institutions and programs for over 26 years. In his current role, Peter provides executive leadership for a broad portfolio of university functions including government relations, marketing and communications, and strategic partnerships, and provides counsel to the President on university initiatives.

Tracy Holt is the Arts Coordinator at Denver School of the Arts. She is a Denver native and a product of the Denver Public School system. She has earned her BA in Business Administration from The University of Denver.

In November 2016, Kendra Whitlock Ingram was appointed to the executive director position for the Newman Center for the Arts at the University of Denver. For the previous five years, she served as Vice President of Programming and Education for Omaha Performing Arts, overseeing the artistic direction of OPA’s season as well as all education and community engagement initiatives.

Laurence Kaptain, Dean of the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado Denver, brings 14 years of higher education leadership experience at leading public and private universities to his new assignment.  He recently served as President of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, and is currently the Treasurer of the College Music Society. In 2014 he was named a Fellow in the Royal Society of the Arts.

William Kohut was appointed was appointed Principal of the Denver School of the Arts in May of 2009. Denver School of the Arts is 6th- 12th grade school and has been recognized as one of the top high schools in American by US News and World Report. Prior to that, Bill had been the principal of the South High School a National AVID Demonstration School for 8 years.

Malik Robinson is the Executive Director of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (CPRD), a not-for-profit cultural arts institution based in Denver, Colorado.  As an internationally recognized arts organization, CPRD has served as a leader in preserving the rich heritage of legendary American modern dance choreographers.  

Ken Weil is a co-founder and principal of Social Impact Solutions (SIS).  Building on the growing need for new strategies to finance and scale public programs, SIS helps clients position successful programs for innovative finance.

Susan Knill has spent the past 17 years in the field of fundraising and development, leading successful events, campaigns, and initiatives in California and Colorado.