Alight's Board of Directors
Angella Foster
President / Artistic Director
Angella holds a B.A. in Dance Performance & Choreography from Hope College and a M.F.A. in Dance Choreography from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has worked in an administrative capacity for the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, the Martha Graham Center, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and Suzanne Callahan Consulting for the Arts. Angella currently serves as the Director of the Studio Dance Program at Greenbelt Community Center. Her work been funded by the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Local Dance Commissioning Project and the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region.
Benjamin Foster
Vice President / Managing Director
Ben earned degrees in American Literature and Russian from the University of Kentucky, completing his degree in St. Petersburg, Russia. He finished the M.A. in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005. Since 2007 he has been a staff member of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names Foreign Names Committee. He recently completed a four month assignment as Geography Mentor to the Afghan Cartography and Geodesy Head Office in Kabul, and is currently pursuing a master's degree in GIS at the University of Maryland.
Michelle Cardoso
Secretary / Director of Communications
Michelle is the Communications Director for alight dance theater. She has extensive experience with strategic communications planning through her work with the University of Maryland, the National Rehabilitation Hospital, and MedStar Health among others. She received her bachelor’s in Communication and Public Relations from the University of Maryland, College Park and was awarded the Association of Women in Communications’ Matrix Scholarship in 2008. She is currently working at Ketchum Public Relations.
Brytt Brooks
Treasurer / Bookkeeper
Brytt received her bachelor's degree in Business Management from Grove City College. She spent over seven years working in the U.S. Senate, handling a wide range of legislative issues while specializing in the budget and appropriations process. Most recently, Ms. Brooks worked at McLean Presbyterian Church as the Nursery Coordinator where she was responsible for overseeing over 200 volunteers on a quarterly basis.
Monica Warren
Director / Company Manager
Monica received her B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009. As a student, she worked at the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Artist Services assisting in to preparations for special events and the hosting of a variety of professional touring performance companies. She has also worked on contract as a liason and company assistant to the Margarent Jenkins Dance Company while they toured in Maryland in November 2009.
Madeline Bell
Director / Arts Management Consultant
Madeline is the Artist Services Coordinator at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland where she works closely with other departments including Production, Marketing and Communications and Patron Services. Madeline has an extensive background in working with children of all ages and has taught theater to young audiences on several occasions. In 2006 she received her B.A. in Theatre from the University if Maryland, College Park. Madeline is a third generation Greenbelt resident.
Jeremy Ehrenreich
Director / Research Consultant
Jeremy is a former reporter and editor who worked for several newspapers for more than a decade, specializing in arts and education coverage. He began dance training when he was 5, and eventually appeared in productions presented by 171 Cedar Arts Center and American Dance Asylum, both based in Corning, NY. He has lived in Greenbelt, MD since 2005.
Photos Courtesy Enoch Chan.