ART WITH HEART ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• Peter Drury, an alumnus of Yale, the University of Washington, and the University of Illinois, is a leader who has served in board, staff and advisory roles in settings ranging from social work to sustainability, from AIDS to the arts, from interfaith relations to the PTA. He bears wisdom distilled from twenty years as executive director, development director, direct service worker, volunteer, board member, teacher, strategist and philanthropist. Driven by a passion for outstanding leadership in service of great missions, Peter pursued an MBA to learn to optimize the intersections of economics, finance, marketing and management with goals that are environmental, social, educational or artistic. Before his current role as Director of Development at A Child’s Right, he served at DZO Strategists, as well as Sightline Institute. Peter has a deep appreciation for Art with Heart’s effectiveness in bringing creativity to bear, as a path toward healing, for children and youth who grieve, who hurt, or who fear and continues as an advisor because he loves the mission, trusts the leaders, and has witnessed the impact.

• Rosalie Frankel, MA, ATR, has worked as an Art therapist for since 1980. She received her BA in Aesthetic Studies: Art and Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She then went on to earn a Masters Degree in Clinical Art Therapy from Immaculate Heart College. Rosalie has work in a wide variety of setting including extensive work with children and adults with special needs. Before moving to Seattle in 1994 she was the founding Program Director the Creative Arts Program which utilized an integrative creative arts approach for Adults with Developmental Disabilities and significant mental health challenges. She was Program Director of this award winning program for 10 years. Rosalie has also had many years of experience as an art therapy supervisor for Loyola Marymount University, University of Louisville Art Therapy Programs, and individuals seeking advanced training and registration as Art Therapist. She has been providing individual and group Art Therapy at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical center since 1999. Rosalie has been a continued source of support for Art with Heart, serving as an advisor to all of our publications.

• Scott Janzen of Destination Marketing is an award-winning 30-year marketing veteran who has managed communications for more than 200 local, regional and national clients. He has held management roles at some of Seattle’s largest advertising/public relations agencies, including DDB Seattle, WONGDOODY, Borders, Perrin & Norrander and Cole & Weber. His pro bono experience includes board and committee work with Puget Sound-area organizations including the YMCA of Greater Seattle, March of Dimes, Easter Seals, The Moyer Foundation and Christmas in the Northwest, among others. Scott formed a PR Committee when Oodles of Doodles first came out in 2002 and he has been passionate about the mission ever since. Scott and his wife Cris love to travel and have a deep (if misguided) passion for all things baseball.

• Jeanean Jacobs, MA, ATR-BC, CPAT, CPC received her Master of Arts in Art Therapy at the University of Louisville in 1999. Currently, Jeanean serves as the Director of In Home Programs at Maryhurst in Kentucky, overseeing a foster care program for all ages and working with traumatized children and young adults. Previously she served as Senior Director of Young Adult Services at the YMCA of Greater Seattle, helping young adults as they transitioned out of the foster care system. She is professionally certified as a Registered Art Therapist, National Board Certified Art Therapist, and Professional Coach. She serves on the board of directors of the Phoenix Institute and is a former board member of Art with Heart. She is a member of the American Art Therapy Association and lives in Louisville. She is passionate about helping youth reach beyond difficult circumstances to create a life of their choosing.

• Ti Locke earned a BA in Communications and Master in Teaching (MIT) from the Evergreen State College. She has worked as a typographer, graphic artist, photographer, journalist, printer, and classroom teacher. She created touring educational programs for Seattle City Light and taught with the van program at the Pacific Science Center.  She worked at KCTS/9 as an education specialist, managing the K-12 broadcast schedule, writing curricula and lesson plans based on broadcast and online programming, and presenting educator conferences and workshops. She has served on the Governing Board for the Seattle Community Network for eleven years and has served in on the Governing and Advisory Boards for Reel Grrls for nine years.  She joins the Advisory Board of Art with Heart because she has seen the power of art to help and heal when nothing else worked.

• Melissa Morrisette, Sound Mental Health, LICSW, CDP, CMHS currently works at Mental Health Clinician at Sound Mental Health. Before this, she served as a Social Worker at the Department of Human Services. Melissa first began using Art with Heart’s book “Chill & Spill” several years ago when a client brought the book to her. Her client experienced such a transformational change because of the book, that Melissa became a believer and now uses not just “Chill & Spill” but also “Ink About It” with her clients – both on an individual and a private, one-on-one basis with great results. Melissa graduated with a Masters in Social Work at Walla Walla University and originally hails from Massachusetts. She enjoys volunteering, running, gardening, and cuddling with her dog, Annie.

• T.A. McCann, serves as founder and President of Jump2Go. His past experience includes Vulcan Capital and Polaris Venture Partners, where he was an entrepreneur-in-residence. Prior to Polaris, he held senior positions at Microsoft, leading future strategy and product planning for the Exchange Server Group and developing the Service Delivery Platforms group, focused on mobile applications development. He is also a founder of HelpShare, a web Q&A company and Soft Labour, a web design and development consultancy. In addition to his technology background, T.A. has won sailing’s America’s Cup and sailed around the world.

• Rourke O’Brien is currently Founder, President and CEO of The Children’s Music Foundation (CMF). Prior to founding CMF in 2009, he was President of America’s Foundation for Chess. Rourke has spent much of his career in financial services beginning in 1978 with ten years in the securities industry as Vice President – Investments with both Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., and Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. before opening his own securities brokerage operation in 1986. He later founded State Street Mortgage in 1993, which became Qpoint Home Mortgage Loans in 1994, where he held the position of Director, President and CEO through 1998. Rourke holds a B.A. in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

• Ron Rabin, MA, LMHC, is the founding and current Executive Director of Kirlin Charitable Foundation in Bellevue, Washington. Ron came to Kirlin after a twenty year career in the fields of psychology and integrative medicine. He was the founding board president for Arts Corps, serving as president until 2006. Ron currently serves on the board of Bridges to Understanding, a global education program focused on building intercultural relationships through digital storytelling. Ron also serves on the Advisory Committee for Thrive By Five, a newly established public-private partnership for early learning in Washington State. Most recently, Ron has joined the board of CASEL, the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, University of Illinois at Chicago. Ron lives in Issaquah, Washington, with his wife and partner, Nancy Rumbel, a musician and recording artist. Their son is a filmmaker living in Los Angeles, and their daughter is traveling the world studying language, food and culture.

• Joseph C. Roberts is the CEO and owner of Apulent, a Seattle hospitality firm providing catering; event production and facility management services. Since 1987, he has served as a public arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and its predecessors resolving complex securities disputes, and since 2005, he has served as board president of Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art. Previously, he practiced law in Seattle with Skeel, Henke, Evenson & Roberts, journalism in Guayaquil with Análisis Semanal and managed the development of one of the world’s largest Vermiconverson facilities in San Diego, California. He is an honors program graduate of Washington State University and earned his Juris Doctorate from Seattle University. He is a mentor for young people both privately and through formal college programs, and is the proud father of two sons.

• Merryl Rothaus, ATR-BC, LMHC, is a board-certified registered art therapist, licensed mental health counselor and active artist. Merryl is core faculty in the Graduate Art Therapy Department at Antioch University, Seattle and previously taught in the Graduate Transpersonal Art Therapy department at Naropa University. Rothaus maintains a vibrant private psychotherapy practice where she blends her training as a transpersonal art therapist with her post-graduate studies in the Hakomi method of mindfulness-based, body psychotherapy. Rothaus has worked extensively as an Art Therapist in a community-based, social-action context with a variety of populations including at-risk youth, adults with mental illness, girls and women with disordered eating and with people who are actively dying. Rothaus has presented her work nationally at various American Art Therapy Association Conferences and is a co-author of “Unity in Diversity; Communal pluralism in the art studio and the classroom” in Kaplan’s book, Art therapy and social action; Treating the world’s wounds.

• Blair L. Sadler is President Emeritus of the Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center in San Diego, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a faculty member at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He served as President and CEO of Children’s from 1980-2006. A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he served as a Medical-Legal Specialist for the National Institutes of Health, on the Yale University faculty, as Assistant Vie President at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and as Vice President and Director of the hospital and clinics at Scripps Clinical and Research Foundation. He was the founding chair of the Child Health Accountability Initiative, a consortium of 15 children’s hospitals dedicated to improving the quality of America’s children. He served on the U.S.-Mexico Border Heath Commission. Among Mr. Sadler’s numerous professional activities, he has co-authored three books and has written numerous articles on quality and healthcare. He is a frequent presenter nationally and internationally on the impact of evidence based-design and the business case for building optimal hospitals.

• Barbara V. Wollner is a self-taught artist living in both Seattle, Washington and Healdsburg, California. She is involved in a variety of non-profit organizations focusing on education, arts, environment and sustainable agriculture. Her background is in restaurant management, AIDS fund raising and community service. She lends advisory support to First Place and Art with Heart in Seattle; and Imagine Bus Project in Healdsburg. She is involved in the Seattle Foundation, Community Foundation Sonoma County and the NPR Foundation. Barbara has also served as a mentor to Art with Heart’s Founder and Board of Directors.

• Howard Wollner retired as a Senior Vice President of Starbucks Coffee Company, working for the company from 1992-2005. He served in various capacities, including Senior Vice President of Administration and was the executive responsible for Strategic Alliance Management for joint venture partnerships. He also worked for Starbucks Coffee International as Senior Vice President Strategic Business Systems. His last assignment was as Senior Vice President Store Concepts where he led a team in the research and development of new store design and functionality for the next generation of Starbucks stores worldwide. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University and his Master of Business Administration degree from Seattle University. Wollner provides strategic planning and organizational development consulting services to companies in Seattle and Sonoma County. He serves on the boards of IslandWood, an environmental learning center on Bainbridge Island and The Seattle Foundation. He also advises other non-profit organizations in Seattle and Sonoma County on strategic planning issues. He is married to Barbara Wollner and has a daughter, Alessandra, who attends Brown University. He enjoys yoga, squash, gourmet food and wine, design and reading.