Our Team
The staff who make it happen
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Jason Langlois
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Melanie C. Butler
Director of Programming
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Stephen Pitzer
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Lauren Lambert-Tompkins
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Arisia Gilmore
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Joelle Castille
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Caroline Whitley
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David Darby
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Kirk Herrmann
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Andrea Van Burkleo
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Kelly Swift
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Jordan Smith
Patron Services Manager
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Taizija Carter
Graphic Designer
The board behind it all
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Ralph Bender
Chair
Manship Media
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Jason Dupree
Vice Chair
Cypress Title
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Robert W. Barton
Treasurer
Taylor Porter LLP
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Brook Harvey
Secretary
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Mukti Patel
Member at Large
Hannis T. Bourgeois CPA's and Business Advisers
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Virginia Y. Dodd
Member at Large
Phelps Dunbar LLP
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Jamie Watts
Past Chair
Long Law Firm LLP
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Isabel Aguilar-Espinal
Ochsner Health
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Jason Broha
Turner Industries
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Chris Brooks
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Chelsea Dufrene
LED FastStart
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Tom Fereday
Hancock Whitney Bank
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Todd Gaudin
Gaudin Law Group
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Luke Guarisco
Ouray Capital Management, LLC
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Tara Haney
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Anthony Kumse
Regions Bank
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Brett Lofton
Twenty20 Solutions
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Chrislyn Miller Maher
Louisiana Lottery Corporation
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William Britton Murrill, MD
Baton Rouge General
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Kim A. Perret
Jones Walker LLP
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Travis Woodard
CSRS, Inc.
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Trey Roberts
Lamar Advertising of Baton Rouge
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Taesia Shello
DOW Chemical Company
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Miles B. Williams
Sigma Consulting Group, LLC
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Layne Dodd
Honorary Director, Board Chair, 2019-2021
Home Bank
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James L. Ellis
Honorary Director, Board Chair, 2013 –2015
Taylor Porter Brooks and Phillips
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Edmund Giering
Honorary Director, Board Chair, 2015-2017
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
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Layne McDaniel
Honorary Director, Board Chair 2017-2019
LRM, CPA
Seasonal Sponsors
Baton Rouge Area Foundation
Baton Rouge Blues Festival and Foundation
Bluehenge Capital Partners
Box K Events
CSRS
Centerline
Chesteen & Associates, L.L.C.
City Group Hospitality
Cypress Title
Dow
Entergy
Envoc
Family Season Pass
Faulk & Winkler, LLC
Fishman Haygood, LLP
Gerry Lane Enterprises
Hancock Whitney
Home Bank
Hymel Davis & Petersen
John Turner and Jerry Fischer
Jones Walker LLP
Kean Miller LLP
LUBA Workers' Comp
Lamar
Layne R. McDaniel, CPA, LLC
Lipsey's LLC
Long Law Firm
Louisiana Lottery Corporation
Ouray Capital Management
Postlethwaite & Netterville
Rawlston Phillips Family Fund
Red Cake Events
Sigma Consulting Group, Inc.
Sonic
St. James Place
Taylor Porter Louisiana's Law Firm
Team Automotive Group
The Alma Lee, Norman, & Cary Saurage Fund
The Manship Family
Turner Industries
Union Pacific
WBRZ Channel 2 News
Hospitality Partners
L'Auberge Casino & Hotel
Crowne Plaza Hotels and Casino
Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center
Bally’s Baton Rouge
Belle Baton Rouge Casino
Hotel Indigo
Community and Grant Partnerships
AARP Louisiana
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge
Capital Area United Way
Charles Lamar Family Foundation
Chesteen and Associates
Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation
Louisiana Division of the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
New England Foundation for the Arts
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.
Our Lady of the Lake Childrens
South Arts
The Family of Danny Tiberghein
The Petersen Family Glen and Melinda Petersen
U.S. Small Business Administration