Cristina Fittipaldi is an arts professional with a strong background in creative leadership, nonprofit management, and community engagement. As executive director of Frontline Arts, she brings a passion for sustainable programming that empowers artists and fosters meaningful cultural experiences.

Cristina has held leadership roles across the arts sector, overseeing exhibitions, public programs, and operations with a focus on equity and accessibility. Her collaborative style and strategic vision allow her to bridge the needs of artists, institutions, and audiences alike.

She holds a B.A. in Art History and an M.P.A. with a focus on nonprofit management. A lifelong advocate for the arts as a tool for social change, Cristina draws inspiration from both her professional work and her commitment to family and community. 

EMAIL: Cristina@frontlinearts.org

Daniel is an illustrator, relief printmaker, fiber artist, and educator. He most recently worked as an associate professor of Illustration in the Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada, and is also currently teaching a variety of classes at The People’s Forum in NYC. His work focuses primarily on issues of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. His research interests focus on radical archives and the history of artist collectives, with frameworks that source primarily from the Global South. This research led to the founding in 2009 of a Beirut-based artists’ collective that has since achieved international renown. Daniel grew up in New Jersey and looks forward to returning and working with communities there.

Ingrid is an experienced multimedia specialist with a background in marketing, public relations, digital media, and graphic design. She is a professional artist and arts instructor with a long track record in small business and in providing administrative services to creative and technical clients. Together with the Frontline Arts team, Ingrid collaborates on organizational development, programming, and community outreach. As a contemporary artist, Ingrid Marie uses acrylics, oils, watercolor, photography, and printmaking to render and express emotional observations of nature. She is captivated by the use of multiple mediums to create art that engages the senses and evokes an understanding of time, place, and feeling. Learn more about her business at imartsgroup.com and see her art at ingrid.art

Ron Erickson is the Program Manager for the Frontline Paper Program, coordinating scheduling and logistics for all mobile workshops, talks, festivals, exhibitions and outreach activities.

A carpenter and a fine art painter who has volunteered and worked for Frontline Paper since 2016, Ron has spent his working career in the Display Industry. He first painted the faces of mannequins, then, as a carpenter and shop foreman, began building scenery, exhibits, and props for showrooms, museums, fashion shows, events, and photo shoots.

He’s been an assistant instructor in workshops and an installer on Frontline Arts Gallery exhibits for several years.

Ron is a veteran of the Marine Corps.

Walt is a Lead Instructor and the Studio Manager for our Frontline Paper Program. He manages the in-house production of all handmade paper from military uniforms and handles Frontline Paper supplies, equipment, and archives. As a Lead Instructor, he assists in running the mobile workshops, talks, press requests, festivals, and outreach activities.

He is an artist, curator, and writer, and is a Marine Corps veteran.

Emily Mackin is a sculptural installation and performance artist based in Pennsylvania. She received her BA and Honors in Studio Art and English from Lafayette College. Previously, she has worked with interdisciplinary NYC and Lehigh Valley artists at the Experimental Printmaking Institute, developing their personal print projects. She also has been part of the Canopy Program and NYC Crit Club, connecting with other artists and expanding on her own practice following undergraduate education.

Her work reflects on disempowering, personal experiences and uses the processes of manipulating material with evocative gestures to act as both a catharsis and a confessional. Her discernment of social hierarchies and constructions that conceal emotional and physical harm is a central vulnerability and incentive of the work's creation.

Website: emilycmackin.com

Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/weaponbodyobject/

Giannina Seaman, is currently the Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) for Advantage Solutions: Sales Marketing Technology organization. A seasoned Human Resources professional, Giannina has worked in several industries from non-profit, retail, professional services and consumer goods, and has been a champion of equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts throughout her twenty plus year career. After attending the first Women’s March in 2017, she came away feeling a greater need to dive deeper into her DE&I journey. While at Ketchum Communications, Giannina leaned into their DE&I efforts, playing a key role in driving their efforts to create a culture of inclusion through education in the programming she developed. She was instrumental in leading and expanding their diversity councils across North America and developing a ‘Real Talk’ series globally.

Giannina is a proud immigrant, originally from Peru and attributes her success and drive to her mother, who pushed her to do her best, even when faced with adversity. She is a mother of two amazing daughters, Autumn and Serena, wife to Rick and loving fur mom to her constant companion, Sandy, her adorable Labrador. When she’s not working she loves being the “Honeydo” in her home and enjoys gardening, writing poetry, and going to music festivals and Broadway shows (when possible).

Giannina is proud to be a board member for Frontline Arts and is committed to continuing the organization’s mission to providing transformational experiences through printmaking to Veterans, Migrant communities, and Frontline Medical providers.

Dr. Andrea Kalus (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Washington. Her clinical practice focuses on autoimmune diseases and complex medical dermatology. Andrea earned her M.D. at the University of Washington. She completed residency training in both internal medicine and dermatology.

She is the Pathway Director for the Humanities and the Arts Pathway, a 4-year elective for medical students exploring the intersection of the humanities disciplines and medicine. In collaboration with a museum educator, she teaches observation skills using the visual exploration of original art objects. She has developed printmaking workshops for students and healthcare teams to facilitate reflection, engagement, and stress recovery. She teaches medical students at all levels of training and supervises residents throughout their three years of dermatology training.

Andrea is using Scrub Paper in printmaking work with healthcare teams. She has experienced the power of artmaking to create conversation and to allow participants to process the impact of working in healthcare. She is committed to helping Frontline Arts further the importance of their work in all areas and especially with healthcare workers. For healthcare workers, Andrea sees artmaking as a space where people experience novelty, surprise, and persistence through mistakes.

Jennifer Friedel honed her communications and community engagement skills for two decades in Manhattan with agencies, nonprofits and organizations like CBS Interactive, Hyatt and the United Nations. With a background in the refugee and immigration space, and the military, veteran and first responder community, Jennifer is currently director, communications and government relations at Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area (LSSNCA), an immigration and refugee human services agency in the D.C. metro area that provided resettlement services to the largest number of Afghan Allies on the East Coast. She also sits on the Blue Star Families Baltimore and Chesapeake Region Advisory Board.

Moved by art’s ability to heal, disrupt, and bridge differences, as well as to make one dream, Jennifer was moved to join Frontline Arts to ensure these experiences are made available to a broad-audience and to ensure those whose voices and expressions of their narratives are oft overlooked have a place in the spotlight if so desired.

Jennifer holds a Master of Science in Global Affairs from New York University, with a concentration in human rights/humanitarian assistance, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Jeff joined DriveWealth in 2019 and has an extensive professional background in the securities industry. He spent 17 years with FINRA where he was the Senior Vice President and Regional Director of the South Region of FINRA from 2013-2016. During the period of 2013-2016, Jeff also oversaw FINRA’s National AML Investigative Unit and the creation of FINRA’s Helpline for Seniors.

In 2017, Jeff took on the role of Managing Director and Head of Financial Crime Compliance for the Americas at UBS. After UBS, he served as the General Counsel of Benchmark Investments Inc. and American Global Wealth management, Inc. He is a graduate of Villanova University with a degree in accounting and an alum of Pace University as a Doctor of Law (JD). He is NY and CT bar licensed and was licensed as a CPA.