In March 2024, I became General Counsel and Corporate Secretary to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.), one of the most significant cultural and performing arts institutions in New York City and the world. After graduating from Brooklyn Tech in 1987, I went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Pennsylvania State University and a Juris Doctor degree from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have three decades of experience as an entertainment, intellectual property, litigation, labor and employment, and business lawyer, including work with major international law firms, my own boutique law firm, and media conglomerates NBCUniversal and BuzzFeed Media Enterprises. I have served on and lead the boards of several performing arts, education, and human services organizations, and am a past President of The Penn State Alumni Association and a past Trustee of The Pennsylvania State University. I have always had a personal passion for the arts, and have been a musician, composer, librettist, actor, and creative for more than four decades, working in nearly every genre of music, and writing book, music, and lyrics for two full-length musicals.