Trustees

The primary responsibilities of the Board of Trustees are to advance RISD’s mission, to provide organizational oversight and to set policy.

Officers of the Corporation

Michael H. Spalter, Chair
Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn 83 TX, Vice Chair
V. Duncan Johnson, Secretary

Term Trustees

Michael D. Allen BArch 82
David C. Barclay
John Beug
Erica DiBona
Sherri Donghia
Susan Dryfoos
Joe Gebbia 05 GD/ID
Robert Glass
Cathy Graham 76 PT
Richard W. Haining, Sr.
Jon Kamen
Amy Korenvaes 74 SC
Scott R. Latham 81 PT
Mary Lovejoy
Stephen A. Metcalf
Susan B. Montgomery 71 AE
Merrill W. Sherman, Chair Emerita
Sandra P. Smith BArch 69
Peter Stein
William G. Tsiaras
Patricia A. White 64 IL
Margaret A. Williams

Ex-Officio

Nathaniel Hesse 76 SC, Past President/Alumni Association
Meghan Reilly Michaud 01 GD, President/Alumni Association
John Maeda, President  

Life Trustee

Louis M.S. Beal 52 IA

Honorary Trustees

Nancy S. Angier
Anthony C. Belluschi BArch 66
Jane Chace Carroll
Clara M. Dale BArch 75
Robert F. Dixon BArch 71
Bayard C. Ewing
Barnet Fain
Louis A. Fazzano
Anne B. Fordyce 67 SC
Peter B. Freeman
Katherine Freygang 80 IA/MFA 81 GD
A. Corwin Frost 59 AR
Wilfrid L. Gates, Jr. 65 LA
Paula Koffler Granoff
Sidney F. Greenwald
Ronne Hartfield
Dorothy Hebden-Heath 57 PT
J. Kenneth Kansas 51 IL
Erma W. Leavitt 44 PT
Se-Ung Lee
David A. Macaulay BArch 69
John O.C. McCrillis 39 GD
Esther Elise Metcalf Mauran
Pauline C. Metcalf
Nicole J. Miller 73 AP
J. Terrence Murray
Dana M. Newbrook 63 AR
Joan Ress Reeves
Jens Risom
M. Kate Rittman
Donald A. Roach
Armand Versaci
John W. Wall
William J. Watkins

President’s Cabinet