The primary responsibilities of the Board of Trustees are: to advance the institutional mission, to provide organizational oversight and to set policy. The president and staff are responsible for the operation of the institution.
>> RISD’s mission

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION
Merrill Sherman, Chair
Stuart J. Murphy ’64 IL, Vice Chair
Philip E. Tobey BAR ’66, Vice Chair
Mary Kate Rittmann, Secretary

TERM TRUSTEES
Michael Allen
John Beug
Vincent J. Buonanno
Wilma Parker de Pavloff
Erica DiBona
Robert A. DiMuccio
Sherri Donghia
Susan Dryfoos
Cathy Graham
Richard W. Haining, Sr.
William R. Hammer
V. Duncan Johnson
Jon Kamen
Stephen L. Key
Stephen Lane
Scott R. Latham
Stephen A. Metcalf
Susan Montgomery
Stuart J. Murphy
Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn
Mary Kate Rittmann
Merrill W. Sherman
Sandra P. Smith
Michael Spalter
Donald R. Stanton
Philip E. Tobey
Arnold-Peter Weiss, M.D.
Patricia A. White
Margaret A. Williams
Carolina Y.C. Woo
Mary Ann (Toots) Zynsky

EX-OFICIO
Nathaniel Hesse, ’76 SC, President/Alumni Association
John Maeda, President (effective June 2, 2008)
Joan K. Herron, ’64 GD, Past President/Alumni Association

LIFE TRUSTEE
Louis Beal ’52 IA

HONORARY TRUSTEES
Nancy S. Angier
Anthony C. Belluschi BAR ’66
Jane Chace Carroll
Clara M. Dale, ’75 BAR (Chair Emerita)
Robert F. Dixon BAR ’71
Bayard C. Ewing
Barnet Fain
Peter Farago ’52 TX
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
Dorothy Hebden-Heath ’57 PT
J. Kenneth Kansas ’51 IL
Erma W. Leavitt ’44 PT
Steven L. Lerner BAR ’67
Esther Elise Metcalf Mauran
Pauline C. Metcalf
John O.C. McCrillis ’39 GD
Nicole J. Miller ’73 AP
Terrence Murray
Dana Newbrook ’63 AR
Joan Ress Reeves
Jens Risom
Donald A. Roach
Armand Versaci
John W. Wall
William Watkins, Jr.

PRESIDENT: John Maeda

PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL
Candace Baer, Vice President, Human Resources
Becky Bermont, Vice President, Media + Partners
David Bogen, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
Rajesh Bellani, Associate Provost for Student Affairs
Beth Garvin, Vice President, Institutional Engagement
Peter Hocking, Director, Office of Public Engagement
Kelly Morra, Interim Vice President, Finance + Administration
Edward Newhall [RISD BAR ’75], Director, Admissions + Financial Aid
Jessie Shefrin, Provost
Ann Woolsey, Interim Director, The RISD Museum