Board of Trustees
Rona Citrin, Chair
Rona Citrin was a Vice President of Citicorp primarily in their Investment Banking Group for twelve years. Currently, Rona serves on the Board of Trustees at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum Advisory Council of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University. Additionally, she has been involved in various capacities at arts and educational institutions including serving as the Board Chair of Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
Michelle Griffith, Vice-Chair and Talent & Compensation Committee Chair
Michelle Griffith has worked as a designer for most of her professional career – initially as a jewelry designer and eventually her interest in nature and green spaces led her to study sustainable landscape and garden design and she now works as a residential garden designer. Michelle’s past board affiliations include the Newfields Art Museum, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the Eskenazi Health Foundation, and the National Council for the Aspen Art Museum. She currently serves as an impact advisor for Pattern Magazine, National Council member for Jazz Aspen Snowmass, and Trustee for Anderson Ranch.
Jon Lee, Vice Chair and Audit & Risk Management Committee Chair
Jon Lee and his wife Barbara (a former Anderson Ranch Board member) split their time between Aspen and Boston, where he grew up. Jon received his undergraduate degree in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and a law degree at Boston College Law School. He started his career as an attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in New York. He subsequently moved back to Boston, founding Lee Capital Holdings, where he spent the next three decades in private equity finance. Jon has served on many philanthropic boards over the years. He has enjoyed a lifelong passion for the arts and currently serves on the boards of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Terry Siegel, Treasurer, Finance and Investment Committee Chair
Terry Siegel’s claim to fame is that he is the second of four sons of Evelyn and Martin Siegel, who are long-time supporters of Anderson Ranch. Although Terry never took classes at the Ranch, he has always felt a deep connection. Terry was born 1953 and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. He graduated from the Denver University with a degree in business administration in 1975. Terry is the CEO of the Siegel group of companies that are involved in manufacturing, distribution, real estate and insurance. Terry and his wife of 40 years, Cynthia, have 3 beautiful daughters. They live in Fort Worth and are involved with the Kimbell Art Museum and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Currently Terry serves on the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (President of the Landowner’s Board), 60 and Better of Tarrant County, and the Home Ventilation Institute (Treasurer). When Terry is not working or spending time with his family, he plays tennis, skis, fly-fishes, and works his ranch.
Martha Finger, Secretary
Martha Finger operated Martha Baxter Interior Design for over 30 years until her retirement 2023. Martha is a native of Marfa Texas and continues her love of West Texas.
Through both her design business and extensive travels, Martha has an interest for many art forms. She and her husband Richard have an eclectic collection from nineteenth century Symbolist prints, to Dutch Old Masters, to mid-century South American artists, as well as antique objects from all corners of the world. Over the past few years Martha has grown passionate about photography and has taken numerous classes at The Anderson Ranch. Her connection to the Ranch comes from a former longtime board member and founder of National Counsel, artist and mother-in- law Nanette Finger.
Martha, graduated from the University of Texas. She is a past trustee of The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Glassel School of Arts, and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, contemporary committee She is currently a Trustee of the Houston Ballet.
Martha and her husband Richard divide their time between Houston and Aspen and enjoy traveling the world and continuing their love of collecting art.
Ian Alteveer
Ian Alteveer joined the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in September 2023 as the Beal Family Chair of Contemporary Art, where he leads the department focused on art made after 1955. Until August 2023, he was the inaugural Aaron I. Fleischman Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he curated the recent survey Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid (2023), as well as retrospectives for Kerry James Marshall (2016), Marisa Merz (2017), David Hockney (
Marianne Boesky
Marianne Boesky established her eponymous gallery in New York City in 1996. Since its inception, the gallery has represented and supported the work of emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists of all media and genres. In its first decade, the gallery was instrumental in launching the careers of major artists including Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Sarah Sze, and Lisa Yuskavage. The gallery currently represents many significant international artists, including Ghada Amer, Jennifer Bartlett, Sanford Biggers, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Danielle McKinney, Frank Stella and Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Boesky relocated her gallery from SoHo to Chelsea in 2001 and in 2006 moved into its current flagship space at 509 West 24th Street. In 2016, the gallery expanded into its adjacent space at 507 West 24th Street. In 2017, Boesky opened Boesky West in Aspen, Colorado; she regularly participates in major international art fairs across Europe and Asia. These presentations highlight Marianne Boesky Gallery’s ongoing efforts to expand its international reach through collaborative initiatives, as well as its continued commitment to supporting the needs and interests of its dynamic roster of artists from around the globe. Boesky sits on the boards of trustees of the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Aspen Music Festival and School and is a member of the advisory board of the Dubin Breast Center at the Mount Sinai Hospital. She is also a member of the Middlebury Museum and Visual Arts Council. She graduated with a B.A. from Middlebury College in 1989 and received her J.D. from Fordham University in 1995.
Charles Burson
Charles Burson is originally from Memphis, TN. He received his BA from the University of Michigan, an MA from Cambridge University and a JD from Harvard Law School. He practiced law in Memphis, before becoming Tennessee Attorney General. Following his eight-year tenure as Attorney General, he was named by Vice President Al Gore as his White House Counsel, and subsequently served as his Chief of Staff. In 2000, Charles moved to St. Louis, MO, where he joined Monsanto as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. In 2007, he became Of Counsel to Bryan Cave Law Firm and a lecturer at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where he was later named the university’s first Senior Professor of the Practice. He taught Corporations and The Legacy of Bush v. Gore. In 2013, Charles began taking photography classes at Anderson Ranch. Through the Center for Advanced Mentored Studies, he reinvented himself as a photojournalist. His most recent body of work centers on the presidential campaign of 2016. Lucia/Marquand released his book, The Ground Game, Through My Lens, The 2016 Campaign, in 2018. Charles and his wife, Bunny, an artist, and former board member of Anderson Ranch, have two children, Clare and Kate, and two grandchildren, Lionel and Simon.
Sherry Felson
Sherry Felson, originally from St. Louis, Missouri, graduated from UCLA in 1976 with a degree in Sociology and Communications. After a successful career in the fashion industry as a wardrobe consultant, she became deeply involved in philanthropy, including over 20 years with The Cancer League in Oakland, California.
Sherry has chaired fashion shows and large galas, including events for the American Friends of the Israel Museum. In 2021, she moved to Los Angeles with Joe, her husband of 44 years. A longtime friend of the Ranch, supporter of the Summer Series program, and member of the National Council, Sherry looks forward to becoming even more involved at the Ranch in the coming years.
Moti Ferder
Master craftsman and jewelry expert, Moti Ferder, has been immersed in the diamond industry from a very young age. His family’s diamond business, established in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1965, provided Ferder with extensive gemological training allowing him to develop his skills as a diamond cutter. Due to his vast experience from diamond cutting to worldwide distribution, Ferder has broad insight into the diamond and jewelry industries. This knowledge has contributed to his success in establishing Lugano Diamonds as one of the finest jewelers in the world. Moti Ferder is deeply involved in the philanthropic community. He serves as a board member for the American Film Institute, the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and the Lupus Reasarch Aliance. Moti is an active member of the Society of Fellows at the Aspen Institute. The Ferders support a variety of nonprofit causes, organizations and events including the Mission Hospital Foundation, Friends of CASA for Children, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, United Way, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and The Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, among many others. Moti is happily married to Idit Ferder(COO and co-founder of Lugano Diamonds) and has two children, Romi a senior at Claremont Mckenna College and Tom a Freshman at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Moti and Idit divide their time between homes in Colorado and California as well as extensive national and international travel.
Larry Frank
Larry Frank is a co-owner of Madison, WI-based Frank Productions, a producer of live music events in clubs, theaters, arenas and stadiums in the United States and Canada. Larry was the visionary behind the design and construction of The Sylvee, a nationally recognized state-of-the-art concert venue in Madison, WI. An artist himself, Larry also maintained a personal studio where he explored all the visions in his head and taught himself how to translate those visions to a canvas.
Brijetta Hall Waller
Brijetta Hall Waller is an interdisciplinary artist living in Snowmass Village. She was lead artist on Love Notes, a community art project supporting LGBTQIA+ youth in the Roaring Fork Valley. Brijetta also co-founded Love Wisconsin, a nonprofit art project that uses storytelling and technology to bridge divides between people and communities. She is the producer and director of several documentary films which have screened nationally and internationally as well as on PBS. As a mixed media visual artist, Brijetta finds inspiration for her work from living in the mountains and being a part of the Anderson Ranch community of artists.
Brijetta is the Board President and Executive Director of the Craig and Kathyrn Hall Foundation. In that role since 2009, she has focused on funding the arts and entrepreneurship in North Texas and Napa Valley, CA. In addition to the Anderson Ranch board, she is currently serving on the PFLAG Roaring Fork Valley board, the Vision Committee for Aspen’s Public Art Plan, and several committees in the Aspen School District. Brijetta earned her B.A. from Northwestern University in Communication and her Master’s degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She enjoys skiing, hiking, spending time with her family, and making art in her home studio among the aspens.
Robin Loewenberg Tebbe
Robin Loewenberg Tebbe is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was Chief Marketing Officer of Magellan Development Group in Chicago and involved in the real estate development of multi-family high-rise residential, hotels and property management throughout the country. She is President of LIFT Management, her family office and foundation. Current volunteer roles include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Board of Trustees, Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago Corporate Board, Art Institute of Chicago’s Committee on Architecture and Design, Costume Council of the Chicago History Museum and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.
Brad Miller
Brad Miller Received his M.F.A. in 1977 from the University of Oregon and moved to Anderson Ranch Arts Center to direct the ceramics program in 1980. From 1984 to 1992 Brad served as Executive Director of Anderson Ranch. He has pursued a career as a studio artist and his work is in numerous museum collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Becky Murray
Becky Murray and her husband divide their time between Winnetka, Illinois and Snowmass Village, Colorado. The Murrays have been involved with Anderson Ranch for nearly 30 years. Their love for the Ranch began when their daughter took her first ceramics workshop when she was in high school. Years later she met her husband on the Ranch campus while she was a Resident in Ceramics and he in Woodworking. Becky has been active in charitable and civic organizations in her Chicago community and in Aspen and may be described as a professional volunteer. She is a member of the Ravinia Festival Women’s Board in Chicago and has served as its vice chairman and as chairman of the major fund raising events. In the Aspen/Snowmass area she has served on committees for the Aspen Music Festival, KJAX and the Snowmass Arts Advisory Board. In addition to serving on the Anderson Ranch Board, Becky is currently President of the Board of The Buddy Program, a mentoring organization in the Roaring Fork Valley. Becky is an active member of the Garden Guild of Winnetka, loves gardening and traveling to visit private and public gardens.
Kevin Ramnaraine
Kevin Ramnaraine was born in Queens, New York and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he received a B.S. in Finance from the Wharton School and a B.A. in Political Science from the College of Arts and Sciences. He then returned to New York City to work as an Auditor for the New York City Campaign Finance Board, which is a nonpartisan, independent government agency that provides resources for candidates and voters in all NYC elections. Kevin then worked in the Compliance Department at E*TRADE Financial where he aided the financial institution in complying with a myriad of internal regulations as well as FINRA and SEC guidelines. Kevin’s introduction to the arts began with his partner, Richard Edwards. Since 2015, he has been involved with the artists and exhibitions at Richard’s gallery in Aspen, the Baldwin Gallery. Kevin is currently on the National Council at the Aspen Art Museum and is a Member of the Chairman’s Council at the Aspen Music Festival. He is also a Crisis Counselor for the Trevor Project which is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25. He divides his time between homes in Aspen and New York where he enjoys long distance running and snowboarding.
John Rowland, Governance & Trustee Affairs Committee Chair
John Rowland is a licensed architect with over two decades of experience. Inspired by a history of collaboration with clients, artists, and other design practitioners, John embraces the opportunity for an intrinsic integration of art, space and light, within the unique contextual relationships inherent in each of his projects. John’s design skills, along with a business background, have also helped lead the firm’s consistent on-schedule and on-budget delivery. He holds extensive expertise in presenting projects in public forums and collaboration which allows Rowland + Broughton to ensure design consensus on along the way. As Principal of R+B, John is involved in all firm projects and also provides leadership on operations, marketing, and business development activities. His dedication to client service, environmental sustainability, and architectural excellence drives the firm’s growing reputation. John has led the firm in acquiring numerous awards, including AIA Colorado’s Young Firm of the Year and Aspen Chamber Resort Association’s Business of the Year award. He was a Member of the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Aspen, Aspen Civic Master Plan Advisory Committee, and the City of Aspen Build-Out Advisory Committee. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, John moved to Colorado for his architectural degree. He then worked in Sydney, Australia on the city’s 2000 Olympic Village, and then New York City before returning to Colorado to make the remarkable state his home.
Alex Sánchez
Alex Sánchez is the founder and now serves as the President and CEO of Voces Unidas de las Montañas, the first Latino-created and Latino-led advocacy organization in the central mountain region. He also leads Voces Unidas Action Fund, an affiliated organization.
An experienced executive and community organizer, Alex has led other nonprofits, managed his own political consulting firm, and has extensive corporate and government experience at the senior management level.
As a community leader, Alex volunteers and donates his time and talents to numerous causes, charities and civic institutions. He is currently a Trustee of Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, appointed by Gov. Polis in 2019 to a four-year term. Alex also currently serves on the boards of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR), COLOR Action Fund, Conservation Colorado and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Alex has previously served on the governing boards of the Colorado Medical Board, GLBT Commission for the City of Denver, Latino Commission for the City of Denver, the National Latino Children’s Institute, and the Latin American Research and Service Agency. He is also a former Senior Fellow of the Mexican American Solidarity Foundation in Mexico City and served a 3-year term on the Consejo Consultivo for the Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior (CCIME), a federal agency under the Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Mexico.
Alex has lived in two continents and in three different countries, and has also traveled to more than 25 countries for business and pleasure.
Evan Snyderman
Evan Snyderman was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1970. He received his BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992, and his MFA from Tyler School of Art in 1994. As a professional artist, Snyderman received a Wheaton Fellowship in 1995 and a teaching position at Urban Glass in Brooklyn, New York that same year.
In 1997, Snyderman founded the gallery R 20th Century (now, R & Company) with Zesty Meyers. R & Company has since established itself as one of the most prominent design galleries in the world, with Snyderman as the creative and artistic director.
Snyderman has contributed to multiple publications since 2000 including titles on designers Wendell Castle, Cees Braakman, Greta Magnusson Grossman, Poul Kjaerholm, Renate Müller, Verner Panton, Ilmari Tapiovaara, Jeff Zimmerman and David Wiseman.
Snyderman’s curatorial debut was the touring exhibition Greta Magnusson Grossman: A Car and Some Shorts. The exhibition opened at the Arkitekturmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden in February 2010 and traveled to the Price Tower Art Center, Oklahoma, and the Pasadena Museum of California Art in 2012. In 2012 he co-curated the exhibition, Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms, Works from 1959-1979, at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut and also contributed to the accompanying publication.
Marie Wise
Marie Wise was born Marie Carolyn Figge on July 10, 1946 in Davenport, Iowa. She graduated from Duchesne Residence School in New York City and also attended the Art Students League in New York City and the New York School of Interior Design. Marie is a professional artist with galleries in Texas and Colorado. She chairs the Art Advisory Council for the University of St Thomas and is an active member of the Texas Women for the Arts, a grant-awarding arm of The Texas Cultural Trust. Marie has been a friend of the Ranch for over a decade, participating in workshops, National Council and previously served on the Board of Trustees from 2017-2023.
Kelly Woods
Kelly Woods is a Partner at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York and Aspen, where she has shaped the careers of gallery artists for over a decade. Prior to that, she worked at multiple arts institutions and has over 20 years of experience in the gallery industry. She also serves on the Development Committee for Arts & Culture for Hudson River Park in NY. Woods received her BA from Bard College and her MA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She spends her summers in Aspen inspired by and dedicated to the arts community there. She lives between New York City and Tewksbury, NJ where she is an avid equestrian.
Honorary Trustees
Paul Copaken Susan Beckerman Janice Beck Barbara Berger Markell Brooks Betsy Chaffin Ann Cook Bunni Copaken Sistie Fischer Sue Hostetler Wrigley Pamela Joseph Karen Lord Judy Mann Sara Ransford Lloyd Schermer Paul C. Schorr III Anne Tobey Dee Wyly