BOARD

Executive Committee

Board Members

  • Rodney Allen, Ph.D., Editor, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut, Author, Understanding Kurt Vonnegut
  • Donald Farber, Attorney, Kurt Vonnegut’s Literary Executor
  • Kenan Farrell, KLF Legal
  • Mark Lakshmanan, Physician – Eli Lilly and Co.
  • Joe Petro III, Vonnegut’s artistic collaborator
  • Mark Vonnegut, M.D.
  • Phil Watts, Retired President, Athenaeum Foundation, Inc.
  • Jane Wehrle, Community Advocate, Writer, Artist, Educator, (Baltimore and Garrett County, Md.)

Honorary

  • Linda Ellerbee, Journalist, Author, Producer
  • Michael Moore, Filmmaker
  • Sidney Offit, Author
  • Morley Safer, Journalist, Author
  • Kevin Schehr
  • Edie Vonnegut
  • Nanny Vonnegut
  • Daniel Wakefield, Author
  • Daniel Simon, Publisher, Seven Stories Press

Advisors

  • Shannon Bahler, Marketing Committee Chair
  • Bill Briscoe
  • Cathy Buckman, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Indiana University – South Bend
  • Terry Burns, Communications Consultant
  • John Cimasko
  • Corey Michael Dalton, Associate Editor of The Saturday Evening Post
  • Mary Jane Failey
  • Susan Farrell, Ph.D., College of Charleston, Author, Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work
  • Rebeccah Lowe
  • Gilbert Holmes, Executive Director, Indiana ACLU
  • Kyle Hopkins, Volunteer Coordinator
  • David Hoppe, NUVO
  • Len Mozzi, Dramatic Difference
  • Rai Peterson, Associate Professor of English -BSU
  • Daniel Sease, Vice President, National Bank of Indianapolis
  • Kevin M. Toner, Partner, Baker & Daniels, LLP
  • Magnus Toren, Director, Henry Miller Library

Message from Julia Whitehead, President of the Board