Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Jill Sumiyasu | Board Chair
Founder, A Better Life by Jill
Katharine Harrington | Vice Chair
Professor Emerita, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California - Los Angeles
Linda Burrow | Treasurer
Director of Content Litigation, Netflix
Max Brennan | Secretary
Community Volunteer
Catherine Arias | Chair, Board Affairs
Director of Education and Visitor Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Gale Kohl | Chair, Building & Technology
Owner, Gale’s Restaurant
Mary Chou | Co-Chair, Development
Principal, OVERHAUL Architecture
Maria Khader Karp | Co-Chair, Development
Relationship Manager, TIAA-CREF
Sarah Deschenes | Chair, Personnel and Co-Chair of Strategic Planning
Education Researcher and Consultant
Alice Fung | Co-Chair of Strategic Planning
Partner, Fung+Blatt Architects
Kristin Kearney Massimino | Chair, Audit
Managing Director, Head of Marketing, Archer
Victoria Stratman | Immediate Past President
General Counsel, CA Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Retired)
Leslie A. Ito
Executive Director and President, Armory Center for the Arts
ex officio
Board Members
Carolyn Cutler
Community Volunteer
Tamerlin J. Godley
Litigation Partner, Paul Hastings LLP
Betsy Greenberg
Arts Advocate
Michael Greene
Director for Communications and Education, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mary Gumport
Narrative Lead, Theorycraft Games
Susan Hall-Hardwick
CPA, Independent Accounting Consultant
Pete Kutzer
President, The Kutzer Company
Nery Gabriel Lemus
Artist, MFA Program Director, Azusa Pacific University
Dianne M. Magee
Attorney (Retired), Community Volunteer
Dr. Shannon Malone
Senior Director of TK-12 Principals, Pasadena Unified School District
Kathy Mangum
Senior Vice President, Walt Disney Imagineering (Retired)
Denise Mathews
Community Volunteer
Donna Vaccarino, AIA
Architect, Vaccarino Associates
All board members serve voluntarily. The Armory’s Board meets four times per year in January, April, June and September. The standing Board Committees are Executive, Audit, Board Affairs, Building & Technology, Development, Finance, Investment, and Personnel.