About Us
The Staff
Alorie Clark
Executive Director
Alorie Clark serves as Executive Director at the DC Collaborative. This role continues her long-standing career of contributing to the arts and humanities sector, after working for organizations such as the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Step Afrika!, National Arts Strategies, and Washington National Opera. Alorie is extremely passionate about authentically engaging communities and inspiring the next generation of leaders. She has volunteered for organizations such as Critical Exposure, Arts Administrators of Color Network, and DreamWakers. Alorie earned a bachelor’s in theatre arts administration from Howard University and a master’s in arts management from American University.
Ashlee McKinnon
Director of Education Development and Partnerships
Ashlee McKinnon serves as the Director of Education Development and Partnerships at the DC Collaborative. Ashlee has always connected her passion for arts enrichment and education with the school system, serving as a K-12 Dance Educator and Teaching Artist in the DMV for 10 years, and working with prominent arts organizations such as Dance Place, Story Tapestries, and Imagination Stage, as a champion for equitable youth development and enriching arts programming. Ashlee is an alumnus of the University of Maryland at College Park and Princeton Theological Seminary. Her membership in the Arts Administrators of Color Network and as an ambassador with Arts Education in Maryland Schools shape her perspective on equitable and diverse arts and humanities programming for our future generations. In addition to her professional work, Ashlee is still a performer at heart and continues to hone her craft with BREathe Dance Project and AftaShock DC. She has been blessed to dance on the stages of and create artistic works for Bowie State University, Sitar Arts Center, The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage in 2020 and a feature on CBS This Morning in 2017.
Elizabeth Winkelhoff
Data and Evaluation Manager
Elizabeth Winkelhoff is the Data and Evaluation Manager at the DC Collaborative. Originally from New York, she grew up going to museums and theater performances and has been passionate about equitable access in arts education ever since. Elizabeth graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2018 with a degree in Archaeology, participating in multiple research studies with a focus in bioarchaeological analysis. Previously, she has worked at Port Discovery Children’s Museum, the Maryland Science Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and taught abroad. She advocates for arts and humanities education and strives to apply her skills in data synthesis to support community building and education outreach. Outside of Elizabeth’s work at the DC Collaborative, she is a bookbinder and textile artist with a particular love for embroidery.
Hannah Slattery
Education Programs Manager
As the Education Programs Manager, Hannah manages the Teaching Artist Fellowship program, composes the Teaching Artist Newsletter, and supports the work of implementing DC Collaborative’s Education Programs.
Raised in Bowling Green, KY, Hannah graduated Summa Cum Laude from University College Dublin with a master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Arts Management. Prior to graduate school, Hannah performed internationally as a professional dancer. Dance has been the center of her life since she was three years old, and led her to Western Kentucky University where she studied the art form, as well as Performing Arts Administration, graduating Summa Cum Laude in 2014. Highlights from Hannah’s career as a dancer and arts manager include Wicklow Screendance Laboratory (Ireland), Premium Projects (Doha, Qatar), and Celebrity Cruises. Hannah is passionate about arts education, inclusivity, and accessibility, and enjoys teaching at her mom’s dance studio whenever she is home.
Ilana Lipowicz
Education Programs Assistant
Ilana Lipowicz is the Education Programs Assistant at the DC Collaborative. Her passion for arts education stems from her formative high school experience taking part in a unique interdisciplinary arts program. Ilana is based in Philadelphia where she entered the education world as an after school literacy teacher and has since taken on a number of teaching and administrative roles within educational organizations. She is dedicated to equity and inclusion when it comes to enriching the lives of young people through arts education. Outside of her work, Ilana shifts between writing poetry and creative nonfiction, practicing the banjo, and meditating through visual art.
Shelby Hubbard
Engagement Manager
Beginning in journalism, Shelby has experience in creating contemporary and traditional media. Shelby is an award-winning writer for her community-centered art reporting. This communication extends far beyond paper and screens to grassroots organizing and program coordination. She is also an art educator.
Their career has been rooted in the transformational power of experiencing art, both as a creator and viewer. Shelby believes in telling stories that embrace nuance, radical empathy, and question-asking. She received her undergraduate degree in Writing and Communication at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. She graduated with her MFA in Studio Art at Florida State University in the Spring of 2022.
The Board
Kent Withycombe – President
Georgetown University Law Center
LaMar Bagley – Vice President
The SEED School of Washington, DC
Robert K. Burgess – Treasurer
KPMConnector, Inc.
Brooke Butler – interim Secretary
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Anjelika Deogirikar
Georgetown University
Carmen Jenkins
School Without Walls High School
Angela Jones
Youth Guidance
LaNae McMillan
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Adama Kamara
Creative Theory Agency
Sundai M. Riggins
Inspired Teaching Demonstration School
JR “Nexus” Russ
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Ex-Officio Members:
Alorie Clark
DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative