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 Programs
Ashlee McKinnon serves as the Director of Education Programs 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 Winklehoff
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
Educations Program Manager
As the Educations Program 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 and currently based in Dublin Ireland, Hannah recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from University College Dublin with a master’s degree in Cultural Policy and Arts Management. Prior to graduate school, Hannah was performing internationally as a professional dancer. Dance has been the centre of her life since he was three years old, and led her to Western Kentucky University where 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
Shelby Hubbard (she/they) is the Engagement Manager for DC Collaborative. She believes creative expression is a human right and equitable access to creating and experiencing art is imperative. Shelby was born and raised across the rural and urban South. They graduated with an MFA in Studio Art at Florida State University in the Spring of 2022. She received her undergraduate degree in Rural Studies Writing and Communication at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. Shelby has written for South Georgia newspapers, magazines, and the contemporary online art magazine BURNAWAY.
In their art practice, Shelby uses sewing, and paper mâché to bring emotional and psychological impacts into physical reality. Motivated by curiosity, Shelby traverses the inner landscape to better understand the true self, the nuance of tangled relationships, family history, radical empathy, memory, and joy.
The Board
Barbara Stauffer – President
Visual Artist
Kent Withycombe – Vice President
The Washington Lawyers’ Committee
Laura S. Byerly – Treasurer
KPMG
Anjelika Deogirikar Grossman – Secretary
Georgetown University
LaMar Bagley
The SEED School of Washington, DC
Anita Doutt
Audit and Accounting professional
D’Mani Harrison Porter
Westin DC City Center
Aime Vailes-Macarie
Wiebenson & Dorman Architects PC
Jordan Monroe
Property Management professional
Sundai M. Riggins
Inspired Teaching Demonstration School
JR “Nexus” Russ
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Ex-Officio Members:
Mary Lambert
DCPS Arts
Jeanette Spencer McCune
The Kennedy Center
Alorie Clark
DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative