2024 Presenter GPS Level 3


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9/1/2022 9:00:00 AM

2024 Presenter GPS Level 3

2024


LaVon Bracy Davis

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Agenda Files

gps-scp-rubric-2024.pdf
PresenterLevel3Scoregrid.pdf
PresenterLevel3PanelNotebook.pdf

Panelists (6)

Wallis, Kathryn

  • County: Duval County

Bio:

County: Duval

Bio

  • Executive Director, Beaches Fine Arts Series, 25 years (1997-present)
  • Board Member, Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine, 2006-2012
  • Distinguished Service Award, Florida Music Educators Association, 2013
  • Board Member, Saint Augustine Music Festival, 2018-2021
  • Panelist, State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs (can’t recall the year, but it was after 2006 and it was for the top level of General Support)

Pessaro, Martha

  • County: Brevard County

Bio:

County: Brevard

Bio

  • Chief Operating Officer and Event Chair for Native Heritage Gathering, Brevard County, Florida and Native American Traditional Women's Dancer - Northern Cloth
  • Previously, Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Program Project Manager, Master Scheduler; Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program Education Coordinator and Naturalist; Vinyl Record Restoration and Preservation specialist, Savvy Vinyl Records, Melbourne, Florida; Research and field scientist for Save Florida's Bromeliads Conservation Program, Florida
  • Founding member of the Museums of Brevard, Brevard County, Florida; past member of the Florida Today Gannett News Multicultural Advisory Board, Brevard County, Florida; Work Force Diversity Council United Technologies, Kennedy Space Center, Florida; past President and member of the NASA Kennedy Space Center Native American Intertribal Council, KSC, Florida; and past member American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES
  • Graduate of Barry University Frank Rooney School of Adult and Continuing Education- B.S., Professional Studies; Certified Interpretive Guide

McCoy, Liz

  • County: Duval County

Bio:

County: Duval

Bio

  • Executive Director, Friends of James Weldon Johnson Park, a company that manages Jacksonville’s Oldest Park that produces daily activities and weekend festivals
  • Board Member, 5 & Dime Theatre Company, Jacksonville, FL
  • Former Manager of Times-Union Performing Arts Center, Ritz Theatre & Museum (Jacksonville, FL) & Koka Booth Ampitheatre (Cary, NC)
  • Produced National Broadway and Children’s Theatrical Tours including Jekyll & Hyde, Little Women, Annie, Blue’s Clues Live and Dora The Explorer Live! 
  • Has been in the entertainment industry since she was 14 years old when she began touring as a musical theatre actress.   
  • BFA in Musical Theatre

Prestamo, Manuel

  • County: Miami-Dade County

Bio:

County: MiamiDade

Bio

  • President of Performance Management International, LLC (PMI), specializing in management services to the performing arts and higher education.
  • Ph.D. and M.A. from New York University, an undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and postdoctoral studies in Administrative Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  • Served on the boards of numerous organizations as well as state, regional and national panels of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Performing Arts Exchange, Oklahoma Arts Council, Wisconsin Arts Board, Oklahoma Youth Orchestras, Respect Diversity Foundation, Arts Midwest National Conference, Oklahoma Governor’s International Team, Association of Performing Arts Professionals, Texas Arts Commission, Oklahoma Israel Exchange, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, and the NEA
  • Awarded the Mary Beth Treen Arts Management Award by South Arts & Performing Arts Exchange (2018)
  • Fulbright Scholar to Ecuador and Uruguay and served as the President of the Central Oklahoma Fulbright Association; board member of the American Council on International Intercultural Education (ACIIE) and Chair of national conferences in Seattle (2002), Dallas (2003), and Boston (2005); and board member of the College Music Society – South Central Chapter, Oklahoma International Congress, and the Oklahoma Sister Cities Council.  He was Chair of the Block Booking Committee of the Da Vinci Institute of the Kirkpatrick Foundation, Vice President for Sister Cities International of Oklahoma City, and President of the Oklahoma Association of Community College Instructional Administrators, Oklahoma Global Education Consortium, and the Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges.
  • Formerly Dean of Global Education and Cultural Programs and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Oklahoma City Community College, Dean of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and a faculty member at Marquette University, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Kent State University, the College of Wooster, Tulsa Community College, and Florida International University. As a Dean at Oklahoma City Community College he took great pride in serving as an actor in theatrical productions, most memorably as the King in “Once Upon a Mattress”
  • Served as Executive Director of Arts Festival Oklahoma, the Cultural Awareness Series, and the OK MOZART International Festival.  In 1998, he created the Oklahoma Film Institute at Oklahoma City Community College, in collaboration with the Lt. Governor's Office, Oklahoma Film Commission, and Oklahoma Tourism Commission. In part, he led film and video production efforts to elevate the level of professional and commercial film production in Oklahoma.
Served as an American Cultural Specialist and consultant for the U.S. State Department on nine educational and cultural missions; he has been a consultant to the National University of Argentina, National University of Chile, and the University of La Serena; served as an APAP representative to Mexico: Gateway to the Americas; and has been honored by grants from the Institute of International Education, People-to-People, and the National Endowment for the Arts

Culpepper, Christopher

  • County: St. Johns County

Bio:

County: StJohns

Bio

  • Assistant General Manager, St. Johns County Cultural Events Division
  • Manages Augustine Amphitheatre: Ponte Vedra Concert Hall; Sing Out Loud Festival; Fort Mose Jazz and Blues Festival; and Celebrate 450! Music and Street Festival, St. Augustine’s 450th Celebration
  • Previously, Tour & Production Manager, Pat Metheny (12 years)
  • B.S., Cultural Studies/English, CLAS, University of Florida

Redd, Robert

  • County: Volusia County

Bio:

County: Volusia

Bio

  • Author of five books published by Arcadia Publishing and currently under contract for his sixth.
  • Past Director at New Smyrna Museum of History
  • Served on County of Volusia Historic Preservation Board
  • Cultural Coordinator, County of Volusia
  • B.A. in American Studies from Stetson University; M.A. in Public History from American Public University System