CXC Board
Executive Committee
Rebecca J. Perry, President
Lucy Shelton Caswell, Vice President
Will Haupt, Secretary
Jeff Smith, Artistic Director (ex-officio)
Jay Kalagayan, Executive Director
Board Members
Jack Beeler (Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP)
Michael Brown (Chief of Staff for Council President Shannon Hardin)
Victor Dandridge (Vantage:Inhouse)
David D’Herete (UBS)
Jerzy Drozd (Cartoonist and Educator)
Christian Hoffer (Comicbook.com)
Vijaya Iyer (Cartoon Books)
Ann Lennon (Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum)
Matt Leppert (Leppert Company CPA’s, LLC)
Bryan Moss (Author, Illustrator)
Rafael Rosado (Animator, Author, Illustrator)
Kathleen Glosan
Staff
Jay B. Kalagayan, Executive Director
Maggie Dahlstrom, Administrative Assistant
Katie Avila, Volunteer Coordinator
Advisors
Emily Cottingham
Victor Dandridge, Vantage Inhouse
Dr. Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media, University of California, Davis
Emi Genis
CXC Committees
Programming Committee
Ben Towle, Co-Chair
Craig Campbell, Co-Chair
Jeff Smith, Artistic Director
Alexandra Carter (Columbus Metropolitan Library)
Anne Drozd (The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum)
Caitlin McGurk (The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum)
Dave Filipi (The Wexner Center for the Arts)
Gib Bickel (The Laughing Ogre)
Hannah Mason-Macklin (The Columbus Museum of Art)
Jared Gardner (The Ohio State University)
Jay B. Kalagayan
Jerzy Drozd
Laurenn McCubbin (Columbus College of Art & Design)
Rachel Miller
Rafael Rosado (Gateway Film Center)
Rebecca J. Perry
Sydney Heifler
Vijaya Iyer
Marketing Committee
Erik Pepple, Co-Chair
Jenna Lee, Co-Chair
Michael Brown
Hakim Callwood
Grace Cole
Jay B. Kalagayan
Renee LaGendre
Bryan Christopher Moss
Erik Pepple
Chris Steel
Serenity Strull
Rebecca J. Perry
Sarah Irvin, Irvin PR
Awards Committee
Caitlin McGurk, Chair
Craig Campbell
Lucy Shelton Caswell
Rebecca J. Perry
Vijaya Iyer
Chris Pitzer
Shena Wolf
Cartoon Crosstalk Columbus Podcast
James Moore, Co-host
Leslie Anderson, Co-host
Hospitality Committee
Ann Lennon, Chair
Alexandra Carter
Caitlin McGurk
Claudia Perry
Dan Gearino
Han Donovan
Jack Beeler
Jay B. Kalagayan
Katie Avila
Rebecca J. Perry
Vijaya Iyer
Fundraising Committee
Dan Gearino, Chair
Jay B, Kalagayan
Rebecca J. Perry
Tim Feran
Finance Committee
Jack Beeler
Jay B, Kalagayan
Matt Leppert
Rebecca J. Perry
Vijaya Iyer
Operations Committee
James Moore, Chair
Katie Avila
Alexandra Carter, Library Liaison
Maggie Dahlstrom
Rebecca J. Perry
Han Donovan
Ian Gammon
Jay B. Kalagayan
Samantha Sellers
Lauren Sparks
Education Programming Committee
Dan Gearino, Chair
Bryan Christopher Moss
Daryl Curry
Han Donovan
Jay Kalagayan
Jeffrey M. Judd
Jerzy Drozd
Rebecca J. Perry
Victor Dandridge