Board Members

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present fluxers
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Rado Petkov
Rado Petkov is Vice President at the New York investment banking firm Westwood Capital. Mr. Petkov’s professional experience encompasses the fields of policy analysis, business development, and investment advisory work. As Deputy Director of the Economic and Regional Development Program of the EastWest Institute, an international think-tank specializing in the problems of post-socialist transition, Mr. Petkov led a number of economic research and policy advisory projects in Central and Eastern Europe. His current work involves supporting companies in the renewable energy sector, including solar energy.

Melanie Cohn
Melanie Cohn is an independent curator based in New York City. She has organized many exhibitions including “Counter Culture” (2004) at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, featuring site-specific exhibitions on the Bowery; “Club 57: Where Are You?” (2005), a one-person show of Harvey Wang’s photographs of the East Village from 1973-1982; and the zine and internet portions of the New Museum exhibition “alt.youth.media” (1996). Melanie Franklin Cohn received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1992.

Stephanie Theodore
Stephanie Theodore is an art advisor and consultant for both large and small collections, specializing in finding undervalued works of contemporary art. A staple in the New York art world since the ’90s, Stephanie is also the creator of Pointie Dog Press (www.pointiedogpress.com), a publishing venture providing an opportunity for younger artists to expand their repertoire in the area of printmaking.

S. Abbas Raza
S. Abbas Raza was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. He obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and worked in the United States as a Software Engineer and C Programmer for eight years, while also lecturing in English Literature at various colleges including Yale University and the United States Naval Academy. Abbas is the founding editor of 3QuarksDaily.com.

Stephen S. Santo, Esq.
Stephen S. Santo, Esq. is a solo practicioner in private practice of law. General practice with specialization in immigration and asylum law 16 years, including representation of artists visas (O-1 and immigrant) in a variety of artistic fields. He is a member of American Immigration Lawyers Association, New York and U.S. District Court (NY) Bars.

Robert Kostrzewa
Robert Kostrzewa is the Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Scholarships for the Graduate Faculty at the New School University. Mr. Kostrzewa studied Sociology at the University of Warsaw and Intellectual History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before joining the GF, Mr. Kostrzewa was a senior staff member at The Commonwealth Fund, a national foundation devoted to health care and other social issues. Mr. Kostrzewa is the editor of Between East and West: Writings from Kultura, a volume of essays and short stories by East European writers, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux published in 1990.

Ewa Bartos
Ewa Bartos was born in Poland and raised in the Soviet Union. She received a science degree from Warsaw University and came to the United States in 1968 where she received a degree in Psychology from Hunter College. Ewa has volunteered at the Whitney Museum and Asia Society, and works as a consultant to her husband Armand Bartos, a contemporary and modern art dealer.

Morgan Meis
Morgan Meis is co-founder and President of Flux Factory. Morgan Meis is the editor-in-chief of the Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, an internationally recognized philosophy journal, as well as the founder and publisher of Little Room Press, which specializes in the history of philosophy. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from New School University.

Stefany Anne Golberg
Stefany Anne Golberg is co-founder and Executive Director of Flux Factory. An artist and musician, Stefany holds a BA in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and received her MFA in Music/Sound at Bard College.