Board of Trustees
- Chair
Chris Brockman*
Holland & Knight - Vice Chair
Markita D. Cooper*
Florida A & M University College of Law - Immediate Past Chair
Donna Mackenzie*
The Florida CFO Group - Norton N. Bonaparte, Jr.
City of Sanford, Florida - John A. de Armas
ProfitLand - Terrance Hunter
Central Florida Community Arts - Tricia Smith Edris
AdventHealth - Geraldine Gallagher, Ph.D., CFRE
Florida SouthWestern State College - Larry Henrichs*
Community Leader - Lisa Rain
Community Volunteer - Rich Reiner
Reiner Consulting - Ana “Ani” Rodriguez-Newbern
Tangel-Rodriguez & Assoc. - Meredith Sand
Meredith Sand Designs - Thomas Simon*
Community Leader - Judith Smelser*
90.7 WMFE & 89.5 WMFV - Joshua Snyder
PowerDMS
Community Advisory Board
- Chair
Ms. Jacqueline Centeno
(Osceola County)
Koa Elementary School - Vice Chair
Tracey Olaez
(Orange County)
Edyth Bush Institute for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership - Secretary
Claire Brady, Ed.D.
(Orange County)
Glass Half Full Consulting LLC - I. Cori Baill, MD
(Orange County)
University of Central Florida College of Medicine - Chris Brown
(Seminole County)
RE/MAX Town and Country Realty - Toni Crabtree
(Orange)
New Image Youth Center, Inc. - Jonathan Earles
(Orange)
Orange County Public Schools - Rex Elbert
(Seminole)
Community Volunteer - John Elliott
(Marion County)
AidWEST Humanitarian Missions - Souraya F. Ghalayini
(Orange County)
College Park Middle School - Zayna Gibson
(Volusia County)
Community Volunteer - James Hobart
(Orange County)
Macbeth Studio / Legacy Life Project - Michael R. Herrera
(Lake)
Valencia College Foundation - Ed Hula
(Lake County)
Hula Sport Communications - Lindsay R. Johnson
(Orange County)
Sabre Corporation - Julia Lozada
(Orange County)
FinSuite Consulting - Chris R. Mondello
(Orange)
GxP Systems Compliance LLC - Sasha Nickles
(Orange County)
Purdue University Global - Fatima Saied
(Orange County)
Muslim Women's Organization - Jean St Pierre
(Marion County)
Ameriprise Financial
Meeting Notices
2024 Meeting Dates
All meetings will be held via Zoom video conferencing until further notice. For further information, please call the Office of the President at 407.273.2300, x120.
Regular meetings of the WMFE Board of Trustees and its committees are open to the public, although some portions of those meetings may be held in closed executive session.
Pursuant to Section 396(k)(4) of the Communications Act, meetings of the WMFE Board of Trustees and its committees may move into executive session and be closed to the public “to consider matters relating to individual employees, proprietary information, litigation and other matters requiring the confidential advice of counsel, commercial or financial information obtained from a person on a privileged or confidential basis, or the purchase of property or services whenever the premature exposure of such purchase would compromise the business interests of [WMFE].”
Board of Trustees’ meetings
Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. at WMFE
For information for open sessions, please send an email to rkaufman@wmfe.org at least one day before the meeting with your written statement or question for the Board.
- Wednesday, February 28
- Wednesday, May 22
- Wednesday, September 25
- Wednesday, December 4
Executive Committee meetings
Thursdays and Tuesdays at 10 a.m. via Zoom video conferencing
For call-in information for open sessions, please send an email to rkaufman@wmfe.org at least one day before the meeting with your written statement or question for the Committee.
- Thursday, February 8
- Thursday, May 9
- Tuesday, September 10
- Tuesday, November 12
Audit & Finance Committee meetings
Thursdays at 10 a.m. via Zoom video conferencing
For call-in information for open sessions, please send an email to rkaufman@wmfe.org at least one day before the meeting with your written statement or question for the Committee.
- Thursday, January 25
- Thursday, April 18
- Thursday, August 29
- Thursday, November 7
Governance Committee Meetings
Thursdays at 4 p.m. via Zoom video conferencing
For call-in information for open sessions, please send an email to rkaufman@wmfe.org at least one day before the meeting with your written statement or question for the Committee.
- Thursday, February 1
- Thursday, May 16
- Thursday, July 18
- Thursday, August 22
- Thursday, October 24
Development Committee Meeting
Thursdays at 12 p.m. via Zoom video conferencing
For call-in information for open sessions, please send an email to rkaufman@wmfe.org at least one day before the meeting with your written statement or question for the Committee.
- Thursday, February 15
- Thursday, April 18
- Thursday, August 29
- Thursday, November 7
Community Advisory Board
Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
If you seek access to this meeting under our open meetings policy, please send an email to rkaufman@wmfe.org at least one day before the meeting with your written statement or question for the CAB.
- Wednesday, January 31 in person at WMFE
- Wednesday, May 1 via Zoom
- Wednesday, August 21 via Zoom
- Wednesday, October 23 in person at WMFE