2026 Bushwick Starr Board
Katharine English
Board Chair
A novelist and essayist whose debut novel, Inside Henry Cato, came out this fall. Katharine led innovation programs at Google and Microsoft, grew audiences at AOL and Travel Channel, and holds an MLA in creative writing and literature from Harvard.
Kevin Forsyth
Board member
Kevin brings marketing, go-to-market and sales strategy to the board, drawn from his work helping early-stage startups grow.
Asenhat Gomez
Producing Director
A London-born, Brooklyn-based producer, Lucy develops and tours new work with partners from NYTW Next Door and BAM Fisher to UMS Ann Arbor and the Edinburgh Fringe. She was a WP Lab Fellow and co-teaches Creative Producing at The New School.
Robin Griffiths
Treasurer
A Brooklynite and one of the board’s longest-serving members, Robin has chaired the board and now looks after the Starr’s finances as Treasurer.
Haruna Lee
Board member
An Obie-winning playwright whose Suicide Forest premiered at the Starr in 2019, Haruna was named a Guggenheim Fellow this year. They teach playwriting in the Yale and Hunter MFA programs, and studied at Brooklyn College (MFA) and NYU Tisch (BFA).
Eric Mendez
Board member
Eric is a Director at Genesis Credit Partners, advising on M&A, restructurings and Chapter 11 transactions. His career spans Moelis & Company, BlackRock, PepsiCo, SMBC Nikko, IFC–World Bank, Merrill Lynch and Accenture, and he speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Sunny Park
Board member
Sunny is a fractional general counsel at Fixer Advisory and the former General Counsel of Saks, after senior legal roles at Hudson’s Bay Company, American Express, Paul Weiss and Loeb & Loeb. She holds a JD and a BA in art history from Columbia.
Ali Kennedy Scott
Board member
A business strategist and theatre-maker originally from Australia, Ali works in health tech as co-founder of Augnition Labs. She was formerly Vice-Chair of the SITI Company board, studied economics at the University of Sydney, and holds an MFA in Cultural Leadership from NIDA.
Jennifer Sendrow
Secretary
Jennifer is a producer with Cake Machine Productions who spent years producing news, arts and culture segments at WNYC, and was the first producer of Cooking with Emeril. She studied literature at NYU and spent a Fulbright year in Denmark.
Risa Shoup
Board member
Risa is the American LGBTQ+ Museum’s first Chief of Operations, after serving as Co-Executive Director of A.R.T./New York. They have championed space for NYC artists since 2005, at Spaceworks NYC, BRIC and Queens Council on the Arts, and studied city and regional planning at Pratt.
Danielle Thomson
Vice Chair
Danielle is a researcher, writer and consultant who serves as the board’s Vice Chair.
David Ringer
Board Chair Emeritus
David co-founded the communications firm Green Jay Strategies and chaired the board through the campaign that built the Starr’s home at 419 Eldert Street. A lifelong birder, he was previously Chief Network Officer at the National Audubon Society.