The Karl Stirner Arts Trail Board of Directors welcomes two new members as well as four returning ones serving additional three-year terms.
Board newcomers are Connie Fletcher-Hindle and Ghennifer Zando-Dennis. Returning members renewing their service are:
- Board Chair Monica Seligmann, retired art consultant and educator at Allentown Art Museum
- Treasurer Michiko Okaya, retired director of art galleries and the art collection at Lafayette College
- Rachel Hogan Carr, director of the Nurture Nature Center
- Gladstone “Fluney” Hutchinson, associate professor of economics at Lafayette College
Stepping off the board is longtime member Amy Boccadoro, who has made significant contributions to KSAT through her leadership and service for many years.
Fletcher-Hindle is a Lafayette College graduate who used her education major in jobs at the American Heart Association and Planned Parenthood. She then earned a nursing degree and served as a nurse in area hospitals for 15 years before becoming a school nurse. She left the workforce to nurse her daughter through acute lymphoblastic leukemia, then became an account manager at HindlePower, Inc., an Easton-based manufacturer of stationary float battery chargers and DC power systems for the utility industry. She owns the company with her family, ex-husband William Hindle and son Nic Hindle.
Fletcher-Hindle has volunteered with Lehigh Valley Habitat for Humanity, the Medical Reserve Corps of New Jersey, Alexandria First Presbyterian Church, Alexandria Recreation Commission, Girl Scouts, and through organizing various youth sports programs. Now retired, she splits her time between Easton and Park City, Utah. She is an avid skier and tennis player and loves walking her dog on the KSAT.
Zando-Dennis is a professor in the School of Contemporary Arts at Ramapo College and the artistic director of the New York State Summer School for Media Arts. She’s also a filmmaker, curator, and co-founder of Overtown Media + Art in Easton and is committed to nurturing community-based and public art spaces. As a filmmaker, she has documented trauma relief for the United Nations in Sierra Leone and Haiti and produced independent work on post-Katrina New Orleans.
Documentary storytelling is Zando-Dennis’ passion, along with her three dogs, “who have a deep relationship to the trails around Easton, especially KSAT,” she says. She also serves on the Easton Area School District Board. She grew up in Alaska and received an MFA from Hunter College.
