Board of Directors 2026-2027

Kathy Mangum | Board Chair
Senior Vice President, Walt Disney Imagineering (Retired)

Susan Hall-Hardwick | Vice Chair
CPA, Independent Accounting Consultant

Grant Derderian | Treasurer
Director, IT Services and Strategy, University of Southern California

Max Brennan | Secretary
Community Volunteer

Catherine Arias | Co-Chair, Board Affairs
Director of Education and Visitor Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Timothy Thomas II | Co-Chair, Board Affairs
IT Solutions Engineer, Capital Group

Gale Kohl | Co-Chair, Capital Campaign
Owner, Gale’s Restaurant

Mary Gumport | Co-Chair, Capital Campaign
Editor and Creative Consultant

Linda Burrow | Chair, Investment
Mediator/Arbitrator, JAMS

Sarah Deschenes | Chair, Development
Education Researcher and Consultant

Steve NyBlom | Chair, Audit
Manager, LA County Risk Management Branch (Retired)

Leslie A. Ito | ex officio
Executive Director and President, Armory Center for the Arts

Board Members

Nic Cha Kim
Documentary Filmmaker, Journalist, Curator

Michelle Chila

Brooke Cutler

Tonita Fernandez
Teacher and Diversity Coordinator, Chandler School (Retired)

Alice Fung
Partner, Fung+Blatt Architects

Tamerlin J. Godley
Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Dr. Deepthiman Gowda
Assistant Dean for Medical Education, Kaiser Permanente Tyson School of Medicine

Luis Grané
Visual Artist, Designer, Supervising Director, Netflix

Pete Kutzer
President, The Kutzer Company

Maria Khader Karp
Senior Manager of Sales and Operations, Capital Group

Nery Gabriel Lemus
Artist & Assistant Professor, California State University Fullerton

Dianne M. Magee
Attorney (Retired), Community Volunteer

Dr. Shannon Malone
Senior Director of TK-12 Principals, Pasadena Unified School District

Jill Sumiyasu
Founder, A Better Life by Jill

Timothy Thomas II
IT Solutions Engineer, Capital Group

Donna Vaccarino, AIA
Architect, Vaccarino Associates

All board members serve voluntarily. The Armory’s Board meets quarterly.