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Meet the Board
Photographer: Mark Edward Harris

"Whenever I heard the piano I started my dance! I felt excited! Thank you."
-Jazmin, 3rd grade

 

CDI BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

 
Carole Valleskey
CDI Founder & Artistic Director
Former Principal Dancer of Joffery Ballet

Richard Polak
CDI Board Chair
President and CEO
IBIS Advisors
Leah Bass-Baylis
Principal, Los Angeles Unified School District
Karen Benjamin
Voice Faculty, Santa Monica College; Cabaret/Classical Vocalist
Bruce Gladstone
 Electrical Engineer; Co-Founder, ComCore Semiconductor, FutureNet, FutureData

Pat Oliansky
Past Board President: Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra; Friends of Sundays Live



James Proctor
CEO, The Inteq Group, Inc.


Nancy Scher
CDI Executive Director
LAUSD teacher, Retired

Dena Flekman
Corymore Corporation


Advisory Board:

George James
Assistant VP,
Wells Fargo Investments;
NDI-New York Alumni
Dyan Sublett
Executive VP of Financial Development of YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles