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Board of Directors

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Liesl Tommy
AFOZM Co-President and Founding Board member
Liesl is a South African American film director well known for her direction of Aretha Franklin’s biopic Respect. She became the first woman of color to be nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.
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Naledi K. Khabo
AFOZM Co-President
Naledi is the Chief Executive Officer of Africa Tourism Association in New York. Her 25 years of strategy leadership includes serving as Chief of Staff at the United States Small Business Administration My Brothers Keeper Millennial Entrepreneurial Initiative.
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Roger Ross Williams
AFOZM Secretary and Founding Board member
Roger is an American director, producer and writer and the first African American director to win an Academy Award.
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Rosalind Batheja
AFOZM Treasurer
Rosalind is a South African based in New York. She is the Senior Vice President of Operations and New Business at Novita Communications.
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Mariane Ibrahim

Mariane is a Somali-French art dealer. Her gallery program is focused on showcasing artists from underrepresented regions such as Africa and the Middle East. In addition to her Chicago gallery, in 2023 she opened an immense new space in Mexico City.

Photo by Sofia Giner

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Monetta White
Monetta is the Executive Director of The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco. She has previously served as Vice President of the Small Business Commission for the City of San Francisco and sits on the board of several non-profit and business organizations.

10 x 10 Founding Patrons

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Sarah Arison
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Sarah de Blasio
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Allison Berg
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Deborah Calmeyer
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Shari Sant
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Erina Pindar

AFOZM Patrons

2024-2025
Patrons

The Arison Arts Foundation
Diane and Charles Frankel
Dave Ross
Emma Menell
Julie Mehretu
Michael Silver
ROAR AFRICA LLC
Simone Leigh
SmartFlyer
Tracey and Phillip Riese
Wangechi Mutu
Yinka Shonibare

Past
Patrons

Jochen Zeitz
The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation
Adam Sheffer
Unfinished
Untapped Global

AFOZM
Ambassador

Ellen Port
New York Ambassador

Members
in 2025

Amanda Maples
Anneliese Klein
Catalina Maria Escobar Restrepo
Catherine Terc Owens
Cindy Schwarzstein
Dana Beth Ardi
Ellen Port
Graham Steele
Joan Malliband
Joy Simmons
Kate Fellens
Maile Gamez
Maria Olga Ochoa Sierra 
Michelle Rose Seydel
Montague Hermann
Nikol Popovská
Niv Alexander
Patricia Mitchell Seydel
Ramiro Escobar Aristizabal
Scott O’Sullivan Seydel
Stephanie Manasseh
Susan Mathisen
Trevyn McGowan
Vincent Magagula

Past
Members 

Past Members include:
Barbara Shuster, Christa Clarke, Dave Ross (now Global Council member) Fiona Mackay, Halim Flowers, Jim Chu, Jose Carlos Díaz, Cecile Raubenheimer, Robin Rankin, Yona Backer

Individual
Supporters 

Chris Abbate
Stephanie Wagner

2025 Technology Grant

Sarah De Blasio 

2025

Sponsors

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Past
Patrons

The Whitney Museum of Art
The Brooklyn Museum of Art
The Bass Museum of Art
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Independent New York
Southern Guild
The Armory Show
Montague Contemporary
Nicola Vassel

2023-2024
Sponsors

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2023 Activation Partners

The Queens Museum
The Armory Show
PhotoFairs New York

Our Team

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Claire Breukel
Arison Arts Foundation Head of American Friends of Zeitz MOCAA
Claire is a South African- born contemporary arts professional who has worked in the non-profit, foundation and private collection sector for two decades, primarily in Miami and New York.

American Friends of Zeitz MOCAA
74 Oak Road
Katonah, NY 10536
United States

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Zeitz MOCAA is located at the V&A Waterfront Silo District Cape Town, South Africa. 

American Friends of Zeitz MOCAA is a 501(c)(3) organization with an IRS ruling year of 2017 and donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Artwork included on this website are by Goldendean, Mary Evans, Unathi Mkonto and Zandile Tschabalala as part of Zeitz MOCAA’s exhibition program. Photos are by Bruno Rosa unless otherwise specified. All images courtesy of AFOZM and Zeitz MOCAA.

 

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