Lily Siegel
Executive Director
lily@ha-dc.org

Lily Siegel is Hamiltonian Artists’ first Executive Director. Before joining Hamiltonian, Siegel was Executive Director and Curator at Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (formerly Greater Reston Arts Center), Reston, Virginia, and has held curatorial positions at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Siegel earned her MA in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of California, San Diego.

Elisa B. Glazer
Secretary

Elisa B. Glazer is passionate about contemporary art, museums, and initiatives that connect people, institutions, and ideas. She is an experienced non-profit leader who has strengthened the financial resiliency of cultural and educational organizations and helped them build relationships with diverse audiences, donors, media outlets and the diplomatic corps. She has a consultancy practice for non-profits, bringing expertise in developing effective campaigns, boards, events, and collaborations, as well as communications and visitor engagement. She has served as External Affairs Officer/Chief Development Officer for the National Gallery of Art and for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, and as Senior Director of Development for the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Her previous clients include the High Museum of Art, Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National History Day, and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of American Art, and National Portrait Gallery. She received her MA in the History of Art from Brown University and a BA in Political Science from Duke University.

Jason Arvanites
Treasurer

Jason Arvanites is a Vice President at Via Transportation, a transportation technology company, where he leads global support operations. In this role Arvanites leads 500+ to ensure smooth operations and customer service to all of Via’s end users in over 500 partnerships across five continents. Prior to Via, he spent four years as a management consultant at Bain & Company, where he focused on private equity due diligence, education strategy & operations, and merger and acquisitions integrations. Immediately after college, he joined Teach for America and spent three years as a 7th grade science teacher in his hometown of Los Angeles. Arvanites received his MBA in Finance and Strategy from Yale School of Management, and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago, where he also studied photography.

Kyrae Dawaun
Ex Officio, Current Hamiltonian Fellow

Kyrae Dawaun is an artist who maintains a practice centering on the human dependence on inorganic matter and nonhuman existence and explores these geological transactions as they implicate human relationships. His approach to his work is influenced by his studies, speculation, and experience around architecture, hospitality, and the “fluid and fickle” nature of language.

Kish Rusek
Board Member

Kish Rusek is a consulting manager at KPMG. She is a former policy leader in DC government where she advised on citywide grants policy and contributed to the efforts of educational reform, increased public health, and environmentalism in Washington, DC. She also co-champions diversity and inclusion workshops developed by the National Coalition Building Institute. She is a prolific speaker in the areas of grants policy, strategic management of grants teams, and equity in public service. In 2016, she was honored by the Cafritz Foundation for her outstanding leadership as a public servant in Washington, DC. Outside of work, she is a swimmer and longtime opera enthusiast.

Tony Smith
Board Member

Tony Smith is a Truist Bank, Inc., Premier Banker, and Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC®) with 17 years of financial services experience, committed to helping his clients find financial peace of mind by making the complex simple. He helps clients take a comprehensive, holistic, and strategic approach to financial planning, while delivering customized solutions and providing active relationship and risk management. His daily goal is to put his clients first and build their trust through high-touch attention, in-depth conversations, and technology. Smith studied economics at the University of Connecticut, received his Charter Financial Consultant designation in 2012, and earned his MBA from the University of Maryland Global Campus.