Chairman

BK Fulton

BK Fulton is Chairman and CEO of Soulidifly Productions, an award-winning full feature film, TV, and stage production and investment company designed to promote a more inclusive narrative in contemporary media.  BK has produced more than 20 films and four number-one Broadway shows, including The Piano Lesson, The Wiz, and The Outsiders, which won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical (2024).

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BK was a former President of Verizon Communications and he has held senior leadership, media, technology and policy development posts with the U.S. Department of Commerce, AOL, Time Warner, and the National Urban League. BK is a Sloan Fellow and holds a Smithsonian Laureates Medal (2000) and a Juris Doctorate (1998).  He is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the History Makers and the Business Leaders Hall of Fame. 

BK is also the author of more than 16 books, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and a respected art and time piece collector.  He is the founding Chairman of the Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation.

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Read BK's Message from the Chairman, a touching tribute essay about Richard Hunt.

Vice Chair

LeRonn P. Brooks, PhD

LeRonn P. Brooks is an art historian and curator of the African American Art History Initiative at the Getty Research Institute (GRI), where he also leads the development of African American collections and acquisitions and serves as the founding curator of the GRI’s collection of African American archives. Prior to joining the Getty, he served as Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College and as a curator with the Racial Imaginary Institute, founded by poet Claudia Rankine. 

LeRonn received his PhD in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His curatorial work has been instrumental in shaping major archival holdings, including the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, the Paul R. Williams Archive, the Richard Hunt Archive, as well as the Maren Hassinger Archive, and the Dr. Robert Farris Thompson Archive. A widely published scholar, his interviews and essays on African American art and poetry have appeared in Callaloo, The International Review of African American Art, and Aperture, as well as in numerous catalogues, including Richard Hunt (2022) Dawoud Bey: Elegy (2023), Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging (2023), A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 (2023), and Faith Ringgold: American People (2022). He is currently co-editor and co-curator of the first monograph and retrospective exhibition on architect Paul R. Williams, I Am an Architect, drawn from Williams’s archive at the Getty Research Institute.

Treasurer

Noah P. Dorsky

Noah Dorsky is a private investor and CIO of Dorsky & Company, Inc. He is a director of The Dorsky Foundation and Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, two New York-based private foundations supporting and promoting arts and education. Noah was Chair of the SUNY New Paltz Foundation from 2009 through 2012 and served on the Advisory Board of The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art on that campus. He also served terms as president and treasurer of the Long Island City Cultural Alliance. Since January, 2020, Mr. Dorsky has been Board President of the Rubin Museum of Art.
 

The Dorsky family has had a personal and professional relationship with Richard Hunt since the early 1970s, when Noah’s father, Samuel Dorsky, began representing Richard in New York City through Dorsky Gallery.

The Dorsky family all collect Richard’s work, and have helped place his work in museums, colleges, and other private and public collections and venues throughout the United States.

Secretary

Jacquelyn E.  Stone

Jackie Stone is the first African-American female partner of a major law firm in the history of Virginia.  She joined McGuireWoods as an associate attorney in 1985 after graduating from Harvard Law School.

Jackie served as a member of the McGuireWoods Board of Partners and is the former chair of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She also served as the worldwide hiring partner for nearly 25 years. Her practice focuses on legislative issues, regulatory matters, business immigration, and worksite enforcement and compliance as a member of the firm’s securities and capital markets department.

Jackie worked as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives after obtaining her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia. Jackie has been recognized as a Virginia “Super Lawyer” and as one of Virginia’s “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business magazine. In 2018, Jackie was honored with the prestigious National Women in Law Award for Lifetime Achievement by Corporate Counsel and Inside Counsel. She is one of only six women ever to receive this award. She was selected as one of Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s Influential Women of Law in 2020. In 2021, Jackie won the award for Best Mentor: Law Firm in The American Lawyer Industry Awards. She is the recipient of the McGuireWoods Diversity and Inclusion Award and the Virginia FREE inaugural Award for Advocacy, both of which have been renamed in her honor.  In January 2026, the first award received by the first woman Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia was the Jackie Stone Award for Advocacy.

Board Member

Michelle Dinwiddie-Segue

Michelle Dinwiddie-Segue is an artist, potter, and Secretary for the Pewabic Society Board of Trustees. As a fundraiser, she has volunteered for the Dr. Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Orchards Children’s Services, and the Detroit Children's Museum.

Michelle is a member of The Links, Incorporated; Jack & Jill of America, Inc.; and the Detroit Study Club, which at 125 years old is one of the oldest Black organizations in America.

Michelle is a relative of Richard Hunt.

Board Member

Theaster Gates

Theaster Gates is an artist who lives and works in Chicago. His practice finds roots in conceptual formalism, sculpture, space theory, land art, and performance. 

Drawing on his interest and training in urban planning and preservation, Theaster redeems spaces that have been left behind. Known for his recirculation of art-world capital, he creates work that focuses on the possibility of the “spirit within things.” In all aspects of his work, he contends with the notion of Black space as a formal exercise.

Theaster is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College. He also serves as the Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to the Dean; is Director of Artists Initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College Museum of Art; and was the 2018/2019 Artist-in-Residence at the Getty Research Institute (GRI).

Board Member

Pamela Kiecker Royall, PhD

Pamela Royall is a native of Minnesota and a graduate of Carleton College (BA, Religion), where she has served as a Trustee since 2010. She earned an MBA (Minnesota State University, Finance) and PhD in Business Administration (University of Colorado-Boulder, Marketing). Pam is the Head of Research for EAB’s Marketing and Enrollment Solutions (formerly Royall & Company), the Richmond-based company her late husband, Bill Royall, founded in 1983. Here, she leads national survey research programs that have reached over two million participants to inform higher education strategy. A former marketing professor and Department Chair at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Pam founded the Interactive Marketing Institute (IMI) in 1998. She has published more than 80 articles and secured prestigious grants from the Fulbright Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Education, and the World Bank, among others. 

Beyond her professional research, she is a dedicated philanthropist and leader in the arts and education sectors, serving as a Trustee for Carleton College and Virginia Union University, and as President of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU. Alongside her late husband, she founded the long-running Richmond art space Try-me, continuing a legacy of deep support for the Virginia Museum of History and Culture and numerous community arts organizations.

Board Member

Joseph E. Tyler III

Joseph E. Tyler III is a Senior Vice President and Relationship Manager in the Commercial Banking division at Bank of America in Chicago. With a career spanning several decades, he has held pivotal roles at major institutions including JP Morgan and Continental Bank, gaining deep expertise in investment banking, capital markets, and wealth management. Beyond his corporate tenure, Joseph spent seven years as an executive recruiter at The Pinnacle Group, specializing in high-level placements for private equity and hedge funds.

A graduate of Miami University with a joint degree in Accounting and Finance, Joseph also holds an MBA with honors from the University of Virginia. His professional excellence was notably recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business, which named him one of the top minorities in banking. Committed to philanthropy and education, he is a past co-chair of the Big Shoulders Fund’s Chairman’s Advisory Council, has served on numerous charitable boards, and recently earned a certificate in college counseling from UCLA in 2024.

Board Member

Edward T. Welburn

Ed Welburn is a legendary automotive designer who made history as the first African American designer hired by General Motors (GM) in 1972, eventually becoming the company’s first global Vice President of Design. Over a prolific 44-year career, he rose to become the company’s sixth Vice President of Design in 2003 and, by 2005, the first person to lead GM Design on a global scale. In this role, he managed over 1,400 creative professionals across 11 design centers in seven countries. Welburn is credited with “bringing beauty back to GM,” overseeing the design of two generations of the Corvette, the iconic Presidential Limousine known as “The Beast,” and navigating the design department through the company’s complex financial crisis and bankruptcy.

A graduate of Howard University College of Fine Arts, Ed studied Product Design, Sculpture, and Painting. He is the first automotive designer in history to have his archives placed in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC. Ed has received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, numerous lifetime achievement awards, and was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 2017. In 2022, Ed was inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame. Since retiring, he has founded Welburn Design, transitioned into high-end fashion and shoe design, and remains a prominent figure in the automotive world as a premier judge at international concours d’elegance, from Pebble Beach to Lake Como. He is an active board member of Exploring The Arts, Tony Bennett’s foundation supporting public schools of the arts in New York City and Los Angeles. Most importantly, today he enjoys time with his two adult children and two grandchildren.