Our Board of Directors

Shani Padnos
​President
Graduating from Haifa University with a law degree, Shani was an accomplished litigator practicing Corporate Law in Tel Aviv until moving to Holland, Michigan in 2011. She sits on the board of the Holland Area Arts Council to continue a family tradition proud in growing the arts and acceptance of the creative force within us all.
Leslie Brigham
Vice President
Preschool instructor, Board of Directors at Cherry Lane Preschool, Arts Council Board
Jeremy Brieve
Treasurer
Counsel, Priority Health. State Bar of Michign, Chairman of the Substantive Law Committee of the Health Care Law Section (6/15 – Present).  Board of Directors Treasurer Mercy Air, Inc.(02/13 – Present)
Reynaldo D. Rivera, D.D.S., M.D., F.A.C.S.
Secretary 
Clinical Instructor, Department of Surgery,  Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Chief, Division of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Spectrum Health System
Gordon Julius
Julius Group Architecture LLC – Principal; Commodore of the Lake Michigan Sail Racing Federation
Amy Kraal
Human Resources Consultant, Owner of HR Solutions Group of West Michigan, LLC & Know My HR, LLC Talent2025 CEO Council member, Mentor for Women’s Leadership at West Coast Chamber of Commerce
Heidi Kraus
Associate Professor of Art and Art History and the Director of The De Pree Galley at Hope College, specializing in art from the Early Modern through Contemporary periods.  Her current teaching and research focuses on eighteenth-and nineteenth-century iconography in contemporary French visual culture
Denise Nestel 
Licensed Attorney, Mediation Services both domestic and civil, Park Township Planning Commissioner, Director on MACC's Community Enhancement Program 
Jon Spoelhof 
Development with TMI Compressed Air Systems, Board of Directors at Living Hope, Boys and Girls Club, Assistant Soccer Coach Holland Christian Schools 
Hillary Hovinga
Director of Marketing and Communications Greater Ottawa County United Way, Board of Directors at Children's Advocacy Center