management team

Sara Green

Founder and Executive Director

Sara received her MBA in Finance and Economics from Columbia Graduate School of Business. She holds a BFA in Dance and a BA in History from the Ohio State University. Ms. Green has seven years of experience in management, fundraising, development and strategic planning for non-profit art organizations, including The New York City Ballet and Dance Theatre Workshop. Ms. Green danced professionally for 10 years in Europe and the U.S. In 2011, Ms. Green was awarded the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship. Her work with A.R.T. has been featured in several books, including More Than 85 Broads, by Janet Hanson and The Art of Doing Good, by Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon

Fadwa Abbad

Country Director, Palestine, Coordinator, MENA region

Fadwa Abbad, is A.R.T.’s Country Director, Palestine, Coordinator MENA region. Ms. Abbad holds a master’s degree in Social Work from Hilwan University, Egypt. She is the founder and General Director of Sunna Al-Amal (Hope Makers), an independent human rights non-profit organization. Ms. Abbad has more than 20 years of training experience in social work & gender issues, and in developing training programs for Palestinian professionals. She established a program titled “High Diploma/Master in Psychotherapy”, the first of its kind in the Middle East that aims to strengthen the capacities of Psychotherapists and mental health institutions in Palestine. Prior to founding Sunna Al-Amal, she was the Country Director for Roots of Peace in Palestine for 4 years, leading a campaign to demine a Palestinian village and turning this dangerous area full of mines into a safe playground for children. Ms. Abbad has also worked in a number of organizations from the health field and civil society such as UNRWA and UNESCO as a social worker, a trainer, a researcher, and an advocate.

Chelsea Rivera

Community Partnerships and Outreach

Chelsea Rivera serves as a consultant for A.R.T. She formally headed the Colombian field office of A.R.T. and was selected to present at the Occupational Therapy Association of California’s 2020 conference regarding her community work with Afro-Colombian and displaced Colombians populations outside Cartagena. Chelsea received her doctorate from University of California’s School Occupational Therapy and currently works in secondary wellness education.

advisory board

ART’s Advisory Board includes international development professionals, financial experts, and legal advisors.

  • Susan Barnett, Media Strategist

  • Peter S. Green, Journalist

  • Victoria Harmon, VL Harmon Advisors

  • Jennifer P. Holt, Chief Executive Officer, Building Markets

  • Margaret Pomeroy Hunt, Founder, and CEO, Hunt Philanthropic

  • Yady Ibarra, International Consultant, Development and Social Inclusion Expert

  • Carolyn Kissane, Professor, New York University

  • Jane Lowicki-Zucca, Consultant, Child and Youth Protection and Development in Conflict and Post-conflict

  • Kourosh Mahboubian, Principal, Kourosh Mahboubian Fine Art

  • Natalie Napierala, Attorney-at-Law

  • William Petroni, Managing Director, Cristin Tierney Gallery

  • Robert S. Green, Attorney-at-Law

  • Marjorie Spitz, Marketing and Development Consultant

  • Katharine Stevens, Founder & CEO, Center on Child and Family Policy

  • Naomi Vladeck, Development Consultant

special thanks

  • Cecilia Mejia

  • Janet Hanson and 85 Broads for their continued personal and financial support

  • The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

  • Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Columbia University Graduate School of Business: Prof. Murray Low and Prof. Clifford A. Schorer

  • Leslie Askew, Askew Pictures

  • Diagonal Media

  • Carlton Fields

  • The Caring for Colombia Foundation

  • International Rescue Committee: Marie de la Soudiere, Director of Programs for Youth in Armed Conflict

  • Fundación Serena del Mar

  • Fundación Educativa Nuevo Retiro

  • Colegio Punta Canoa

  • Frances and Gerard Guillemot

  • Ambassador Jeanne Kennedy Smith

  • Prof. William Dugan, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

  • Natalia Sanchez and Alejandro Ramirez

  • In warm memory of a very special person: Mary Diaz, Executive Director, The Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, (1961 - 2004)

  • In memory of Rachel Dorothy Tanur and Marcia Valerie Tanur