Edward P. Clapp is the editor and project director of 20UNDER40—a new anthology of critical discourse featuring 20 essays about the future of the arts and arts education by young leaders under the age of 40.  In addition to his work with 20UNDER40, Edward is also a poet/fiction writer, an arts consultant, and a doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Phoebe Eng is the executive director of Creative Counsel, a New York-based organization that supports artists and arts organizations in their exploration of social justice issues. In 2010-2011 Creative Counsel will inaugurate the Clarion Prize, a juried prize program honoring artists engaged in creative social change work. Eng is the vice chair of the Ms. Foundation for Women and a board member of Women Make Movies. 

She is an Advisory Board member of Working Mother Media’s Best Companies for Multicultural Women list, and received the New York City Mayor’s Innovator Award.  Eng started her career as a mergers and acquisitions attorney in New York and Hong Kong and received the Arthur Vanderbilt Medal for distinguished service to NYU School of Law. She is the author of The Era of the Bridge Builder: Identifying the Qualities of Fluent Leaders (National Civic Review) and Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman’s Journey into Power (Simon & Schuster).
 

Leslie A. Ito is the program officer for the arts at the California Community Foundation. She manages the foundation’s arts program area that supports individual artists and small-to-midsize arts and cultural organizations in Los Angeles County. She brings extensive experience as a grantmaker, as well as an arts administrator and advocate. She was most recently with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission as director of grant programs. Prior to the arts commission, Ito was the executive director of Visual Communications, the nation's premiere Asian American media arts organization. In New York, Ito served as a program associate in the Ford Foundation’s media, arts, and culture division.

Andrew Taylor is director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration, an M.B.A. degree program and research center in the Wisconsin School of Business. An author, lecturer, and researcher on a range of arts management issues, Andrew has also served as a consultant to arts organizations throughout the United States and Canada. Since July 2003, his Artful Manager blog has been featured on ArtsJournal.com.

Russell Willis Taylor, president and CEO of National Arts Strategies since January 2001, has extensive senior experience in strategic business planning, financial analysis and planning, and all areas of operational management. Educated in England and America, she served as director of development for the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art before returning to England in 1985 at the invitation of the English National Opera (ENO) to establish the company's first fundraising department. During this time, she also lectured extensively at graduate programs of arts and business management throughout Britain. From 1997 through 2000, she rejoined the ENO as executive director.