RIME Board of Directors
Arthur Bloom – President and Founder
Arthur Bloom holds a literature degree from Yale College, and music degrees from Juilliard and the Yale School of Music. His experience as a composer in a variety of styles and genres is reflected in credits that span from The Albany Symphony Orchestra, The Tulsa Philharmonic, The Israel Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestra New England, to National Public Radio, HBO, and Def Jam/CBS Records. He has taught sociology at Yale University, composition at the Educational Center for the Arts in Connecticut, and has written about music and recording technology for MIX Magazine. Mr. Bloom's orchestral music has been recorded by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, featured on NPR's Performance Today, and heard in numerous venues. Mr. Bloom created the first Concert Curriculum, An Orchestra's Guide To The Young Person and, following its success, founded RIME. With support from an Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space Science (IDEAS) grant from NASA, Mr. Bloom created a science version of the Concert Curriculum, An Orchestra’s Guide To The Universe, and served as Principal Investigator. After meeting with injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Mr. Bloom created Musicorps to help them in their recovery.
Hirokazu Yoshikawa – Vice President
Hirokazu Yoshikawa is a professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a Juilliard-trained pianist, and a developmental and community psychologist who conducts research on the development of children and the effects of public policies. He is conducting a project on the development of young children and adolescents in Nanjing, China. He is also conducting projects to improve the quality of preschool education in Boston and in Santiago, Chile. He has conducted extensive research on the effects on children of public policies related to welfare, employment, and early childhood intervention. Recent books include Making it Work: Low-Wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development, with Thomas S. Weisner and Edward Lowe, and Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs. He regularly advises government agencies, foundations, and educational and nongovernmental organizations in the United States and abroad.
Micki M. Chen – Secretary
Micki M. Chen is vice president, associate general counsel for Verizon Communications, Inc. She is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and a graduate of the Harvard Law School where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She has served as Senior Assistant General Counsel and Special Counsel to the General Counsel for the U.S. General Services Administration, where she received the Vice President's "Hammer Award" and the "Commendable Service Award." Ms. Chen studied piano at the Manhattan School of Music.
Edward M. Suh – Treasurer
Edward M. Suh holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Yale College, a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Harvard University, and is Director of Integrated Discovery Technologies at the Eisai Research Institute in Massachusetts. In addition to his work as a scientist, Dr. Suh is a singer-songwriter.
Frank H. Klein
Frank H. Klein holds a B.A. from Brown University, and an L.L.B. from the University of Virginia Law School. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1956 through 1959, and was admitted to practice law in Virginia and in New York in 1962. Mr. Klein was a partner in the NY law firm Bangser, Klein, Rocca & Blum, and currently practices law in NY at Frank H. Klein, LLC.
Susan Crawford (on leave)
Susan Crawford is a prominent technology and internet legal scholar and professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Previously, she was a partner at the Washington, DC law firm Wilmer Cutler, and Pickering. Ms. Crawford was a member of the Board of Directors for ICANN, is the founder of OneWebDay, and is a violist.
RIME Board of Advisors
Allison Fine
Allison Fine is the author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, and a senior fellow at Demos: A Network for Change and Action in New York City.
Scott Freiman
Scott Freiman is a composer, producer, and owner of Second Act Studio, and co-founded Credit Management Solutions, Inc. (CMSI), where he served as CEO.
Dan Klein
Dan Klein is an Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker and the Executive Producer at Wonderland Productions.
Navah Perlman
Navah Perlman is a renowned pianist who performs throughout the world in solo recitals, with orchestras, and as part of the Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey Trio.
Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham is a Grammy Award winning violinist, internationally recognized as one of today's most virtuosic and engaging classical artists.
David Stern
David Stern is a sought-after conductor and currently the Music Director of the Israel Opera, the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra and Opera, and Opera Fuoco.
David M.C. Stern
David Stern is the Founder and CEO of Stern Consulting, which provides speciality consulting services to the healthcare industry.
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