BOARD OF DIRECTORS
KELLY LEVIS
Chair
Residing in the New North End, Kelly has spent her career immersed in marketing leadership, bringing media, analytics, and brand projects to life. Currently leading a cross functional team at a global media agency, Kelly brings depth in collaboration and strategic planning to the board. She holds a bachelors in Psychology and feels grateful to support the creative energy and mission of all things ONE Arts.
HILARY LINDER Secretary
Hilary Linder combines her knowledge in the fields of international development and humanitarian relief with her passion for non-fiction storytelling as the founder of Kudzu Films, a production company dedicated to spreading social justice through film. She directed and produced Indivisible, a Peabody Award-winning film about the fight to reunite families separated by deportation.
Previously, Hilary monitored humanitarian emergencies for USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance and served as a Program Manager at the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund managing projects aimed at promoting job growth and sustainable economic development. Hilary holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She lives in Vermont with her family.
JEFF KELLAR
Treasurer
Jeff Kellar is the Director of Finance and Controller at VSAC. A graduate of St. Michael’s College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Jeff holds an active CPA license. He began his career at RSM in 1999, specializing in auditing non-profit clients, before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2005 to audit insurance and financial service clients, including a major publicly traded bank in Burlington, Vermont.
Jeff brings extensive expertise in internal controls, including audits subject to Sarbanes-Oxley. He spent over a decade as an auditor at the Vermont State Auditor’s Office, assessing government programs and systems such as tax collection, payments, liquor distribution, and tax increment financing districts.
From 2017 to 2023, Jeff served as Controller at Vermont College of Fine Arts, leading a five-person team. He overhauled processes, systems, and controls, achieving a spotless audit record and significantly improving efficiency. Jeff also developed advanced financial forecasting models to support strategic decision-making by the College’s leadership.
Jeff lives in Richmond, Vermont, with his wife and daughter. In his free time, he enjoys camping, skiing, golfing, cooking, and watching movies with his family.
ANDREA AQUINO
Advisory Board
Andrea (she/her) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Vermont in 2015. She is an avid reader, baker, seamstress, knitter, and dabbler in a million other things. She lives in Burlington with her husband, cat, and two children.
EURYDICE ABOAGYE
Advisory Board
Eurydice Aboagye is a fourth year PhD student in the Food systems program at the University of Vermont. She specializes in food safety and is passionate about making scientific information and science education accessible and comprehensible to everyone. This is why she is excited to partner and serve with One Arts in developing and exciting the curiosity of our children. Eurydice is a mother to a passionate preschooler and the one arts community which is more like a family ensured that she found a place and a community when she first moved to Vermont with her infant daughter.
MOLLY RITVO
Advisory Board
Molly Ritvo has been writing for her whole life, beginning when she was selected as the class poet in the 1st grade. With an MFA in creative writing, Molly works as a writer and grant-writer in Burlington, VT, and also serves as a communications & fundraising consultant specializing in annual appeals, newsletters, print publications, and grant proposals and reports. Her clients include nonprofits in the arts and social justice. She is a proud mother of a 1st grader & is humbled and grateful to support the growth of One Arts.
SANDRA NNADI
Advisory Board
Sandra Nnadi is a Phd student studying Plant Biology at the University of Vermont. She is from Nigeria in West Africa and has a lovely 8 year old son on the Autism spectrum.
Sandra enjoys cooking, painting and sewing. She is currently a family partner with Children with Special Health Needs (CSHN) and a Co-chair, UVMMC Multilingual Patient Family Advisory Council.
BETH LEDUC
Advisory Board
I’m Beth Leduc and I live in Burlington with my husband and 2 kiddos. I’ve been in Burlington my entire life and love this community. Since my oldest was little, being involved in the arts has been a priority for our family and I’m so thankful for O.N.E Arts and grateful to be on their board. I love the programs offered and their mission to make art accessible to all.
leadership team
MARGARET COLEMAN
Co-President and Chief Ideation Officer
she/her
Margaret Coleman received her BFA from the University of MN in 2005, her MFA from Pratt Institute in 2009, and her Doctorate from the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts in 2023. She has held many roles in the arts and arts education, including exhibiting her work, curation, teaching all ages, and arts administration. She served as Co-Founder of the Visitor Center Artist Camp (2009-2016), the Executive Director and Co-founder of art collective, Art Shape Mammoth (2009-2019), and as the Executive Director of the T.W. Wood Gallery (2019-2023). She is one of the co-founders of ONE Arts, forming it with Co-President and Co-Founder Becca McHale in 2013, after her move from Brooklyn to Vermont. Dr. Coleman is passionate about making creative practice accessible and giving young people tools to shape the future and push the boundaries of what is possible. She lives in Burlington, VT with her husband, three young children and their dog.
BECCA MCHALE
Co-President and Chief Compassion Cultivator
she/her
Becca McHale received her BFA from St Mary's College of MD in 2000 shortly before moving to Vermont with intentions of creating a family and a life enriched with the arts. Becca worked as a graphic designer for 11 years and ran her own business before joining forces with Margaret Coleman to create ONE Arts in 2013, when they opened the ONE Arts Center, their first location that offered after school art classes and camps for elementary school students. Becca enjoyed managing the programming and teaching there for 9 years, before ONE Arts became a non-profit and expanded, opening 2 early learning centers in 2021. Becca still enjoys making art with folks as much as possible and cares deeply for our community and giving people of all ages opportunities to explore creative expression. She lives in the Old North End of Burlington with her husband, 2 children, and 2 dogs.
DAYLE SARGEANT
Director
ONE Arts Community School Burlington
I am a born and raised Vermonter who has been working in early childhood education for 12 years now. I have taught preschool and infant-toddler in this time, and for the past two years I have been a Director. I have a Bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont and a Masters degree from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, both in early childhood special education. I also hold a specialization in trauma Informed teaching and a birth through age 6 teaching license in early childhood special education. I am passionate about making schools a physically and emotionally safe environment for the community they support, this includes children, families, and teachers.
In my free time I enjoy cozy hobbies that can be done from the comfort of my couch. I dabble in embroidery, sewing, coloring, cozy video games, and I love audiobooks and podcasts. I consider myself a collector of hobbies, and I will try anything twice. I live in Burlington with my amazing partner and our two dogs.
KATHLEEN BENITEZ MARTINEZ
Assistant Director
ONE Arts Community School Burlington
Kathleen Benitez Martinez(they/them/theirs) is the Assistant Director and Preschool Teacher at the Burlington ONE Arts Community School. They are a Latinx transplant from the Bronx, NYC. They have lived and worked in Burlington as an early childhood educator for almost a decade, and are deeply committed to the children and families of this community. They strongly believe in putting children first (their interests, their needs, their joy!). They are deeply committed to creating learning communities that serve as an antidote to the harmful entangled societal systems we live in. Kathleen loves cooking and baking, thrifting classroom materials and practicing their chess game.
ERIN WIEGOSKINSKI
Director
ONE Arts Community School Colchester
Hi my name is Erin Wielgoszinski! I am the program director here at ONE Arts Community School in Colchester. I have received both my Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design as well as my Master’s degree in Elementary Education from Franklin Pierce University. I have been working in the education field for the last decade as a classroom teacher with a specialization in remediation. I love kids and watching them learn and grow into themselves. In my free time, I love spending time with my husband, 3 kids and my dog, reading and creating graphic arts.
ABBY ADAMS
Assistant Director
ONE Arts Community School Colchester
Hello ONE Arts families! My name is Abby. I am the assistant director as well as the infant teacher. I spend most of my time with infants but I also work beside all of the teachers in the Colchester ONE Arts center to support all of the classrooms and families. I started my Early Education career starting in 2008 in the Center For Technology Essex in the Early Education and Human Services program. I then followed my second passion and received a degree in visual arts. Both passions, going hand and hand helping little hands create. I love learning and observing creativity from the kids as it inspires my own art. I am born and raised in Vermont and in my free time enjoy spending time with my dogs and family, camping, kayaking, hiking and traveling.
EMILY ANNE STEWART
Director
ONE Arts Community School Garden Street
Emily graduated from the University of Vermont with a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education currently holds a Level II VT Educator’s License with endorsements in both fields. Emily has supported many early childhood education centers around the Burlington area as an Early Childhood Special Educator for the Burlington School District and then taught kindergarten at Integrated Arts Academy at H.O. Wheeler for years. Emily is thrilled to join the ONE Arts Community Schools and will be opening a new early learning center that will serve families of the UVMMC Health Network, which is due to open in the spring of 2025 in South Burlington. She recently received her Level II Program Director Credential and has been accepted into the Early Childhood Leadership Institute.
Emily enjoys spending time with her family in her South Burlington home. She enjoys spending time in her garden, hiking, kayaking, snowboarding, and just about any outdoor adventure!
KRISTA DRAKE
Assistant Director
ONE Arts Community School Garden Street
she/her
Hi my name is Krista Drake. I am passionate about building strong communities to support early education centers and providing joyful education experiences for families and teachers. I have been an early educator for the last ten years with a B.A. in Elementary Education from the University of Vermont and a Master’s in Early Childhood Education from Champlain College. I have experience as a Childcare Manager, Director and Head Teacher for a Montessori preschool, and Kindergarten teacher. I live with my husband, daughter, and dog and when not working with children I can be found on the ski slopes, walking in the woods, or painting.
MIKAYLA MESSIER
Director
ONE Arts Center Burlington
Mikayla is the Director of the ONE Arts Center in Burlington. Mikayla was born and raised in Vermont and has been teaching art to elementary school aged kids for four years now. She earned a BFA degree in Studio Arts at Johnson State College in 2018 and received a MFA degree in Studio Arts at NVU-Johnson in 2020. Mikayla loves to paint and find new ways to incorporate sculptures in her art. She has been showing many of her paintings around Vermont, so keep an eye out and you might see one of her pieces! You can also check out her website at mikaylamessierpainting.com. Besides being an artist, she also loves to read, swim, travel and play tennis. Mikayla believes that art is just as much about the process as the finished product and with that in mind everyone can be an artist as long as they have fun making it!
MELANIE DUBE
Operations Director