Other Minds Welcomes Four New Members to Board of Directors

Other Minds is pleased to welcome four new members to our Board of Directors: Theresa Wong, Paul Upham, Mark Hulbert, and David Weisberg. Pianist Myra Melford has stepped down from the Other Minds Board after eight years of service.

Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, vocalist, and intermedia artist active at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in music composition, her works include Fluency of Trees for solo cello and voice which premiered at the Other Minds Festival in 2022, She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees, commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill for The Future Is Female project, and Harbors, co-composed with Long String Instrument inventor Ellen Fullman and chosen as one of The Wire’s top 50 releases of 2020.

Paul Upham is the Global Head of Smart Devices at Roche / Genentech. Paul has 20+ years of experience in medical device R&D, strategic marketing, product management, clinical research, and medical informatics. Paul holds four issued patents in medical software and drug delivery devices and multiple patent applications covering software and medical devices. He is also an author and co-author of numerous peer-reviewed articles in medical informatics and in diabetes.

Mark Hulbert is a historical architect and historic resources consultant at Preservation Architecture. Hulbert is brought onto project based on broad experience in architectural, historical and cultural resource planning, design, evaluation and interpretation. On the historic architectural front, as a registered architect and a certified architectural conservator with a career-long dedication to existing and historic buildings, he provides detailed and hands-on direction and assistance to building rehabilitation and preservation efforts.

David Weisberg is a teacher, playwright, critic, and fiction writer. He has taught at Hunter College in New York City, the University of Delaware, and Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. In addition to his published books and theater productions, his shorter works have appeared in The Albuquerque Alibi, The Tennessee Review, The Mississippi Review, Nepantla: Views from the South, Libido, Nerve.com and other journals.