Leadership

These are the fantastic folks behind the StL Arts Chamber. If you’d like to join, feel free to contact us!

Staff

Board of Directors

Mike LaBozzetta Emeritus

Mike worked with Fortune 500 companies to evaluate their transfer pricing and international tax positions and risks. As a student attorney at the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and the Saint Louis University School of Law, Mike worked with members of the St. Louis community who were looking to set up their own non-profit entities to serve a need they saw as going unfulfilled. Seeing the passion these people have for their community inspired me to support these organizations as they are critical to building a healthy community. He has his JD from the Saint Louis University School of Law, MBA from the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University, BSBA in International Business from Saint Louis University Civic Involvement: Member of the Radio Advocacy Council for the Radio Arts Foundation Chair of the Mentorship Committee and Young Lawyers Division Board Member at the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis Member of the Programming Committee of the Young Nonprofits Professional Network – St. Louis Chapter Volunteer at Venture Cafe St. Louismike.labozzetta@gmail.com

Beth Clauss

Beth Clauss is the Big Fry and CEO of Small Potatoes Communications, a unified creative communications agency based in St. Louis, Missouri. She has accrued more than 25 years of experience as a professional creative and executive, having worked as a copywriter, editor, and producer for companies like Humana, Papa Johns, Mad*Pow, PriceWeber, Cummins Diesel Engine Company, as well as local small businesses and nonprofits. She has served as treasurer and board member for Gateway Dance Conservatory, and also co-owns Gateway Yoga (formerly known as Baptiste Power Yoga St. Louis) in Kirkwood.  beth@smallpotatoes.co

Adrian Aquilino

Adrian Aquilino is an artist exploring the formal and expressive possibilities of paper through paper cutting and collage. Her work features phantasmagorical imagery drawing from her interests in mythology, folklore, and the supernatural.adrianaquilino@gmail.com

Jesika Barnes

Jesika is a Senior Manager in KPMGโ€™s Department of Professional Practice – Global Audit Methodology Group, where she has responsibilities for development, maintenance, and support of the Firmโ€™s audit methodology and related technology. Jesika brings 16 years of audit and finance experience, having served on audits for public and private companies. She is passionate about the arts and cultivating the arts within the St. Louis community and currently serves as the Board President for Dance St. Louis. Jesika is also an adjunct facility member in the Department of Accounting at the Chafietz School of Business at Saint Louis University. Jesika has a Masters in Accountancy and a BSBA in Accounting and Spanish from Saint Louis University and over 16 years of audit experience with KPMG. She is also involved in the community as a Allocation Panel Financial Expert for the United Way of Greater St. Louisjbbyrd@kpmg.com

Judith Arnold

The Women of Achievement organization has named Judith as a local leader who enhances the quality of life in the St. Louis area. Judith was nominated for her work on vacancy issues.  She is rooted in the Vacancy Initiative of the St. Louis Association of Community Organizations, promoting the successful PropNS a stabilization fund for public owned vacant buildings. She is the Champion of the Greenway for the Hodiamont Tracks and successfully proposed the repurposing of a vacant streetcar trail into a community asset. She is a leader of the updated North Central Plan for Vandeventer and Covenant Blue-Grand Center neighborhoods. Judith is an Urban Planner with postgraduate degrees from Cleveland State University and Occidental College. She began her planning career as a volunteer with Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA), rehabbing ten homes in Kansas City. She came to St. Louis as a CORO Fellow, learning the ropes of city government and being mentored by seasoned planners and developers. She contributed to both commercial and residential rehabs along Delmar Boulevard. arnold.judith@yahoo.com

Tejas Sekhar

Tejas Sekhar is a Masterโ€™s in Biology candidate at Washington University in St. Louis, and is passionate about leveraging medicine, technology, and social entrepreneurship to make the world a better place through radical and innovative thought. Tejas graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience and English Literature. Tejas is the Founder and Executive Director of TejHospitality, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on local asset-based community development in St. Louis, MO. Most recently, he created EndingCOVID as a nested nonprofit initiative with the mission of helping those most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through a holistic approach centered on pertinent information dissemination, relief efforts, and personal protective equipment (PPE) distribution with operations localized to the Greater St. Louis and Chicago areas, respectively. Tejas is also the Managing Director of Compass, an MIT-funded, early stage startup centered on increasing health and social equity outcomes via SMS technology. Tejas is an avid dancer, having performed with Northwestern Bhangra and Ahana Dance Project, and is currently dancing with Washington University in St. Louis Bhangra.tejassekhar2021@u.northwestern.edu