SONGWRITING WORKS Board of Directors
Judith-Kate Friedman, Founding Director, ex-officio
Suzan Goodman, M.D., M.P.H.
Daniel Deardorff, Author, Founder, the MythSinger Foundation
Steve Seskin, Songwriter, Author, Lecturer, the Don't Laugh At Me Foundation
For a listing of SW's community in Western Washington: click here
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National Advisory Council
Anne Basting, Director, Center for Age and Community; Founder, Time Slips
Avotcja Jiltoniro, Composer, Poet
Barry Barkan, Live Oak Institute, Pioneer Network
Edie Hartshorne, Composer, Author
Janice Rubin, Photographer, Performer, Producer
Rabbi Sheldon Marder, Chaplain
Si Kahn, Songwriter, Founder, Grassroots Leadership
Susan Perlstein, Founder, Director of Education, National Center for Creative Aging
Wendy Lustbader, MSW, Author, Consultant 
SW Artist-in-Residence Programs, 1990-present (partial list, alphabetically)
• Abramson Center for Jewish Life, Horsham, PA
• Arts to Elders, Port Townsend, WA
• Artworks (now Consortium for Elders & Youth in the Arts) San Francisco, CA
• Dungeness Courte Alzheimer's Community, Northwest Care, Sequim, WA
• East Bay Conservation Corps Project YES (Youth Engaged in Service), Oakland, CA
• NIAD: National Institute for Art and Disability, Richmond, CA
• Jackson Heights Community Development Corp, Queens, NY
• Jewish Home, San Francisco, CA
• Marin History Center WWII Stories-Intergenerational Project, Marin County, CA
• Mastery Charter School, Philadelphia, PA
• Seattle Labor Chorus, Seattle, WA
• William James Ass'n, Prison Arts Project: Stockton Women’s Prison, Stockton, CA
SW Trainings for Music/Arts & Health Professionals, 2007-present (partial list)
• Adult Well-Being Services, Detroit, MI • Alexian Brothers, Chattanooga, TN
• Alzheimer's Association, Seattle, WA • Center for Creative Aging, Greensboro, NC
• Frontier Services, Soldotna, AK • Hiddur: Center for Aging & Judaism, Wyncote, PA
• Jewish Children & Family Services, Brookline, MA • Luther Manor/ UWM Center on Age & Community, Milwaukee, WI • MetLife Foundation/ American Society on Aging MindAlert National Speaker's Bureau, San Francisco, CA • Metro Arts Commission/City of Sacramento Senior Services, CA • Osher Life Long Learning, Cal State Los Angeles, CA • Olympic Peninsula Arts & Aging/ Port Angeles Senior Center, WA • Wesley Woods/ Emory University Pastoral Care, Newnan, GA • William Bremen Home, Atlanta, GA
SW thanks our supporters: (partial list)
National Endowment for the Arts Creativity and Aging in America grant program,
MetLife Foundation/American Society on Aging MindAlert Program, the Society for the Arts and Healthcare, the Good People Fund, National Center for Creative Aging, the Ziv Tzedakah Fund, the Port Townsend Arts Commission, the Washington State Arts Alliance Foundation, ElderCare Advocates of Marin, The Mechanics Bank, California Arts Council, Marin Arts Council, Hannah Levin Legacy Trust, The Brisbois Family, The SEEDS Project, Brava! For Women in the Arts and all our generous individual donors, volunteers, site and program sponsors.
In Memoriam: These are some of the friends and colleagues who worked, sang,
played, taught, and dreamed deeply with us. They live on in our hearts and in the songs. May their memories always be for a blessing.
Rosie Lee Allina; Lillian Belcher; Daniel Ben Hayim; Betty Cohn; Dr. Gene Cohen, M.D.; Fredya Epstein; Ed Gershman; Irv and Betty Ginsberg; Birdie Gintzler; Ida Greenwald; Irving Grossman; Gladys Devorah Jonah; Sally Isaac; Bessie Jacobs;
In Memoriam Continued:
Cora Latz; Hannah (Channie) Levin; Ethel May Love; Frances Marder; Tede Matthews; Isabelle Maynard; Yaffa Miller; Erna Neubauer; Daniel Okin; Anna Paris; Irving Peace; Etta Perkins; Robert Rice; Carl Rosenberg; Max Shor; Berk Snow; Jeanette Van Oss; Esther Weintraub; Ruth Wendell; Julian White; and so many others…..