Steve Penn
Founder of the Coda Jazz Fund
Member
Writer, Author

Randy Smith
Chair Emeritus
Professor and Donald W. Reynolds Chair of Business Journalism
University of Missouri, Columbia

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver
Honorary Chair of the Advisory Committee
Former Mayor of Kansas City
Pastor of St. James Paseo United Methodist Church

Gerald Dunn
Member
Music Coordinator, American Jazz Museum

Lisa Shepard
Former Member
Executive Director of Administration, Smiles Change Lives

Pam Hider-Johnson
Member
Program Director, Elder Statesmen of Kanasas City Jazz, Inc.

Connie Kleinbeck
Former Member
Inpatient Diabetes Educator, Truman Medical Center

Jayne McShann
Member
Jay McShann Foundation

Michael Oshiver
Member
Executive Producer, Musication, Inc.

Celeste Rogers-Reed
Member
C.D. Reed & Associates

Debbie Sauer
Member
Commercial Photographer

Joe Spease
Member
CEO, Windsohy, LLC

Carrie Stapleton
Member
President of Phillips-West Public Relations and Communications

Blanche Williams
Honorary Member

Kenneth Babb
Advisor & Liaison – Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star Company

Ron Daniel
Member
President, Firefly Marketing Communications

Karen Anderson
Member

Sherman Titens
Committee Member
Titens Consulting Group

Karen McCarthy
Honorary Member
(Former) U.S. Representative, Missouri

Dean Hampton
Honorary Member