Global Explorers Kids' Board Members

Kenji Juravic – President

Kenji Juravic is an IT professional, having worked on computers and networks for over 16 years. Kenji has a 30 year history in the arts, as a musician, photographer, and dancer, and has performed in Chicago and throughout the United States.

Radhika Sharma – Secretary

Radhika Sharma comes from a far-flung diaspora: her grandparents left India to settle in Kenya and she and her parents left Kenya for Kalamazoo, MI. She has worked in a variety of non-profits in Chicago over the past 21 years. Currently, she directs community health partnerships at the Albany Park Community Center.

Ben Hutto – Treasurer

Ben Hutto is a former real estate and insurance professional. Now retired, he was a licensed real estate broker, insurance agent, property manager, and mortgage broker.

Amy Vecchioni – Board member

Amy Vecchioni is a visual arts teacher at Waters Fine Arts School in Chicago, IL, where she has taught since 2001. She received her B.A. from DePaul University and her M.Ed. from American College of Education. She has presented at numerous workshops around the city and published articles on the value of arts integration to enhance student learning. She devotes her free time to making pottery and collecting folk art.

Nicole Bussard – Board member

Holly Hutto – Director; instructor

Holly Hutto is interested in the community-building capacity of art and has taught art to children for 20 years through a variety of organizations in the greater Chicagoland area. She has a BFA in art education and MA in arts management. For the past 18 years, Holly has worked in arts management, primarily at community organizations with an arts-in-education focus, such as Hyde Park Art Center, Park Forest Art Center, and Lill Street Learning Center. A painter, Holly has curated exhibitions at a variety of locations including HotHouse, Global Pi Gallery, DuPage College, and Cranbrook Academy for the Arts.

Pamela Chermansky – instructor

Pamela Chermansky is an actor, clown and classically trained mime artist. She was a student of the world renowned mime, Marcel Marceau, and assisted him in numerous seminars and workshops. Pamela has created original work, performed and taught throughout the United States for over twenty years, and performed in Hong Kong and China. In Chicago, Pamela has taught for The Actor’s Gymnasium, Gallery 37, CircEsteem and Global Explorers Kids. She is the Director of the annual summer theatre camp for Packard Music Hall in Warren, Ohio and is currently a clown for The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Program.

Sandy Devura – instructor

Sandy Devura has her BA in Theatre and MAT in education and has worked as a Director and Stage Manager for various productions in Chicago. She has taught theatre and art to children through various community organizations, including Hyde Park Art Center, Very Special Arts Indiana, Thornton Recreational Center, and Global Explorers Kids. She worked with a committee to develop and implement workshops in collaboration with Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigaberta Menchu. A certified teacher, Sandy has worked with special needs students and other students in the CPS system.