Laura Sillerman
Laura Baudo Sillerman served as a member of the Academy's Education Advisory Council.
She was chairperson of the Education Committee of the American Museum of Natural History, where she also served on the board and the task force for the Twenty-first Century Campaign. Sillerman was a member of the board of trustees of Harlem Academy and serves on PEN America’s board. She was also a member of the advisory boards of Stony Brook University’s Southampton Campus, the Southampton Writers Conference, and The Southampton Review as well as the Poetry Society of America.
Along with her husband, Robert F. X. Sillerman, she was the cofounder of The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University where she served as consultant to the center. She was a cofounder of the African Poetry Fund and Series with Kwame Dawes and served as a trustee of Marietta College and on numerous advisory boards and ad hoc committees of that institution. Her poems and essays appeared in numerous publications in print and online.
Sillerman passed away on October 27, 2024.