Board of Directors

Inkberry’s Directors are:

Linda J. L. Becker
Blair Benjamin
Thomas Bernard, Director of Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations, MCLA
Dan Caplinger, Treasurer
Eric Kerns, Manager, Foundation & Corporate Grants, MASS MoCA
Leanne Ryan, Secretary
Amy Stevens, Web Communications Manager, Masschusetss College of Liberal Arts
Linda White, President

Linda J. L. Becker

Bio coming soon!

Blair Benjamin

Blair Benjamin is currently Director of Development for MASS MoCA. Prior to joining MASS MoCA, he served as Director of Development and Public Relations for Flatbush Development Corporation in Brooklyn, New York, and as a Small Business Development Agent for the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast, along with an earlier stint as Fiction Editor of the Sonora Review, a small press literary magazine published by the University of Arizona. Blair graduated from Williams College and lives in North Adams with his wife Alison and daughter Meredith.

Thomas Bernard

Thomas Bernard is the Director of Corporate, Foundation, and Government Relations at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) in North Adams, Massachusetts. Prior to assuming this position at MCLA, he was a Development Officer at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams. He served as Associate Director of Inkberry from 2004-2005. In addition to his work with Inkberry, he serves on the boards of directors of the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition (NBCC) and Take and Eat, Inc., in North Adams, and is a member of the school board of St. Stanislaus Kostka School in Adams, Massachusetts.

Dan Caplinger

Dan Caplinger is a financial planner and currently writes articles on personal finance for the Motley Fool, an Internet-based financial website. His planning practice focuses on individuals and small businesses. Dan has also worked as an attorney, concentrating on trusts, estates, and tax law, and as a trust officer with a regional bank in Montana.

Eric Kerns

Bio coming soon!

Leanne Ryan

Leanne Ryan is a former small business owner who recently moved to North Adams from Los Angeles. She is a fiction writer and is currently working on her first novel, an historical fiction set in the mid-nineteenth century.

Amy Stevens

Amy Stevens sent her first email in 1988 and has been online ever since. She helped build Boston College’s first website while working on her Ph.D. in History in the early 1990s and rode out the dot com boom and bust from the safety of the financial services industry. In 2006 Amy returned to her first love, academics technology at MCLA. A year in the Berkshires turned Amy into a social networking evangelist. When she isn’t preaching about blogging, Amy can be found relaxing with her husband and two kids in Adams.

Linda White

Local audiences know Linda White as an actor, director and writer. As Artistic Director of Calliope Theatre Company, she managed the development and production of classic and original plays, musicals, adaptations, children’s theatre, music-theatre works, opera and performance art. She directed the theatre program at Mt. Greylock Regional High School for ten years and also worked on the Shakespeare-in-the-Schools team with Shakespeare & Company. Linda has acted locally with Calliope, Oldcastle Theatre Company, Williams College Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival, and has toured extensively to Germany, Scotland and Jordan. She has written the libretto and lyrics for two chamber operas and a one-act musical fantasy for children. She is consultant to the Greylock Theatre Project of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she taught playwriting and acting for six years.