Board of Directors

Inkberry’s Directors are:

Blair Benjamin
Dan Caplinger, Treasurer
Paula Orlando, Secretary
Leanne Ryan
Ed Sedarbaum, Community Organizer (retired)
Linda White, President

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.

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.

Paula Orlando

Paula Orlando is Title III Grant Project Director at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and a part-time English Instructor at Holyoke Community College. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, CA and studied Poetics at New College of California in San Francisco, where she received her BA. She has taught English at the State University of New York at Albany, where she was a graduate student, and at various San Francisco Bay area and Hudson Valley colleges. She received an Associate Artist Residency with Master Artist Anne Waldman at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and her writing has appeared in Chronogram,The Manhattan Review, Exquisite Corpse, Prosodia, Processed World, Social Semiotics and other literary and scholarly journals.

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.

Ed Sedarbaum

Ed Sedarbaum, a resident of North Adams since 2003, spent his first 58 years growing up in New York City. Justifying his mother’s complaint that he only ever took “entry-level jobs,” he has been a grade-school teacher (5 weeks), caseworker (14 years), book editor (13 years), founder and director of a program for gay and lesbian elderly, and finally a statewide lobbyist on social issues, community organizer, and state senate candidate. His last legal employment was with the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, from which he retired in 2008, precipitating the worldwide financial crisis. He lives with his husband, cartoonist Howard Cruse, and Lulu, who is almost a dalmation.

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.