Valued Support: AIR Board of Directors

Virginia Skevington

President

Virginia Skevington joined the AIR Board in March 2018. As AIR’s former Executive Director, Virginia brings insight to the internal workings of the organization. Virginia works as Manager of Operations at Charter Oak Capital Management, Portsmouth acting as Director of Human Resources and supporting the long-term execution of the firm’s strategic goals.

Virginia brings diverse experience from the nonprofit, private and government sectors. Previously, Virginia ran two arts nonprofit agencies on the Seacoast, creating Art Connects NH, a partnership of the New Hampshire Institute of Art and New Hampshire Art Association. Before moving to New Hampshire’s Seacoast, she attended graduate school in Roanoke, Virginia and worked as a Washington lobbyist in energy and telecom for several years. She holds her Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Tech.

Virginia is a native of Washington, DC. She resides in Newfields, New Hampshire with her husband John, and their four-year old son, Britton and two-year-old daughter, Charlotte.

Karin Barndollar

Vice President

Karin Barndollar left her native Germany in the early seventies and spent a number of years living in England, France, and the United Arab Emirates, where she met her husband Steve. They moved to Portsmouth in 1982, started a business and raised their son and daughter here. They chose Portsmouth because of its vibrant arts scene, as well as its proximity to the mountains and the ocean.

Karin’s first volunteer experience was with the Little Harbor and Middle School Parent Teacher Organizations where she was instrumental in helping to bring arts and other enrichment programs into the classrooms. She subsequently served for several terms on the Music Hall Board and has always been very supportive of the arts in the community. Karin is currently a member of the Board of Families First Community Health Center and believes that health care is a human right. Through Families First parenting programs, she became particularly familiar with the issues faced by many Seacoast families, which led her to become an AIR supporter.

There has always been an international focus to Karin’s life, as a business person, a traveller, and a Board member of Education for All Children, a New Hampshire based non-profit that sponsors high school and university students in Kenya, again with the focus on supporting girls and young women.

Karin is the lucky grandmother of two little girls who live in her neighborhood.

Katyanne Zink

Secretary

Katyanne Zink joined the AIR Board of Directors in March of 2018. Growing up in Somersworth, NH Katyanne participated in AIR programing from 1997 – 2004 and knows firsthand the value AIR provides young women. Katyanne credits AIR for finding her inner strength and self-worth at a very vulnerable age through art. Without the foundation AIR built, she would not be where she is today.

Katyanne earned her undergraduate degree in Nursing from Saint Joseph’s College of Maine and her Master of Science in Nursing Informatics from Walden University. She obtained her board certification in Nursing Informatics by the American Nurse Credentialing Center. During her college years, Katyanne planned and led teams on volunteer projects, including traveling to Washington, D.C where she volunteered in homeless shelters and soup kitchens. Katyanne has also volunteered as an Alumni advocate for TRiO programs at a state and national level. Within this role, she advocated for equal opportunities for access to post-secondary education to the Senate Budget Committee’s 2013 Hearing on the Impact of Budget Decisions on Families and Communities in Washington, D.C.

Katyanne is currently employed as a Clinical Informatics Nurse at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, NH. In her role, she leads implementation of clinical systems and provides support and education related to the technologies used by clinical staff. In 2016, Katyanne moved back to her hometown of Somersworth, NH with her husband, daughter, and family dog. She is grateful to be able to give back to the program that gave her so much.

Glicka Kaplan

Past Board President

Glicka Kaplan joined the AIR Board of Directors in April 2011. Glicka is an active Seacoast community member and is a former teacher of the deaf for the Portsmouth School system. She also helped initiate art enrichment programs at Portsmouth Dondero School through the PTO.

Glicka’s board experience includes the Children’s’ Museum of Portsmouth, where she served on both the special interest committee as part of a Capital Campaign and the Road Race committee. She was also a Board Member of the Portsmouth Public Library. In addition, Glicka held executive positions on boards for the Dover Temple Israel and The Birchtree Center, a school helping youth with Autism. She brings a wealth of fundraising experience to the Board as well as connections in the arts community and interest in positive youth development.

David Greene

David Greene has been a lifelong resident of Dover, NH. He can often be found sipping an iced red eye at Adelle’s Coffeehouse, gardening at his house, or riding his bike. David has a passion and commitment for public service. Arts have also been a passion of David’s and he strives to share his enjoyment with others.

After graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic University in 2007, David went on to get a law degree with an LLM in Intellectual Property from Franklin Pierce Law Center (now UNH Law School) in 2010. David has been a practicing attorney and small business owner in Dover for over 10 years, specializing in intellectual property law and offering legal expertise in the areas of family law, real property issues, wills and trusts, and personal injury matters.

Joanne Knight

Joanne was born and raised in Chicago in a family of six girls. After receiving her BS in finance from the University of Illinois and her MBA in finance and economics from the University of Chicago, Joanne embarked on an international banking career working in Chicago, London and Milan.

Joanne met her husband, Rick, while living overseas, and in 1999 they moved back to U.S. living in Chappaqua NY before relocating to the Seacoast in 2012 with their then 13-year-old son. Joanne joined Merrill Lynch as a Financial Advisor in May 2013 as part of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based Drew Wealth Management Group. In between her two financial careers, Joanne became a Certified Holistic Health Coach and built a successful practice counseling individuals and families on how to live healthier lives.

Community involvement has always been important to Joanne.  Locally she has served on the boards of New Heights Adventure for Teens, Womenaid, The Seacoast Women’s Giving Circle and The Alex Manfull Fund. She brings this experience to the AIR board along with her passion for empowering women.

She currently resides in Portsmouth, NH. In addition to her son, Joanne has a stepdaughter and two grandkids. Her interests include travel, hiking, biking, skiing, being a mom, and making an impact on the world.

Cori McGrath

Beth Salvi-Hudgins, LICSW

Beth Salvi-Hudgins (she/her/hers) received her MSW from UNH-Chapel Hill in 1994, and has worked on the Seacoast of NH since 1995, providing individual, family, and group therapy to youth and adults. Beth was in private practice in Exeter, NH from 2000-2021, and in 2021opened DBTeens NH, a tele-mental health intensive outpatient program. In 2023 she expanded this organization to DBT For You, the parent company of DBTeens, DBTwenties (both intensive outpatient programs), and DBT For Schools (training for school providers in implementing DBT in the school system).