Board of Directors
Khani Zulu | Board Director, President
Realtor® & Entrepreneur
Khani Zulu has always had a passion for the arts. In fact, she is a UT Austin graduate with a BFA in Dance. She performed with the Andrea Ariel Dance Theater in the early 1990s. After moving to Los Angeles, she choreographed and produced a quarterly variety show in Hollywood known as Zulu Lounge LA. Her goal was to bring the community together, highlight unknown artists and their talents, pay them well and raise money for various charities. The show ran quarterly from 2007 to 2016. Giving back was always a big part of the business model and they were recognized by the City of Los Angeles for their generosity and efforts.
In 2013, Khani returned to Austin, TX where she has been helping others achieve their real estate goals. She puts her clients’ needs first and prides herself on her professionalism, communication, creative problem solving and high level of customer service. With over 20 years in client-facing industries, Khani’s paramount passion lies in supporting others and in exceeding their expectations and goals!
“I believe living with integrity, honesty, and openness to all the world has to offer will allow you to live the best and most fulfilling life possible.”
Pati Griffith | Board Director, Vice President
Writer/Professor
Patrcia Griffith is a writer and professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC. She was born in Ft. Worth, Texas and grew up mainly in East Texas. She has worked as a journalist and a publicist.
She is the author of four novels, one of which, The World AroundMidnight, set outside Dallas in the “metroplex,” was named one of the outstanding books of the year by the American Library Association. She has also had three plays produced by Equity theatres in New York and Dallas. Two of her short stories have been included in the O. Henry Prize Stories, stories originally published in Harper’s Magazine and The Paris Review.
She teaches creative writing, playwriting and contemporary drama in D.C. and is a former co-chair and former president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation which awards annual prizes for the outstanding fiction of the year. She originated the Writers in Schools Program where PEN/Faulkner takes noted writers into classes in the public high schools of Washington.
She is now working on a play commissioned by Theatre Three in Dallas and is also working on a novel set in the 1930s in East Texas. She is proud to be a part of Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre organization.
Amy Campbell | Board Director, Treasurer
Certified Public Bookkeeper
Amy is almost a native Austinite having moved here in 1989. She loves music, dance, and Tex-Mex. Her skills in accounting became apparent in the early 2000s while working for a small mom-and-pop business where everyone wears several hats. These skills grew and Amy is now certified with the National Association of Certified Public Bookkeepers and has her own small bookkeeping firm serving small businesses around the US. She does and has served on multiple Boards in multiple roles, although Treasurer is where her heart truly lies.
Monica Miller | Board Director, Secretary
Business Development Executive
Monica is passionate about social justice and service to others. She began her career in social work and nonprofit management, and spent the last 15 years doing business development for startup tech companies. The consistent theme in her career is building; a methodical, consultative approach to growing organizations that positively impact people’s lives.
Monica holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a BA in International Affairs from University of Colorado, Boulder. She has volunteered with domestic violence prevention, environmental, and civil liberties organizations.
As a child, her parents took her to the ballet, the opera, the symphony, musicals, and plays, and instilled in her a love of performing arts. She grew up in Toronto and Boulder and lived in Los Angeles for 20 years. She and her husband moved to from LA to Austin in 2018 for a change. Monica loves fitness, being outdoors, travel, live music and French food.
Melody Fullylove | Board Director
Actress/Arts Advocate
Melody Fullylove is a native of Sherman, TX and brings her artistic and non-profit background to the AADT Board. She attended Austin College where she studied Speech & Communications. Live performance is where Melody comes most fully to life and finds that her heart sings most true. She has performed in various productions including The Mamalogues and The Face of Emmitt Till. Her involvement in musical productions have been inspired by many icons such as Julie Andrews, Audra McDonald, and Debbie Allen to name a few.
Melody’s professional career path has been in the non-profit sector, particularly in Development. A well-constructed donor database is the soul of her professional contribution.
Melody currently resides in East Austin. She has a great love and appreciation for music, as a listener as well as a vocal performer. She enjoys a long country drive on a Sunday afternoon and is a sincere advocate for a holistic way of life.
Beverly Lowry | Board Director
Writer/Professor
Born in Memphis, raised in Greenville, Mississippi, the author of nine books–six novels including Daddy’s Girl and The Track of Real Desires and three books of nonfiction, including Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life and Crossed Over, a Murder a Memoir, Lowry has lived in Austin since 2006 and has been a board member of Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre since 2012. She has published many articles, book reviews, short stories and feature pieces in such periodicals as the New York Times, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Granta, the Los Angeles Times and Texas Monthly. A past winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones award for fiction, she has also been the recipient of an NEA grant, a Guggenheim fellowship and a writing residency at Bellagio awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Her teaching career began in the first years of the MFA program at the University of Houston and continued for the next 30 years at colleges all over the country, including the University of Montana and George Mason University, where she designed and oversaw the creation of a Nonfiction Track in the MFA program. Currently, she sits on the board of the PEN-Faulkner Foundation and is teaching at the University of Houston at Victoria as a Distinguished Visiting Writer and having received a Helene Wurlitzer residency fellowship, will soon be spending a number of weeks writing and reading in Taos, New Mexico. She is currently working on a book about Austin’s 1991 Yogurt Shop Murders, to be published in 2015 by Alfred A. Knopf.
In Austin she lives on the East side of town and enjoys going for walks on the hike-and-bike trail along Lady Bird Lake with her beloved pup, Walter. She also goes to readings at Book People, attends various music and dance events, swims regularly at Barton Springs and is proud to hold the record for swimmers 70 years and over in the Deep Eddy Mile-Plus event. Her tuna melts and lamb tangine have received many compliments.
Charlotte McCann | Board Director
Development and Grant Writing Specialist
Charlotte spent her early professional career as a librarian before moving into nonprofit and social justice work. Currently, she is the Development and Grant Writing Specialist for Migrant Clinicians Network. Prior to joining MCN, she led a capital campaign for the Friends of Libraries & Archives of Texas, worked for many years for The Texas Observer as publisher and development director, and before that for the Human Rights Documentation Exchange/Central America Resource Center as director and research coordinator, documenting persecution, and violence against women, in order to support refugee claims for asylum or temporary protection. An experienced editor and copyeditor, she held the position of associate editor of The Washington Spectator and has served on the State Bar Committee on Laws Relating to Immigration and Nationality, the City of Austin Task Force on Immigration, the Canada-U.S. Human Rights Information & Documentation Network Advisory Board, and the board of the Political Asylum Project of Austin. She is the chair of J Street Austin, committed to a just and peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Originally from New Hampshire, with a BA from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Charlotte is an almost-naturalized Texan, having gone to grad school in library and information science at the University of Texas and lived and worked in Austin since then.
Sarah Morgan | Board Director
Between undergraduate school at Sarah Lawrence College and graduate school at Columbia University, Sarah Morgan lived in a slew of towns working at various jobs such as a fact checker in Portland, Maine; a bingo game attendant outside Scottsdale, Arizona; and a bartender in Washington, D.C. She finally earned her Masters in English Education and has taught at Kealing Middle School in Austin, Texas, ever since.
A native Texan, Sarah prized her years of moving and exploring as many places as possible, but her love for her family and her passion for public education brought her home to Austin. Sarah primarily teaches sixth grade English, but also teaches a creative writing elective and an elective called Food for Thought. She was awarded the AISD Teacher of the Year in 2003.
Sarah works to bring more arts onto the Kealing campus, and hopes to help form more alliances between the Andrea Ariel Dance Theatre and more AISD campuses.
