Waltye Rasulala
Board President/Chair
Former WRAL Public Affairs Director/Anchor and Emmy Award-Winning Producer. Retired Minister of Music- Church of the Nativity and active volunteer with multiple arts organizations in North Carolina. Raleigh Medal of Arts recipient.
Julie Song
Vice President
Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Advance Auto Parts, Board member of the Chordoma Foundation. Parent of current NCCMI student and former group coordinator.
Rebecca Christian
Secretary
Former Senior Vice-President of Strategic and Community Services with Wake Med, recipient of YWCA’s Academy of Women Award (2004), Triangle’s Top 25 Women in Business Award (1999), Purdue University’s School of Consumer Service Distinguished Alumni Award (1994)
Mike Rhaney
Treasurer
Sales Agent and former Client Executive with VSS, LLC, former sales rep with IBM Corporation, former Treasurer at Church of the Nativity. Degrees from Florida State and Georgia Institute of Technology
Steven Hess
Trustee
Principal & Founder of Project Management Consultants NC, MBA from the University of North Carolina, Bachelor of Design from NC State, AAS from Luzerne County Community College, advisor for affordable housing and volunteer with Healing Transitions. Parent of former NCCMI students and group coordinator.
Dr. Timothy Holley
Trustee
Associate Professor of Music at North Carolina Central University, NCCMI teacher since 2019, featured cellist with the Mallarmé Chamber Players, the N.C. Symphony and Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Leading scholar and performer focused on music by African-American composers. Degrees from Baldwin-Wallace University and the University of Michigan.
Ram Vedantham
Trustee
Silicon Valley Bank- leading the transaction monitoring program. Wells Fargo Bank- Former Vice President and Quantitative Analytics Manager. University of California, Davis-Ph.D. Applied Mathematics. Proficient in English, Hindi and Tamil. Parent of former NCCMI students.
Eleanor Oakley
Trustee
Former President/CEO of the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, former Executive Director of Raleigh Little Theatre. Triangle YWCA’s Academy of Women (2006), Raleigh Medal of Arts (2021), The Order of the Longleaf Pine (2020). MBA from Meredith College
Virginia Zehr
Trustee
Raleigh Medal of Arts recipient. Co-founder and 1st Executive Director of Community Music School. Leadership roles with United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, Raleigh Symphony and Raleigh Area Flute Association.
Megan Douglas
Trustee
Semi-professional cellist, retired Occupational Therapist with Wake County Public Schools, volunteer with Habitat for Humanity ReStore and the Wake County Community Advisory Committee for Nursing Homes.
Charles Lu
Trustee
Co-Founder and Senior Executive President of Blue Shoe Technologies, Co-Founder and President of Neurolab Therapeutics Inc,
BS and MS in computer science – Xidian University and Southeast University, Chinese America Economic & Culture Association board member