Board of Directors
Our board is a broad representation of our Inland Communities.

Jorge Osvaldo Heredia
Executive Director

Juan Delgado
President
One can find a sample of his poetry and a critical essay on his last book at the Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/juan-delgado In recent years, he has presented his photopoetics and signage throughout southern California in museum exhibitions such as Más Allá del los Fencesat the Peppers Gallery in Redlands, 2017. Manos, Espaldas y Blossoms, a collaborative art project with Thomas McGovern featured their artwork and poetry in the groves of the California Citrus State Historical Park, 2018 (http://sweet-sour-citrus.org/projects/manos/). Sign Language, a mixed media exhibition at the CSUN Art Galleries, featured the collaborative work of McGovern and Delgado, and the artwork of Amando Lerma and Carlos Ramirez, aka “The Date Farmers” (https://www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/art-galleries/events/sign-language).
Professor Delgado has experience with educational organizations at the local, national, and international levels. He is one of co-founders of SCIPP (Students and Coyotes Instruction in Poetry and Prose), a literary and artistic program, centered on working with children and their parents. See “SCIPP Short Doc.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdQwa4Is5m0 In addition, he is a board member for the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, whose founder and president, Ernest H. Siva (Cahuilla/Serrano), is a Tribal leader with a distinguished record of service to Tribal communities. For several years, Delgado has been the co-director of Native Voices: Poetry Festival, which celebrates native writers and artists and provides literary and artistic workshops for children and teens from the Morongo Reservation and local communities. See “Native Voices.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3_kMN–cPQ

Margaret Worsley
Vice President

Dr. Anne Viricel
Treasurer
In addition, since 2000, she has been a professor at the University of Redlands School of Business where she specializes in quantitative operations and strategy coursework. She has been awarded the University’s Excellence in Teaching Award twice, in 2013 and in 2018.
Dr. Viricel was appointed to San Bernardino Community College Board of Trustees in 2015, then elected to the Board in 2016. In this role, her focus is on policies that improve operational efficiencies and campus safety, and increasing opportunities for student success.
Dr. Viricel is also an author, having published numerous of academic and industry articles and, most recently, collaborated on the autobiography of educator and civil rights activist Dr. Margaret Hill. In addition to her role as a San Bernardino Valley Concert Association Board Member, she is a current member of The San Bernardino County Natural History Museum Foundation Board and the County’s Arts Connection Board. She is also an active member of the American Association of University Women, the Bonnes Meres Auxiliary of the Children’s Fund, the highland Woman’s Club, and the Assistance League.
Her recent awards include Assembly District 40 City of Highland Woman of the Year, League of Women Voters Citizen of Achievement Award, the Black Culture Foundation’s Black Rose Award, and she was named a Woman of Distinction by Senator Mike Morrell for both the cities of Highland and San Bernardino.

Mark Adelson
Board Member
Mark is an active member of the First Presbyterian Church of San Bernardino, and has served on the board of the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, the advisory committee for the Water Resources Institute of CSU San Bernardino, and the steering committee for the Headwaters Resiliency Partnership (a project of the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District). He regularly hikes throughout the headwaters of the local watersheds, gets satisfaction from working with his hands and tools on all kinds of projects, and enjoys the simple pleasures of good food and drink and the stimulus of interesting books.

Lucas Cuny, MFA
Board Member