STAFF
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Leslie Raymond
Festival Director - leslie [at] aafilmfest.org
Leslie Raymond joined the Ann Arbor Film Festival as its executive director in August 2013. In September 2019, Raymond’s leadership role expanded to include festival programming. Prior to her position with AAFF, as a teaching artist and educator, she founded the New Media Program at University of Texas at San Antonio and served as an assistant professor of art in digital video and new media art at Oakland University, where she was recognized with an Innovations in Teaching award. Raymond is a Film Festival Alliance board member, and a third-generation American of Chinese and Jewish descent. She holds a BFA in film/video from the Rhode Island School of Design, MFA in new genres from the University of Michigan School of Art & Design, and also studied film, video, and new media art at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Thomas Macias
Communications & Marketing Manager - thomas [at] aafilmfest.org
Thomas manages the Ann Arbor Film Festival's social media presence, press relations, blog, and monthly newsletter. After getting accepted into the Rochester Institute of Technology's film program, he graduated with a major in Dramatic Storytelling in 2013. He then moved to Michigan and has lived here ever since.

Megi Mustafaj
AAFF Coordinator - megi [at] aafilmfest.org
Megi was born in Korce, Albania where her parents are from, and moved to the US at one year old where she then grew up in Livonia, Michigan! She graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in language, literature and writing and has a background in youth development nonprofits. She is excited to translate her skills to her new coordinator position with AAFF.
BOARD
Sue Dise [Chair]
Damani Partridge [Vice Chair]
Matthew Graff [Treasurer]
Francyne Stacey [Secretary]
Dave DeVarti
Darcy Ann Hall
Helen Harding
Katherine Johnson
Hafsah Mijinyawa
ADVISORY BOARD
Ken Burns
Chrisstina Hamilton
Lawrence Kasdan
Bryan Konefsky
Amanda Krugliak
Heidi Kumao
Michael Moore
Chris McNamara
Deanna Morse
Rashaad Newsome
Scott Northrup
Terri Sarris
Barbara Twist
FOR INFORMATION ABOUT:
SUBMISSIONS: submissions@aafilmfest.org
TOUR: tour@aafilmfest.org
MAILING ADDRESS
Ann Arbor Film Festival
P.O. Box 8232
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107