The Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has named MARY SUE COLEMAN, president of the University of Michigan, to its board. Coleman formerly was president of the University of Iowa, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico, and associate provost and dean of research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is, in addition, a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves on the boards of the American Council on Education, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

The National Professional Council of the United Way of America has named ELLEN ANNALA as its board chair, GLORIA PACE KING as chair elect, and GARY GODSEY as vice chair. Annala, the first female CEO of the United Way of Central Indiana, most recently was the council's vice chair. King, a community impact advocate for the Cleveland (Ohio) and Charlotte (North Carolina) United Way communities, was previously president and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland. Godsey has led United Ways in Johnson City, Tennessee; Anderson, South Carolina; and Austin and Dallas, Texas. All three will serve one-year terms.

The Rasmuson Foundation in Anchorage, Alaska, has named SAMMYE POKRYFKI as a program officer. Pokryfki, executive director of the United Way of Mat-Su, is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and previously worked for Chugiak Children's Services and the Mat-Su Recovery Center. She serves on the boards of the Alaska Board of Social Examiners, the Foraker Group Operations Board, and the Frontiersman Community Advisory Board.

The Center for Effective Philanthropy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has named BARBARA KIBBE to its board. Kibbe, vice president for program and effectiveness at the Skoll Foundation, has more than twenty years' experience as a nonprofit executive, grantmaker, and foundation program director. She was one of the center's initial funders, and has served since 2002 as a member of its advisory board. She is also a founder and current board member of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., has named SHIRLEY M. TILGHMAN to its board. Tilghman, president of Princeton University, is a world-renowned scholar in molecular biology, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a founding director of Princeton's Lewis-Sigeler Institute for Integrative Genomics. She formerly chaired Princeton's Council on Science and Technology and served as an investigator at the Institute for Cancer Research.

JAMES MOUZON has been named executive director of San Francisco-based Groundspring.org. Mouzon previously was director of marketing for the San Francisco YMCA; CEO and co-founder of the Rhythm of Life Organization, where he and jazz legend Herbie Hancock co-created BAYCAT, a San Francisco-based technology center; and CEO and co-founder of Imhotech, Inc., a digital media delivery company. He also serves on the San Francisco Unified School District IT Pathways board.

In other news, the Tacoma Art Museum has named STEPHANIE A.F. STEBICH as executive director. Stebich, recently assistant director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, has held positions with the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Association of Art Museum Directors, and the American Federation of the Arts.