Board of Directors

Terry Anderson is a professional cartoonist and caricaturist. For more than fifteen years he produced comics and feature illustrations for The Glasgow Herald. He is a co-ordinator at the Scottish Cartoon Art Studio, established in 1999 and a specialist in character design, illustration, cartoon strips and scribing for private and public sector bodies.

In 2014 Terry organized an international cartoon exhibition on the  Scottish independence referendum – The Auld Acquaintance – that was shown in six venues around Europe. The Scottish Cartoon Art Studio’s Fizzers® caricatures were the subject of a ten year retrospective exhibition at The People’s Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow in 2016/17.

A former student of The Kubert School of cartooning, Terry is a member of the UK Professional Cartoonists’ Organisation and The Cartoon Movement. For a decade he served on the executive committee and ultimately as President of the Scottish Artists Union, the trade union for all visual artists working in Scotland.  He is frequently asked to broadcast, speak publicly and lead workshops on the subject of cartooning.

Patrick Gathara is an editorial cartoonist currently with the Daily Nation, East Africa’s largest daily newspaper. He has been working as a professional cartoonist in Kenya for 20 years and was the General Secretary of the Association of East African Cartoonists for nearly a decade starting in 2001.  He has published several collections of Kenyan cartoons as well as a study on the history and impact of political cartooning in Kenya.

Cynthia P. Schneider, Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, teaches, publishes, and organizes initiatives in the field of cultural diplomacy, with a focus on relations with the Muslim world.  Ambassador Schneider co-directs the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown, as well as the Los Angeles-based MOST Resource (Muslims on Screen and Television).  Additionally, she co-directs the Timbuktu Renaissance, which grew out of her work leading the Arts and Culture Dialogue Initiative within Brookings’ Center for Middle East Policy.  From 1998-2001 she served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, during which time she led initiatives in cultural diplomacy, biotechnology, cyber security, and education.  From 1984-1998 Prof. Schneider taught art history at Georgetown, and published on seventeenth century Dutch art. Dr. Schneider has a PhD and BA from Harvard University.