Tania Blanich
Treasurer

Blanich has spent her career in arts, non-profit, philanthropic and government administration. Currently, she is the Director of Operations for The Arts Partnership, the umbrella arts organization serving Fargo and West Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN. Blanich has advised non-profit organizations in the U.S. and abroad and served as a panelist or juror for entities including the National Endowment for the Arts. Blanich earned her BA from the University of Michigan and her master’s degree from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. A native of Fargo, ND, she grew up immersed in the arts and inherited her father’s love of big band music.

Cathi Chial
Secretary

A life-long Minnesota resident, Chial participated in several high-school musical groups, singing in choral groups, playing clarinet in band and accompanying high school musical ensembles on piano. She continues to participate as a choir member, vocal soloist and pianist in her North Moorhead church. She has been a nurse for 52 years, spending 45 of those years managing much of the Children’s Hospital and Clinics areas. Chial was involved in the Children’s Miracle Network and its endowment and fundraising activities. She has a Masters in Nursing Administration.

Tony Duval

An industrial engineer with John Deere, Duval’s professional career has taken him to 4 of the 5 inhabited continents A lifelong Fargoan, Duval is a diverse social and musical product of Fargo and North Dakota State University. As an NDSU student, he received several awards for exceptional musical performance, including a Distinguished Musician award at the 1990 Eau Claire, WI Jazz Festival. He loves to “sit in” with street-side bands, open-music venues or in blue-note jazz clubs, and has performed in 24 U.S. states and five countries.

Dr. Maureen Kelly Jonason
Board President

Jonason has been the Executive Director of the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County since 2008. Prior to branching out into non-profit management, she taught college writing and humanities for 20 years, retiring from Concordia College in 2008. She holds a doctorate in higher education teaching and learning from UND. Jonason has served on the boards of the Women’s Network of the Red River Valley, the Spirit Room and Nordic Arts Alliance. She is a life-long jazz enthusiast.

Joan Justesen, Past President

Justesen is retired after a long career in healthcare as a nurse and senior executive at St. Lukes, later known as Meritcare. After retirement, she worked at MSUM as the Vice President of Marketing and Development and has served on nonprofit boards and as a community volunteer. Justesen has a BS in Nursing and a Masters in Business Administration. She lives in Fargo and has two sons and daughters-in-law and three grandchildren. Other than family, her passions are: opera, classical music, jazz, and art in many forms.

Bill Law,
Treasurer

Law has more than 20 years of arts administration experience and is currently Assistant Director of the NDSU Division of Performing Arts, he serves as a board member of the Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists and on the Minnesota Public Radio regional advisory board. Throughout the years he has served on other nonprofit arts boards and as a grants reviewer for numerous regional entities. He was Executive Director of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony from 1996 to 2005.

Madison Quamme

Madison Quamme is a dynamic communications professional, leveraging a strategic approach to engage diverse audiences across multiple platforms. As the director of public relations and social media at Flint Group, Madison is passionate about building strong communities, serving as a trusted partner to clients and investing in the FM non-profit scene. Madison and her husband Michael, live in Fargo with their two rescued pups.

Mark Voxland

Voxland, a lifelong resident of Moorhead, owned and operated Voxland Electric until his retirement in 2021. He served for 12 years as Mayor of the City of Moorhead and 14 years on the Moorhead City Council. Voxland has served on numerous boards locally and statewide, including the Moorhead Kiwanis Board, Trinity Lutheran Church Council, Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, and President of the League of Minnesota cities. His three grown children and seven grandchildren live within five hours of town. He enjoys travel and live music, especially jazz.

Jim Gale

A retired economics and finance professor from Michigan Technological University and an adjunct professorship at North Dakota State University. He has a wide variety of service experiences serving with the board of the Missouri Valley Economics Association (President in 2000-1), the board of the Michigan Tech Credit Union (Chair 1990-1991), the Upper Peninsula State Fair Authority (Chair 2009-11), the board of Michigan Instruments, Inc. and the board of Funding I Corporation.

He and his wife, Stephanie, moved to the Fargo/Moorhead area and established residence in 2016. However, visited the area many times before that visiting their daughter and her family.

Jim has sung in church choirs and community choirs in various communities where they have lived.

Mark Waldera

Mark Waldera recently retired from a career spanning over 35 years in healthcare, including program development, service delivery, management, and administration. He held various positions at MeritCare Health System in Fargo, Trinity Health in Minot, and Essentia Health in Fargo. His most recent position was at Family Health Care in Fargo where he served as Vice President of Operations. In addition to his work in healthcare, he previously served as a throwing event coach within the track and field programs at NDSU and Minot State.

Tim Zoerner

Zoerner spent his career in the transportation industry in management and sales, retiring in 2019. He graduated from Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota with a BS in Business Administration and moved to Moorhead in 1985. He is an active volunteer for the Salvation Army. Zoerner has played drums since 6th and played his first paying gig in 7th grade. He and wife Susann have 3 adult children and 3 granddaughters.