Our Leadership

Multi-cultural understanding, acceptance, and unity

International Festival Foundation (IFF) Executive Board

Manish Ingle

President

Kathy McCarter

Vice-President

Janeen Marzewski

Secretory

Denisha Sitapara

Treasurer

IFF Board Members

Alan Gold

Andrea Duffy

April Donahue

Audrey Ware

Denisha Sitapara

Shauna Zhang

Tom Meyer

Lela Vashakidze

David Hall

Janeen Marzewski

Kathy McCarter

Kiran Padgaonkar

Manish Ingle

Ernie Dixon

Rose Hahn Yuan

IFF COMMITTEES

 Publicity & Fundraising Committee

Finance Committee

Exhibits & Committee

  • Manish Ingle, Committee Chair
  • Alan Gold
  • April Donahue
  • Kathy McCarter
  • Denisha Sitapara
  • Janeen Marzweski
  • Eugene Luciw
  • Lela Vashakidze
  • Matt Winarski
  • Andrea Duffy
  • Kiran Padgaonkar
  • Rose Hahn Yuan
  • Kris York
  • Umer Bin Khalid


  • Denisha Sitapara, Committee Chair
  • Kiran Padgaonkar
  • Manish Ingle












  • Iain Campbell, Committee Chair
  • Riham Halvorsen
  • Dee Riad
  • Adel Riad
  • America Lara
  • Faith Philip
  • Rose Hahn Yuan








Food Committee

Children's Activities & Committee

Health Fair Committee

  • Mohana Padgaonkar, Committee Chair
  • Kiran Padgaonkar
  • Flora Szabo
  • Thanh Doan

For food vendor questions: kindly contact at

food@internationalfestivalfoundation.org




  • Ellen Price-Maloy, Committee Chair
  • Smitha Paes
  • Laurie Friedman
  • Flora Szabo
  • Stacy Spizziri





  • Kathy McCarter, Committee Chair
  • Angelo Arocena
  • Mary Lou Arocena
  • Susan Lamar
  • George McCarter
  • Christina Sirianni



Entertainment Committee

Facilities Committee

Social Media Committee

  • April Donahue, Committee Chair
  • Rupam Singh
  • Alan Gold
  • Frances Gold
  • Andrea Duffy
  • Nancy Becker
  • Karla Dalessio




  • Kiran Padgaonker, Committee Chair
  • Mohana Padgaonkar
  • Emily Lyons
  • Kristen Warner







  • Matt Winarski, Committee Chair
  • Jennifer Moy
  • Falesha Grasty
  • Dakshita Singh
  • Smiti
  • Samar Khan



Parade of Nations Committee

Parking Committee

Volunteer Committee

  • Andrea Duffy, Committee Chair
  • Carol Clark
  • Kiran Padgaonkar
  • Manish Ingle


Rich Davis

David Hall

Tom Meyer

Janeen Marzewski

Health Recources Committee

  • Rich Davis Committee Chair
  • Kiran Padgaonkar
  • Kathy McCarter
  • Manish Ingle
Vision of International Festival Foundation

Multi cultural understanding, acceptance and unity