Our Board

Laura Kraftowitz | Founding Co-Director, Board Chair

Laura Kraftowitz is passionate about art, literature, and cultural exchange. She founded The Hope and Imagination Foundation after the massacre at Tree of Life synagogue, her childhood congregation, as a way to stand against hate by bringing artists and writers into joyful collaboration. She speaks Hebrew, Arabic, French, and Spanish, and is passionate about connecting people across cultures.

Donovan Hohn | Founding Board Member

Donovan Hohn is the author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea, a New York Times Notable Book and runner-up for both the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction and the PEN/E O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His essays have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Lapham's Quarterly, and The Best Creative Nonfiction. A recipient of the Whiting Writer’s Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, Hohn teaches nonfiction at Wayne State University in Detroit. His second book, The Inner Coast: Essays, was published by W. W. Norton in 2020.

Mary Fuller | Founding Board Member

Mary Fuller is a Commercial Director for Microsoft’s Healthcare and Life Sciences Enterprise Operating Unit. Previously, she managed a sales and support team co-located in Brooklyn and Jaipur at SmartSign. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MBA from Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. She lives between Detroit and Brooklyn, and enjoys music, collecting art, independent cinema, reading, and traveling in her spare time.