Board of Councilors Michele Dedeaux Engemann Founding Chair Steve Braverman Chair
RIK REPPE Rik Reppe is an advisory partner and customer experience leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC). He has more than 10 years of consulting experience in airlines, retail, utilities, agribusiness, consumer packaged goods, content creation, publishing and entertainment sectors. He has worked with large, global companies on loyalty program strategy, redesign of research and release processes, enterprise mobile strategy, sales force transformation and customer relationship management strategies. Reppe wrote and starred in a one-man show, called Staggering Toward America, in early 2004. Motivated by the 9/11 attack on the U.S., he left his Los Angeles-based consulting business and toured the crash sites in Washington, D.C., New York and Pennsylvania, adapting his experience into a stage play. It won citations from Backstage West for Best Performance and Best Writing. In 2005, he wrote and starred in another oneman show, Glorious Noise. Both shows were hits at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival. He appeared on NPR’s Sound Money in 2003 and 2004. Reppe earned a BA in theatre from the School of Dramatic Arts in 1994 and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Arizona in 1996. He is married to fellow SDA alumna Shauna Steiner Torok BFA ’84 and they spend their time wrangling her kids, Stetson and CC.
BLAIR UNDERWOOD A true multi-hyphenate, Blair Underwood is enjoying success in film, television and theatre, as an actor, director and producer. Underwood recently wrapped roles on Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us and the comedy series Dear White People, and can be seen in Clark Johnson’s Juanita, opposite Alfred Woodard, all on Netflix. He spent two years as a series regular on the ABC drama, Quantico, while recurring on another hit ABC drama, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He also had a co-starring role in The After Party, from writer/director Ian Edelman. Past television credits include series regular roles on Dirty Sexy Money, The New Adventures of Old Christine, In Treatment, L.A. Law and The Event. Film credits include Just Cause, Set it Off, Deep Impact, Rules of Engagement, Madea’s Family Reunion and Full Frontal. Underwood co-starred opposite Cicely Tyson in the Lifetime telefilm, A Trip to Bountiful, based on the Tony Award-winning play. In 2012, he made his acclaimed Broadway debut in the iconic role of Stanley in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, earning him a 2012 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award nomination. Underwood’s directorial work includes Patch and The Bridge to Nowhere. He is an Emmy Award winner (as producer of the philanthropy-centered NBC Saturday morning series Give), a two-time Golden Globe Award nominee and has been nominated for 17 NAACP Image Awards (seven wins). He won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word as co-narrator of Al Gore’s audiobook, An Inconvenient Truth. A newly minted member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he is also active in several philanthropic endeavors.
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