Meet Our 2018 Board

Carol Anders


​Carol is happily retired in AVL since 2006. The former business consultant, now enjoys live theatre, concerts & film most evenings. Her credentials include past NC Stage, Western NC Historical Assoc. and Loving Food Resources Board membership. She is former chair of  The Autumn Players, an ACT outreach and former host of"AVL & the ARTS" on WPVM 103.7fm. And was Mrs.Gibbs in OUR TOWN, the beginning of her love of story on stage.

Katherine DeVos Devine

Katherine de Vos Devine is the founder of Cauldron, an Asheville-based arts incubator dedicated to helping visual artists build business skills. Katherine is the former executive director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. She previously worked at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP, where she assisted public charities and private foundations with the processes of organization, incorporation, and tax exemption.   Katherine earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture at Duke University. She received her M.A. and B.A. in Art History from Duke and J.D. from the Duke University School of Law.

Blaine Greenfield

Blaine Greenfield, a retired college professor of marketing, moved to Asheville nine years ago with his beautiful bride Cynthia. He has since become a volunteer consultant for Mountain BizWorks, SCORE and the Small Business Center at ABTech, and he also hosts a radio show on WPVM. In addition, he publishes BLAINESWORLD—an entertaining and informative blog.

Mark Goldstein

Mark is a highly-qualified Chief Financial Officer with over 40 years of accomplished financial management, accounting, and tax expertise, including many years of operational experience.  He is the owner of Asheville BFF, LLC, (ashevillebff.com) a consulting firm in Asheville providing Business Finance Coaching to small businesses in Asheville and the surrounding community.

Mark lives with is wife, Robin, in Asheville, NC. They are the proud parents of two children and three grandchildren.  

Hallee Hirsch

Hallee Hirsh started her first career in television and film acting at the age of three. Working steadily for 23 years, she was fortunate to receive two Young Artist Awards and amass a long lists of credits including You've Got Mail,  E.R., Law and Order, and Grey's Anatomy. After becoming a mother, she and her husband Ryan Martin moved to Marshall, NC to live a life centered around food and nature. She is now well into her second career as a baker and small-business owner at Hole Doughnuts in West Asheville, serving doughnuts that were named "Best Dessert of 2016" by Bon Appétit Magazine. 

Kent Lantaff

​An actor, director, producer and manager, Kent comes to Attic Salt after a long career working in theaters around the country. He's served as the General Manager for Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC and as the Artistic/Managing Director at Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, SC. He was a Professor of Theatre at University of Miami. Currently, Kent introduces Asheville's guests to our beautiful landmark, The Biltmore House.

Laura Podraza

Laura Podraza is a veteran teacher with Buncombe County Schools. She has taught most of her career at Bell Elementary in second and third grade. She and her husband, Erik, have lived in Asheville for over 23 years. Laura has two children who have been blessed with wonderful opportunities in the arts in school as well as our community. Even though Laura was never a Girl Scout as a child, she has been a leader for the past 14 years. Providing young people with the tools they need to be strong, confident leaders is very important to her. Watching her son develop as a result of his theatre experiences, on and off stage, is one way that she ended up working with Marci Bernstein and Jeff Catanese and Attic Salt Theatre Company.