Todd Radom is a graphic designer responsible for many logos used by American sports teams, including the Washington Nationals and the Anaheim Angels. His distinctive use of typography and inclusion of classic visual elements can also be seen in his designs for the logos of Super Bowl XXXVIII and the NBA All-Star Game. He has established a scholarship fund earmarked for graphic design majors with a group of fellow SVA alumni. toddradom.com

Michael Halsband is a fine art, editorial, and commercial photographer and filmmaker who has been recognized for his portraits of high-profile artists, musicians, actors, and celebrities since 1978. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in photography in 1980, a year after opening his studio.

Halsband’s most celebrated image is his 1985 portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol wearing boxing gloves, created to promote their collaborative exhibition, “Paintings.” Other notable projects include his times as tour photographer for The Rolling Stones and AC/DC; album covers for artists like Iggy Pop, The Psychedelic Furs, Frank Black, INXS, The Rolling Stones, and Deee-Lite; six photo essays for the School of American Ballet (1986–1991); Surf Book (2005), the culmination of a five-year project making portraits of the people who shaped surf culture; and a photo-essay depicting his travels in Cuba with Hunter S. Thompson. In 1994, he began directing music videos, commercials, and short documentaries, including producing and directing the award-winning Surf Movie: Reels 1–14 (2003) and Growing Farmers (2012). In 2002, he received the Hasselblad Masters Award. 

Halsband has served on the SVA Alumni Society board since 2006 and has taught portrait photography at the School of Visual Arts since 2008. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Parrish Art Museum.

Halsband continues to make portraits and works in the same studio he has had since 1979. michaelhalsband.com

David Kuhn has extensive experience in documentary film production, television, journalism, photography and law. In addition to producing filmmaker Eugene Jarecki’s various projects including Promised Land on the state of the American dream (in production), he is currently producing Life After Hate which examines the root causes and conditions that foster racism and xenophobia among the radicalized Alt-Right (in production), and Raoul’s: Gentrification & Family in Soho (in production). He recently produced a documentary short in Cuba The Cyclist (Una Cyclista) for “The New Yorker Presents... “ series on Amazon (2016). He has served as legal counsel and/or consulting producer for documentaries such as The Age of Consequences (2016), Denial (2016), (T)error (2015), Requiem for the American Dream (2015), The House I Live In (2012), Beyond the Boardroom(2006), and Capturing the Friedmans (2003). In prior work, he was a public defender litigating in Manhattan criminal courts for nearly a decade, embedded with US troops in northern Afghanistan, and was published in Vogue, The New York Times, The Huffington Post and other publications for writing and photography. David lives and works in New York City.

Lyn Hughes is a New York City-based photographer specializing in lifestyle, food and event photography. She has done work for Cosmopolitan, NBC, 20th Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company.

Renee Cox is a Jamaican American artist, photographer, and activist whose work focuses on representations of Black women. Born in Jamaica before her family relocated to New York, Cox says she was “always interested in the visual.” After earning her undergraduate degree, she worked as a professional fashion photographer and developed her own artistic practice in the 1990s. Her engagement with social issues—particularly those related to gender and race—has been apparent since that time: in her first solo exhibition, in 1998 at Cristinerose Gallery, she presented photographs of herself as a superhero leading a crusade to overturn stereotypes.

Cox’s larger-than-life photographs critique and repurpose stereotypical depictions of Black women. Her practice references historical artists, including Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, and Édouard Manet, to recreate the art historical canon and imagine new methods of representation. Her styles also evoke the work of James Van Der Zee and Gordon Parks. Many of her photographs reference biblical subject matter and pointedly insert people of color into these stories, thereby underscoring the importance of religion in many marginalized communities despite their lack of representation in its artistic depictions. Consistently pushing the limits of the medium, Cox uses both archival photographs and new images to create new types of consciousness around the Black body.

Cox received her BA from Syracuse University and MFA from the School of the Visual Arts. She participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1992. She has received awards from organizations including the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and Creative Time. reneecox.org

A public servant for nearly three decades, Karen Friedman Agnifilo left the government as the Chief Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, a role she held from 2014 through 2021. As number two in the office, Ms. Friedman Agnifilo served as Acting District Attorney when the DA was out of the jurisdiction. She also supervised all complex and high-profile matters in the office and managed a team of 1,500 people with a $120-million budget, giving her the experience and judgment to manage the complex, high-stakes cases. While with the Manhattan DA’s office, Ms. Friedman Agnifilo was also integral to creating the office’s Human Trafficking Unit, Hate Crimes Unit, Antiquities Trafficking Unit, Terrorism Unit, and its Cyber Crimes Bureau.

Before her final role with the Manhattan DA’s office, Ms. Friedman Agnifilo served as the office’s Executive ADA and the Chief of its Trial Division from 2010 through 2014. Her other work in the Manhattan DA’s office includes four years as the Deputy Chief of the Sex Crimes Unit. Ms. Friedman Agnifilo has also served as General Counsel to the New York City Mayor’s Office’s Criminal Justice Coordinator where she worked for Mayor Mike Bloomberg on transforming New York City’s criminal justice policy.

In private practice since 2021, Ms. Friedman Agnifilo focuses on serving each of her clients’  unique and specific needs at the highest level. She has extensive investigatory and trial experience and represents clients in civil and criminal matters in both state and federal courts. She is especially adept at representing plaintiffs in employment disputes whether they proceed to trial or are resolved quietly before a complaint is ever filed.

Ms. Friedman Agnifilo is a frequent television news guest and commentator and is a legal analyst for CNN. She is also the co-host of weekly podcasts on emerging legal issues and litigation strategy (Legal AF and MissTrial) that routinely have more than a half million listeners. She is also the legal advisor for the hit television show Law and Order. Ms. Friedman Agnifilo is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Georgetown University Law Center.

Chris Growney is a director, advisor and investor in a broad range of start-up and growth companies. In addition to his current role at a private investment company, he's a founder of investment analytics software and bond management firms and founding investor/board member of a public bank. Chris also served on the treasury investment team at Cisco Systems. He is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas and a CFA charter holder. Chris has a lifelong passion and deep appreciation for the arts and education.

Tak Hoon Kim is an animation producer, director, and educator with nearly 30 years of experience in the U.S., Korea, and Southeast Asia. After earning his BFA in animation and MFA in computer art from the School of Visual Arts, he served as a faculty member at his alma mater, mentoring the next generation of artists. Formerly a supervising animator for MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch (1998 – 2007) in the U.S., he is currently a professor at Chung-Ang University’s Graduate School of Imaging Science, Multimedia and Film, in Korea, and CEO of the Korean animation studio Tak Toon Enterprise, Inc.

Kim has directed and produced numerous animation series broadcast on Korean public networks KBS and EBS, including The Curious World of Linda (2020–21), Fluffy Hero BooBoo Man (2022–24), Teenie Scouts Big Five (2019–21), and Galaxy Kids (2015 – ). He has also served as a commissioner for the Korean Animation Council under the country’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and as the chairman of the organizing committee for the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival.

Gary Waterston brings 25 years of experience working in gallery management and the commercial art industry. He is the managing director of Lisson Gallery, directing the business operations for this global gallery with a storied history, an enviable roster of artists and estates represented, and an exhibitions program both onsite and outside the gallery premises in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Prior to joining Lisson he served as Pace Gallery’s executive vice president, and in the previous three years he worked with Atlantic Contemporary in New York, exploring new structures for gallery ownership and funding. His career began with almost 20 years with Gagosian Gallery, starting in London in 2002, overseeing the gallery’s expansion to three exhibition spaces in the English capital and winning two Royal Institute of British Architects Awards for the work on the Britannia Street and Grosvenor Hill locations. After serving as a director of Gagosian in London, he became the gallery’s managing director of Europe in 2011. In that post, he worked across business management, operations, and sales, leading Gagosian’s expansions in Paris, Rome, Geneva, Athens, and Basel in close collaboration with the gallery’s directors in each city.

Over the course of his career, Waterston has produced exhibitions for some of the greatest artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Cecily Brown, Douglas Gordon, Jeff Koons, Giuseppe Penone, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Saville, Julian Schnabel, Cy Twombly, and Rachel Whiteread, as well as artists connected with SVA, such as Vera Lutter, Richard Artschwager, and Michael Halsband. He was also a collaborator and project manager for two groundbreaking Picasso exhibitions organized by the late scholar Sir John Richardson, and continues to work as a private advisor to several artists and foundations. Before working full time in the industry, Waterston volunteered for many years at the seminal Inverleith House in Edinburgh, whilst working in the hospitality sector, producing events for Pfizer, Accenture, Bloomberg, the Scottish Arts Council, and other organizations.

Waterston was made a fellow of The Royal Society of Arts in 2020.