Our Staff

Program Director

Alice Gong has been with Twenty Summers since 2019. She oversees residencies, programming, design and audience engagement. She also works at the Ptown Farmers Market, organizes community volleyball and travels to coach for Beyond the Boundaries, a women's snowboard camp. Alice was born in Beijing, graduated with a degree in Art History from UC Santa Barbara and resides in Truro, just outside of Provincetown.

Producer

​​Cecilia Parker is a New York based artist. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama and a minor in Arts Business. She has worked as a producer, actor, marketing associate, and ensemble member in many capacities. Her most notable producing credits include Nukhu Fest and the 2019 Deep Water Literary Festival. Cecilia is a 2021 recipient of the City Artist Corps Grant awarded by the New York Foundation for the Arts. Cecilia has acted in the ensemble of the Farm Arts Collective and played Roger Jr. in City of Ghosts, a play written by Manon Manavit put on by the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance. She is also a studio manager at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studios as well as a founding producer of the East Village Cackling Hags. She joined the Twenty Summers team in their ninth season and is ecstatic to be returning to Provincetown this summer.

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Alex Capecelatro is the founder and CEO of Josh.ai. Capecelatro started his career as a research scientist for NASA, the Naval Research Lab, and later Sandia National Laboratory. He then ventured into consumer technology first with electric car company Fisker Automotive, then through founding two social software products At The Pool and Yeti with members in more than 120 countries. Alex's focus is at the intersection of elegant design, cutting-edge software, and purpose driven hardware to offer transformational experiences. Alex received his Materials Science & Engineering degree from UCLA, has won numerous awards including the CEDIA 2017 Young Professional of the Year Award, the 2020 UCLA Rising Professional Achievement Award, and has been featured on multiple occasions as a 40 Under 40. Capecelatro currently serves on the boards of CEDIA and Startup UCLA.

Mike Carroll is an artist and gallerist who lives and works in Truro, Provincetown and South Florida. He attended Emerson College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston until he became involved in Boston’s then thriving underground scene. He ran the live performance and video section at The Boston Film Video Foundation when video was in its black and white reel to reel infancy. Carroll opened his first gallery, The 11th Hour, near Boston’s South Station where he produced early exhibitions by Mark Morrisroe and performances by Human Sexual Response, Jack Smith and The Clam Twins, among others. Since then he has woven his own art making practice with fine art presentation in a variety of ways. He was the Executive Director at Provincetown’s Schoolhouse Center from 1997 through 2004 and has been the owner of the Schoolhouse Gallery since 2005 where he is well known for presenting the finest in collaboration and new thought in the gallery and at a variety of outside projects. Carroll also writes and speaks on making, studio practices and exhibition spaces. His work has been exhibited throughout the northeast and Southern US. His work is in numerous collections and has been written about in Art New England, Provincetown Arts, Big, Red& Shiny and Artscope, among other publications.

Julia Glass is the author of the novels Vigil Harbor, A House Among the Trees, And the Dark Sacred Night, The Widower’s Tale, The Whole World Over, and the National Book Award–winning Three Junes, as well as the Kindle Single “Chairs in the Rafters.” Her third book, I See You Everywhere, a collection of linked stories, won the 2009 SUNY John Gardner Fiction Award. She has also won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She taught for more than ten years at the Fine Arts Work Center’s Summer Program and is now a Senior Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College. Julia lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Gail Heimann is Chief Executive Officer of Weber Shandwick, a leading global communications network that delivers next-generation solutions. Gail oversaw the development of the firm’s evolved service delivery model, designed to drive the kind of deep integration it takes to solve for clients. Gail has accelerated innovation and activation across the firm. She has helped to build brands and burnish reputations for organizations across the industries – from technology and finance to food & beverage and healthcare. Under Gail’s leadership, Weber Shandwick has won nearly 100 Cannes Lions in partnership with leading brands. She has served on three juries at the Cannes Lions International Festival-of-Creativity: President of the PR jury, 2012; a member of the inaugural Glass Lions jury, which celebrates work that breaks through gender bias and stereotypes, 2014; and a member of the Titanium jury, 2018. In 2020, Gail won PR Agency Head in Campaign’s inaugural U.S. Agency-of-the-Year awards. In 2019, she was honored twice by PRWeek as US Agency Professional of the Year and Global Agency Professional-of-the-Year. Gail and her husband have two daughters and live in New York and Truro, MA.

Brian Vines is a Chicagoan by birth and a New Yorker by choice. After completing the Masters Program in Broadcast Journalism at Boston University’s College of Communication he fetched coffee for some of the most respected journalists and news figures in the world during his tenure at CNN. After a stint in political communications Brian fell in love with his own reflection and reported for here! networks, NYC-TV, Brooklyn Independent Media, the internationally syndicated VJIAM show, and Broad Band Network3 among others. In addition to reporting, show running and producing Brian is also a skilled host and moderator of live events on topics ranging from contemporary memoir to police brutality. A dedicated cyclist, NPR subscriber, and podcast enthusiast, Brian can be spotted balling-on-a-budget, fighting the urge to binge watch and answering questions about his hair.

Mark Walsh is the President of our Board of Directors and Senior Vice President & New England Regional Director at  Amalgamated Bank, America’s socially responsible bank. For nearly a century, Amalgamated has been the financial ally of the socially responsible movement that builds a cleaner, greener, safer, and more just planet. Our clients are non-profits, political organizations, labor unions, foundations, advocacy groups, and sustainable businesses. Prior to joining Amalgamated in March 2020, Mark was Director of External Affairs & Philanthropy for the RIZE Massachusetts Foundation and earlier in his career, VP of Development for the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. During the Obama Administration, Mark served as Deputy Chief of Protocol of the United States for nearly six years. He was also National Director of LGBT for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign for President. Mark is a graduate from Boston University and Boston University School of Law. He and his husband, Bryan Rafanelli, live in Boston and Provincetown with their two dogs George and Fanny.

Director Emeritus Ricky Opaterny is a partner at Hangar, a private equity firm that invests in public sector technology companies. He was previously the general manager at Hattery, a San Francisco-based startup incubator and events series that was acquired by Google and 1776. Earlier in his career, he worked at Google, where he launched and served as the executive producer of Talks at Google, the company’s online series of events with leading cultural figures, which has been watched over 200 million times. He also started Google’s initiative to provide free advertising and education in online marketing to businesses in the developing world. Ricky attended UC Berkeley, where he studied modern American literature, and NYU’s Stern School of Business, where he was an InSITE Fellow. He enjoys literature, photography, sports, and sneakers.

Director Emeritus Joshua Prager’s latest book is The Family Roe: An American Story. The New York Times called it “an honest glimpse into the American soul,” and it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of The Echoing Green (a Washington Post Best Book of the Year) and 100 Years, a collaboration with Milton Glaser, the graphic designer who created the I♥NY logo. Joshua has written for the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Joshua has spoken at venues including TED and Google. He has received fellowships including the Ferris at Princeton, the Nieman at Harvard, and the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Hebrew University, as well as a literature award in 2023 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.

ADVISORY BOARD

Chris Buck–Founder, Retro Report

Gillian Canavan–Editorial Director, Pace Gallery

Britta Conroy-Randall–Director of Strategic Partnerships, 92nd Street Y

Michael Cunningham–Writer

Ken Fulk–Owner and Designer, Ken Fulk Inc.

Bryan Lozano–Director, Tech:NYC Foundation

Jennifer Maguire Isham–President, Pipeline Strategies

Anita McGahan–Professor, University of Toronto

Shawn McNulty–Owner, The Lobster Pot

Emily Yeston–CEO, DORÉ