Mark Adams

Mark Adams has been a full-time resident of Provincetown/Truro since 1991, working as a coastal geoscientist and cartographer for the National Park Service and as an exhibiting painter (showing at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown since 2000). He has taught workshops on outdoor drawing, painting, science, and nature at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown Art Association, and Castle Hill Center for the Arts, and has participated in mentoring programs at Provincetown Schools for many years.

Cappotto’s work is in PAAM’s Permanent collections and she has received multiple awards and prizes for her mixed media constructions from Europe and USA.

Karen Cappotto is the Lillian Orlowsky William Freed Grant recipient for painting in 2011, and has been included in the Land and Sea Contemporary Artists, by Deborah Forman. Cappotto is a long time resident of Provincetown where she maintains her painting and design studios. In 2011 her company Peg+Dick was launched onto the national stage when Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams asked her to produce their decoupage accessories. Her work has been seen in Elle Decor, The Washington Post, Provincetown Arts, This Old House, and at Rockefeller Center.

AMP Gallery currently represents her work.

Cappotto is a founding member of The Commons.

Mike Dillon
Treasurer

Mike Dillon is a board officer, strategic advisor, and former executive with a background in corporate and nonprofit organizations. As a former partner at PwC, Mike helped clients attain their goals through his advice concerning mergers and acquisitions, audits and accounting. In 2016, he was chosen for a three-year term on PwC’s senior leadership team as Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. Mike concluded his career with PWC after 33 years in 2020.

 In his nonprofit work, Mike has served as a board member, officer, and executive committee member on The Trevor Project, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, United Way of the Bay Area, Project Open Hand, GLAAD and a trustee of the PwC Foundation. He is an advisory board member of the Equality Fund of the Boston Foundation and the Harvard Carr Center Global LGBTQ Human Rights Program.

Michael attained a Master of Public Health degree from the T.H. Chan School at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from New York University. In 2021, he completed a fellowship at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative in which he focused on public health equity.

Lisa Farnsworth

Lisa feels a deep connection to the outer Cape. It has felt like home to her since she was a child. She and her extended family have spent every summer in the Cape since 1965. 

Lisa serves as a director on the board of the Shippy Foundation, a family foundation devoted to closing the opportunity gap for under served populations in Boston, New York, and Chicago. She holds a BA in English literature from Wesleyan University, and an MSW from Simmons School of Social Work.

Lisa is married and has two grown children. She has lived year round in Truro since 2016.  She is a landscape painter, and an animal lover. She shares her home with two Newfoundlands and a large cat. The beauty and love in her life are things she never takes for granted.

 ALICE GONG

Alice Gong is the Program Director of Twenty Summers, a Provincetown arts non-profit, where she oversees residencies, multiple programming efforts, summer concert series and all audience engagement. She also works at the Ptown Farmers Market, organizes community beach volleyball and travels to coach for Beyond the Boundaries, a women's snowboarding camp. Alice was born in Beijing and graduated with a degree in Art History from UC Santa Barbara.

He was the founding board chair of New Urban Arts, a multidisciplinary youth arts center in Providence, and of Community MusicWorks, a youth music program in Providence. He’s also served on numerous other boards, including AIDS Project Rhode Island (chair), Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, The Providence Athenaeum, Southside Community Land Trust (chair), and Project Eye-to-Eye (founding board member). He was a founding co-chair of the Rhode Island Service Alliance, helping to establish the AmeriCorps program in Rhode Island. He was the founding co-chair of Equity Action, a field of interest fund at the Rhode Island Foundation that supports supporting LGBTQ initiatives in the state. He has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and an MFA in Creative Writing.

 Paolo G.V. Martini, Ph.D.

Paolo Martini is the Chief Scientific Officer for Rare Diseases, Hematology and Rare Alliances at Moderna.  With more than 20 years of experience in drug discovery working on molecular mechanisms underlying monogenic and multigenic metabolic and fibrotic disorders, his laboratory is focused on identifying novel therapies and applying translational approaches for drug development in Rare Diseases and Hematology disorders. Currently exploring the identification of several targets and key animal models for translating messenger RNA therapeutic in human patients.

Previously at Shire Pharmaceutical in Lexington, MA, as Senior Director of Discovery Biology and Translational Research, Massachusetts, his focus was on fibrotic diseases of muscle, kidney, skin, lung, bone marrow and metabolic liver diseases with particular emphasis on different therapeutic modalities for pathway modulation. He has been supporting phase 1 and 2 clinical studies for lysosomal storage and chronic kidney diseases.

He has also worked at EMD-Serono prior to Shire in Discovery Research. After graduating at the University of Milan, Italy, he moved to Germany for a post-doctoral work at Schering AG (now Bayer) in Berlin, Germany, and then to the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign (USA). He has been collaborating with organizations supporting research and clinical development of rare metabolic disorders and fibrotic diseases and serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Keystone Symposia. Certa Therapeutics, and Board member of the Institute of Life Changing Medicines. 

 After graduating from Princeton University with a BA in Political Science, Terrence worked in publicity in the wine, food and fashion industries before owning and operating The Raven Resort Properties in New Hope, PA. One of his favorite passions has been dedicating his time and talents to the many nonprofit organizations he has worked with over the years including his extensive service on nearly a dozen Board of Directors. He has served as Board Chair of The Provincetown Commons, God’s Love We Deliver, The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, Threshold Foundation and The Urban Beekeeping Laboratory. Although Terrence is currently based in New York City, he and his partner Breton spend as much time as they can at their homes in Provincetown, MA and New Orleans, LA.

Projects designed and executed under his management included Investcorp headquarters in London, Emory University Woodruff library in Atlanta, Headquarters for Philips Color Kinetics in Boston, and renovation of the Harvard Medical School Countway Library in Boston. Mr. Monnahan graduated from the University of Oregon School of Architecture and received his Masters degree in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Ms. Perrelli’s practice is national in scope and includes a wide variety of complex commercial and employment matters, including business and contract disputes, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation and other intellectual property theft, restrictive covenant litigation, real estate litigation, franchise litigation, wrongful termination, and business torts. Her practice also includes counseling regarding employer compliance with the ADA, ADEA, Title VII, FLSA, and other state and governmental laws affecting employers. She is also frequently retained to conduct internal workplace misconduct and other corporate investigations.

Ms. Perrelli is also a leading authority on the law of trade secrets and noncompetes. In addition to representing clients on such matters across the country in federal and state trial courts, arbitrations and mediations, she is a frequent speaker and writer on these topics.

Ms. Perrelli is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Using Lean Six Sigma and project management methodologies, the SeyfarthLean approach delivers increased value to our clients at a time of increased market pressures and competitive demands. Ms. Perrelli applies these principles to her practice and also counsels clients on the use of lean six sigma, process improvements, data analytics, and project management in legal processes. She also has considerable experience in and is a frequent speaker on devising and managing alternative, value-based fee structures.

Ms. Perrelli is a member of the ABA Intellectual Property Law Section and chair of the “Interaction with Employment Law” topical subcommittee of the Trade Secrets Committee.

Ms. Perrelli has been selected regularly as one of the state’s “Super Lawyers” in Business Litigation and “Top Women Lawyers” in a joint survey conducted by the publishers of Law and Politics magazine and Boston magazine, as part of a special publication entitled “The Top Attorneys in the Northeast.” She was also selected by U.S. News as a “Best Lawyer” in commercial litigation.

Rebecca Orchant

VICE PRESIDENT

Rebecca Orchant is the co-owner of POP+DUTCH, and sandwich shop in the West End of Provincetown, with her husband, Sean Gardner. Until they moved to Provincetown to start POP+DUTCH, Rebecca wrote about food for HuffPost Taste. They always knew they wanted to own a sandwich shop together, and over the years it became increasingly clear that Provincetown was where they wanted to do it. So here they are! With your sandwiches!

Jill Rothenberg-Simmons

Jill Rothenberg-Simmons is the co-owner of Presley + Rothenberg Fine Art Consulting and On Center Gallery. Jill spent many years in the design industry where she began working as an Interior Designer and concluded her career as the Managing Leader of a prominent Boston design firm. She now focuses her energy on her creative pursuits and helping others fill their homes and businesses with art.

Jill holds a BFA from Alfred University in Ceramics and studied Interior Design at the Boston Architecture Center. She thrives by being immersed with the art world, whether in the gallery or at her studio.

Staff

 She has collaborated with numerous nonprofits and businesses on the Outer Cape, sits on the Advisory Committee for Cape Cod Museum Trail, and was Chair of the Provincetown Cultural Council from 2021 - 2023. In 2022, she was a MassCreative Create the Vote Fellow and in 2023, a graduate of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice Core Certificate Leadership Program. In 2023/2024 she administered the Outer Cape Winter Wednesdays program, in collaboration with Outer Cape town departments. Lesley currently serves on the Creative Exchange steering committee for Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, and in October 2023 published a contributing chapter to  "Dimensions of Curation: Considering Competing Values for Intentional Exhibition Practices.” After a long and beautiful stint renting an adorable apartment on Pleasant Street, Lesley purchased a home with her partner in Wellfleet in 2023, and now spends her weekend mornings drinking coffee and doing the crossword in the woods.

As a native New Englander living on Cape Cod for over 12 years, Dave has unique insight into the strengths, opportunities, and challenges of operating and maintaining a viable business practice on the Outer Cape. Dave excels at developing programming that meets the needs of the community by collaborating with other non-profit organizations and providing members with informative and educational resources.

Dave knows firsthand of the impact on productivity and morale that exists when affordable and accessible spaces are brought forward within a diverse community. The creative and dynamic community that co-exists is proof that this model and works. Dave’s passion, experience, and skills in the creative arts helps him serve members and nurtures their practice while also fostering their personal and professional growth.