Board of Directors
2024 — 2025

Christina Nemcik Mongold is a classically trained musician originally from Bloomington, Indiana who through her love for worldwide travel, found her way into International Fine Arts Program Development and then Global Sales and Business Development. Christina left her career in 2018 to tackle her most challenging and rewarding position thus far, CEO of the Mongold Family. Day to day, Christina spends much of her time raising two bright and very energetic young boys together with her husband, Dr. Jonathan Mongold.

Recently, Christina has been busier than ever supporting her local community through volunteerism and philanthropic pursuits. In her various roles, Christina has raised funds for local organizations, garnered several impactful donations, and helped raise a substantial donation to the local YWCA. Many times throughout her terms, Christina has been invited as a panelist to give talks within the community. Christina has given presentations geared towards inspiring young people of color in her community to pursue the Arts. She serves on the PTO of her children’s school and is a member of the national organization, MOPS. Christina is an avid birdwatcher, fanatical supporter of PBS and public radio, and a prolific reader of the historical fiction genre. She plays Horn around the state of Indiana, taking local gigs in churches, universities, and with community/volunteer musical ensembles.

Kevin Letcher was first introduced to this wonderful organization when his youngest child participated from 2004 to 2010. Kevin retired from State Farm after 32 years of service in a broad spectrum of roles. He and his family moved to West Lafayette twenty years ago, after living in many other states. Kevin earned his Bachelor’s degree and JD from the University of Kansas. Rock chalk!

​Since retirement, he has been very involved with the United Way of Greater Lafayette as a Board Member, Community Investment Council member and Sarah Price Round Grant Review Committee member. He is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), Read to Succeed volunteer, created the Sunnyside Intermediate Mentoring Circle, serves on the Indiana Healthcare Disparities Task Force, and is active on several church committees.

Abby Snodgrass is an Assistant Director in Financial Planning & Analysis at Purdue University. She has worked in both Corporate and Higher Education finance for 20+ years.  She originally hails from Southwest Kansas, where her mom and dad were both music teachers.  Growing up around music her whole life and playing multiple instruments, she is happy to be back with a musical organization in a non-musical role.

Abby lives in West Lafayette with her husband and 4 kids.  She enjoys running, reading and spending time with her family.

Paula Leverage is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages and Cultures, and Director of the Center for NeuroHumanities at Purdue University. She read Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University where she enjoyed singing in the Girton College Chapel Choir. For over twenty years she has lived in West Lafayette with her husband Paul, and their three sons, who have been involved in the local musical community.

​She is a fervent supporter of all initiatives to bring music to the community’s young people. Her experiences of playing violin in Anna Hornby’s Concordia String Players as a high school student, and later in the University of Toronto’s Hart House Orchestra as a doctoral student, are precious reminders to promote musical opportunities for all.

Adam is currently serving as Assistant Professor and Director of Orchestras at Purdue University as well as Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra.  As an avid supporter of music education, Mr. Bodony also serves as an educational consultant for Music For All, a national organization based in Indianapolis dedicated to the advocacy of music education for all people.  Additionally, Mr. Bodony serves as Festival Coordinator for Music For All’s annual Orchestra America National Festival.

Mr. Bodony’s previous posts include Artistic Director of the Wabash Valley Youth Symphony (2019-2022), Artistic Director of the Bloomington (IN) Symphony Orchestra (2014-2016), and Associate Conductor of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra (2013-2015).  He has also worked with several professional, collegiate, high school, and community orchestras throughout the country.

Brent is a jazz guitarist, composer, performer, clinician, radio host and owner / master technician at Brent’s Bench, Inc. Band Instrument Repair. He has been serving the Lafayette Area and Midwest music community since 1987. He is a well established presence in Lafayette media and serves as the press liaison for the WVYS.

Brent is a member of the Indiana Jazz Educators Association and the administrator for The Jazz Club Tony Zamora Scholarship. He founded the Lafayette Jazz Appreciation Month Celebrations in conjunction with the Smithsonian Museum Nationwide. He has written music for television and film including “The C-Shift” (TMG5 Artists); “Engine Company X,”  “EX2,” and “Life in the Fast Lane” (Westlake Signal Group); “No Right Turn”; and “Newswire L.A”.

Thomas is an Indiana-native musician & computer engineer. He started taking piano lessons at age 9 before stumbling upon the bassoon in middle school band. He went on to play the bassoon with the Purdue Philharmonic Orchestra and Wind Ensemble while earning a BS in Computer Engineering, graduating in 2022.

In his spare time, he enjoys reading, finding new and interesting ways to break his computers, running, and home cooking.

Violinist and violist Regan Eckstein attended New England Conservatory of Music where she studied violin with Eric Rosenblith and was a member of the scholarship string quartet under the tutelage of Rudolf Kolisch formerly first violinist with the famed Kolisch Quartet. Subsequently, she studied with Ruggiero Ricci at Indiana University, followed by three years of private study with Shmuel Ashkenasi, first violin of the Vermeer Quartet.

An ardent chamber musician, Eckstein was for some years a member of the Atlanta Virtuosi, a group of thirteen musicians who performed in the U.S., Mexico, Austria, Germany, Spain and Italy. She has also maintained a private music studio for a number of years and served as adjunct instructor in violin and viola at Purdue University. Eckstein has also done freelance work in Atlanta and around Indiana. For the past ten years, she has played regularly with the Fort Wayne Symphony. She was also the co-concert master for the Lafayette Symphony for 10 years.