The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities has chosen three new members to the board of directors : Froma Harrop, James Riley and Don Wineberg.
Harrop is a nationally syndicated columnist. A graceful writer, her work appears in more than 100 media outlets around the nation, including CNN, Newsday, the Seattle Times and the Denver Post. A former Providence Journal reporter, Harrop is also a former president of the Association of Opinion Journalists. She lives in Providence and New York City.
Riley is a longtime union leader and retired secretary-treasurer of the United Food and Commercial Workers. He began his career as a meat cutter for Stop & Shop before going to work full-time for the UFCW as an international representative. Riley has also been active in many labor, ethnic and community organizations. He has served on the RI State Council on the Arts, on the board of the Providence St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee and as board chair of the RI Labor History Society. He has also been instrumental in fund-raising for the ALS Foundation of Rhode Island and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He lives in Providence.
Wineberg is a lawyer and partner at Chace Ruttenberg and Freedman, LLP, where he heads the firm’s health law practice. Wineberg has long been active in community affairs and on non-profit boards. He has been on the board of Rhode Island Public Radio, Planned Parenthood of Rhode Island, Trinity Reparatory Theater, Festival Ballet Providence, HealthSource RI and the Jamestown Wind Energy Committee. A Jamestown resident, he has also served on the Jamestown Zoning Board of Review.
