Meet Our Team of Experts

Lifetime Arts Staff & Trainers

This is a headshot of Annie Montgomery, Lifetime Arts' Senior Education Designer & Trainer.

Annie Montgomery

Senior Education Designer & Trainer

Annie works on the delivery of special projects developing content, and designs and facilitates professional development training.

With 25+ years of experience working as a teaching artist in youth, community, and creative aging programs, and 10+ years with Lifetime Arts, Annie works in partnership with teaching artists and organizational partners to help identify their needs and facilitates a strategy plan with them that will lead each to a path forward of maximum growth and sustainability of their creative aging programs.

Voices From the Field

This is a headshot of Thelma Thomas, Former Artistic Director for Pearls of Wisdom.

Thelma Thomas

Former Artistic Director, Pearls of Wisdom

Thelma is the former Artistic Director of Pearls of Wisdom, a program of Elders Share the Arts, based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She is also a founding member of the African Folk Heritage Circle and an extraordinary storyteller.