ANIZDA Board of Directors

Previously, he was Comcast’s senior vice president of technical operations and fulfillment, and also served as regional senior vice president. He has over 20 years of wide-ranging electric and gas utility experience at subsidiaries of Exelon Corp, ComEd and PECO Energy.

In addition, Dudkin serves on the board of directors of the PPL Foundation which contributes millions of dollars each year to improve the lives of people in the communities which PPL serves. He also is on the board of the Energy Association of Pennsylvania and the Southeast Electric Exchange.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware and a master’s in business administration from Widener University.

Mickenberg began his career as a scholar of French medieval architectural history and, as an undergraduate and graduate student worked on an archeological site in southern France.  His scholarly interests have grown to include modern and contemporary printmaking and the role of museums in education and economic development. Mr. Mickenberg has been a museum director for more than thirty years and has lectured nationally and abroad on aspects of the history of art and museum leadership.  A student at the Getty Leadership Institute in 2005, he became faculty at the Institute from 2006 – 2011. He taught museum history and management at the Ecole du Louvre, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at Northwestern University.  Before coming to the Allentown Art Museum, he was President and CEO of the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA, and previously was director of university art museums at Wellesley College and Northwestern University, where he also held faculty appointments.

He also serves on the board of the Chamber of Commerce of the Lehigh Valley. In addition, he is involved in the strategic planning and advising of many committees of various community organizations, including the United Way, Upside Allentown, Allentown Arts Commission, Allentown Arts and Culture Planning Committee, Downtown Arts Organization ED Collaborative and the Job Training Advisory Board.

He holds a B.A. in Art History with Honors from Colgate University, a M.A. in Art History from University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D from Indiana University.