BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Stephen Weisenreder (he/him)
Board Chair
Stephen Weisenreder has been Chair of ImageOut’s Board of Directors since 2018 and has been an ImageOut volunteer for approximately 10 years. Professionally, Steve works as Caseworker in the Monroe County Department of Human Services and previously spent 18 years in non-profit event organization, specializing in outdoor education and youth programming.
In his remaining free time, Steve is a regular film-goer at The Little Theater and Pittsford Cinema and has been a season-ticket holder for the Rochester Americans since 2001.
Michele Thornton (she/her)
Board Vice Chair & Marketing Committee Chair
Michele Thornton is a professor, consultant, and healthcare researcher. She and her wife Gillian moved to Rochester from her hometown of Chicago, IL in 2017. At that time, Michele had just completed her PhD in Public Health and came here to join the School of Business graduate faculty at SUNY Oswego. There, she teaches Health Policy, Health Economics and Global Business and Society. Additionally, Michele is the school’s chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
When not obsessing over work and politics, Michele is an avid traveler, movie buff, aspiring gardener and proud mom to her boxer Darwin. Michele and her wife have been supporters of ImageOut since they moved to New York, and are thrilled to continue working to bring this amazing festival to life each year.
Paul Allen (he/him)
Board Secretary & Development Committee Chair
Bio Coming Soon!
Matteo Ragusa (he/him)
Board Treasurer
Matteo Ragusa has been part of the ImageOut board for more than 5 years . He quickly ascended to the position of Treasurer shortly after joining; a role that he continues to fill and enjoy. ImageOut has provided him with many wonderful memories, both at the meeting table and in the theater.
He comes back to Rochester by way of a childhood in Italy, some time in central New York, an education at Oberlin in Ohio, and a start to his professional life in San Francisco as a research biochemist in pharma.
Although he longs for his days in the lab, he pivoted to a career in healthcare and nonprofit finance/operations in 2010, opting to leverage his fondness for a good spreadsheet towards solving more immediate problems in community health. He earned his MBA at the University of Rochester and has been a part of Trillium Health since 2016, currently working in their Finance department.
Matteo lives in the City and shares his home with a scheming cat, a neurotic dog, and a loving human.
Matt DeTurck (he/him)
Board Member
Matt DeTurck is an award-winning designer and filmmaker, as well as the Events & Special Programming Coordinator at The Little Theatre; Producer & Creative Director at Anomaly – The Rochester Genre Film Festival; and a Board Member at ImageOut – The Rochester LGBTQ Film Festival. As a former Creative Director for both the Rochester Fringe Festival and Hedonist Artisan Chocolates, he strives to combine his deep love for art & experience with creative visual storytelling.
Previous clients also include CITY Newspaper (art direction), Splyce esports (design and motion for international content), and the Wall Street Journal (photography). A previous ImageOut “Volunteer of the Year” award recipient, and a current member of WXXI’s DEI committee for Content, Matt can usually be found listening to a movie soundtrack and counting down the days ‘til Halloween.
Matt Mazzaferro (he/him)
Board Member
Bio coming soon!
Joe McCrank (he/him)
Board Member & Theatre Operations Committee Co-Chair
Joe McCrank started volunteering for ImageOut in 2000. He has been a co-chair for Theatre Operations for almost two decades and has served as a board member since 2007. Joe enjoys getting to know so many of the regular ImageOut members and supporters.
Joe had a long career in the banking industry. After leaving the banking, he started his own successful interior painting business. Joe has been in the painting business for 18 years. When there is no snow on the ground you will find Joe enjoying his passion for classic cars with his friends – attending car shows throughout the spring, summer and fall.
Lyn Morrill (they/them)
Board Member
Serving on the ImageOut Programming Committee for more than a decade, Lyn Morrill has seen the good, bad and in-between when it comes to LGBTQ+ content! They believe in the power and importance of storytelling as a means of connection and community building. ImageOut shares this commitment and celebrates the telling of LGBTQ+ stories and history. By day, Lyn works with non-profit organizations to realize their full potential in providing the best services to the community. If you want to see them smile from ear to ear, ask them about their garden or honeybees. Lyn is currently living the life their younger self dreamed of in the 19th Ward neighborhood surrounded by a loving network of family and friends who keep them whole.
Deb Oppenheimer (she/her)
Board Member & Theatre Operations Committee Co-Chair
Bio coming soon!
