meet our volunteers and staff

Dana Patterson-Free

Event Coordinator and Detail Monster
 

Faith, family, and friends are Dana's life passions, details and planning are her professional passions. She has 25 years of experience managing scientific and medical conferences for non-profits throughout the U.S. and the world, working with groups of 50 to more than 2,000. Her clients work hard to raise funds for their organizations and advance their missions, and she is dedicated to assuring they receive superb results, and attendees enjoy and gain from each event.

As ACC Event Coordinator, Dana is part of a dedicated organization team. Her focus is on behind-the-scenes planning such as budgets, deadlines, floor plans and layouts, catering, volunteer lists, sponsor documents, and myriad details related to successful events. She also participates in our open houses, represents ACC at our table at First Friday Art Crawls, and promotes ACC to artists and potential attendees.