Patricia Ann Neely ’75
- Alumnae House Committee Member and Vassar Fund Committee Member
- (she/her/hers)
- New York
- Term of Service: 2025–2029
Off-board committee member, AAVC Vassar Fund Committee, 2016–2025; President, Class of 1975, 2015–present, and Musicale Coordinator, 2024–present, and Class Agent, 2023–present, and Volunteer, 2016–present, and Class Agent, 2019–2020, and Volunteer, 2013–2014, and Notewriter or Phoner, 2012–2013; Volunteer, Club Admission Committee, 2007–present; Member, Class Reunion Gift Committee, 2012–2015.
Member of the grants panel for New York State Council on the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, 2019–present; Board member, Viola da Gamba Society of America, 2019–present, and Chair of the DEI Committee, 2019–present; Director of Abendmusik, New York’s Period Instrument String Band, 2012–present; Freelance musician–Specialty Historical Performance (early-bowed strings), present; Board member, Early Music America, 2020–2025, and Chair of the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access) Taskforce, 2018–2020; Manager of Events and Individual Giving, The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2017–2019; Music Faculty, The Brearley School, 1998–2019; Director of Development, COPLAND HOUSE, INC. COPLAND HOUSE, INC., 2015–2017; Consultant (part-time Executive Director), Connecticut Early Music Festival, 2012–2015; Member of the Grant Panel for The Fund for Creative Communities & the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2013; Foundations and Corporations Coordinator, Jewish Child Care Association, 2010–2012; Senior Director of Programs, Harlem School of the Arts, 2008–2010; Director of Foundations and Corporations for New York City, The Sphinx Organization, 2007–2008; Consultant, Collegiate Chorale, 2006–2007; Associate Director of Scheduling, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2005–2006; Director of Concert Operations, Mannes College, the New School for Music, 1993–2005; Director of Public Information and Assistant Director of Development, Mannes College of Music, 1993–1996.
Nichi Bei Foundation, Films of Remembrance, honored as attorney for the coram nobis case of Minoru Yasui, 2018; Minoru Yasui Justice Award, University of Oregon Law School, inaugural awardee, 2017; ABA 2017 Spirit of Excellence Award, 2017; Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon: Voices of Change Award, 2016; Oregon Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs Honoree for service as lead attorney in the coram nobis effort to overturn Minoru Yasui’s 1942 criminal conviction, 2016; Roosevelt High School Freedom Fighters Award, Portland, Oregon, 2016; Judge Lynn Nakamoto Award, Oregon Asia Pacific American Bar Association, 2014; Trailblazer, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, 2011; Heart of the Community Award, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, Portland, OR, 2006; Japanese American Citizens League, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003; Oregon Minority Lawyers Association Award, 2003; Home Town Human Rights Hero, Eugene Human Rights Program, Eugene, Oregon, 2000; Inducted into Sandy Union High School Distinguished Alums Hall of Fame, 1992; Woman of the Year, Seattle Chinese Post, 1992; Recognition & Appreciation of Outstanding Citizenship in Gordon Hirabayashi v. U.S. by Gordon Hirabayashi, Petitioner, 1988; Honored at dinner for recognition of the Korematsu, Hirabayashi, and Yasui Legal Teams, Japanese American Citizens League: A celebration of Japanese American Contributions to the American Promise, San Francisco, CA, 1988; Honored by the Japanese American Citizens League, Portland Chapter and Japanese American Community of Oregon, 1988; Outstanding Young Women of America, 1984; Award of Merit, 1984 Woodie Award, Mid-Oregon Chapter, Oregon Advertising Federation, 1984.
An extraordinary opportunity to develop positive relationships with students and help them navigate their future personally and/or professionally.
