Kathleen Mandeville

Executive Producer

Kathleen C. Mandeville served as Rector of St. Clement’s Episcopal Church/Off Broadway Theater in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC and as Ecumenical Chaplain at Bard College, Annandale, NY.  Under her tenure as Rector, St. Clement’s founded the Clinton Peer AIDS Education Coalition (CPEAC) which evolved into the city wide agency of New York Peer AIDS Education Coalition, (NYPAEC) serving over 20,000 “at risk” clients annually.

She was the proprietor of a guest house/retreat center, Kathleen’s Barn in Tivoli, NY and is the Founder & Director of IgniVox Productions whose mission is dedicated to spiritual, regional and environmental witness through the arts. IgniVox produces Community Arts Development programs in low income housing complexes in the Lower East Side, East Village & South Bronx neighborhoods of New York City as well as site specific music & performance events in public spaces in and throughout the greater NYC area. Kathleen also serves as Executive Director of Sacred Music NY, an organization which fosters social change through an immersive celebration of spiritual music. 

Kathleen has long been engaged with the creation of community through the integration of  performance, landscape, program, hospitality and ceremony. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M. Div. from Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. She is an ordained Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of New York. Currently, she divides her time between the gritty, vibrant streets of the Lower East Side in New York City and the stunning vistas of the Hudson River Valley, NY.  Read more about her experience and expertise here. 

Judith Ginzberg
Production, Dance Movement & Food

Judith has worked with IgniVox since Spring 2013 as a production associate, dance/movement therapist, and food manager. She is a registered dance/movement therapist, NYS Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, shiatsu and body work practitioner,  Certified Movement Analyst, mask maker, and has training in the Body-Mind Centering discipline.

She is passionate about working with marginalized people and those in need, brings extraordinary energy to engage and empower them, and cares deeply about building community and activating the creative process to promote growth, healing, and harmony. In her work she strives to bring comfort to body, mind, and spirit.

Adam Pearce
Business Strategy & Development

Adam Pearce has served as a strategic consultant for IgniVox since 2013. He holds a BA in Music from Saint Olaf College and a Masters in Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at NYU. His work at IgniVox allows him to merge his passion for the arts and his skills as a analyst and consultant to help expand the reach of IgniVox and its mission.

Brenna Keeley
Production, Publicity, and Finance

Brenna has worked with IgniVox since 2017 as a production assistant, publicity assistant and bookkeeper of event finances. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Fordham University. After graduation, she worked for Make Music New York, where she met Kathleen and helped IgniVox develop their Offerings & Songs to the Solstice Sun event. Brenna has a passion for creative business strategy and organization. She loves helping share IgniVox’s unique mission of spiritually engaging event practices and enjoys helping to optimize the outreach and community engagement of each event. 

Justin Peone
Live Stream, Videography, Technology and Equipment

Oriana Mayorga
Production Assistant

Oriana (she/her) is a born and raised New Yorker, bi-lingual community organizer, harm reductionist, artist and has been helping with NYC productions since 2014. Oriana’s dedication to advocating for women’s rights, ending the war on drugs and helping productions began with her internship at the Drug Policy Alliance in New York, as the Events intern. Oriana is passionate about helping women-led local organizations and she was the production assistant for IgniVox for the 2019 summer season. In addition to assisting with the coordination of children’s activities & production set up, she was also a key translator for the team!

Oriana received her bachelor of science from Fordham University in 2014 and a graduate certificate in Harm Reduction Psychotherapy from the New School of Research in 2016. In 2022, she will graduate with her Masters of Divinity with a concentration in social ethics from Union Theological Seminary. When not challenging power structures, you can find Oriana running or on the dancefloor.

Laura Davidson
Production & Food

Laura grew up on a dirt road in Vermont, where cows out number people in most of the towns. She came to NYC initially to pursue a career in fashion, but quickly decided the reality of that life was not for her. Having worked as a server/bartender/manager/counter girl/door girl and the like for over a decade, she decided one day while sitting solo on the beaches of sweet Rockaway that she would dedicate her life to the service industry because it brings her endless joy and fulfillment. For Laura, the only thing more fulfilling than serving folks is serving folks food that she has made. Food is communion; over it we share our ideas and talents. It is sustenance for the body and every wild act that comes out of the body. If music is fire, food is the kindling we throw in to keep it all playing!
Laura loves feeding the people of the South Bronx & the Lower East Side in her work at IgniVox.

Devin Irby & Modern Resourcery
Graphic Design, Videography & IT

Over the course of their collaboration since 2003, IgniVox & Modern Resourcery have generated dozens of magical occurrences and community projects. These have resulted in hundreds of videos, designs, concerts, rituals, gatherings and 7 websites: all part of the “Church of the Event.”

Also a Bard alum, Devin has found fruition for his desire to celebrate and empower people to share talent & spectacle. A playwright from Colorado who graduated in Physics & Film, he has spent his post-college years further delving into the Mystery. He delights in designing and demystifying technical inquiries, bridging the natural indigenous mindset and the digital native modern schema. He is the catalyst of ARC38 (Autonomous Resilient Community, land project in Dutchess County) an activist retreat center practicing permaculture and spiritual activism. A once devout atheist, he has found alchemical fruition through esoteric studies in Sufism, Tibetan Buddhism and through creative community engagement.

Audrey Webber
Production, Administration & Art

Audrey considers herself to be a New Yorker since she has lived there for as long as she can remember. Always on a mission to create art in sacred contexts, she has found ways to incorporate her love of the arts in combination with sacred spaces and events. She graduated from Hunter College with a double major in Religious Studies and Art History. She has had the opportunity to combine these two interests in her work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and other urban organizations. In addition to her artistic side, she also has a love for organization and social media which she has brought to IgniVox through her administrative work. Audrey currently attends Princeton Theological Seminary in the Masters of Divinity program. While on the ordination track in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she is concentrating in Theology and the Arts, Pastoral Care and Counseling, and Inter-religious Engagement.  At IgniVox, she loves bringing together children & adults in the common language of art-making.

Kit Puangpithayawut

Event Photographer

From the one of the busiest cities, Bangkok, Thailand, Kit is an interior designer who has a strong passion of seeing life through the lens. Born and raised by a street merchant family. After graduation, he started his career in his hometown for a few years and then continued his adventure by moving to Singapore. Working on multimillion projects in Singapore allowed him to experience life in the different way. He humbly feels that he has seen the poorest and richest and that inspired him to come swim in the bigger ocean, New York! Life in New York is a paradigm shift. People from many different races and social backgrounds can live harmonically in this big city. He found that people here is so fascinating that there is no better way than recording the memorable moments in the photo and share it out. He joined Ignivox hoping that his photography can be part of the evidence of how life can be so beautiful when we share.