Board meetings
A regular place for neighborhood work.
Board meetings bring resident questions, committee updates, current issues, events, partnerships, and governance into one working conversation.
View the next board meetingBoard and leadership
Resident leadership for a changing downtown.
DANA’s volunteer board helps residents understand current issues, connect with public processes, and turn neighborhood priorities into practical work.
Resident-led
Leadership begins with paying attention to the place.
DANA board members live among the skyline, parks, streets, trails, businesses, construction, and public decisions they help residents understand. Their perspective begins with everyday downtown life: what is changing, what residents are noticing, and where a clearer conversation or practical response is needed.
Board introduction
The board creates structure for resident participation.
Board members help guide DANA’s priorities, governance, communication, committees, partnerships, and public representation. They do not replace resident input. Their role is to create a credible and organized way for that input to move forward.
Leadership
People doing the quiet work behind what happens in your neighborhood.
Each board member has a defined role, but the work is shared across resident communication, membership, public issues, partnerships, governance, events, and long-term planning.
01PresidentCyrus TehraniView profile
Cyrus works with board members, City staff, community organizations, and downtown residents to keep DANA involved in important conversations about the neighborhood. His work centers on long-term planning, City relationships, resident representation, and partnerships that help downtown concerns reach the right people.
Focus: Long-term planning, City relationships, resident voice, and community partnerships.
02Vice PresidentKimberly LevinsonView profile
Kimberly helps welcome residents, build relationships with local organizations, and make DANA easier to approach. Her work focuses on membership, neighborhood connections, resident participation, and creating a more welcoming path into the organization.
Focus: Community building, membership, partnerships, and resident engagement.
03TreasurerRoger L. CauvinView profile
Roger oversees DANA’s finances and helps ensure that resources are handled carefully and directed toward work that benefits downtown residents. His role includes financial stewardship, governance, organizational sustainability, and long-term planning.
Focus: Financial stewardship, governance, long-term planning, and organizational sustainability.
04SecretaryKara YoungView profile
Kara helps keep DANA organized, documented, and easy to follow. Her work includes meeting records, board materials, resident communication, governance, and the systems that help a volunteer organization operate responsibly.
Focus: Communications, member experience, governance, and organizational systems.
05DirectorMeg DudeView profile
Meg focuses on making DANA easier to discover, understand, and participate in through digital strategy, clearer communication, and improved resident experiences. Her work includes digital communication, membership options, resident experience, neighborhood participation, and the systems that connect residents with meetings, events, issues, and useful updates.
Focus: Digital strategy, communications, membership experience, and neighborhood participation.
How the board works
Every decision starts with the same question.
Is this useful for the people who live downtown? That question guides how the board responds to resident concerns, follows public projects, supports events and partnerships, and manages DANA’s ongoing work.
See bylaws and minutes01Resident input becomes the starting point.
Board members listen at meetings, events, emails, and everyday conversations, then turn repeated concerns into agendas, follow-ups, and clearer resident updates.
02Issues are followed until residents know what changed.
The board watches safety, mobility, parks, development, and public-space work so neighbors can understand timelines, decisions, tradeoffs, and next steps.
03Gatherings become easier ways to participate.
Board support helps turn ideas into happy hours, volunteer projects, welcome tables, and committee work where residents can meet people and contribute at a realistic scale.
04Trust is built through records and steady process.
The board keeps bylaws, minutes, finances, membership, and decisions organized so DANA can act responsibly and residents can see how the organization works.
05Relationships help resident concerns move farther.
DANA stays connected with civic groups, buildings, businesses, and public agencies so resident priorities can reach the people and organizations able to help.
Current priorities
The work in front of us.
Current priorities include clearer resident communication, stronger membership and participation, safety and public-space concerns, closer relationships with downtown partners, and useful explanations of major neighborhood projects.
View neighborhood issuesFocused work
Smaller groups help move specific projects forward.
Committees and working groups give residents and board members space to move a defined piece of work forward, with a clear purpose, a board connection, and a practical next step.
Learn about DANA committeesAccountability
Leadership should be easy to understand.
DANA’s bylaws explain its purpose, membership, board structure, meetings, elections, and decision-making responsibilities. Approved minutes and governance records keep that work visible and easy to follow.
Open governance recordsTake part
Meet the people helping organize resident-led work.
Attend a board meeting or explore a committee to see how neighborhood priorities become practical work.
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