Jaan Whitehead chairs the board of the SITI Company, an ensemble theater company led by Anne Bogart. She has served on the boards of Arena Stage, Living Stage, The Acting Company, the National Cultural Alliance, TCG, and the National Council for the American Theatre. She has also served as Executive Director of Theatre for a New Audience and Development Director of Center Stage. Prior to entering the theater world, she taught political philosophy at Georgetown University. Two of her essays on the challenges facing the arts in a commercial society have appeared in American Theatre magazine, and she is co-editor of The Art of Governance: Boards in the Performing Arts.