Mr Windham joined The Wallace Foundation in February 2007 as Director of Arts. He leads the foundation’s efforts to help the arts reach more people, both through The Wallace Excellence Awards program, which seeks to develop effective ways for arts organizations to engage more people, and through Wallace’s Arts for Young People initiative, that seeks to help cities devise means to strengthen children’s access to high-quality arts education. Prior to joining the Foundation, he served in a variety of leadership positions within arts organizations. He was president of the Cleveland Music School Settlement, one of the oldest community schools of the arts in the nation, where he provided leadership to faculty and staff, and artistic and educational direction to the community and partner institutions. From 1992-2001, he was president and chief executive officer of Kansas City Young Audiences, Inc., which grew to become the largest arts education organization in the region. He has also served as executive director of the Music Assistance Fund, administering national scholarship and orchestral programs operating in 22 cities; director of educational activities for the New York Philharmonic, where he was senior administrator for the planning and development of education and audience development; and director of education and audience development for the National Symphony Orchestra, where he worked to coordinate public affairs, produce festival concerts and seminars, and develop new audiences for the arts. In addition to his work within arts organizations, he has lectured on music history and literature at Wellesley College, where he created a curriculum in African-American music. As director of arts in education for the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities, he created and managed partnerships between arts organizations, schools and community organizations. As an accomplished instrumentalist and vocalist, he has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, and in festivals and recitals in the U.S., Canada and Europe. He is a former trustee of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts.