Nora James, Vice Chair

Nora James has been a long-time supporter of the public humanities in the state of Nevada.  She has served in the past as a commissioner of the Nevada State Commission for Cultural Affairs; as a board member and chair of Nevada Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities; as a board member of KNPB, the public television station in Reno; as a trustee of the Community Foundation of Western Nevada; as a member of the advisory board of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno; and on the boards of other civic and cultural organizations in Northern Nevada.

At present she serves on the board of the Desert Research Institute Foundation in Nevada, and she is a member of the board of directors of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia.

She has served as an officer and director of Electrographic Corporation in San Francisco; Barclays Law Publishers in San Francisco; and Nevada New-Tech, Inc. of Incline Village, Nevada, a private investment firm.

Ms. James is a writer and editor, and she earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.  She and her husband, Bruce, reside in Reno, Nevada.

Ms. James is the Vice Chair of the Trust.