NolaVie Project Leader Bio
Sharon Litwin
Sharon Litwin is president of Partnership for Action (PFA) a non-profit organization created in 1997 by a diverse group of women for the benefit of the City of New Orleans. She is co-founder of NolaVie, a new website dedicated to covering and promoting the full breadth of New Orleans’ unique culture. NolaVie is a project of PFA.
As Senior Vice President for External Affairs of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the only musician-owned, collaboratively governed orchestra in America, she has assumed the responsibility for all major national grant opportunities, interaction with national and statewide foundations, corporate and civic support cultivation and legislative action.
Prior to joining the LPO, Ms. Litwin was for 12 years an Assistant Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art. There she was responsible for all administrative and legislative functions of a successful $24-million capital campaign to expand and renovate the Museum. She was also responsible for the successful marketing of a number of blockbuster exhibitions that had a collective economic impact on the City of more than $55 million.
Ms. Litwin has also been a professional journalist, writing for more than nine years with The Times-Picayune, and a television producer with WYES, New Orleans’ PBS station, where she produced both news and documentary features. She is the editor of the Zagat New Orleans Restaurant Survey, and is a regular contributing writer to numerous local and national newspapers and magazines.
She has served as President of the Contemporary Arts Center, President of the Committee of 21, President of Cultural Communications, and President of the Mental Health Association of Metropolitan New Orleans. She is the Founding President of the Crescent City Farmers Market, a not-for-profit Farmer’s Market in the Warehouse District of New Orleans.
Ms. Litwin has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts; was the first female public commissioner to the Undergraduate Accrediting Commission of the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM); and has served as public commissioner to the Committee on Recognition of the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA).
