UofO Team Members

Janis Blumgart

Janis is a resident of Orange and an organizer with the Music City Festival. She has worked on planning events with Music City, and performed on several Music City Festivals. She is a banjo player and performs both solo and with her band the Big Head Baby Blues Band. She is also a member of University …

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Phil Passantino

PHIL PASSANTINO is an Interfaith minister, songwriter, musician and preschool music teacher. From 2005-2014, he enjoyed presenting guest sermons for First UU of Essex County. Usually the topics were indigenous cultures & music of the world. Much fun was had. Magical messes were made. He’s psyched to still be involved in the Orange community today, …

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Stephanie Leone

Stephanie Leone is an artist, designer, and writer. She’s been a member of the 400 Years of Inequality organizing committee since 2017, for which she co-led A Call Answered: Observing History—Reclaiming the Future,an immersive web experience. She’s an MFA student in Fiction at Brooklyn College, and a recipient of the college’s Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship. 

Tim Nottage

Tim Nottage (he/him) is an artist, designer, researcher, and urban strategist with a focus on cultural work, environmental justice and ecology, public space, and the power of story to shape our world. He is a certified permaculture designer and master composter, and holds degrees from Parsons/The New School and University of California, San Diego.

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