By SUE SUCHYTA
Times-Herald Newspapers
DEARBORN – Artist and arts administrator Sasha Corder has been named Dearborn Community Fund executive director, following the September retirement of EmmaJean Woodyard.
Corder has served as acting director for the past six months, according to Tim Keenan in DBusiness Magazine.
From 2021 to 2023, she was the program director for the Dearborn Community Fund.
Woodyard served the Dearborn arts, culture and recreation community for many years, and championed the annual Pockets of Perception student mural project, for which Corder was a driving force, along with her mother, artist and educator Sunshine Durant.
Corder served as the director of Dearborn’s Padzieski Gallery, and has extensive experience with non-profit organizations, fundraising, arts administration and program development.
She served as director of development for Make Art Work, a Detroit art-based nonprofit, where she raised funds, developed donor relationships, submitted grant paperwork and did strategic planning.
Corder has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the College for Creative Studies, and is currently working on a Masters degree in Global Supply Management and International Business.