Board of Trustees

The Indigo Ink Press Board of Trustees includes business and marketing professionals including David Kaminski, Tim Belden and Sue Grabowski, seasoned educator Cynthia Staudt, and artist/entrepreneur Elizabeth Jacob.

Tim Belden
Owner, Joseph Saxton Gallery of Photography
Belden is an entrepreneur and area businessman. His most recent project is the newly opened
Joseph Saxton Gallery of Photography, located in the center of the city block that he is
redeveloping in downtown Canton’s Arts District. He studied creative writing and art history at Bowling Green and Cornell Universities.

Sue Grabowski
President and CEO, Grabowski and Company
Grabowski founded Grabowski and Co. in 1997. Today the company is a full-service marketing
communications agency that runs the gamut from small businesses to Fortune 500 clients.
Grabowski has her bachelor’s in communications from Malone University.

Elizabeth Jacob
Artist and Designer, Yellow Finch Designs
Jacob is an active Stark County artist, jewelry designer and amateur photographer. She graduated
from Ohio University with a B.A. in English and she began Yellow Finch Designs as an online jewelry
boutique and blog in 2005.

David Kaminski
Director of Education and Government Affairs, Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce
Prior to joining the Chamber, Kaminski was operating a research and consulting business that he
had formed after his retirement from The Repository in May of 2007. He spent 33 years at the
newspaper, the last 10 as the newspaper’s editor. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from the
University of Notre Dame.

Cynthia Staudt, Ed.D.
Department Chair, Language and Letters, Walsh University
Staudt is an associate professor of English and director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Walsh
University. She holds a B.A. from Wittenberg University, a M.A. from Indiana University and an Ed.D.
from The University of Akron. Staudt joined Walsh in 1978.