Dance and art are my passions. In 1984 I became a member of the Royal Academy of Dancing, London, by examination. I was educated on scholarship in modern dance at the University of the Arts (Philadelphia) and in museum studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology (magna cum laude). As a sophomore at the University of the Arts, I was featured in an award-winning documentary about Judith Jamison, The Dancemaker, which was nationally broadcast on PBS. As a senior, I was named the Outstanding Performer in the School of Dance and was also awarded the Dance Faculty Prize for the Outstanding Senior. From 2007 to 2015 I was the Operations & Finance Manager at Eyebeam, the leading art and technology center in the United States. In the six years prior I was the Registrar for the collections of paintings, collages, drawings and prints at the estate of the late abstract expressionist, Robert Motherwell. Since 2015 I have been the Financial Manager at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, an international art gallery whose focus is vintage and contemporary photography. I studied ballet with Janet Panetta for thirty years and was one of her assistants. I was a principal dancer in Henning Rübsam’s, SENSEDANCE from 1994 to 1998, and I have also performed the works of Janet Panetta, Scott Rink, Igal Perry, and Doris Humphrey, among others.

As Director of the Investment Sales Division, John Goldman brings more than 40 years of extensive and diverse experience in the commercial and investment real estate industry to Halstead Property. After many years as a real estate attorney, John transitioned into becoming a developer, owner/manager, and, later a broker at some of the leading brokerage firms in New York City. He has sold several significant buildings and development sites in Manhattan, totaling well over $250 million, negotiated major retail leases and acted as a consultant to professional and non-professional property owners. A native of the Boston area, John is a graduate of Harvard College with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics. He also graduated from Columbia Law School (Law Review) with a JD and Stanford Law School with an LLM. He is a member of the Harvard Club of New York, a former trustee of Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor and a former member of the Board of The Bridge Fund, a charity which helps prevent low-income families from evictions. He lives in Manhattan and East Hampton with his wife, Joan Spivak, and their two boys Jesse and Marcus.

Luz Marina Diaz was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She studied modern dance with Jose Ledezma and Mirjam Berns. Later, she continued her studies with Abelardo Gamache and joined Danza Teatro Abelardo Gamache. Diaz participated in the American Dance Festival and dance festivals in India, Germany, Belgium, Bolivia, and Brazil. She joined the Taller de Danza de Caracas and was a pioneering dance teacher at the National School of Dance in Caracas. She moved to New York to study postmodern dance at Movement Research in 1994. She danced in the Matthew Brookoff Dance Repertory Company, Eleanor Coleman Dance Ensemble, Namaste Dance, and IATI company. Diaz also worked with independent choreographers such as Janet Panetta, Ernesta Corvino, David Zambrano, Julieta Valera, Stelle Eichenberger, Karen Bösser, and Rachel Thorne Germond.

Additionally, she presented her dance productions, including "In Spite of Everything" and "La Luna me esta mirando." She taught dance to children at the White Street Studio and the School of the Ascension. In 2002, she began dancing and choreographing liturgical compositions for professional dancers, former dancers, and amateurs. That same year, she received an award from the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors for interpreting Ruandi in the Cuban play Ruandi with the IATI company. 

Furthermore, she is a seasoned leader in catechetical studies, boasting over two decades as a director of religious education and RCIA. She earned her Ph.D. in Religious Education from Fordham University, received a certificate in spiritual direction from Fairfield University in 2010, and obtained a certificate as a spiritual direction supervisor from Fordham University in 2022. Since 2010, Diaz has offered spiritual guidance through individual monthly sessions, group direction, the Spiritual Exercises of Loyola, and 8-day directed Ignatian retreats. She instructed on the Theology of Spiritual Direction from 2016 to 2018 and has been the director of the Spiritual Direction Practicum at Fordham University since 2018.