Ms. Manus is Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City.  Before joining the Film Society, she was Executive Director of the Public Theater, also in New York.  Ms. Manus has also served as an economic development Program Officer at the Ford Foundation; as President of Los Angeles-based Chrysalis, a job development nonprofit; and as Senior VP of Production at TransPacific Films and MCA/Universal Pictures in Hollywood.  Ms. Manus has been profiled in the New York Times, Newsday, Los Angeles Times; LA Weekly, Downtown News, and People Magazine.  She completed an Executive Education program on Nonprofit Management at Harvard Business School and received a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Stanford University.