Board of Directors

The Board of Directors personifies North Star Fund's commitment to both diversity and excellence. Board members are recruited for their expertise and ability to inform our work. Our current board contributes a variety of skills, including non-profit management, finance, fundraising and community organizing. Their aggregated expertise deepens, strengthens and synergizes our work as a grantmaker.

Oona Chatterjee, Chair

Co-Director, Make the Road New York
Oona Chatterjee's profile

Kevin Ryan, Vice Chair

Program Officer, New York Foundation
Kevin Ryan's profile

Jason Franklin, Treasurer

Lecturer on Public Administration, NYU's Robert F.Wagner School of Public Service
Jason Franklin's profile

Nisha Atre Richardson, Secretary

Financial Analyst
Nisha Atre Richardson's profile

Elise Boddie, Esq.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Fordham University Law School
Elise Boddie's profile

Lule Demmissie

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Lule Demissie's profile

Kathy Goldman

Founder of Community Food Resource Center; community activist
Kathy Goldman's profile

Sarah Hansen

Philanthropic Advisor
Sarah Hansen's profile

Pierre Hauser

Philanthropic Activist, Founder of Daphne Foundation, Writer
Pierre Hauser's profile

Hugh Hogan

Executive Director, North Star Fund
Hugh Hogan's profile

Sarah Ludwig, Community Funding Committee Co-Chair

Co-Director, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)
Sarah Ludwig's profile

Sheila McDaniel

Deputy Director of Finance and Administration, Studio Museum of Harlem
Sheila McDaniel's profile

Jennifer Merschdorf

Non-profit Management Consultant
Jennifer Merschdorf's profile

Jonathan Schorr

Structurer, Seneca Capital
Jonathan Schorr's profile

Henry Serrano, Community Funding Committee Co-Chair

Senior Organizer, Community Voices Heard
Henry Serrano's profile

Aarti Shahani

Researcher, Justice Struggles
Aarti Shahani's profile

Maxim Thorne

Senior Vice President of Development and Communications, NAACP
Maxim Thorne's profile


Betty Kapetanakis
In memoriam, 1952 - 2002