Board of Directors

Elise Boddie, Esq.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Fordham University Law School, 2006-2007; former NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney

Oona Chatterjee, Chair
Co-Director, Make the Road by Walking

Lule Demmissie
Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

Jason Franklin, Treasurer
Lecturer On Public Administration, NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Deputy Director for Program Development, 21st Century School Fund

Kathy Goldman, Vice-Chair
Founder of Community Food Resource Center; community activist

Sarah Hansen
Philanthropic Advisor

Hugh Hogan
Executive Director, North Star Fund

Sarah Ludwig, Community Funding Committee Co-Chair
Co-Director, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)

Tara Mack
Director, Education for Liberation Network

Sheila McDaniel
Deputy Director of Finance and Administration, Studio Museum in Harlem

Jennifer Merschdorf
Non-profit Management Consultant

Randall Quan
Managing Director, Community Resource Exchange

Julissa Reynoso, Esq.
Associate, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP

Nisha Atre Richardson
Financial Analyst

Kevin Ryan, Secretary
Program Officer, New York Foundation

Jonathan Schorr
Structurer, Seneca Capital

Aarti Shahani, Community Funding Committee Co-Chair
Researcher, Justice Strategies

Maxim Thorne
Senior Vice President of Development and Communications, NAACP

Betty Kapetanakis
In memoriam, 1952 - 2002