Board of Directors Staff

Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, Ph.D., Chairman

Director of the Center for Suicide Risk Assessment, Research Unit for Pediatric
Psychopharmacology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University
Associate Professor of Child Psychology, Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons

Trey Beck, Vice Chairman

Managing Director, D. E. Shaw and Co., L.P.

Maureen Cogan, M.S.W., Vice Chairman

Chair, Leadership Council, Institute for Infants, Children, and Families, Jewish
Board of Family and Children’s Services
Chairman, International Council, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Member, Strategic Planning Committee, Health Sciences Committee, Columbia
Presbyterian Hospital

Pamela Cantor, M.D.

President and CEO

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Lilliam Barrios-Paoli

Commissioner, NYC Department for the Aging

Cristina Greeven Cuomo

Editor in Chief, Niche Media Holding LLC

Pam Bernstein Friedman

Founder, Pam Bernstein & Associates, Inc.

Ellen Galinsky

President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute

Alice Jarcho, M.S.

U.S. Equities Trader; Partner (Retired), Investment Partnership

Simone Levinson

Founder and President, Martel Productions, Ltd.
Founder and Former Chairman, Young Leadership Council of The World Jewish Congress, American Section

Owen Lewis, M.D.

SVP, Mental Health Program and Training, Turnaround for Children, Inc.
Clinical Professor of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Judith Stern Peck, M.S.W.

Director, Money and Family Life Project, Ackerman Institute for the Family
Former Chair of Board, UJA-Federation of New York

Andrew C. Peskoe, Esq.

Partner, Golenbock, Eisemen, Assor, Bell & Peskoe

Susan Butler Plum

Director, Skadden Fellowship Foundation

Aliza Waksal Pressman, M.A.

Research Fellow, National Center for Children and Families, Teacher’s College, Columbia University

Judith Rizzo, Ed.D.

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for
Educational Leadership and Policy

Alan Siegel

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Siegel+Gale

Judi Sorensen-Flom

Attorney (Retired)

Alexander F. Stern

Chief Operating Officer, Lazard

*Organizational affiliations are included for information purposes only.

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Pamela Cantor, M.D.,

President & CEO

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Lawson Shadburn,

Chief Operating Officer

Greg Greicius,

Senior Vice President for Educational Initiatives

Gary M. Holbert,

Senior Vice President for Program Implementation

Owen Lewis, M.D.,

Senior Vice President for Mental Health

Management and General

Jennifer C. Crumpley,LCSW-R Director, Collaborative Initiatives
Jennifer L. Hoerl, Director, Finance
Vanessa Matibag, Office Manager
Angelica Pena, Receptionist
Cynthia Rosario, Project Coordinator, Educational Initiatives

Professional Development

Joyce A. Williams-Samedy, Professional Development Administrator

Development and Fundraising

Stefanie Lindeman, Development Officer, Institutional Funding

Program Metrics and Research

Joan Kass Stamler, Vice President for Metrics and Research
Katje King, Research Associate
Shefali Trivedi, Ph.D., Research Associate
Ali Syed, Research Assistant

Intervention

Audrey Colyar, Administrative Assistant

Patricia Kobetts, Project Director
Emma Pendleton, Project Director
Fran Salter, Project Director
Sallejane Seif, Project Director
Edi Vogel, Project Director

G. Ben Dachs, Education Coach
Ronni Gambardella, Education Coach
Tom Gambardella, Education Coach
Edith Bly Jenkins, M.A., M.S., M.Ed., Education Coach
Donna M. Jones, Ed.D., Education Coach
Maritza Meyers, Education Coach
Gail Meskill, Education Coach
Gin Gee Moy, Education Coach
Richard Schachter, Education Coach
Mike Strauss, Education Coach

Elesia Johnson, M.S., Director of Family Partnerships

Eliot Goldman, Ph.D., Barbara Jonas Vice President of Mental Health Programs
Janet Abbott, LCSW, Director, Clinical Internships and Special Initiatives
Wiley Owens, Jr., LMSW, Director of Social Work
Fanteema Barnes, MSW Social Work Consultant
Megan Brown-Kennedy, LMSW Social Work Consultant
Mery Diaz, LCSW, Social Work Consultant
Bena Newmark, LMSW, Social Work Consultant
Charlot Rosario, LMSW, MPA, Social Work Consultant
Amy Greenbaum Strauss, LCSW-R, Social Work Consultant

Karen Lavine, Esq., Senior Advisor

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