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Fern Khan (Board President) - Special Advisor to the President for Community Affairs, The Bank Street College of Education*
Fern Khan is the Special Advisor to the President for Community Affairs at Bank Street College, where she develops and supervises a wide range of continuing education programs including the Liberty Partnerships Program for students who are at risk of dropping out of school; Partners for Success, a family support and education program; and programs whose focus is on school reform. Prior to working at Bank Street College, Ms. Khan worked for 18 years at LaGuardia Community College, where she was the Associate Dean for the Division of Adult and Continuing Education and developed and implemented a City University-wide education program for paraprofessionals working in the New York City public schools. She is acknowledged as an innovator in program development in public and private post-secondary education. Her programs, many of which began as pilot projects, have been replicated throughout the city, state, and country. Ms. Khan holds a B.S. in Sociology and a Master's Degree in Social Work from New York University.
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Peter Brookman - Vice President of Risk Management, Morgan Stanley
Peter Brookman is Vice President of Risk Management at Morgan Stanley. Prior to working at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Brookman worked at a variety of businesses, including Automated Data Processing, Digital Connexxions Corp., Jupiter Media Matrix, and Bronx Dough LLC, at which he served as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Brookman holds a B.A. in Consumer Marketing from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from Baruch College.
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Kenneth M. deRegt - Global Head of Fixed Income Sales and Trading, Morgan Stanley*
Kenneth M. deRegt is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Fixed Income Sales and Trading of Morgan Stanley, and serves on its Management Committee. Mr. deRegt rejoined Morgan Stanley in February 2008 from Aetos Capital, where he was a Managing Director. He serves on the board of directors of Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), Inc. and KKR Financial. He is also Board Chair for the Eagle Hill School and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Mr. deRegt holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.
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Christina Isetta - Senior Account Executive, Google Inc.
Christina Isetta is a Senior Account Executive
at Google Inc., where she is responsible for client service management and product enhancement for the TV Ads start-up business. Prior to working at Google, Ms. Isetta worked at XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., where she established Fortune 500 client relationships and served as the East Coast manager for Hispanic sales. Christina spent several years at NBC Universal's Telemundo Network in which she held a variety of responsibilities including sales planning and campaign marketing integration. She began her career at Investcorp International, as a part of their Corporate Investment Group where she handled market research for their portfolio companies. An active community volunteer, Christina has worked with Citizen Schools, Girls on the Run International, Team for Kids and served as a weekly after school tutor for five years. Christina holds a magna cum laude B.S. in Broadcast Journalism with concentrations in Economics and Business administration from the University of Florida.
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Dr. Max Gomez - Health & Science Journalist, WCBS-TV
Dr. Max Gomez is an author and an award-winning medical broadcast journalist at WCBS-TV, where he has served as a medical reporter and Health Editor. Dr. Gomez has received numerous awards, including six New York Emmy Awards, two Philadelphia Emmys, a UPI honor for Best Documentary for a report on AIDS, an Excellence in Time of Crisis Award from New York City after September 11 and a national television journalism award from the Leukemia Society of America. He was also named the American Health Foundation's Man of the Year and was a NASA Journalist-In-Space semi-finalist in 1986. Dr. Gomez serves on numerous boards, including the national board of directors for the American Heart Association and the Princeton Alumni Weekly; the board of advisers for the Science Writers Fellowship at the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Hope and Heroes Children's Cancer Fund at the Children's Hospital of New York; and the honorary board of the Long Island Chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. He has served as the grand marshal of the Multiple Sclerosis Walk for the past decade. Dr. Gomez holds a cum laude B.S. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and is a N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellow at New York's Rockefeller University.
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Keith Hefner - Publisher/Executive Director, Youth Communication
Keith Hefner is the Publisher and Executive Director of Youth Communication - a nonprofit youth literacy program that he founded in 1980 that trains teens in writing and publishes their stories in books and magazines and on the web. Youth Communication also develops curricula that combine social/emotional learning and developing skills in areas like employment readiness, transitioning to adulthood, surviving trauma, and developing resilience. He won a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989, and he was a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of New York City at Columbia University during the 1986-87 academic year. In 1997 he received the Luther P. Jackson Award for Educational Excellence from the New York Association of Black Journalists.
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Tracy High - Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Tracy High is a Partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where she is a member of its Litigation Group and of its Criminal Defense and Investigations practice, specializing in representing financial institutions and other corporations in regulatory enforcement proceedings and corporate internal investigations. Ms. High is the Chair of Sullivan and Cromwell's Diversity Committee, Co-Chair of its Women's Initiative Committee, and a Member of its Recruiting Committee, as well as a Co-Chair of the Federal Bar Council's Membership Committee. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Kate Stoneman Project, an organization founded to provide a forum to address issues of common concern relating to the advancement of women in the legal profession. Ms. High holds a cum laude B.A. in History from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard University.
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Wayne Ho - Executive Director, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families
Wayne Ho is Executive Director of the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, where he oversees agency administration, program oversight, board relations, staff supervision, community partnerships, and fundraising to improve the health and well-being of Asian Pacific American children and families. Mr. Ho serves on the Board of Directors of Coro New York Leadership Center, Human Services Council, and New York Foundation and is a member of the NYS Governor's Children's Cabinet Advisory Board, NYS Office of Children and Family Services' Internal Review Board, NYC Citizen Review Panel, Immigration Advisory Board of the NYC Administration for Children's Services (ACS), and Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Multicultural Audience Development Initiative. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. Previously, Mr. Ho was the administrator of out-of-school time programs for the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), conducted policy analysis for ACS, and worked with the Blue Ridge Foundation New York. He received a Making a Difference Award from the Family Health Project in 2008. Mr. Ho holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.P.P. from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and completed the New American Leaders Fellowship Program of the Coro New York Leadership Center and New York Immigration Coalition.
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Craig Martone - Co-Head of US Interest Rate Sales - Morgan Stanley
Craig Martone is Co-Head of U.S. Interest Rate Sales at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Martone began his career at Morgan Stanley and returned to the company in November 2009 after a six year absence during which he served as Managing Director at Merrill Lynch/Bank of America and as Managing Director and Head of Interest Rate Sales at HSBC. He serves on the Boards of Directors of CancerCare and of the Nantucket Film Festival, and previously served on the Board of Advisors of Project ALS and as a mentor for underprivileged children in New York City. He is also a proud supporter of the Good Shepherd Foundation, the New York Giants Foundation, and the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Mr. Martone holds a B.S. in Communications from Emerson College.
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Greg McCaslin - Education Director, Roundabout Theatre Company
Greg McCaslin is Education Director at the Roundabout Theater Company, where he leads the theater's efforts to use theatre to enhance teacher practice and deepen student learning. Prior to working at Roundabout, Mr. McCaslin served for ten years as Director of Programs for the Center for Arts Education and as Director of Education and Information and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has served on numerous state arts council advisory panels and as a member of the steering committee for the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the Arts. He has also been a consultant to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the 92nd Street Y, Studio in a School, and the Educational Video Center, among others, served as an advisor to SEE (Sweat Equity Enterprises), and has spoken and written about arts in education, notably for the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, the Teaching Artist Journal and New York State Alliance for Arts Education. Mr. McCaslin is an Instructor in the Nonprofit Management Program of the Milano Graduate School at the New School and his educational experience includes work as a Teaching Artist for the Lincoln Center Institute and more than 10 years as a classroom teacher in high schools and colleges in California, Missouri, and New York City. Mr. McCaslin holds a B.A. in theater from the Theatre Conservatory of Webster College and has studied at St. Mary's College in California, the University of California at Berkeley, and Columbia University.
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Kate O'Brian - Senior Vice President, ABC News
Kate O'Brian was named senior vice president for News in November 2007. In this role she is responsible for ABC News' newsgathering operations, including the Washington Bureau, NewsOne, ABC News Radio, specialized news units, and affiliate relations.
Prior to this role, Ms. O'Brian was the vice president of ABC NewsOne, where she managed ABC's affiliate news service and the satellite newsgathering arm of ABC.
In 2003 Ms. O'Brian was ABC News Southern bureau chief based in Atlanta. There she was responsible for the coordination of assignments in the Southern region for the various platforms of ABC News, including network news coverage, NewsOne, ABC News Radio and ABCNEWS.com.
Ms. O'Brian began her career at ABC News as a television desk assistant in New York. She then joined the staff of "This Week with David Brinkley" for its launch in 1981, and stayed with the broadcast for four years.
A 30-year veteran of ABC News, Ms. O'Brian has served in many roles throughout the division, including as general manager of Programming for ABC News Radio responsible for editorial content, overseas field producer in Rome and London, producer for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," both in Washington DC and New York, and manager in Talent Development.
Since joining ABC News, Ms. O'Brian has won an Alfred I. DuPont Award as part of the "This Week with David Brinkley" team, an Emmy Award for the 2000 Millennium coverage and two awards for September 11 coverage - a second Alfred I. DuPont and a Peabody Award.
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Caitlin Perazzo - Senior Vice President, Major Financial Services Firm
Caitlin Perazzo is Senior Vice President of a major financial services institution. Focusing in large-scale program management and continuous improvement, Ms. Perazzo has worked on significant change initiatives in financial services since 2008. Prior to joining the financial services sector, Ms. Perazzo worked in business process analysis for the City of New York, and served as the Director of Development and Communications for PASE. In addition, she is an alumni mentor for the Fordham University Women in Business Alumni Guidance initiative. Ms. Perazzo holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Brown University and an M.B.A. in Management Systems, with a designation in International Business from Fordham University's Graduate School of Business Administration, where she was a Deming Scholar.
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Craig Phillips - Managing Director, Blackrock Solutions
Craig S. Phillips is Managing Director of BlackRock Solutions, a global investment management firm, where he serves as global head of the firm's Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) Group. Mr. Phillips has over 30 years of experience across a wide range of securitized products and asset-based financial markets, including residential and commercial mortgages, asset-backed securities, CDO's and other credit derivatives. Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Phillips was most recently Managing Member of Ptarmigan Capital LLC, an alternative investment firm that he founded; a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, where he was the global head of its Securitized Products Group; and a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Mortgage-Backed Securities Group of Credit Suisse First Boston. He began his career at Lehman Brothers specializing in mortgage-backed securities. Mr. Phillips is a Trustee of The Children's School of Stamford, Connecticut, an early learning school and a member of the Steering Committee at Morgan Stanley that developed the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Mr. Phillips holds a B.A. in Economics/Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.
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Nancy Poses - Community Member
Nancy Poses has worked with numerous non-profit organizations, including the National Center for Learning Disabilities, where she has chaired its annual benefit and created a speaker series to help parents who are raising a child with learning disabilities; a youth employment training program for inner-city high school students, where she worked closely with the corporate community to develop job opportunities and create job skills workshops; and the Riverview School, a special needs school in Sandwich, MA, where she serves on the Board of Trustees. She also serves on the Print Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ms. Poses holds an Ed.M. in counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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John Shutkin* - General Counsel, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
John Shutkin is General Counsel at CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, where he directs and oversees a wide range of legal matters pertaining to the firm. Prior to joining Clifton Gunderson, Mr. Shutkin served as General Counsel at Shearman & Sterling LLP and spent 18 years with KPMG International and KPMG LLP in various positions, including General Counsel of KPMG International and Deputy General Counsel of KPMG LLP. He serves or has served on numerous boards, including the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, the Bank Street College of Education, Ways to Work, and many others. Mr. Shutkin holds a B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Anthropology from Harvard University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
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Roy Swan - Executive Director, Morgan Stanley*
Roy Swan is an Executive Director with Morgan Stanley, where he works in the firm's Corporate Treasury department. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Swan had been CFO of Carver Federal Savings Bank, and a Corporate Vice President at Time Warner, Inc. Mr. Swan's background includes ten years experience as an investment banker, and the role of Chief Investment Officer of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. Mr. Swan serves on the Board of Trustees of The Dalton School, where he is also Treasurer, and the Brick Church School. Mr. Swan holds an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
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Dr. Tanya Williams - Pediatrician
Dr. Tanya Williams most recently worked as Director of the Child Protection Team at Mt. Sinai Medical Center's Child and Family Support Program. Prior to working at Mt. Sinai, Dr. Williams worked with the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, and the New York City Mayor's Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect. She has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Clinical Performance Award in Pediatrics from the Charles R. Drew University School of Medicine. Dr. Williams serves on the Board of Trustees of the Marymount School, where she is also President of the Parents' Association. Dr. Williams holds a B.S. from the University of Southern California and an M.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine.
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Wanda Wooten - Executive Director*, Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center
Wanda Wooten is Executive Director of the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, a multi-service settlement house in Manhattan, where she oversees diverse programs serving older adults, children and families. Prior to joining the Isaacs Center in 1984, Ms. Wooten held positions with the National Congress of Neighborhood Women, the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and the Women's Action Alliance. She is also the editor of two resource books and serves on numerous boards and committees. Ms. Wooten completed executive management training at the Institute for Nonprofit Management at Columbia University.
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