Thomas Styron, Chairman

Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine - Psychiatry

Director, Psychology Training and Adult Mental Health Services at CMHC

Adama Bah 

Author, Immigration Rights Advocate, and Former Head Start Parent

Rebecca Banyasz

Educator, Bank Street College of Education 

Mitchell Bernard

Chief Counsel, Natural Resources Defense Council 

Hon. Helen Freedman

Associate Justice Supreme Court New York State 

Karenna Gore

Director, Center for Earth Ethics, Union Theological Seminary

Timothy Goodell

Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Hess Corporation 

Stephen Graham

Bard Center Fellow, Bard College 

Blanche Johnson, secretary

Advocate for People with Disabilities 

Meredith Kane

Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Garrison, and Wharton 

Joan Lacagnina, treasurer

Former Managing Director, Finance, KKR 

Gerald Loughlin

Former Pediatrician-in-Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center 

Amie Nuttall

Community Advisor

 Michael Nutter

Former Mayor of Philadelphia; Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Basil Smikle, Jr.

Political/Policy Consultant and Professor, Columbia University

Director, Roosevelt House Public Policy Program, Hunter College

Anil Stevens

Partner, Interval Partners 

Rose Styron

Author, Poet, and Human Rights Advocate 

Dermot Sullivan

Corporation Counsel, Morgan Stanley

Michael Wolitzer

Partner, Simpson Thacher and Bartlett

Officers

Michael Lewis, Vice President 

PEter Wu-Buchenholz, Vice President

 


The Late Harry (HOH) Frelinghuysen, Honorary Chair

The Late Hon. David N. Dinkins, ALWAYS BELOVED

Gregory Lee, Ex officio 

Julius Gaudio, Ex officio

KENNETH LERER, EX OFFICIO

Marian Wright Edelman, Ex Officio