Our Board

Officers

Timothy Murray, Chair

Professor of Comparative Literature and English
Cornell University, Ithaca

Steven M. Berzin, Vice Chair

Private Investor
New York City

Ulises Mejias, 2nd Vice Chair

Associate Professor
SUNY Oswego, Oswego

Damali Wynter, Secretary

Senior Business Development and Strategic Contracts Specialist
NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Albany

C Evan Stewart, Treasurer

Former Partner
Cohen & Gresser LLP, New York City

Janet Ward, Chair of Nominating & Governance

Professor of Philosophy and Associate Provost for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Initiatives
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York

Board Members

Jeff Arnstein

Retired CPA, New York City

Laura Free

Associate Professor of History
Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Joseph Haddad

Professor & Vice Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology
New York-Presbyterian, New York City

Valerie Paley

Vice President, Director of the Center for Women’s History & Chief Historian
New-York Historical Society, New York City

Robert J. Vanni

Senior Consultant
Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of NY,  New York City

Eileen Gillooly

Executive Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows
Columbia University, New York City

Melissane Schrems

Associate Professor of History
St. Lawrence University, New York

Wendy Gellman

Owner & Curator, Dandelion Art and Objects
New York

David Shumway

Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies,
Carnegie Mellon University
Huntington, New York

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