Our Board

Richard Lanning, President
Vice President, DTCC (Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation)

Catharine Marion, Vice President
Manager, Global Finance Communications, American Express

David Good, Treasurer
Chief Financial Officer, CreditSights, Inc.,
Founder of MacKay Gardner Capital Partners, Inc., a merchant banking firm with interests in media and business services companies.

Ila Lane Gross, Secretary
Executive Director, LeAp

Cassandra Florio
Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Alice Krieger
Associate Executive Director, LeAp

John Singh
Associate, The Blackstone Group

Frederica Wald
Program and Business Development VP, American Express Publishing Corporation

Advisory Board

Enid Beal, President of Beal Consulting Group; Kim Bendheim, Board Member, Leon Lowenstein Foundation; Al Butzel, Attorney, Former Friends of Hudson River Park Trust Chairman; Reginald C. Dennis, Chief Creative Officer of Manifest Creator, former Editor in Chief XXL Magazine; Pamela Green, Executive Director of Weeksville Heritage Center; Michael Gruen, Attorney; Craig Hensala, Arts Consultant and Partner, Scenic; Doris Honig Guenter, Director Emeritus, Women’s Center, Central Connecticut State University; Ursula Kalish, Art Consultant, Trustee of Fridolin Charitable Trust; Andrew Lane, Consultant; Greg McCaslin, Education Director, Roundabout Theater Company; Former Director of Programs for the Center for Arts Education; Becky Mode, Playwright and TV Scriptwriter with credits at HBO, Disney, Nickelodeon and ABC; staff writer on Cosby at CBS and Columbia Pictures; Joel Motley, Principal at Delany Capital Management; David O’Fallon, Ph. D., President of the McPhail Center for the Art Consultant, Education Department, Kennedy Center & Consultant, Harvard Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Jane Remer, Author and Consultant, Harvard Project Zero Senior Consultant, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Consultant, Education Department, Kennedy Center (former Director of Arts Education Programs, Rockefeller Foundation); Joan Spivak, President, Spivak Consulting Group; Gil Turchin, Consultant NYC Department of Education in Fundraising and Program Development, former COO and Development Officer for Community School District 3, Evaluator; Jack Viertel, Creative Director, Jujamcyn Theaters & Artistic Director, NY City Center ENCORE!; Barbara Wagner, Sr. Vice President, Rubenstein Associates, Inc.; Matthew Washington, Manager of Special Projects, The Durst Organization; Board Member/Chairman, Manhattan Community Board 11.