Board Co-Chair: Lauren Ezrol Klein, J.D., corporate attorney
Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Time Inc.; served on New York Women’s Foundation: Committee for the Future from 2004 -2006 and as Co-Chair 2005/2006, as well as on their Allocations Committee 2005/2006. Member of Cornell University Council.

Board Co-Chair: Courtney M. Killingsworth, M.Ed, educator
Youth Development Specialist, High School for Global Citizenship; former Leadership Coordinator, SNLP; professional modern and Afro-Caribbean dancer; Member, Artists and Youth Educators (AYE) Collective.

Monisha Bajaj, PhD., professor
Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; editor, Encyclopedia of Peace Education, author of a Spanish-language teacher training manual on human rights, and the forthcoming, Schooling for Social Change: The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India. Former SNLP summer faculty member (2006).

Nikhat Choudhury, high school student
Nikhat is a junior at Bard High School Early College Queens. She participated in SNLP in 2009-2010 for Making Waves Leadership Institute and joined the Summer Institute in 2010. She is an ardent advocate for making Eid a public holiday and has been quoted in the Huffington Post on this issue.

Damon Todd Hewitt, J.D, attorney
Executive Director, NYS Task Force on Police-on-Police Shootings (gubernatorial appointee and currently on leave from NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorney); Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn Law School; Board Member, Safe Streets-Strong Communities, a criminal justice reform organization in New Orleans, LA. In 2007, named one of 10 “Up and Coming African American Lawyers to Watch” by Minority Corporate Counsel Assoc.

Pooja Joshi, MS (International Marketing and Management), philanthropic advisor
Philanthropic Advisor, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; formerly Program Officer, Thomas & Jeanne Elmezzi Private Foundation; Board, Coro Alumni Association; Member, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants & Refugees (GCIR); International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG).

Suzanne E. Miles, JD, attorney
Senior Counsel, New York City Department of Education, Bronx Integrated Service Center; servant leader for Emmanuel Baptist Church's Legal Ministry.

Board Secretary: Abby Young Moses, JD, attorney
Founding partner of a boutique women's law practice in NYC, Ewenstein & Young, focused on transactional work for nonprofits and media organizations. Formerly Senior Vice Presdient, Buiness & Legal Affairs of Oxygen Media. Has worked on several committees of New York Women's Foundation, including their grants allocation committee.

Rachael Morgan Peters, MPH, LMSW, public health practitioner/social worker
POWER Program Coordinator, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, focused on engaging and retaining women who are HIV positive in their medical care. Adjunct Lecturer of Health Communication, Brooklyn College. Former Project SAFE Director, Project Reach Youth. Current We Are All Brooklyn (WAAB) fellow.

Amy Richards, writer/activist
Co-Founder, Third Wave Foundation; Co-author, Manifesta and Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism; author, of the forthcoming Opting In: The Case for Motherhood and Feminism; Contributing Editor for Ms; advice columnist “Ask Amy” for Feminist.com.

Judith Rosena, college student
Senior at CUNY Hunter College majoring in psychology; SNLP participant (started 2005) and completed CAP at Dwa Famn, a Haitian women’s rights organization in Brooklyn; currently working at the Hunter immunology lab where she is focused on gene therapy for immune diseases; last summer, accepted into the SPURS program at Columbia University, studying B-cell Lymphomas at the institute of cancer genetics.

Leanne Sajor, college student/activist
Junior at CUNY Hunter College majoring in political science and gender studies; SNLP participant (started summer 2005); co-taught SNLP LAP summer 2007, former ELLA Fellow and current SNLP after-school faculty. Leanne is part of the founding committee and Board of Trustees for the new Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation, a school committed to student leadership and academic excellence. 

Andrea Batista Schlesinger, public policy analyst, non-profit executive
Special Adviser to the Mayor (NYC) and Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services; former Executive Director, Drum Major Institute for Public Policy; Chair of the Advisory Board for School for Law and Justice; Co-founder, Out People of Color Political Action Committee; Former SNLP faculty 2003. Recently listed in Crains NY 40 Under 40, listing the 40 most influential people in New York under 40 years old.

Brita Steffelin, MBA, finance
Managing Director, BlackRock where she is a portfolio manager on the Global Bond Portfolio Team. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2005, Ms. Steffelin was with BNP Paribas for three years in global fixed income sales.

Eve Yohalem, MBA, entrepreneur and writer
Author, ESCAPE UNDER THE FOREVER SKY; Co-founder, StudentCenter.com; former opera singer; Board Member, Young Concert Artists; Board Member, Growth Philanthropy Network.