BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board Co-Chair: Damon Todd Hewitt, J.D, attorney
Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Mentor – Simmons Memorial Foundation and Legal Outreach

Board Co-Chair: Eve Yohalem, MBA, entrepreneur and writer
Co-founder, StudentCenter.com (career planning website, now part of Monster Network); former opera singer; Board Member, Young Concert Artists; Board Member, Growth Philanthropy Network.

Cynthia Bookhart Adams, JD, securities attorney
Director and Associate General Counsel for Citigroup’s Global Wealth Management sector. Former board member, Practicing Attorneys for Law Students Program, Inc. (PALS), a career development program for law students of color; former board member Legal Outreach, Inc.; active member of the Abyssinian Baptist Church.

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

Board Secretary: Lauren Ezrol Klein, J.D., Corporate Attorney
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.

Sarah “Rainbow” Miller, High School student
Rainbow is a sophomore at Brooklyn High School of the Arts and is majoring in instrumental music for the clarinet. She attended the summer program of Sadie Nash in 2006 and followed up with the Nash U dance class; she is also an activist for the LGBT right-to-marriage and reproductive rights movements.

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

Leanne Sajor, college student/activist
Freshman at Hunter College CUNY; participant in Sadie Nash Leadership Project (started summer 2005); co-taught LAP during SNLP 2007 Summer Institute; immigrant and reproductive rights activist.

Andrea Batista Schlesinger, public policy analyst, non-profit executive
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; columnist, Daily News.

Board Treasurer: Brita Steffelin, MBA, finance
Director and Manager, Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group, BlackRock (investment management firm); volunteer fundraising consultant, Forest Hills Community House; mentor, SEO NY (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity)







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