Our Team

Dr. Jocelynne Rainey

President & CEO

She/Her | Bedford-Stuyvesant

Annie Cleary

Chief Development Officer

She/Her | Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy

Nicole G. Epps

Chief Operating & Financial Officer

She/Her | Midwood/East Flatbush

Liane Stegmaier

Chief of Staff

She/Her | Flatbush

Sabrina Hargrave

Vice President of Programs

She/Ella | Midwood

Oshadi Kelly

Vice President of Development & Special Events

She/Her | Flatbush

Lina Alfonso Gutiérrez

Program Officer

She/Ella | Clinton Hill

Keyla Davis

Grants Associate

She/Her

Victoria Douglas

Donor Services Investment Analyst

She/Her

Sabine Frid-Bernards

Director of Programs

She/Her | Bedford-Stuyvesant

Janine Gibbs

Senior Accountant

She/Her | Crown Heights

Carly Holin

Donor Services Manager

She/Her

Jhana Myers

Operations Manager

She/Her | Flatbush

Elana Nussbaum Cohen

Communications Associate

They/Them | Prospect Heights

Myla Seabrook

Nonprofit Engagement Manager

She/Her | Williamsburg

Jameela Syed

Director of Communications

She/Her

Nathalie Taveras

Director of Operations and Board Liaison

She/Her

Bethany Walsh

Development Associate

She/Her

Eliel Peterson

Development Fellow

Taraun Frontis

Programs Fellow

Zoe Pyne

Programs Fellow

Michael Gillespie, Co-Chair

Debevoise & Plimpton

He/Him

Timothy Simons, Co-Chair

Forethought Advisors, LLC

He/Him

Hilary Ley Jager, Vice Chair

A Better Way

She/Her

Andi Phillips, Treasurer

Maycomb Capital

She/Her

Katharine Darrow, Secretary

Retired, The New York Times Company

She/Her

Thomas Bettridge

NY Congregational Community Services Congregational Home Legacy Fund

He/Him

Janel Callon

Ichigo Foundation

She/Her

Michelle DeFossett

Girls Who Invest

She/Her

Tanya Friedman

Hunter College

She/Her

Peter Furci

Debevoise & Plimpton

He/Him

Nicole Gueron

Clarick Gueron Reisbaum LLP

She/Her

Lesleigh Irish-Underwood

Vibrant Emotional Health

She/Her

Zul Jamal

Moelis & Company

He/Him

Mamie Kanfer Stewart

Meeteor

She/Her

Vivian Liao Korich

Totem

She/Her

Lorena Kourousias

Mixteca

She/Her

Harsha G. Marti

Warburg Pincus

He/Him

Deroy Peraza

Hyperakt

He/Him

Carley Roney

The Knot

She/Her

Shaheen Rushd

Retired, Pomerantz LLP

She/Her

Vishal Sheth

Global FIG at Apollo

He/Him

Shelley Stewart III

McKinsey & Company

He/Him

Susannah Taylor

READ 718

She/Her

Adrian Techeira

Moody’s Investors Corporation, Inc.

He/Him

Rabbi Rachel Timoner

Congregation Beth Elohim

She/Her

Carmencita Whonder

Brownstein Hyatt Faber Schreck

She/Her