Meet the
LINC board
We are so thankful for the brilliant and passionate advocates on our board who help to inspire the vision and fuel the mission of LINC.
OUR 
BOARD
Mimi Levin Lieber
(In Memoriam)
Founder, Literacy in Community
Mary Fratto Rowe
(Chair)
Senior Partner, IBM Global Salesforce Service Area Leader
Robert E. Spierer, CPA (Co-Vice Chair)
Partner, Perelson Weiner LLP
Stephanie Young
(Co-Vice Chair)
Retired Attorney and Community Advocate
Kosha Udani
(Treasurer)
Managing Director of State & Local Tax, PWC
William Estilo
(Assistant Treasurer)
Partner, Deloitte
Victor Pichardo Jr.
(Secretary)
VP of Government & Community Affairs, SBH Health System
John Galiski (Chair, Audit Committee)
Director of Risk Advisory, Alix Partners
Glenn Autorino
Head of U.S. Leveraged Finance, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Tracy Dockray
Author and Illustrator
Carl D. Folta
Senior Counselor, Abernathy MacGregor
Emily Giacoman
VP, Head of Global Merchant Services Pricing, Americas, American Express Company
Jordan Halpern-Leistner
Director, Silver Lake
Tova Katzir
Partner, McKinsey & Company
Dan Lee
Managing Director, PJT Partners
James E. Lieber
Founder and President, Lieber Strategies
Patricia Mitchell
Former Principal of PS 48Q
Andrea Newborn
General Counsel, ABM Industries
John Pantalena
Partner and Co-Founder, Phalanx Impact Partners
Ron Rentel
President/Founder, Consumer Eyes
Carlos Rodriguez
Retired Partner, Sidley Austin, LLP
Ann Short
Former Director of Finance, Green City Force
Andrew Spring
Managing Director & CFO, MidOcean Partners
John Urban
Director, Treasury Funding and Investments, Barclays
Associate Board
LINCs Associate Board is a group of passionate professionals that play a vital role in furthering LINC’s strategic mission by raising awareness and funds for LINC through networking and fundraising events, volunteer opportunities, and social media.
Scott Cara
Founder, Elevate
PAC Co-chair
Marianna Kakrida
Assistant VP, KKR
PAC Co-chair
Laura Amico
CPA, Strategy and Transactions AI & Technology Innovation Operations, EY
Tasha Brown
Associate, Restructuring, Davis Polk
Ralph Cheng
VP, Corporate & Investment Banking, Citibank
Ashley Giannetti
FSO Business Consulting Senior, EY
Kate Hodgson
Segment Producer, ABC / Good Morning America
Austin Holmes
Associate Director, Ladder Capital
Walker Jordan
Strategy & Finance Lead, Raspberry AI
Vini Kumar
Director of Investments, Hamilton College
Tyler Lee
Investment Banking Analyst, Morgan Stanley
Rhea Lieber
Graduate Student, Columbia Teachers College
Jennifer Lu
Investment Executive, CVC Capital Partners
Dean Miller
Associate, JP Morgan
Kaitlyn Noe
Digital and AI Strategy, McKinsey & Company
Connor Prior
Junior Operations and Trade Support Analyst, Kirkoswald
Amy Rahn
Director of the Center for Executive Leadership – CFO Program, EY
Alison Shim
Private Equity Investing, Blackstone
Laura Strothmann Williams
Associate Director, EY
Ethan Susser
Graduate Student, Columbia Business School
Alberto Tardio
VP, ING
Hayley Walker
Booking Producer, NBC Universal
Tim Wojcik
Rights Director, Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency
For more information about our Associate Board, or to see if membership is right for you, please inquire here.
National Advisory
Council
Deborah Breznay
Exec. Dir. Edith Glick Shoolman Foundation (CLOSED)
Rudy Crew
Former New York City Schools Chancellor; Former President of Medgar Evers College
Ray Horton
Retired Columbia Business School Faculty – Nonprofit programs
Deborah Meier
Public Education Advocate and Reformer; Author; Former Principal and Teacher
Alan Mendelsohn
“Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, and Bellevue Hospital Center”
Michael Rebell
Professor of Law and Educational Practice; Executive director of the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Steve Sheppard
Founding Partner, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
Max Van Gilder
“NY State Coordinator at Start School Later;
Retired Pediatrician”
Doug Whiteman
Founder, The Whiteman Agency
Sonia Ortiz-Gulardo
Beginning with Children Foundation
