Our Board

Lucy Chan

President

DEI Facilitator and Sales Coach at IBM, after retired as Vice President in 2015

Didi Lacher

Vice President

President
Didi Lacher Advisory

Marjorie Schwartz

Vice President

Ilene Cohen

Vice President

Publishing consultant; former VP Consumer Marketing, Conde Nast Publications

Marcia Burch

Secretary

Consultant for Publishers, authors, and nonprofit organizations; retired Vice President of Publicity for the Touchstone imprint, Simon & Schuster

Aparna Muralidharan

Treasurer

CFO
Bank Street College of Education

Deborah Axelrod, MD

Surgical Oncologist and Director of Clinical Breast Surgery & Community Outreach, NYU Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center

Stephanie V. Blank, MD

Director of Gynecologic Oncology for the Mount Sinai Health System

Professor, Gynecologic Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jo Holz, PhD

Media consultant, author

Chris Lafond

CEO and Board Member, Insurity

Lisa A. Newman, MD

Chief, Section of Breast Surgery
Weill Cornell Medicine

Velvet Pierre

Manager
CBIZ Marks Paneth

Mayer Hoffman McCann CPAs, the New York Practice of Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.

Marsha Pierson

Planned Giving Associate, Metropolitan Opera

Art Thomson

Senior VP
Director of Business Development, Henegan Construction Company

Emeritus Council

James L. Speyer, MD

Founding Memeber

Medical Oncologist
Perlmutter Cancer Center of the NYU Langone Medical Center (retired)