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Board of DirectorsHon. Analisa Torres, Chair Nancy Biberman, President Sara Horowitz Sara Kay Susan Saegert Hon. Sheila Abdus-Salaam,Chair Emerita Susana Morales Pamela Sloan Robert McNatt Hon. Analisa Torres was appointed to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Criminal Division, in 2004, after serving as a Judge in the New York City Civil Court and Criminal Court since 2000. Previously, she was a City Planning Commissioner in the Dinkins Administration where she advocated in favor of low-income housing and increased day care facilities. Analisa also spent seven years practicing real estate law at Manhattan firms. As a young child, Analisa lived in the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx, where her father was an assistant district attorney and her mother was a social worker at Morrisania Hospital, the site of Urban Horizons! Her grandparents were Caribbean immigrants, and her paternal grandfather, Felipe Torres, whom she credits as the most influential person in her life, worked his way up from dishwasher to being among the first Puerto Ricans to serve in the New York State Legislature. Analisa is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University School of Law. She is married and lives in Manhattan. Nancy Biberman is WHEDCo's founder and president. As a practicing legal services attorney and Director of the East Side SRO Law Project, Nancy's early career focused on housing and domestic violence issues affecting low-income families. After completing a Revson Fellowship at Columbia University School of Architecture and Planning, she developed the West End Intergenerational Residence, an award-winning program that integrates homeless adults with young families. She directed the re-development of 23 abandoned buildings creating 722 apartments for low- and moderate-income families in the South Bronx. Nancy is a public policy advocate, has published articles on affordable housing, the White House Faith-Based Initiative and the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan. She has taught at NYU and CUNY, and was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Rutgers Law School. Nancy serves as a Trustee of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and currently holds a Johnson Fellowship at the Fannie Mae Foundation. Nancy has three children and lives with her husband Roger Evans. Linda Field Over the past 35 years Linda Field has been involved in almost every aspect of affordable housing in New York City, and especially, in the Bronx. After beginning her career in City government at the end of the Lindsay administration, she worked as Director of Development for a city-wide not-for-profit and moved on to private practice as a housing consultant. Sara Horowitz founded the nonprofit organization Working Today (www.workingtoday.org) 1995 to represent the needs and concerns of the growing independent workforce. Working Today seeks to update the nation's social safety net, developing systems so that all working people can access affordable benefits, regardless of their job arrangement. As executive director, Sara takes an entrepreneurial approach, pursuing creative, market-based solutions to pressing social problems. Sara Kay is the Director of the Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Health Program. Previously, she served as Director of the Office of Policy Management in the Office of the New York City Comptroller, which developed policy analyses and recommendations on a diverse set of municipal priorities including health care, economic development, education, senior citizen, and children and family issues. Prior to that she was Senior Counsel to the New York City Comptroller and provided legal and strategic advice to the Comptroller and senior staff on matters including Medicaid, public health issues and the rights of patients in City hospitals. Before joining the Comptroller's office Sara taught at Brooklyn Law School and supervised the Federal Litigation Clinic where she and her students represented low and moderate-income clients bringing public benefits, discrimination and other federal claims. Her experience also includes corporate litigation on managed care and insurance issues with a major New York law firm. Sara received a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Connecticut. Robert McNatt is the Senior Editor for News and Features at Standard & Poors, a position he has held since 2004. From 1996 to 2004, he was with Business Week, as a Department Editor and Associate Editor. Prior to Business Week, Mr. McNatt held reporter positions at CNN Financial News, the Detroit Free Press, Crain's New York Business and Money Magazine. Mr. McNatt is a graduate of Yale College and attended the MFA program at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He is married to Rosemary Bray McNatt, minister of the Fourth Universalist Society of New York. They have two school age sons. Susana Morales has been working as an Attending since 1989 and is currently in residence at Weill Cornell medical Center and also practices Family Medicine. She has been a member of various committees including the Society of General Internal Medicine, New York Clinical Society and the National Hispanic Medical Association. In addition, she is the recipient of a plethora of awards including a National Merit Scholarship, an Outstanding Service Award, a Golden Apple Award for Clinician Educator of the Year and a Gender Equity Award. She has spent much time teaching Medicine in such renowned Universities as Columbia and Cornell, having received her own Medical Doctorate from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Susana has an undergraduate degree in Biology from Harvard University. Susan Saegert is Director of the Center for Human Environments (CHE) and Professor of Environmental Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1973 and her B.A. with honors in government from the University of Texas in 1968. Since 1990, she and her colleagues at CHE in the Housing Environments Research Group (HERG) have worked in partnership with community organizations and coalitions to understand how to improve distressed housing and neighborhoods in New York City. Research with the Taskforce on City Owned Property in New York allowed her to compare cooperative housing with other housing forms in distressed inner city neighborhoods. The results of this research have been published in Housing Policy Debate and used by the Taskforce to develop cooperative support programs. She is currently finishing "The Community Development Reader" with James DeFilippis, scheduled to be published by Routledge in spring, 2007. Pamela Sloan is a Partner in the law firm Sheresky, Aronson, Mayefsky & Sloan, LLP and has been an active member of the legal community since receiving her Juris Doctorate from New York University in 1980. She has been a member of various professional committees including the New York State Bar Association and International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and was recognized in 2003 as one of the best lawyers in America, and in 2007 as one of the top 50 female lawyers in New York. In addition, Pamela is dedicated to being an active member of her community having served on the Board of Directors for multiple non-profit organizations including United Way of Westchester, Angela House in the Bronx and Pelham Education Foundation. Hoh. Sheila Abdus-Salaam was elected to the New York State Supreme Court in 1993. Previously, she practiced law in legal services, the Civil Rights Bureau and Real Estate Financing Bureau of the State Attorney General's Office, New York City's contract compliance agency (where she was General Counsel), and the New York City Civil Court. During her tenure as Justice, she has made important decisions on a number of issues, including personal injury litigation and Medicaid benefits for lawful immigrants. Sheila grew up in a low-income neighborhood of Washington, D.C. in a family of seven children, and started working when she was 13 years old, the same age she decided to become a lawyer. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University School of Law. She lives in a brownstone in Harlem that she renovated. |