Board of Directors
Founder and President
Barbara G. Shaiman
Honorary Co-Chairpersons
Governor Edward G. Rendell, Pennsylvania
Mayor Michael Nutter
Constantine Papadakis, Ph.D., President, Drexel University
Honorable Harris Wofford
Cardinal Justin Rigali
Honorary Chairmen Emeritus
Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia
Deidre R. Farmbry, Ed.D., former Chief Academic Office,
School District of Philadelphia
Dr. David W. Hornbeck, former Superintendent of Schools,
School District of Philadelphia
Paul G. Vallas, former Chief Executive Officer,
School District of Philadelphia
Honorable John F. Street, former Mayor of Philadelphia
Chair
David M. Rosenberg, Esq., Executive Vice President,
Marsh Creek Corporate Services
Board Members
Irwin Lipton, CPA
Edward Newman, Ph.D., Professor of Public Policy, Temple University
Advisory Board Members
Linda Lee Alter, Founder, Leeway Foundation
Lynne Barrack, Community Leader
LuAnn Cahn, NBC 10 Reporter
Pat Ciarrocchi, News Anchor, KYW-TV
Eileen Edman, Community Leader
Judy Felgoise, Director, The Abramson Family Foundation
Margie Gleit, Community Leader
Gwen Goodman, Executive Director/CEO, National Museum of Jewish
American History
Julie LaFair Miller, Photographer
Jacques Lurie, Community Activist
Susan Myrtetus McCann, Public Relations
Susan Myrtetus McCann, Community Leader
Margaret Moran, President, Practical Strategies Inc.
Loraine Ballard Morrill, News and Public Affairs Director, WUSL-FM
Stefanie Seltzer, President, International Federation of Jewish Child
Holocaust Survivors
Debbie Feith Tye, Community Leader
Suzanne Wright, Founder, Autism Speaks
