Our Board

Standing from L to R: Estelle Tanner, Valerie Peltier, Lorie Slutsky, Jamie Drake, Anne Moore, Roger Maldonado, and Samuel Polk. Seated L to R: Ernest Collazo, Chairman Charlynn Goins, Robert Kaufman, and Judith Byrd.

The Trust's Distribution Committee—our governing board—is composed of 12 distinguished New Yorkers who are selected for their judgment, integrity, and understanding of the City's opportunities and challenges. Six are nominated by civic authorities representing the public:

• One by the Mayor of New York
• One by the Chairman of the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce
• One by the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• One by the Chairman of Lincoln Center
• One by the President of the New York City Bar Association
• One by the President of the New York Academy of Medicine
• Five members are nominated by our Trustees Committee, and our president serves by reason of office.

Board

Charlynn Goins, Chairman
Trustee, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Director: AXA Financial, Fannie Mae, Gracie Mansion Conservancy; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Senior Vice President, Prudential Securities.
Nominated by the Trustees’ Committee.

Judith Byrd
Aviation consultant; Founder and Former Partner, Unison Consulting Group; Trustee, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Director, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Former Trustee, Goodman Theater; Former Member, Economic Club of Chicago.
Nominated by the Trustees’ Committee.

Anthony Carvette
President, Structure Tone; Former Executive Vice President and COO of Georgette Klinger; Director: Madison Square Park Conservancy, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, United Way of New York City, and Salvadori Center.
Nominated by the Trustees' Committee.

Ernest J. Collazo
Managing Partner, Collazo Carling & Mish LLP; Director: Federal Defenders of New York; Member: Advisory Committee to the Rules Committee of the Second Circuit, City Bar Delegation to the NYS Bar Association House of Delegates, Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division First Judicial Department, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Member, Executive Committee of the City Bar. Nominated by the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Jamie Drake
Founder and Principal, Drake Design Associates; Chairman, Alpha Workshops; Member: American Society of Interior Designers, Directors’ Council Historic House Trust of New York, Interior Design Hall of Fame; Former Co-Chairman, Furnish-a- Future Industry Committee.
Nominated by the Mayor of the City of New York.

Roger J. Maldonado
Partner, Balber Pickard Maldonado & Van Der Tuin, PC; Member, Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary; Executive Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Board Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, National Hispanic Business Group, United Neighborhood Houses (Vice President).
Nominated by the President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Anne Moore, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Attending Physician, New York Presbyterian Hospital; Medical Director, Weill Cornell Breast Center; Former Director, American Board of Internal Medicine.
Nominated by the President of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Valerie Peltier
Managing Director, Tishman Speyer; Board Member: American Museum of Natural History, Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
Nominated by the Chairman of the Partnership for New York City.

Samuel S. Polk
Retired Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Trustee: Hospital for Special Surgery, Westchester Land Trust; Former Trustee: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Frederick R. Koch Foundation, Mitsui Trust Company.
Nominated by the Trustees’ Committee.

Lorie A. Slutsky
Director, The New York Community Trust; President: Community Funds, Inc., The James Foundation; Director: AllianceBernstein LP, AXA Financial, Independent Sector; Trustee Emerita: Colgate University, The New School; Former Director: Council on Foundations (Chairman), Foundation Center (Vice Chairman), BoardSource (Chairman), Hispanics in Philanthropy, United Way of New York City.
Member ex officio.

Estelle (Nicki) Newman Tanner
Chair, WNYC Radio; Trustee: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Jewish Women’s Archive; Trustee Emerita: Wellesley College, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Nominated by the Trustees’ Committee.

 

Consulting Members

From L to R: Lulu C. Wang, Barbara Block, Carroll Wainwright, Anne Sidamon-Eristoff, and William Evarts.

Barbara H. Block
Board Member: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Executive Committee).

William M. Evarts
Senior Counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; Former Chairman,
The New York Community Trust Distribution Committee.

Charlotte Moses Fischman
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.

Barry H. Garfinkel
Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Associates.

Robert M. Kaufman, Vice Chairman
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP; Board Chair, Old Westbury Funds; Trustee, Brooklyn Law School; Director: Legal Momentum, Visiting Nurse Service; Chair Emeritus: Fund for Modern Courts, Times Square Alliance; Past President: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, American Judicature Society.
Nominated by the Trustees’ Committee.

Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff
Chairwoman Emerita, American Museum of Natural History; Former Chairman, The New York Community Trust Distribution Committee.

Carroll L. Wainwright, Jr.
Retired Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

Lulu C. Wang
Chief Executive Officer, Tupelo Capital Management LLC.