Julie Sandorf has served as president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation since January 2008. Before joining the Foundation, Ms. Sandorf was the co-founder and executive director of Nextbook, a national organization dedicated to the creation and promotion of Jewish literature, culture, and the arts. From 1991 through 1999, she was president of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), an organization she founded that worked in partnership with philanthropic foundations, over 200 nonprofit organizations, and government at the local, state, and national levels to deliver permanent solutions to chronic homelessness.

Prior to founding CSH, Ms. Sandorf was a program director at the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), where she forged a groundbreaking public-private partnership to revitalize distressed neighborhoods throughout New York City. She has also served as senior program consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, directing the Foundation’s After School Project, and has worked as a consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Oak Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Ms. Sandorf currently serves on the advisory board of the Oak Foundation, is chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Center for Urban Community Services, and a member of the board of directors of the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing. She also sits on the advisory council for the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University. She has previously served on the advisory board of the Brookings Institution Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy, the editorial board of Housing Policy Debate, and on the boards of the National Mental Health Association, Goddard Riverside Community Center, and the Project for Psychiatric Outreach for the Homeless.

Ms. Sandorf has a B.A. in geography from Clark University and studied for a Ph.D. in city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sylvia Abdullah graduated from Barnard College in May 2011 with a B.A. in history and human rights. She is an involved native New Yorker with an interest in projects that engage New York City youth and works with immigrants through the Mayor’s Office of Adult Education. She spent a summer participating in an international conflict resolution program in Geneva and London and was a delegate to the Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights. During college, she was a programmer for the Columbia New Student Orientation Program; on the editorial board of the Columbia Undergraduate Journal of South Asian Studies; and is a Barnard Alumna Admissions Representative. Her previous work experience includes museum and public education.

Sylvia joined the Charles H. Revson Foundation in July 2011.

Azade Ardali joined the staff of the Charles H. Revson Foundation as chief administrative officer in April 2010. She is responsible for all Foundation operations, including finance and accounting, human resources, contracts and information technology, and administrative services.

Ms. Ardali’s career spans philanthropy, cultural institutions, government, and academia. She served for eight years as the chief operating officer of the Beldon Fund, a spend-out philanthropy, where she set up or redesigned the operating and administrative systems and developed and executed the plan to dissolve the foundation.

Ms. Ardali has also worked as the chief financial officer of WNYC; the chief financial and administrative officer of the American Craft Council and Museum; and in several different capacities at the New York State Council on the Arts. As an arts and management consultant, she has worked with groups ranging from the Ford Foundation to The Jewish Museum. Ms. Ardali holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, an M.A. from the University of Toronto in medieval and Byzantine art, and a B.A. from Rice

Benjamin Creed received a B.A. in urban studies and Hispanic studies from Vassar College in 2009 and an M.A. with distinction in Spanish language and translation from NYU Madrid in 2011. At Vassar, Ben worked as a research assistant for the chair of the education department; he also studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he volunteered at Fundacion Leer, a children's literacy NGO. Before graduate school, Ben taught English in China for a year at Changzhou University.

Ben joined the Charles H. Revson Foundation in August 2011.

Maria Marcantonio graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in politics and religion in May 2009. At Mount Holyoke, she was active in the student government organization and Honor Council; she also served as the religion department student liaison. During the summers of 2007 and 2008, she worked in Washington, D.C., as a research assistant at the public policy consulting firm Heidepriem & Mager, Inc.

Maria joined the Charles H. Revson Foundation in October 2009 as Program Associate and Grants Manager.

Before joining the Charles H. Revson Foundation in August 2011, Emily Milder spent four years in the literary world, first at The Paris Review and then as an editorial assistant with the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in literature from Claremont McKenna College, where she worked at the student writing center; volunteered with the Pomona Public Library’s adult literacy program; interned at Oxfam; and studied abroad in Hong Kong and Buenos Aires.

Nessa Rapoport is senior program officer at the Charles H. Revson Foundation, with a focus on North American Jewish life and Israel. She joined the Foundation in 2005. From 1980 to 1990, Rapoport was a senior editor at Bantam Books, where she specialized in memoirs, including the bestselling book of the decade, Iacocca: An Autobiography.

Since 1991, she has worked in the nonprofit sector, developing programs and publications in the areas of leadership education and Jewish culture in the United States and Israel. She has published a novel, Preparing for Sabbath; a collection of her prose poems, A Woman’s Book of Grieving; and a memoir, House on the River: A Summer Journey. She writes and speaks frequently on issues of Jewish culture, writing and imagination.

Jacob Taber graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in history from Columbia University in May 2009, and holds an additional B.A. from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America in Jewish liturgy. At Columbia, Jacob oversaw 80 political, religious, and service-oriented undergraduate groups as the vice chair of the Student Governing Board, and was active in the College Democrats and Hillel. Prior to his work with the Foundation, Jacob served as political director of Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s reelection campaign.

Jacob joined the Revson Foundation in January 2010.

Karen Yu was born in Hong Kong and moved to New York City as a child. She graduated from New York University with a B.S., majoring in both accounting and international business. She is a certified public accountant with experience in audit, nonprofit, and SEC accounting.

Karen was accountant for the Charles H. Revson Foundation since September 2005. She was named controller in January 2010.