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.

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 University in art and architectural history and psychology.

Kathryn Angeles grew up in New Jersey. She graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, with a B.A. in psychology and a minor in economics. At Vassar, she was a student assistant in the toddler room of the Infant-Toddler Center.

In Spring 2006, she was the Co-Director of College Choice for the Let’s Get Ready (LGR) site in Newark, NJ, where she planned and executed an SAT class and college-access program for underserved high school students. In collaboration with Vassar College, she then founded an LGR site at Poughkeepsie High School.

Kathryn has been an Administrative Assistant and Grants Administrator at the Charles H. Revson Foundation since Summer 2007.

Maria Marcantonio graduated in May 2009 from Mount Holyoke College with a B.A. in politics and religion. 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 since October 2009.

Kenny Ramos grew up in New York City. He graduated from Hunter College in New York, NY, with a B.S. in accounting. He was the technical assistant at the Charles H. Revson Foundation from May 2006 to September 2006, the network administrator from October 2006 to October 20008, and administrative assistant to the chief administrative officer from November 2008 to June 2010.

Yulian Ramos was born in Honduras and grew up in New York City. She graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in Latin American studies and earned an M.S. in nonprofit management from Milano The New School for Management. She is an active member of the Honduran Garifuna community in New York.

In 1995, she designed classes to help Garifuna women study for the United States naturalization exam; she currently provides guidance to high school students. In 1997, she served as a political organizer for the Virginia C. Fields campaign, where she researched ways to reach Spanish-speaking voters and implemented methods to improve retention of Latino volunteers.

Since 1997, she has held several administrative positions at the Charles H. Revson Foundation and is currently a program officer.

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.

Tina Richards has worked at the Charles H. Revson Foundation since 2003. She has an Associate’s Degree in office technology; a B.S. in legal studies from Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry; and an ABA paralegal studies certificate.

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.

She has been the accountant of the Charles H. Revson Foundation since September 2005.

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.