Fellows on the Future of the City of New York,
Columbia University

1990/1991

Ann Cook: Co-Director, Urban Academy/ Inquiry Demonstration Project

Al Desetta: Managing Director and Program Director, Youth Communication

Robert Fleming: Reporter, New York Daily News

Margaret Fung: Executive Director, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Martha Garcia: Executive Director, Violence Intervention Program

Jane Latour: Director, Women’s Project, Association for Union Democracy

Esther Mora: Coordinating Attorney in Housing Law, Community Action for Legal Services

James O’Neal: Executive Director, Legal Outreach, Inc.

Carol Steinsapir: Program Director, Community Environmental Health Center, Hunter College

Peter Wood: Executive Director, Mutual Housing Association of

1991/1992

Amanda Berger: Program Director, Intergroup Relations, Panel of Americans, Inc.

David Garcia: Episcopal Priest, Rector and Chief Administrator of St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery

Susan Jaffe: Environmental Writer, Environmental Protection Bureau, New York State Attorney General’s Office

Michael Johnson: Founder and Director, Science Skills Center

Leonardo Jordan: Founding Member, Latino Rights Project

Lisa Kaplan: Vice President of the Consumer-Farmer Foundation, Inc.

Stephen Kindred: Organizer, Teamsters for a Democratic Union

Olivia Lynch: Director and Instructional Leader, The Partnership School

Hank Perlin: Tenant Advocacy and Assistance Supervisor, West Side SRO Project, Goddard-Riverside Community Center

George Worthington: Consultant and Fundraiser, St. Clare’s Hospital and HealthCenter

1992/1993

David Fleischer: Political Organizer

Oda Friedheim: Project Director, Lower East Side Local Enforcement Unit, MFY Legal Services

Stephanie Grant: Former Director of Special Projects, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Inc.

Jonathan Mandell: Feature Writer, New York Newsday

Vernice Miller: Co-Founder, West Harlem Environmental Action (WHEACT)

Joan Mineiri: Director of Community Development Services, New York Institute for Human Development, Inc.

Donald Murphy: People About Changing Education (PACE)

Valerio Orselli: Executive Director, Cooper Square Community Development Committee

Ruben Quiroz: Executive Director, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights

Joseph Stewart: Program Director, Center 54 and Countee Cullen Center, Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families

1993/1994

Peggy Arroyo: Program Director, Single Parent Resources Center, Inc.

Natalie Byfield: Education Reporter, New York Daily News.

Shawn Dove: Program Director, Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families

Arthur Goldberg: Union Representative of Local 100, Transit Workers Union, New York City Transit Authority

Mark Griffith: Executive Director, Central Brooklyn Partnership

Celeste Morris: Founder and President, Unlimited Creative Enterprises, Inc.

Frank Negron: Program Director, The Fort Greene Beacon Center

Sarah Schulman: Novelist, Journalist, and Playwright, Activist in the Lesbian and Gay Movement.

David Scott: Assistant to Board Member Westina L. Matthews, New York Board of Education.

Juliet Ucelli: Coordinator, Service Linkage Project for Parenting Adolescents, New York City Board of Education; and Co-Coordinator, People About Changing Education (PACE)

1994/1995

Vicki Breitbart: Project Director, Center for Population and Family Health

Arthur Doyle: Police Lieutenant (retired) ;Consultant for services for at-risk youth, NYCPD Youth Services Division

Jill Harris: Public Defender, Legal Aid Society; Member, Schol Board District 15, Brooklyn

Sharon Johnson: Executive Director, Northside Center for Child Development, Inc.

Martha S. Jones: Staff Attorney, The HIV Law Project

Philip Kay: Editor, New Youth Connections, New Youth Communication

Agustin Lao: Neighborhood Coordinator, Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

Margarita Lopez Diaz: Team Leader, Goddard Riverside Community Center

JoAnn Lum: Program Director, Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association

Kim McGillicuddy: Director, Youth Force

1995/1996

Kathe Karlson: Program Coordinator, Center on AIDS, Drugs, and Community Health, Hunter College

John Key: Group Leader, Coordinator, Social Intervention Group, Columbia University School of Social Work

Stanley Nelson: Producer, video documentaries

Marykay Penn: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for African American Folk Culture

Kate Pfordresher: Organizer, Local 375, District Council 37/AFSCME

Catherine Poe: Director, Schools Office, New York Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

Steven Romalewski: Coordinator, Toxics Prevention, New York Public Interest Research Group

Eduardo Suarez-Fernandez: Supervisor, Division of Injury Protection, New York Public Interest Research Group

Patricia Swann: Executive Director, Manhattan Borough Development Corporation

Randall Toure: Executive Director, Southeast Queens Clergy for Community Empowerment, Inc.

1996/1997

Eugenia Acuna: Director, Reproductive Rights Education Project, Hunter College

Natalie Bimel: Project Director, Health Link , Hunter College Center of AIDS, Drugs, and Community Health

Andrew Hsiao: Senior Editor, The Village Voice

Andrew Hum: Activist and Journalist, Gay and AIDS issues; Host, Informed Sources, WNET-TV Thirteen

Howard Jordan: Managing Editor, Crítica: A Journal of Puerto Rican Policy and Politics, Institute for Puerto Rican Policy

Douglas Layne: Assistant Commissioner for Review and Support, New York City Department of Finance

Heather Lewis: Executive Co-Director, Center for Collaborative Education

Migdalia Maldonado: Criminal Prosecution, Civil Rights Bureau, Office of the Kings County District Attorney

Esmeralda Simmons: Executive Director, Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evans College

Tani Takagi: Grants Director, Ms. Foundation for Women

1997/1998

Imam Talib W.’Abdur-Rashid: Senior Clergyman, The Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, Islamic Chaplain, N.Y.S. Department of Corrections, Sing-Sing, C.F.

Jaime Antonio Estades: Operating Officer and Executive Director, Hispanic Education and Legal Fund, Inc.

Andrea Luisa Estepa: Editor, New Youth Connections, Youth Communication

Wendy J. Fleischer: Program Director, Employment Initiatives, Corporation for Supportive Housing

Gerald Rasuli Lewis: Program Director, Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families

David R. Nimmons: HIV Prevention Specialist, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies

Martha Grace Rayner: Team Leader, Criminal Team, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

Joyce Ellen Rosenthal: Research Associate, Environmental Research, and Public Outreach Coordinator: Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College, CUNY

Jay D. Small: Executive Director, Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development

1998/1999

Edward Bautista: Community Organizer, Environmental Justice Project, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest

Gloria M. Dabiri: Justice, New York State Supreme Court

Nancy M. Dorsinville: Bell Fellow, Applied Research, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University

Donna Gabriel Ellaby: Executive Director, Good Old Lower East Side, Inc. (GOLES)

Patricia Eng: Founder and Executive Director, New York Asian Women’s Center

Ada Gay Griffin: Executive Director, Third World Newsreel

William Barnett Lipton: Organizer, Progressive New York

Kathleen Ann McCullaugh: Director, The Earth School

Andrew K. White: Editor/Executive Director, City Limits Community Information Service

1999/2000

Anannya Bhattacharjee: Founding Member of Andolan (a South Asian working class

organizing project); Founding Member of SAMAR (South Asian Alternative Media Project)

Heidi Dorow: Director of Organizing Project, Urban Justice Center

Richard Elovich: Director of HIV Prevention Programs, Gay Men's Health Crisis

Maureen Anne Friar: Executive Director, Supportive Housing Network

Mariana Roche Gaston: Program & Budget Director, Resolving Conflict Creatively Program

Eva Benes Hanhardt: Director, Environmental Economic Development Assistance Unit,

NYC Department of Environmental Protection

George Khaldun: Deputy to the President, Rheedlen Centers for Children & Families

Charles Lai: Director of Agency Services, Asian American Federation of New York

Alonzo Rico Speight: Filmmaker

Willette Kolu Zigbi: Co-Founder and Organizer, Harlem Tenants Council

2000/2001

Marion D. Banzhaf: Administrator, Sonya Staff Foundation

Richard Elliot Blum: Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society

Priscilla Ellington: Executive Co-Director, The Center for Collaborative Education

Elaine Mary Frazier: Vice President For Student Affairs, SUNY College at Old Westbury

Carlos Luis Garcia: Co-Founder and Executive Director, Charas, Inc.

Stanley Kinard: Executive Director and Founder, Carter G. Woodson Cultural Literacy Project, Inc.

Rita Knight: Family Service Coordinator, Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families Countee Cullen Community Center

Zachary John Ramsey: Deputy Administrator, District Council 37, AFSCME

Orinne JT Takagi: Independent Filmmaker, Takagi Productions

Marina Temkina: President/Project Developer, The Archive: Jewish Immigrant Culture

2001/2002

Sayu Bhojwani: Executive Director, South Asian Youth Action

Carl D. Biers: Executive Director, Association for Union Democracy

Diane D'Alessandro: Associate Director, DC 37 AFSCME

Jill Soffiyah Elijah: Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School

Michael Kamber: Freelance Writer and Photographer, Village Voice

Azadeh Khalili: Executive Director, HIV/AIDS Technical Assistance Project

Frank Mickens: Principal, Boys and Girls High School

Sharonne Salaam: Director, People United for Children

Laura Vural: Director, TRUCE (The Rheedlen University for Community Education)

Daniel Wolfe: Consultant, New York Academy of Medicine, Mailman School of Public Health, UNAIDS, Ford Foundation

2002/2003

Angela Ards: Associate Program Officer, Effective Citizenry, Surdna Foundation

Gail Aska: Program Coordinator and Media Contact, Community Voices Heard (CVH)

Felix Leo Campos: Founder, Producer, AfterDark CAT-V Productions

Julie Davids: Director of Leadership Development and Advocacy, Philadelphia FIGHT

Misha Gutkin: News Director, NTV America, Consultant, The New York Times

Kevin James: Supervising Fire Marshal, New York City Fire Department

Mark Levinson: Chief Economist and Director of Policy, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE)

Victor Rivera: Medicaid Service Coordinator, Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association (BKCIA)

Blanca Vazquez: Viewing Race Project Coordinator and Web Site Editor, National Video Resources (NVR)

Sungkyu (Steve) Yun: Executive Director, National Korean American Serivce & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)

2003/2004

Gulnahar (Nahar) Alam: Founder, Director and Lead Organizer, Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers

John D. Atlas: Founder and President; Former Executive Director, National Housing Institute/Shelterforce; Passaic County Legal Aid Society

Elomber Brath: Co-Founder, Patrice Lumumba Coalition

John Choe: Legislative Director, Office of Council Member John C. Liu

Thulani Davis: Senior Editor and Writer, The Village Voice

Bernard Gassaway: Director of School Reform, New York City Department of Education

Allen Keith James: Acting Executive Director, HIV/AIDS Technical Assistance Project

Esperanza Martell: Adjunct Advisor; Visiting Scholar; Adjuct Advisor Hunter College School of Social Work; Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College; Medger Evers College

Rosaura (Rosie) Mendez: Chief of Staff, Office of Councilwoman Margarita Lopez

Yilma Wolde-Mariam: Organizing Committee Member, New York Taxi Workers Allance

2004/2005

Seema Mohan Agnani: Director of Training and Technical Assistance Citizens for NYC

Dhabah (Debbie) Almontaser: Coordinator of External Programs in Conflict Resolution and Multicultural Education, Region 8, New York City Department of Education

Asha Bandele: Feature Editor, ESSENCE Magazine

Michael Edwards Feinberg: Executive Director, Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition

Tanya Krupat: Director, Children of Incarcerated Parents Program (CHIPP)

Muntu Matsimela: Producer-Coordinator. Special Broadcasts and Events, WBAI - Pacifica Radio 99.5FM

Miguel Ernesto Melendez: Regional Supervisor of Parent Support Services, New York City Department of Education

Kim Lynn Nauer: Executive Director, City Futures, Inc.

Rinku Sen: Communication Director, Applied Research Center

Zoilo Torres: Coordinator of Field Operations, New York City Department of Health

2005/2006

Vincent (Panama) Alba: Business Agent/Organizer, Local 108, Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) AFL-CIOJ

Amy Chester: Chief Of Staff, Office of Council Member David Yassky; New York City Council

Deyanira F. Del Rio: Director of Programs, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project (NEDAP)

Mable J. Haddock: President and CEO, National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)

Omar A. Henriquez: Immigration Campaign Coordinator, Eastern Region Service Employee International Union (SEIU)

Alyssa Katz: Editor, City Futures, City Limits

Fekkak Mamdouh: Co-Founder and Assistant Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York

Norman R. McConney Jr.: Former Executive Director and Chief of Staff, Office of the Deputy Speaker, New York State Assembly

Angeles Pai: Chief of Staff, Department of Homeless Services, City of New York

Barbara A. Taveras: Project Director, Coalition for New Philanthropy

2006/2007

Quang Bao: Executive Director, The Asian American Writers' Workshop

Bettina Damiani: Project Director, Good Jobs New York (GJNY)

Catherine Herman: Director and Civil Rights Organizer, Picture the Homeless

Lynn Lewis: Director and Civil Rights Organizer, Picture the Homeless

J. Robin Moon: Director of Program Development, Korean American Community Foundation (KACF)

Ed Morales: Journalist, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Nation

Christopher Murray: Counselor, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) Community Center

Claudia Preparata: Research Director, Transport Workers Union Local 100

Aarti Shahani: Co-Founder and Co-Director, Families for Freedom

Alvin Starks: Associate Director, Racial Justice Initiative and Fellowship Programs at the Open Society Institute (OSI)

2007/2008

Anthony Advincula: Editorial and Communications Coordinator, Independent Press Association - New York

Annecy Baez: Director of Conseling Center, Lehman College/CUNY

Sandra Goodridge: Consultant, Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies

Betty Holcomb: Policy Director, Child Care Inc.

Bridget Hughes: Director of Youth Services, LGBT Community Center

Kenneth Lo, Director: Cross Cultural Communications, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Maura Lout: Director of Operations, New Yorkers for Parks

Bruce Morrow: Associate Director, Teachers and Writers Collaborative

Lawrence Tompkins: Captain, Fire Department of New York

Daniel Voloch: Director, College Now at Hostos Community College

2008/2009

Noah Budnick: Deputy Director, Transportation Alternaitves

Tanya Gallo: Director of ACTION Project, DreamYard Project

Cheryll Y. Greene: Independent Editor, The Editor's Eye

Selma Jackson: Project Director, 4W Circle of Art and Enterprise, Inc.

Jacquie Jones: Executive Director, National Black Programming Consortium

Indira Kajosevic: Executive Director, Reconciliation and Culture Cooperative Network

Jee Kim: Program Officer, Surdna Foundation

Ray Lopez: Environmental Program Manager, Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc.

Lisa Philp: Global Head of Philantropic Services, LP Morgan Private Bank

Amanda Ream: Coordinator of Service Workers Rising, UNITE HERE