Officers of the Board
The Rev. Dr. Chloe Breyer (Executive Director)
Dr. Kusumita P. Pedersen (Chair), St. Francis College (Emerita)
Steven Chananie (Secretary), Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Very Rev. Michael J. Lynch (Fundraising Committee Chair), Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn
Ruth Messinger (Program Committee Chair), Global Ambassador, American Jewish World Service
The Rev. Ted Pardoe, III (Treasurer), St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Greenwich
Board Vice Chairs
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, New York Board of Rabbis
The Rev. Dr. Alfonso Wyatt, The Greater Allen Cathedral of New York
Board Directors
Faria Abedin, Abedin Enterprises
Carina Courtright, Crestera
Rev. Frederick A. Davie, Union Theological Seminary
The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. Dietsche (Represented by Assistant Bishop Mary D. Glasspool), The Episcopal Diocese of New York
Moushumi Khan, Lawyer
Rubén Kraiem, Covington & Burling
Hussein Rashid, PhD, islamicate L3C
Barbara Slifka
Sylvie Sun, Buddhist Global Relief
Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk, Memnosyne Institute
Steven Waldman, Report For America
Honorary Board Members
Imam Feisal Abdul-Rauf
Sister Aisha Al-Adawiya, Women in Islam
Preeta Bansal
Mary Jane Brock
Raymond M. Brown
John A. Catsimatidis
Colin Greer, The New World Foundation
Helen L. Henderson, HRH Foundation
Hans Li, WAKA Foundation
Terence Meehan
Dena Merriam, The Global Peace Initiative of Women
Dr. Uma Mysorekar, F.A.C.O.G.
Rev. Dr. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki, HEIWA Peace and Reconciliation Foundation of New York
Matthew Nimetz (Secretary), General Atlantic LLC (Retired)
Clare M. Pierson
The Rev. William H. Pindar
David Rohde
Shelley Rubin
Martin Tandler
Walter Beebe (deceased)
The Very Rev. James Parks Morton (Founder, deceased) Alan B. Slifka (deceased)
Pro Bono Counsel
Bruce Bennett, Esq., Covington & Burling
Allison Schiffman, Esq., Covington & Burling
*Organizations are listed for identification purposes only.
