Board of Directors

Anne Tyler Calabresi

Founder of IFAI and Community Leader

Founding Director

Dr. Roslyn Milstein Meyer

Founder of IFAI, Psychologist and Photographer

Founding Director

Annie Lin

Director of Community Engagement + Strategies, Yale School of Art

Co-Chair, Co-Chair of Nominating & Governance

Risë Nelson

Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility (DEIA), Yale University Library

Co-Chair

Ruby H. Melton

Retired Deputy General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Louis Dreyfus Highbridge Energy LLC

Vice Chair

Charles O'Connell

CEO, Fitscript

Vice Chair

Lisa Stanger

Executive Director, Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven

Vice Chair, Co-Chair of Development & Government Relations

Richard Czekalski, MBA

Director of Finance & Operations, Yale-China Association

Treasurer, Chair of Finance

Elizabeth Sledge

Editor/Tutor, Yale University

Secretary, Co-Chair of Community Connections

Candace Barrington

Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University

Co-Chair of Development & Government Relations

Patricia F. Brett, Ed. D.

Retired Public School Administrator, CT & District of Columbia

Co–Chair of Community Connections

Hon. Clifton Graves Jr.

Judge of Probate, City of New Haven

Co-Chair of Nominating & Governance

Michael E. Twitty

New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center

Co–Chair of Community Connections

Kimberly Goff-Crews

Secretary and Vice-President for University Life, Yale University

Chair of Audit

Diane Brown

Senior Branch Manager, Stetson Branch Library of NHFPL

Mark Caplan

Former Partner, KPMG LLP

Deborah Dyett Desir, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Shirley Ellis-West

Executive Director, Urban Community Alliance

Carlah Esdaile-Bragg

Director of Marketing and Community Relations, Cornell Scott Hill Health

Gypsy Garcia

Associate Director for Learning Design, Yale School of Management

Pat Hall Jaynes, SPHR, SHRM-SCP

President & CEO, The HR Source

Lucy Nalpathanchil

Vice President of Community Engagement, Connecticut Public

Carolyn Ross-Lee

Director of the Office of Enrollment & School Choice, Hartford Public Schools

Alinor Sterling

Attorney, Koskoff, Koskoff, & Bieder

Richard A. Sussman

Former Director of Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Brighter Futures

Charles E. Warner Jr.

Math Teacher and Community Leader

Michael Wishnie

William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Gordon T. Geballe Ph.D.

Former Dean, Professor & Lecturer, Yale University

Daniel J. Miglio

Michael Adanti

Bruce Alexander

James Alexander

Jenna Allegretto

Lourdes Alvarez

Brian Arsenault

Naomi Ayala

Mary Barneby

Robert Bartner

Aaron Bayer

David Benfer

Stanley Bergman

Joe Bertolino

Robert Bokowski

Lorenzo M. Boyd, Ph.D.

Mary Boyle

Salvatore Brancati

William T. Brown, Ph.D.

Susan Bryson

Marilyn Buel

Tom Calvocoressi

Wilson Camelo

Edward Cantor

Gayle Capozzalo

Thomas Caruso

Elsie Chapman

Henry Chauncey

Charles Clark

Frances T. Clark

Stocky Clark

Benjamin Cozzi

John Crawford

Sumner Crosby

Marcial Cuevas

Courtney Cupples

Donna Curran

Priscilla Dannies

Lisa Delfini

Lawrence DeNardis

Chris DePino

Michael Donoghue

Heidi Douglas

William Dyson

Eileen Eder

Jody Ellant

Louise Endel

Sharyn Esdaile

Douglas Evans

James Falco

Denise Fiore

Marilyn Ford

Lynn Fusco-Hughes

Sally Glick

Stephen Glick

Julio Gonzalez

William Graustein

Pamela Griffin

Thomas Griggs Jr.

Richard Grossi

Bonita Grubbs

Marc Halsema

Jean Handley

Kim Healey

Rosalind Hinman

G. Penn Holsenbeck

James Horan

Andrea Jackson-Brooks

Fritz Jellinghaus

Barbara Johnson

Jean Kelley

Dorsey Kendrick

Kiki Kennedy

George Knight

Sheldon Krevit

John Lahey

Jean Lamont

Helaine Lender

David Levine

Linda Lorimer

Robert Lyons

Nancy Maasbach

James Macdonald

Glenn MacInnes

Kica Matos

Sean Matteson

Rick Mayer

Reginald Mayo

Adiola McCalmon

Patricia McCann-Vissepo

Julia McNamara

Katia Mead

Sharon Milikowsky

Frank Mitchell

Nilda Morales

Larry Nadel

Matthew Nemerson

David Newton

Frances G. Padilla

Charles Pagnam

Mary Papazian

Peyton Patterson

Barbara Pearce

Gregory Pepe

Mary Pepe

Richard Pierpont

Lyndon Pitter

Paulette Quann

Anthony Rescigno

Tomas Reyes

Kerry Robinson

Barbara Rockenbach

Daisy Rodriguez

Joe Rodriguez

John Rowland

Connie Royster

Gualberto Ruano

C. Newton Schenck

Anemone Schweizer-Kaplan

Fred Sette

Uma Shankar

Brooke Shearer

Richard Simione

Michael Soileau

Stephanie Spangler

David Stein

Susan Stone

Phoebe Styron

Richard Taft

Pamela Tatge

Caprice Taylor Mendez

Sandra Trevino

Cheever Tyler

Audrey Tyson

Michael Veal

Michael Vlock

Diana Wakerley

Kevin Walsh

Caroline Werth

Susan Whetstone

Selase Williams

Len Wolman

Nathaniel Woodson

Henry Yaggi

George Zdru

Jerry Zinser