Neil Barsky has had a varied career in the fields of journalism, finance, film and philanthropy. He is chairman and founder of The Marshall Project, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism non-profit covering the American system of criminal justice. He has been an award-winning newspaper reporter, working for the New York Daily News and the Wall Street Journal, where he won a Loeb award for his coverage of the collapse of Donald Trump's business empire. He also had a career in finance, and served as an equity research analyst for Morgan Stanley. Neil went on to build two hedge fund businesses, Midtown Capital and Alson Capital Partners. Following his 2009 retirement from the financial world, Neil directed the critically-acclaimed documentary film Koch, and taught economics at Oberlin College. Neil has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards, including International Game Technology and the Columbia Journalism Review, where he was founding chairman of the board of overseers. 

Professor Antepli is a globally acknowledged scholar and leader of cross-religious and cross-cultural dialogue in American higher education and in non-profit world. He has built multiple organizations and initiatives to facilitate religious and spiritual life across America’s college campuses, sowing seeds of understanding between religions while upholding their cultural integrity and dignity. In July 2019, Antepli joined the Sanford School of Public Policy as associate professor of the practice, with a secondary appointment at the Divinity School as associate professor of the practice of interfaith relations.

From 1996-2003 he worked on a variety of faith-based humanitarian and relief projects in Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia with the Association of Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries. From 2003 to 2005 he served as the first Muslim chaplain at Wesleyan University. He then moved to Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where he was the associate director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program & Interfaith Relations, as well as an adjunct faculty member.

He previously served as Duke University's first Muslim chaplain and director of Center for Muslim Life from July 2008 to 2014, and then as Duke's chief representative for Muslim affairs from July 2014 to 2019. He was also the associate director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center from 2014 to 2015. Professor Antepli is also a senior fellow on Jewish-Muslim Relations at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he founded and co-directs the widely recognized Muslim Leadership Initiative. The NonProfit Times recognized Imam Antepli as one of their Power & Influence Top 50 leaders of 2019, calling him one of the most prominent Muslim leaders in higher education today. As a Muslim-American imam and one of the very few scholars bridging faith, ethics, and public policy, and as someone who was born in Turkey and lived in three different countries, Antepli offers the academy an important element of intellectual, ethnic, religious and cultural diversity.

Dr. Stephen Blacklow is the Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Department of Cancer Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.

Stephen received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1983 and earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991. He completed his residency in Clinical Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and conducted his postdoctoral research at the Whitehead Institute with Dr. Peter S. Kim where he investigated the structure of the HIV envelope glycoprotein. Stephen then joined the faculty at Stanford before returning to Harvard Medical School in 1998 as an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He became a Professor of Pathology in 2009 and directed the MD-PhD Program in Basic and Translational Sciences at Harvard Medical School from 2007-2012 until he was appointed to his current position. His research has focused on how cells communicate with one another to transmit signals across membranes and induce responses that influence cell fate decisions in both normal and pathogenic states such as cancer. His research on the Notch pathway has stimulated development of investigational therapies for hematologic malignancies such as T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Stephen received the National Cancer Institute’s prestigious Outstanding Investigator Award in 2017 and was elected to the Association of American Physicians in 2018.

Cheryl Cohen Effron is a real estate developer known for her re-development of under-utilized buildings including the Falchi Building and The Factory in Long Island City, and Chelsea Market in Manhattan. She has served as a trustee of dozens of non profits, and as a Mayoral appointee to the New York City Planning Commission. She currently is treasurer of the Brookings Institution and chair of Greater NY, which she co-founded. She is a member of the board of the International Rescue Committee, Friends of the High Line, the American Museum of Natural History and the Markle Foundation. She is a senior advisor to Tishman Speyer Properties.

Robbie Karp is a Social Impact advisor and co-founder of Karp Randel, a consultancy designed to help corporations, foundations and individuals achieve their business and personal goals while making a positive impact on society.

Robbie has decades of experience in the corporate, philanthropic and social impact arenas. For over 20 years Robbie was an executive at Liz Claiborne Inc., where she served as General Counsel and was responsible for Corporate Affairs, including Corporate Communications and Social Responsibility initiatives and led several strategic business development  projects.  Robbie also served on the board of the Liz Claiborne Foundation for 20 years.

Robbie began her professional career as a lawyer at Kramer, Levin, a Manhattan Law firm.

Throughout her career, Robbie has served on several nonprofit boards and chaired the board of Educational Alliance, an established settlement house serving the needs of the multi-generational lower Manhattan population by providing direct services around education, jobs, and overall well-being. Additionally, Robbie co-chaired President Clinton’s Apparel Industry Partnership, which created an historic Code of Conduct and independent monitoring system that is now enforced through the Fair Labor Association (FLA), of which Robbie was a founding board member.  Robbie is on the advisory board of the Chazen Fund to Address Domestic Violence.

Robbie was profiled in Crain’s New York Business “40 under 40” and was a David Rockefeller Fellow, a partnership program that develops better corporate citizens through immersion in civic issues.

Robbie graduated from SUNY Binghamton, majoring in environmental sciences and from Hofstra University Law School, where she served as the Articles Editor of the Law Review.

Robbie has two children and resides in Manhattan with her husband, Brad Karp

Dr. Robert Kingston is Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President for Research and Education at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Kingston began working on bacterial transcription mechanism as a student with Dr. Michael Chamberlin in 1977.  He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981 for work on understanding the regulation of rRNA synthesis.  He trained as a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow with Dr. Philip Sharp at MIT, where he switched to studying transcriptional regulatory mechanisms in humans.  Dr. Kingston joined the Department of Molecular Biology at MGH and the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in 1985 as an Assistant Professor of Genetics.  He became a Professor of Genetics in 1995.  His work over the past twenty years has been primarily on understanding the regulation of chromatin structure and how that impacts gene regulation in mammals, with a focus on the epigenetic mechanisms that maintain gene expression states during mammalian development. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reynold Levy is a consultant to commercial and nonprofit institutions and to benefactors seeking to expand their philanthropy. In that capacity, he was a Senior Advisor to the private equity firm, General Atlantic and now serves in that role for East Rock Capital. Reynold is also the lead director of First Republic Bank. He is the author of five books, most recently Start Now: Because That Meaningful Job Is Out There, Just Waiting For You. Civically, he is currently a trustee of the American Ballet Theater. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, on the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee and on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.  

Most recently, he served as President of the Robin Hood Foundation following a tenure of thirteen years as the CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He has been President of the International Rescue Committee, the senior officer of AT&T in charge of government relations, President of the AT&T Foundation, Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y, and Staff Director of the Task Force on the New York City Fiscal Crisis. Reynold Levy is a graduate of Hobart College. He was granted a Master’s Degree and PhD in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and a law degree from Columbia University, the latter two in 1973. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Reynold is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Errol Louis is the Political Anchor of Spectrum News NY1, where he hosts "Inside City Hall,"  a nightly prime-time show about New York City politics, featuring interviews with top political and cultural leaders.

Louis has moderated more than two dozen debates between candidates for mayor, public advocate, city and state comptroller, state Attorney General, congress and U.S. Senate.  In 2016 he was a questioner in the final CNN presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

In 2019 he launched a popular weekly podcast, “You Decide with Errol Louis,” that features longer discussions with political and cultural figures.

Louis is a longtime CNN Contributor, providing on-air commentary on key events including presidential primaries and Election Night. He writes regularly for CNN.com, and writes a column on New York City affairs for New York Magazine.

David L. Resnick is managing partner at Wood Lily Advisors LLC.  From 2013 to 2017, he served as President of Third Avenue Management, LLC. Previously, Mr. Resnick was the Chairman of Global Financing Advisory, Managing Director and Head of Restructuring at Rothschild Inc., responsible for Rothschild's global restructuring, debt advisory and equity advisory businesses. From 1996 to 2000, he was Head of Restructuring at Peter J. Solomon Company, and prior to this, was at Lazard Frères & Co., where he worked on both restructuring and mergers and acquisitions assignments. He began his career in 1985 at the investment banking division at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., where he worked in merchant banking and restructuring as well as the mergers and acquisitions group. Mr. Resnick has served as a Director of Corporate Risk Holdings, LLC, Affinion Group, Inc. and Reichhold Holdings. He is a member of the Board of Directors of UJA-Federation of New York, The Jewish Museum, and the Rodeph Sholom Day School and recently competed his term on the Board of Wesleyan University. In 2011, he received the Harvey R. Miller Award for service to the restructuring industry. Mr. Resnick holds a M.B.A. and J.D. from The University of Chicago and a B.A., with High Honors, from Wesleyan University. 

Charles H. Revson, Jr. has served on the Foundation’s Board of Directors since 1977. An investor and businessman, he has been a vice president of Beauty Checkers and marketing director of Revlon’s Etherea division. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Marcia Lynn Sells was appointed in 2021 as the Metropolitan Opera’s first Chief Diversity Officer. During her tenure, she worked across all areas of the Met, including Artistic, Human Resources, Marketing & Communications, Education, and Development, to address systemic issues of inequity and build a comprehensive equity, diversity, and inclusion program. On September 6, 2024, Marcia concluded her transformative role at the Met Opera and is excited to embark on a new chapter.

Marcia has joined Russell Philanthropies as Co-President, where she will contribute to innovative and equitable philanthropic initiatives. Prior to her role at the Met, Marcia held senior leadership positions in higher education, including Associate Dean & Dean of Students at Harvard Law School and Associate Dean in the School of the Arts and Associate Vice President, Program Development & Initiatives at Columbia University. She has also served as Dean of Students at Columbia Law School.

Her diverse career includes significant roles in both the private and public sectors, such as Vice President of Employee and Organizational Development for Reuters America, Vice President of Organizational Development & Human Resources, and Vice President Player Education and Development for the National Basketball Association. Additionally, Marcia served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, focusing on rape and child abuse cases.

Marcia began her career in the arts as a ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem and Cincinnati Ballet before pursuing higher education at Barnard College and Columbia Law School.

Pam Wasserstein is the President of Vox Media, the leading independent modern media company, where she oversees strategic initiatives, including e-commerce and consumer businesses, as well as the New York Magazine brands. Prior to the 2019 merger with Vox Media, she had been the CEO of New York Media (since May 2016), leading premium media brands New York Magazine, Vulture, The Cut, Intelligencer, Grub Street, and The Strategist. During her time as CEO, New York received seven National Magazine Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and was named Magazine of the Year by both Adweek and Ad Age; Wasserstein received a 2018 Spirit of ABNY Award recognizing distinguished service to New York City, and was named to Crain’s New York’s 40 Under 40 class of 2017. She has spoken at SXSW, Advertising Week and the American Magazine Media Conference, and on Time's Up panels at the Tribeca Film Festival and Digitas NewFront, among other venues. Before becoming CEO, Wasserstein served as co-chair and head of strategy.

Prior to joining New York Media, Wasserstein worked at Tribeca Enterprises, most recently as vice president, corporate development. Before that she worked at Apollo Global Management, the private equity firm, where she evaluated potential investments and managed existing portfolio companies, and as a corporate lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP.  She’s a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Ariel Zwang, the dynamic and widely recognized American nonprofit executive, is CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the global Jewish humanitarian organization operating in 70 countries worldwide. In January 2021, Ariel took the helm of JDC and its team of hundreds of professionals.

Ariel previously led Safe Horizon, one of America’s leading social service agencies, where she served with distinction as CEO for twelve years. Her mastery of complex organizational dynamics and multi-faceted operations helped transform the organization, as she doubled its size and enhanced its financial, operational, programmatic, and strategic health. Ariel led its thousand-person staff, a $100 million budget (including tens of millions in government contracts and grants), and programs impacting 250,000 vulnerable people annually.

Her distinguished career in the human and public service sectors includes her tenure as Executive Director of New York Cares, New York City’s largest volunteering organization; as a White House Fellow in the Department of Housing and Urban Development; as Vice President of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation in the South Bronx; and as Special Assistant to the Chancellor of the New York City Board of Education. Ariel began her career with Morgan Stanley and the Boston Consulting Group.

As a noted expert in social support for vulnerable populations and volunteerism advocate, Ariel has regularly appeared in media discussing these trends. She was a board member of the Human Services Council of New York, and the Points of Light Foundation, and was ranked the “2nd most powerful nonprofit leader in New York State” on City and State’s Annual Power List.

A passionate Jewish leader hailing from a family of rabbis and Jewish educators, Ariel has held numerous community leadership positions, underscoring her commitment to Jewish practice, pluralism, and the diversity of Jewish life. She is a Vice President of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Manhattan, and has served in a variety lay roles at UJA-Federation of New York, as a Board Member of Jewish Coalition for Service, and with the New York Committee for Harvard Hillel.

Ariel received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College. She and her husband, Gordon Mehler, are the parents of two young-adult daughters and reside in Manhattan.