President
Jacquelyn Hawkins, Assistant Deputy Comptroller
for Human Resources, Office of the State Comptroller
Vice President
Barbara McCandless, Vice President for
Human Resources, Northeast Health
Secretary
Tana Fileccia-Flagg, Program Development
Specialist, NYS Office of Children and Family Services
Past President
Vacant
Karen Carpenter-Palumbo
Commissioner, Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, Alumna Fellow on Women and Public Policy
Gloria DeSole
Former Senior Advisor to the President for Affirmative
Action and Employment Planning, University at Albany
Lois Haignere
President, Haignere, Inc.
Jeffrey Straussman
Dean, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs
and Policy
Ruth Walters
Owner, The Walters Group
Lynn Videka
Interim Vice President for Research, University at Albany
Individual Board Members
Barbara Bartoletti
Legislative Director, NYS League of Women Voters
Mari P. Bennett
Lynn Canton
Deputy Comptroller, Division of State Services, Office
of the State Comptroller
Gloria Cucurullo Maki
Former Executive Deputy Director, New York State Department
of Health AIDS Institute
Barbara Devore
Executive Deputy Director, Bureau of Community-Based Services, AIDS Institute
Virginia Eubanks
Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, University
at Albany, SUNY
Denise Harlow
Alumna Fellow on Women and Public Policy, CEO, NYS Community Action Association, Inc.
Esther Jackson
Alumna Fellow on Women and Public Policy, Social Worker,
City of Albany School District
Dawn Knight-Thomas
Assistant Dean, Student Services/Director of Admissions,
School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, SUNY
Rachel Kretser
Albany City Court Judge
Ruthann Marcelle
President, Marcelle Foundation
Luz Marquez-Benbow
Associate Director, National Organization of Sisters of
Color Ending Sexual Assault
Carolyn McLaughlin
Assistant Budget and Planning Officer, New York State
Teacher's Retirement System
Julie Michaels Keegan
Alumna Fellow on Women and Public Policy, Attorney at
Law
Anne Pope
Director, New York African American Institute, State University
of New York
Rosemarie Rosen
Manager of the Education and Learning Trust, NYSUT
Rosann Santos
Alumna Fellow on Women and Public Policy, Director,
Student Development & Programs, The College of New Rochelle
Lynette Stark
Former Deputy Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Leah Sauer, C.S.W.
Alumna Fellow on Women and Public Policy, Program Associate,
Consumer Directed Choices, Inc.
Margo Berch Singer
Coordinator of Women and Children's Services, NYS Office
of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services
Maritza Vega
Associate, Office of Higher Education, NYS Education Department
Wilma Waithe
Director, Office of Minority Health, NYS Department of
Health
Jacqui C. Williams
Director of Policy and Education, New York State Coalition
Against Sexual Assault
Dayle Zatlin
Senior Vice President/General Manager, Sawchuk Brown Associates
Institutional Members
Roger Benson
President, Public Employees Federation (PEF)
Teri Bordenave
President/CEO, Girls Incorporated of the Greater Capital
Region
State Senator Joseph Bruno
Majority Leader, NYS Senate
New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo
Richard F. Daines, M.D.
Commissioner, NYS Department of Health
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli
Danny Donohue
President, Civil Service Employees Association
Assemblywoman Patricia Eddington
Chair, Legislative Women's Caucus
David Hansell
Commissioner, Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance
Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton
Chair, Assembly Task Force on Women's Issues
Richard Mills
Commissioner, NYS Education Department
Eugene Monaco
Director, Professional Development Program, University
at Albany, SUNY
James Reed, MD
President and Chief Executive Officer, Northeast Health
TBA
Senior Policy Advisor on Women's Issues to Governor Pataki
William Scheuerman
President, United University Professions
Karen Schimke
President/CEO, Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy
Assemblyman Sheldon Silver
Speaker, NYS Assembly
Senator Malcolm Smith
Minority Leader, NYS Senate
Patricia Smith
Commissioner, NYS Department of Labor
Assemblyman James Tedisco
Minority Leader, NYS Assembly
Assemblyman Darryl Towns
Chair, NYS Black, Puerto Rican and Hispanic Legislative Caucus
Daniel Wall
Commissioner, NYS Department of Civil Service
Daniel B. Walsh
President, New York State Business Council, Inc.
Barbara Zaron
President, NYS Management Confidential Employees
TBA
Chair, Advisory Committee on Minority Women's Issues (ACOMWI)
