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♦ Director, 92nd Street Y Milstein/Rosenthal Center for
Media & Technology
♦ Director, Legal Affairs |
Karen Kolodny fulfills two roles at the 92nd Street Y. She directs the 92nd Street Y Milstein/Rosenthal Center for Media & Technology and the Office of Legal Affairs. At the Milstein/Rosenthal Center, Ms. Kolodny develops and oversees new-media projects including Live from NY's 92nd Street Y™, a satellite-broadcast program which shares Y programs with communities across North America; a partnership with SIRIUS Satellite Radio, which hosts a weekly radio program showcasing 92nd Street Y events; another partnership, with Audible™, a packager of audio programs; and Shalom TV, the only Jewish video-on-demand supplier. As Director of Legal Affairs, a position she has held since 2005, Ms. Kolodny oversees everything from intellectual property issues to talent contracts, government grants and insurance matters.
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Before joining the staff of the 92nd Street Y in 2001, Karen Kolodny was instrumental in launching sothebys.com, Sotheby's online auction operation, which generated $50 million a year. This experience prepared her to develop and, in 2003, launch the Y's first e-commerce Website, www.92Y.org, which now accounts for 40 percent of the Y's revenues and is visited by more than 3 million people from every state in the U.S. and around the world, up from 2 million in 2006 and 1 million in 2005.
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Ms. Kolodny has a Bachelor's in Civil Law and a Bachelor's of Common Law from McGill University and a Master of Law (L.L.M.) from Cambridge University. A member of the bar associations of New York, Quebec, and Ontario, she has practiced law in Canada, the United States, Belgium, and the Czech Republic. Ms. Kolodny was the youngest member of the Canadian negotiating team for the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Negotiations (1990) and a clerk to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She has Certificates in Arts Administration and Business Technology, both from New York University.
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Ms. Kolodny lives with her family in New York where she is an occasional lecturer and advisor on the topic of how non-profits can engage in for-profit ventures.
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The 92nd Street Y is an internationally known cultural and community center. Founded in 1874, it has a budget of $47 million; more than 30 distinct programs in the arts, education, Jewish culture, early-childhood education, and health and fitness; a full-time staff of over 300; and three facilities. Each year the Y serves over 300,000 children, young people and adults through roughly 5,000 individual offerings.
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