Board of Directors

Chair

Jody Gottfried Arnhold˚

Chair Emeritus

Executive Leadership

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Marketing & Business Development

212.415.5450

Joanna Scholl, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Branding and Digital Content

• Digital & Creative Services

  Catherine Pollock, Creative Director
  Saoul Vanderpool, Creative Director

  Web & Web Development

  David Meyer, Director of Web & Web Development

  Digital Content

  Andrew Krucoff, Director of Digital Content

  Public & Media Relations

  Carrie Oman, Communications Director

• Brand Marketing & Corporate Sponsorship

  Taylor Warfield, Special Projects Manager

  Patron Experience

  Kim Kimball, Director, Patron Experience

  Patron Data Strategy & Operations

  Tatiana Jofat, Director, Patron Data Operations

  Patron Insights & Engagement

  Jamie Thomas, Senior Director, Patron Insights & Engagement

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Program Services

• Bronfman Center for Jewish Life

  212.415.5765

  Rabbi Joui Hessel, Vice President of Jewish Life
  Chelsea Bassman, Director of Administration
  Rabbi Samantha Frank, Director of Jewish Education
  Rebecca Schoffer, Director, Jewish Family Engagement

  Center for Arts Learning
  and Leadership

  212.415.5768

  Ava Lehrer, Director

  Charles Simon Center for Adult Life & Learning

  212.415.5433

  92Y Recanati-Kaplan Talks

  Susan Engel

  Executive Director, 92Y Talks

  Susan Engel is Executive Director of 92Y Talks, the world-renowned live events series that is now widely recognized as a premier forum for the best minds of our time.
  
  In the course of her 30-year tenure at 92Y, Susan has been a primary force in shaping the talks program and exponentially expanding the size and scope of 92Y’s offerings, many of which are now available through digital channels and satellite broadcasts.
  
  A small sampling of those who have recently graced 92Y’s stage includes Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Amy Poehler, Daniel Radcliffe, Rachel Weisz, Ken Burns, Stephen Colbert, Woody Allen, Anna Deavere Smith, Nick Nolte, Gloria Steinem, Sally Field, Jon Stewart, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Anna Wintour, Ehud Barak, John Oliver, Francis Ford Coppola, Aretha Franklin, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton, Jeremy Irons, Ethan Hawke, Rachel Brosnahan, Iris Apfel, Shonda Rhimes, Rachel Bloom, Jake Gyllenhaal, David Brooks, Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Lopez, Tina Fey and Tony Blair.
  
  Susan has brought thousands of luminaries to 92Y and developed partnerships with many organizations that help to enhance the caliber and reach of 92Y Talks, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Showtime, HBO, New York Comedy Festival and the World Science Festival. She has also developed popular, long-running conversation series with expert hosts and moderators including long-standing series, “In the News” with journalist Jeff Greenfield; “Reel Pieces” with Dr. Annette Insdorf; and “Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis.” New series include “Faith and Celebrity" with Rabbi Peter Rubinstein, "Science Talks" with Claudia Dreifus, "Imagining Men and Women" with Jennifer Finney Boylan and “TV Talks” with The Hollywood Reporter.
  
  Susan also leads on Jewish/Israel Talks, having presented thought leaders such as Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Simon Schama, Deborah Lipstadt, Yuval Harari, Amos Oz as well as arranged for official Israel State visits from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Shimon Peres. She also produced a tribute to Elie Wiesel, in honor of his forty years of lectures at 92Y.
  
  Susan has her MA in Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary as well as MS in Social Work from Columbia University.
  
  Susan is the proud mother of two daughters, Shira, a public school teacher, and Eve, an assistant teacher at the 92Y Nursery School.

  Susan Engel, Executive Director, 92Y Talks

  Sue Solomon, Senior Associate Director, 92Y Talks
  Taj Greenlee, Associate Director, 92Y Talks

  Continuing Education

  Britta Conroy Randall

  Director, Strategic Programming

  Britta Conroy-Randall, Director of Strategic Programming, oversees the education, talks, and summits, as well as new strategic programming initiatives. Prior to joining 92Y, she was previously the Director of Public Programs at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Formerly a public radio journalist, she reported stories for National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media, WNYC, the BBC, and more.

  Britta Conroy Randall, Director, Strategic Programming

  Melanie Macchio, Director of Continuing Education

  92Y Residence

  Sandra Cohen, Director, 92Y Residence

  Himan Brown Senior Program

  Julia Zeuner, Director, Himan Brown Senior Program

  Early Childhood Programs

  Kathleen Cook, Senior Vice President, Early Childhood Programs

  Gilda and Henry Block School of the Arts

  Art Center

  212.415.5562

  Allison Valchuis

  Director, Art Center

  Allison Valchuis is a sculptor and educator with over ten years of experience in community arts education. Allison joined the 92Y Art Center staff in 2010. Prior to her 92Y career, Allison worked with the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to bring design-thinking to the classroom across the country through professional development programs for educators, teen programs and curriculum development. She also served as an Americorps*VISTA at Rhode Island School of Design’s free teen portfolio prep and outreach program Project Open Door where she organized community partnerships and developed college readiness programs.
  
  She received her BFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design and has been awarded residencies and scholarships at RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome, Italy, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, ME, Ox-Bow, School of Arts and Artists Residencies in Saugatuck, MI, and Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, MT.

  Allison Valchuis, Director, Art Center

  Robert Silverman

  Director, Ceramics

  Robert Silverman joined 92nd Street Y as director of the Ceramic Center in August 2007. He oversees a large and diverse program offering more than 20 classes and serving 1,100 students a year. The program encompasses after-school classes for children and teenagers and a variety of day and night classes for adults. Along with program development, Robert’s responsibilities include recruiting and managing a faculty of a dozen working artists and managing the professionally equipped ceramics studios.
  
  Originally trained as a social geographer, Robert began his career as a ceramic artist more than 25 years ago while studying in Japan, where exposure to beautiful handmade objects used in daily life inspired him to pursue a career in the arts. He has exhibited internationally, and his work has been included in shows at The Museum of Art and Design in New York, the European Ceramic Work Center in the Netherlands, the Mint Museum in North Carolina and the Ramada Renaissance Hotel Corporation in Connecticut, among others. Robert came to 92nd Street Y from Louisiana State University, whose graduate ceramics program, under his leadership and that of his co-chair, was ranked among the top five such programs in the country. He has also taught at Arizona State University and the Massachusetts College of Art. He has been awarded a variety of grants and fellowships and his work has been included in gallery and museum shows across the US and in magazines such as Ceramics Monthly, American Craft Magazine and Studio Potter Magazine, as well as in the books The Craft and Art of Clay (Susan Peterson, Prentice Hall, 2004) and Post Modern Ceramics (Mark Del Vecchio, Thames and Hudson, 2001).
  
  Robert holds a B.A. in Social Geography from Clark University, a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and an M.F.A from Alfred University.

  Robert Silverman, Director, Ceramics

  Jonathan Wahl

  Director, Jewelry

  Jonathan Wahl joined 92nd Street Y in July 1999 as director of the jewelry and metalsmithing program in 92Y’s School of the Arts, the largest program of its kind in the nation. He is responsible for developing and overseeing the curriculum, which offers more than 60 classes weekly and 15 visiting artists annually. Jonathan is also responsible for hiring and supervising 25 faculty members, maintaining four state-of-the-art jewelry and metalsmithing studios, and promoting the department locally and nationally as a jewelry resource center.
  
  Named one of the top 10 jewelers to watch by W Jewelry in 2006, Jonathan is an accomplished artist who, from 1994 to 1995, served as artist-in-residence at Hochschule Der Kunst in Berlin, Germany. He has shown his work in the exhibitions Day Job (The Drawing Center), Liquid Lines (Museum of Fine Arts Houston), The Jet Drawings (Sienna Gallery, Lenox MA, and SOFA New York), Formed to Function (John Michael Kohler Arts Center), Defining Craft (American Craft Museum), Markers in Contemporary Metal (Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art), Transfigurations: 9 Contemporary Metalsmiths (University of Akron and tour), and Contemporary Craft (New York State Museum).
  
  Jonathan was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in recognition of "Outstanding Artwork," and the Pennsylvania Society of Goldsmiths Award for "Outstanding Achievement." As part of the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX,, and The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, his work has been reviewed by Art in America (June, 2000), The New York Times (June 2005), and Metalsmith Magazine (1996, 1999, 2000 2002, 2005, 2009); his work was also featured in Metalsmith Magazine's prestigious "Exhibition in Print" (1994 and 1999). Jonathan’s art work can be seen at Sienna Gallery in Lenox, Massachusetts, which specializes in contemporary American and European art work, and De Vera in Soho, New York. His work can also be seen in the publications The Jet Drawings (Sienna Press, 2008), and in three collections by Lark Books: 1,000 Rings, 500 Enameled Objects and 500 Metal Vessels.
  
  Before joining 92Y, Jonathan was, first, director of the jewelry and metalsmithing department at the YMCA's Craft Students League, and later assistant director of the League itself. Mr. Wahl holds a B.F.A. in jewelry and metalsmithing from Temple University's Tyler School of Art and an M.F.A. in metalsmithing and fine arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is a member of the Society of North America Goldsmiths.

  Jonathan Wahl, Director, Jewelry

  Harkness Dance Center

  212.415.5552

  Taryn Kaschock Russell

  Director, Harkness Dance Center

  Taryn Kaschock Russell has served on the Artistic leadership team of the Juilliard Dance Division for the past three years: as Associate Director in the 2016-17 and 2018-19 academic years, and as the Acting Artistic Director in 2017-18. She programmed the main stage performances at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater with four new creations during the fall and a triple bill in the spring which included Martha Graham’s Rite of Spring and Bill T. Jones D-Man in the Waters. Kaschock Russell is a passionate educator who has taught both at the Juilliard School and at the Conservatory of Dance, SUNY Purchase in the five years since she moved back to New York.

  Between 2008 and 2013, Kaschock Russell directed Hubbard Street 2. During her tenure as Director of HS2, she was responsible for programming and staffing the HSDC summer intensives and curating HSDC’s National Choreographic Competition. In this capacity, Kaschock Russell realized her passion for teaching and mentoring young and emerging artists. Hubbard Street 2 created its first full-length children’s program Harold and the Purple Crayon: A Dance Adventure under her directorship. Harold premiered at the Kennedy Center to a sold-out house in October of 2010. The production went onto performances at the Joan B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the American Dance Festival in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, the Cleveland Playhouse, at the Aspen Santa-Fe Dance Festival and at the Detroit Opera House. The success of this children's program remains an enormous source of pride—a labor of love inspired by the birth of her first child, Donovan.

  Over the past two decades, Russell has worked as a guest teacher with Abraham in Motion, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Ballet Hispanico, Ballet BC, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. She also regularly teaches company class for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. As a performer, Kaschock Russell traveled extensively over her twelve-year career with both Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and the Joffrey Ballet, performing works by George Balanchine, John Cranko, Agnes de Mille, Martha Graham, Lar Lubovitch, Jiří Kylián, Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, and William Forsythe. As a creator, Kaschock Russell has composed a number of site-specific installations, most notably in collaborative partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

  Invested in the belief that access to dance should be universal and inclusive, Kaschock Russell continues to reach out to connect to other art forms using improvisation and choreographic tools. Most recently, Kaschock Russell taught movement to the 222 emerging musicians at the NYO summer programs under the umbrella of Carnegie Hall.

  Taryn Kaschock Russell, Director, Harkness Dance Center

  Erin Lally

  Director, Dance Education Laboratory

  For over fifteen years, Erin has taught dance in public schools, studio, and community settings, sharing her love of dance with children, educators and families. For five years she taught with Luna Dance Institute in Berkeley, CA where she served as the Family Services Manager, specializing in family dance classes and working with parents and children in the reunification process. Erin is the former Education Director of RIOULT where she led DanceREACH, RIOULT’s education outreach program. Erin was also a founding member and Dance Specialist at Bronx Charter School for the Arts in the South Bronx, NY where she created the dance curriculum and was the dance educator for grades K-5. Erin has served as a teaching artist for New York City Center, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispanico, and American Repertory Ballet Company. Most recently, Erin was the Theatre and Dance teacher at Westside school in Seattle for grades pre-k – 8th grade teaching curriculum that includes creative dance, improvisation, choreography and acting foundations. Erin holds certificates from the 92Y’s Dance Education Laboratory, the Language of Dance (LOD), and is a graduate of the University of the Arts where she earned her BFA in Modern Dance Performance. She is currently in a Master of Arts Dance Education distance-learning program at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. Erin is thrilled to return to New York City and her roots at DEL, making the mission of Dance for Every Child a reality. Erin loves her nightly dance parties with her two children Felix (8) and Noah (6), taking delight in their choreographic skills and beautiful expression.

  Erin Lally, Director, Dance Education Laboratory

  Alison Manning

  Director, School of Dance

  Alison Manning is the former Executive Director and Co-Producer of The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, working with the organization from 2008-2020 to provide meaningful residency opportunities for national and international dance and performing artists and bringing the performing arts to the Vineyard community. She is founding Co-Artistic Director and Choreographer of DanceTheYard, The Yard’s year-round professional dance company, with choreographic partner and company Co-Artistic Director Jesse Keller Jason. Jesse and Alison’s choreographic body of work has been presented at Jacob’s Pillow, Mass MOCA, The Yard, The Dance Complex, Ohio University, Triskelion Arts, among others.

  Alison is a passionate Horton teacher and an avid tap and rhythm dancer and advocate. She discovered her love for the Horton technique as a scholarship student at Jacob’s Pillow, working with the great Milton Myers, and has continued studying with mentors Mr. Myers, Kristina Berger, Karen Gayle and other lauded Horton Teachers through the years. She taught the technique on Faculty at The Yard each summer, and as a guest teaching artist at NYU Steinhardt School, Wesleyan Univeristy, Peridance Capezio Center, and STEPS on Broadway. In addition to teaching, Alison dances and performs with The Bang Group and has worked for The Peggy Spina Tap Company, Xodus Dance Collective, Kinodance company among others. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in Modern Dance and Minor in Art History.

  Alison Manning, Director, School of Dance

  Musical Theater

  212.415.5551

  Megan Doyle

  Director, Musical Theater

  Megan Doyle, Director, Musical Theater, holds a Masters Degree in Dance Education from NYU and is a graduate of the Dance Education Laboratory. Megan has choreographed for American Girl, Netflix, Disney and Lululemon Atheltica. Megan’s company, Community Dance Project NYC (CDPNYC), has presented works of Musical Theater and Contemporary Jazz throughout the city including at the Ailey Theater, Peridance, Symphony Space, White Wave, Green Space and as a five time presenter with Jazz Choreography Enterprises. CDPNYC is committed to serving the community through dance and works closely with the Harkness Dance Center’s Jr. Performance Team to perform monthly at nursing homes and community centers.
  
  As a performer, Megan has worked extensively for Disney appearing in the How to Dance with Hannah Montana video, voice overs for Lizzy McGuire Merchandising and industrials and concerts with the Jonas Brothers, Emily Osment and Demi Levato. In addition to her commercial work, Megan has had the opportunity to perform with a variety of dance companies, including as a soloist in When Paths Collide with Mad Cap Dance Company at Lincoln Center. Megan is proud to have spent 5 years on tour as Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank. Other favorite touring/regional theatre credits include: Class Dismissed: The Bullying Project, The Sound of Music, Sugar Babies, Into the Woods, West Side Story, Joseph …, and the world premiere of Markings.
  
  Megan has had the privilege of teaching at many different schools and studios including recreational and competitive dance studios throughout the United States, dance conventions including Kids Artistic Review, in the NYC public school system as a teaching artist for Dancewave, The Village Community Middle School and at Merrick Academy Public Charter School. Megan also wrote and developed the dance curriculum for Gymboree Play and Music.

  Megan Doyle, Director, Musical Theater

  School of Music

  212.415.5580

  Yana Stotland

  Director, School of Music

  Yana Stotland is director of 92Y’s School of Music, which was established in 1917 and offers group classes, ensembles and private music instruction in a huge variety of musical styles and instruments for adults and children of all ages and ability levels. The music school is part of 92Y’s School of the Arts, which offers more than 500 classes and other educational opportunities in art, music and dance every year.
  
  As a musician, music educator and arts administrator, Yana continually surveys the ever changing landscape of music education to bring current best practices to 92Y’s School of Music. As director, she works closely with individual students and parents to help them choose classes, instruments and lesson plans that will make their musical journeys fulfilling and instill a lifelong love of music. Yana also recruits and retains the school’s outstanding faculty; oversees 92Y’s music scholarship program (for children aged 7-17); and directs the annual High School Guitar Day, a free day of guitar instruction, performances and jam sessions for teens. Since she arrived at 92Y in August 2010, Yana has expanded 92Y’s School of Music offerings, adding new programs and classes, including a Klezmer Ensemble and 92Y Glee for adults, Dalcroze programming for young children and children’s guitar and chamber ensembles.
  
  Prior to joining 92Y, Yana was associate director at American Classical Orchestra, where she played a key role in presenting concerts and events and led marketing and public relations efforts. She was also music director at the Lucy Moses School, one of the largest community music schools in the country, and she served as the executive director of the Dalcroze School of Music (in New York).
  
  Yana has taught music theory at Long Island University (C.W. Post) and piano at the United Nations International School; she has also taught private piano lessons (she started playing when she was 7) for many years. Yana has an M.M. in Music History and a B.M. in Piano Performance from Queens College and is fluent in Russian.

  Yana Stotland, Director, School of Music

• Lillian & Sol Goldman Family Center for Youth & Family

  212.415.5600

  Nursery School

  Malka Lowenstein, Paulson Director

  Parenting Center

  Wendy Goldstein, Director

  Camp Programs

  Lauren Wexler, Director Camps

  May Center for Health, Fitness & Sport

  212.415.5700

  Stacey M. Eisler

  Director, 92nd Street Y May Center for Health, Fitness & Sport

  A service-industry management and marketing expert with more than two decades of experience, Stacey Eisler joined 92nd Street Y's health and fitness center as Associate Director in 1996. Between then and 2003, when she was promoted to Deputy Director, she played a critical role in expanding the May Center's offerings for adults, teens and children – more than 100 different fitness classes each week and a dedicated youth-fitness program for teens. Promoted to Director in 2014, Stacey directs a 55,000-square-foot, 5,000-member health and fitness center with a 5,000-square-foot cardiovascular training area, two weight-training rooms, two gyms, an indoor track, 25-yard pool and state-of-the-art gymnastics facility.
  
  Over the years, Stacey has been instrumental in developing highly successful membership referral programs, large-scale open houses showcasing youth and adult offerings, a concierge service that assists new members in becoming fully acquainted with the May Center's offerings and an email-based communication program to retain existing members.
  
  Stacey has also collaborated with highly respected sports and medical entities to deliver specialized revenue-sharing and rental-based programs; including Gleason’s Boxing Gym, Yogi Beans®, InShape Circus, CityView Racquet Club, Girls on the Run and the Mount Sinai Health System.
  
  Among her other accomplishments was the expansion of the To Your Health lecture series, which brings nationally known doctors and other medical professionals to 92Y to share the latest research and advice on wellness, disease-prevention and healthy living. In 2000, Stacey created 92Y's Women's Health Symposium, a full-day event featuring keynote speeches by nationally recognized healthcare leaders and seminars addressing a wide range of physical-and emotional-health issues. This program included exhibit halls and free health screenings by Mount Sinai Health System. Each spring, hundreds of women from the greater tri-state area attended this event to learn both about the latest research on women's health and practical ways to take care of themselves.
  
  Using the successful model of the Women's Health Symposium, Stacey went on to create two other targeted full-day events. Healthy, Wealthy & Wise: Life After 50 addressed the record number of baby boomers in America today and their desire to age differently than previous generations. In 2009, Stacey conceptualized The Partnership Symposium: Conquering Breast Cancer which brought together, for the first time, three of the leading breast cancer research organizations: The Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Cancer prevention, care and support services information was provided on-site by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
  Before joining 92nd Street Y, Stacey was vice president of Marketing for Plus One Fitness Clinics and Physical Therapy and Director of Sales and Marketing for Sheraton Hotels in Philadelphia, Dallas and Miami, as well as various other destination resorts. She graduated with highest honors from Pennsylvania State University with a degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management.

  Stacey M. Eisler, Director

  Membership Services

  Aurea Rivera, Director, Membership Administration

  Director, 92nd Street Y Aquatics Program

  An expert on pool safety and swimming instruction, Lane Wineski directs a swimming program that offers instruction to swimmers of all skill levels ranging from six months to 95 years. She supervises a staff of 35 lifeguards, instructors, and coaches, and oversees a wide range of classes from Perfect Strokes and Lifeguard Training to American Red Cross swimming courses. She also oversees the Flying Dolphins Swim Team, a competitive team for young athletes.
  
  Lane has been teaching swimming for more than 13 years and CRP/AED, First Aid and Lifeguarding for 10 years. She currently holds Water Safety Instructor and Lifeguard Training Instructor certifications from the American Red Cross.

  Jeffrey Bonaccorso, Senior Director, Aquatics

  Athletics, Health Promotion & Wellness

  Katera Noviello, Senior Director: Health Promotion, Wellness & Athletics
  Julio Pacheco, Director of Athletics
  Aaron Feuerstein, Director of Sports & Leagues

  Tisch Center for the Arts

  Amy Lam, Vice President, Tisch Music

  92Y Concerts

  212.415.5740
  Nicholas F. Russotto, Senior Director, Music Programming

  Unterberg Poetry Center

  212.415.5760
  Bernard Schwartz, Director
   

  Beth Teitelman, Director, Scholarship Services

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