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Belfer Center

Meet Our Team

Asha Curran

Chief Innovation Officer & Director, Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact

Asha Curran is chief innovation officer and director of the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at 92nd Street Y …

Asha Curran

Chief Innovation Officer & Director, Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact

Asha Curran is chief innovation officer and director of the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at 92nd Street Y, which was recently named one of the “10 Most Innovative Nonprofits” by Fast Company. She leads #GivingTuesday, the annual day of giving following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, as well as a portfolio of global, digitally driven initiatives, including 7 Days of Genius, the Social Good Summit, the Ben Franklin Circles, and the Women inPower Fellowship. She is the recipient of the 2015 Social Capital Hero Award, was named a 2016 Woman of Influence by New York Business Journals and is a 40 Over 40 Women to Watch honoree. Asha serves on the board of directors of TheGuardian.org, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing civil discourse and issues-driven journalism, and she is a nonresident fellow at Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab.

Jessica Schneider

Director of Strategy & Collaboration

Jessica Schneider is the director of strategy and collaboration in 92nd Street Y's Belfer Center for Innovation …

Jessica Schneider

Director of Strategy & Collaboration

Jessica Schneider is the director of strategy and collaboration in 92nd Street Y's Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact. In this role, Jessica leverages the power of new media and partnerships with outside organizations to strengthen and extend the reach of 92Y's core values. She works on several initiatives and programs, including #GivingTuesday, the Women inPower Fellowship and the Social Good Summit. Jessica has also held positions at Rent the Runway, General Assembly and the Paley Center for Media. She earned a BA from Georgetown University and a masters of public administration from NYU.

Julie Mashack

Director of Global Programs & Networks

As Director of Global Networks & Programs for the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at 92nd Street Y, Julie oversees several of the Belfer Center’s civic initiatives …

Julie Mashack

Director of Global Programs & Networks

As Director of Global Networks & Programs for the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at 92nd Street Y, Julie oversees several of the Belfer Center’s civic initiatives that bring 92Y programs to new audiences and engage communities around the world. During her time at 92Y, Julie has led 7 Days of Genius, an annual celebration of new ideas with more than 50 events in 25 countries; Ben Franklin Circles, a national network of grassroots groups reviving Ben Franklin’s ‘club for mutual improvement’; and The UnConvention, a collaboration with PRI, Facebook and Mic that examined millennial perspectives of the 2016 election on air, online and through live events. As a former public radio and television producer, she created content for both PBS and NPR and contributed to Michael Moore’s Academy Award nominated documentary Sicko and the WNET original film, Sacred. She serves as a member of the Bridge Alliance Leaders Council and as an advisor to The Aspen Institute’s forthcoming Better Arguments Project.

Danyel Addes

Network & Program Manager

Danyel Addes is a network and program manager in 92Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact …

Danyel Addes

Network & Program Manager

Danyel Addes is a network and program manager in 92Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact. She works on expanding 92Y’s civic engagement initiatives to connect with communities across the country and around the world. This includes Ben Franklin Circles, Women inPower, and 7 Days of Genius. Prior to joining the Belfer Center, Danyel worked to build a culture of engagement in community and university settings through curriculum development, teaching, and enhancing university infrastructure for engaged learning. She developed leadership and social justice education programs with an emphasis on asset-based community development and group dialogue. Danyel has a BA in Social Thought and Political Economy from UMass Amherst and holds master’s degrees in Anthropology and Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development from the University of Georgia.

Kelsey Kramer

Program Associate

As program associate in 92Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Change, Kelsey facilitates the online support network of #GivingTuesday leaders …

Kelsey Kramer

Program Associate

As program associate in 92Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Change, Kelsey facilitates the online support network of #GivingTuesday leaders in the U.S. and supports Belfer Center initiatives #GivingTuesday, the Social Good Summit, and Women inPower. In addition to her work at the Belfer Center, Kelsey is a dance mover, maker, and advocate. Kelsey developed her passion for dance and social change working at Cora Dance, a pay-what-you-can school and dance company in Red Hook, Brooklyn where she served as programs and communications manager, giving associate, and educator. Kelsey is half of JACKS - a moving, making duo with collaborator Lexie Thrash, company member of Cora Dance, and on the Dance/NYC Junior Committee.

Woodrow Rosenbaum

#GivingTuesday Data

As founder and CEO of With Intent, an international consumer marketing agency, Woodrow has a long history of building top consumer brands …

Woodrow Rosenbaum

#GivingTuesday Data

As founder and CEO of With Intent, an international consumer marketing agency, Woodrow has a long history of building top consumer brands. Woodrow has helped companies and brands to define strategies, develop new business and expand their markets. In the nonprofit sector he has conducted research and analysis of individual giving behaviors, engaged with thousands of charities regarding fundraising strategies and trends, and has engaged millions of donors on topics related to giving and volunteering through traditional and social media. As a consultant on the 92Y team, Woodrow is working with dozens of donation processors to evaluate donor behaviors, using his experience in consumer analytics to uncover the levers for increased individual giving.

Kait Sheridan

#GivingTuesday Global Community

Kait Sheridan manages the community of Global Leaders and digital communications for #GivingTuesday …

Kait Sheridan

#GivingTuesday Global Community

Kait Sheridan manages the community of Global Leaders and digital communications for #GivingTuesday. Kait first joined the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact team in 2013, and she worked on #GivingTuesday, the Social Good Summit, 92Y Fellowship programs and other strategic initiatives. In 2016, Kait’s personal life took her to the UK, where she continues to work on #GivingTuesday with a focus on expanding the Global Leader community. Kait currently lives in Oxford, UK.

Jamie McDonald

#GivingTuesday Strategy & Community Campaigns

Jamie McDonald is a social-sector entrepreneur and the founder of Generosity Inc. Jamie advises socially motivated business executives and visionaries …

Jamie McDonald

#GivingTuesday Strategy & Community Campaigns

Jamie McDonald is a social-sector entrepreneur and the founder of Generosity Inc. Jamie advises socially motivated business executives and visionaries driving large-scale change. Jamie works with the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact at 92Y as part of the #GivingTuesday team, where she supports nearly 100 community leaders of local campaigns. Jamie joined the #GivingTuesday team after leading three large #GivingTuesday campaigns that cumulatively raised $20 million, including the #BmoreGivesCampaign for Baltimore in 2013.

In addition to 92Y, Jamie advises transformational leaders and initiatives like the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, the Center for Urban Families, Light City Baltimore, innovative United Ways and SHIFT, a consultancy focused on shifting the purpose of business. Prior to launching Generosity, she founded GiveCorps, a community-building and online-giving SaaS software platform connecting nonprofits and educational institutions to digital givers. GiveCorps was acquired Network for Good, the nation’s largest online charitable-giving company, in 2015.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Jamie was a managing director in investment banking at Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, where she enjoyed a 16-year career and led or co-led several groups including the Private Equity Coverage Group, managing relationships with Alex. Brown’s private equity clients.

Jamie has been featured in publications including The Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the White House Social Innovation Blog, NTEN, The Baltimore Sun and many others. She is featured in the recently released book, Women Make Great Leaders, by bestselling author Jill Griffin.

Jamie was named Maryland Innovator of the Year in 2012. She is a graduate of the 1997 class of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Leadership program. She was named one of Baltimore Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” She received the SiloBreaker award from Betamore in 2016. She received the Downtown Partnership’s award for impact on Baltimore in 2016. She received the William Donald Schaefer award for the City of Baltimore in 2016 and a BMe Community Genius Award in 2017.

Jamie McDonald attended Cornell University for graduate school, focusing on international development in a joint program between the College of Human Ecology and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. She graduated summa cum laude from Philadelphia University. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, Tom, and their three children.

Kathleen Murphy

#GivingTuesday Digital Strategy & Communications

Kathleen directs digital strategy and communications for #GivingTuesday …

Kathleen Murphy

#GivingTuesday Digital Strategy & Communications

Kathleen directs digital strategy and communications for #GivingTuesday. Before joining the Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact team, she led Illinois’ statewide #GivingTuesday campaign. Kathleen teaches nonprofits how to raise awareness, change minds, engage hearts, open wallets, and rally people to action. Her past experience includes field organizing with several political campaigns and Director of Communications at Forefront, Illinois’ statewide social impact association.

She serves on the board of directors of EPIC – Engaging Philanthropy, Inspiring Creatives, which provides pro bono creative work to Chicago-area nonprofits and the associate board of New Moms, which supports young moms and their children, who are experiencing poverty and homelessness, with the personal and workforce development tools they need to permanently change their life stories.

Sydney Rose

#GivingTuesday Funding

Sydney Rose (PMI-ACP®) is a skilled nonprofit management professional with a history of executing best practices …

Sydney Rose

#GivingTuesday Funding

Sydney Rose (PMI-ACP®) is a skilled nonprofit management professional with a history of executing best practices for the increased collaboration, efficacy, and impact of leading mission-driven organizations and social actors. She is a senior data & development strategy consultant taking on numerous roles for her clients including acting Interim Director of Development and Communications. She works with leadership, program managers, and volunteers to undertake projects that increase the data capacity and resources of her nonprofit clients. Previously, Sydney was a Senior Business Development Manager for DataKind. There, she managed partnerships and short term data science and machine learning engagements, called DataDives, which lead to predictive tools or actionable insights for mission-driven partners. She received her Bachelors in International Studies from Boston College and a Masters in Social Enterprise Administration from Columbia University. Sydney currently serves on the Board of Directors of ECPAT-USA, a leading anti-trafficking organization.

Delia Coleman

#GivingTuesday Community Campaigns

Delia Coleman is a passionate policy and strategic communications professional who has served the nonprofit sector for over 12 years …

Delia Coleman

#GivingTuesday Community Campaigns

Delia Coleman is a passionate policy and strategic communications professional who has served the nonprofit sector for over 12 years as an advocate, lobbyist, and policy communications practitioner. A skilled policy advocate, speech writer, and communicator, Delia strives to make the wonky accessible—and actionable.

Delia is the Director of Strategic Communications at Equal Rights Advocates. Prior to joining ERA, Delia was Vice President of Strategy and Policy at Forefront, a statewide association for foundations and nonprofits in Illinois; while there, she was deeply engaged in protecting nonprofit and philanthropic interests at the state and federal level, as well as driving investment to the sector. She led the project to communicate the value of the Illinois nonprofit sector and demonstrate its social return on investment (Building a Stronger Illinois) and, for three years, led the state’s first statewide giving day campaign #ILGive for Giving Tuesday—which raised $11 million in 2016. Prior to joining Forefront, she was Government Relations Officer for YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, building eminence for them to eliminate racism and empower women. Previous to her career with nonprofits, Delia has also worked in private industry for such firms as Deloitte Consulting, Starpoint Solutions, and Gagen MacDonald.

A native of California, Delia holds a BA from UCLA and a Master’s in 19th Century British & American literature from the University of Michigan. She has been Board Co-Chair of the Chicago Abortion Fund and Board member of several charitable nonprofits with missions affecting women and communities of color. A new resident of the East Bay, Delia is still figuring out what direction she’s facing when she looks out her window and writes multicultural romance novels in her spare time.

JP Vergueiro

92Y Ford Motor Company International Fellowship

Joao Paulo is the CEO of ABCR – Brazilian Fundraisers Association and one of the leaders of the Brazilian #GivingTuesday campaign, #diadedoar. …

JP Vergueiro

92Y Ford Motor Company International Fellowship

Joao Paulo is the CEO of ABCR – Brazilian Fundraisers Association and one of the leaders of the Brazilian #GivingTuesday campaign, #diadedoar. João holds a degree in Management and Law and a Master’s degree in Public Management. João is also a board member of the Brazilian non-profit Kibô-no-Iê.

Advisory Committee

  • Laurence Belfer, Chair

    CEO, Belfer Management LLC
    92Y Board Member

  • Asha Curran

    Director, Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, Chief Innovation Officer, 92Y

  • Kara Acker

    Dentist, Endodontist
    92Y Emerging Leadership Committee

  • Penny Abeywardena

    Commissioner, NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs

  • Paul Burke

    Head of School, Nightingale-Bamford School

  • David Dabscheck

    Founder & CEO, GIANT Innovation; Visiting Scholar, Columbia Business School

  • Sam Fox

    Business Development Manager, Olo
    92Y Emerging Leadership Committee

  • Eric Goldstein

    CEO, UJA-Federation of New York

  • Jonathan Greenblatt

    National Director & CEO, Anti-Defamation League; former Special Assistant to President Barack Obama & Director, White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation

  • Elena Kiam

    Owner & Creative Director, K-Five
    92Y Board Member

  • Phil Krim

    Founder & CEO, Casper
    92Y Emerging Leadership Committee

  • Eric Kuhn

    Marketing and Business Development, Layer3 TV
    92Y Emerging Leadership Committee

  • Terri McCullough

    Director, No Ceilings Initiative, Clinton Foundation

  • Laura Clayton McDonnell

    General Manager, Enterprise & Partner Group, NY Metro District, Microsoft

  • Jamie Metzl

    Chief Strategy Officer, ORIG3N, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

  • Josh Milstein

    CEO, Mommy Nearest
    92Y Emerging Leadership Committee

  • David Rose

    Managing Partner, Rose Tech Ventures
    92Y Board Member

  • Rabbi Peter Rubinstein

    Director of Jewish Community and Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, 92Y

  • Gail Saltz

    Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Author
    92Y Board Member

  • Andrew Shapiro

    Founder, Broadscale Group

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