Meet the
LINC board
We are so thankful for the brilliant and passionate advocates on our board who help to inspire the vision and fuel the mission of LINC.
OUR 
BOARD
Mary Fratto Rowe
(Chair)
Senior Partner, IBM Global Salesforce Service Area Leader
Stephanie Young
(Co-Vice Chair)
Retired Attorney and Community Advocate
Robert E. Spierer, CPA (Co-Vice Chair)
Partner, Perelson Weiner LLP
Kosha Udani
(Treasurer)
Managing Director of State & Local Tax, PWC
William Estilo
(Assistant Treasurer)
Partner, Deloitte
Victor Pichardo Jr.
(Secretary)
VP of Government & Community Affairs, SBH Health System
Tracy Dockray
Author and Illustrator
Carl D. Folta
Senior Counselor, Abernathy MacGregor
John Galiski
Director of Risk Advisory, Alix Partners
Jordan Halpern-Leistner
Director, Silver Lake
Dan Lee
Managing Director, PJT Partners
James Lieber
Founder and President, Lieber Strategies
Patricia Mitchell
Former Principal of PS 48Q
Andrea Newborn
General Counsel, ABM Industries
Susan Elkind Orchant
Partner and COO, ERM Capital Partners
John Pantalena
Partner and Co-Founder, Phalanx Impact Partners
Carlos Rodriguez
Retired Partner, Sidley Austin, LLP
Ron Rentel
President/Founder, Consumer Eyes
Ann Short
Former Director of Finance, Green City Force
Andrew Spring
Managing Director & CFO, MidOcean Partners
Professional
Advisory Council
LINC’s Professional Advisory Council (PAC) is a group of talented, highly motivated professionals who work to expand our visibility and advocate for early literacy among their peers.
Laura Amico
EY
Christina Bailey
Major League Baseball
Tasha Brown
Law student
Scott Cara
Co-chair
Ralph Cheng
Citibank
Ishan Gulati
Deloitte
Austin Holmes
Ladder Capital
Tina Huang
Millenium Management
Walker Jordan
Sycamore
Marianna Kakrida
KKR
Liz Kinsella
Advent International
Rhea Lieber
BSE Global
Trish Maheras
Citibank
Natalie Meyer
Blackstone
Stephanie Nussbaum
Robin Hood
Amy Rahn
EY
Reed Schultz
Blackstone
Laura Strothmann Williams
EY
John Urban
Barclay’s, Co-chair
Tim Wojcik
Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency
National Advisory
Council
Deborah Breznay
Exec. Dir. Edith Glick Shoolman Foundation (CLOSED)
Rudy Crew
Former New York City Schools Chancellor; Former President of Medgar Evers College
Ray Horton
Retired Columbia Business School Faculty – Nonprofit programs
Deborah Meier
Public Education Advocate and Reformer; Author; Former Principal and Teacher
Alan Mendelsohn
“Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, and Bellevue Hospital Center”
Michael Rebell
Professor of Law and Educational Practice; Executive director of the Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Steve Sheppard
Founding Partner, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP
Max Van Gilder
“NY State Coordinator at Start School Later;
Retired Pediatrician”
Doug Whiteman
Founder, The Whiteman Agency
Sonia Ortiz-Gulardo
Beginning with Children Foundation