The Graduate Center Foundation was established in 1983 as an independent not-for-profit entity that is committed to promoting and safeguarding the success of the Graduate Center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the Graduate Center.
The Foundation's Board of Trustees, composed of corporate and philanthropic leaders from throughout the City, serve as advisors to the president of the Graduate Center. The Board works to heighten the visibility of the Graduate Center and to raise awareness of the Graduate Center's contribution to higher education and to the vitality of the culture.
CHAIR
Gabriella De Ferrari
Author and Art Historian
VICE CHAIRS
Craig Kaplan, Esq.
Of Counsel, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C.
John Morning
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
TREASURER
Myron S. Glucksman
President, Myron Glucksman Consulting
SECRETARY
Caroline Urvater
Investments
Amabel B. James
Julien J. Studley
Trustee, Julien J. Studley Foundation
Lin I. Bildner
Fortuna Calvo-Roth
President
Coral Communications Group, LLC
Reginald A. Chambers
Elizabeth Cooke-Levy
Anne B. Ehrenkranz
Maria Gutierrez
Robert I. Halpern
Lynn P. Harrison 3rd
Partner
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Michael Hecht
President
Hecht and Company, P.C.
Lynell M. James
Sarah E. Lewis
Elizabeth Rosen Mayer, J.D., Ph.D.
Director
Express Associates, Inc.
Joanna Migdal
Frederic S. Papert
President, 42nd Street Development Corporation/
The 42nd Street Fund
Lynn Povich
Raymond Quinlan
Barbara Rifkind
Barbara Rifkind LLC
Steve Shokouhi
Principal
Kalimian Organization
Eric Simonoff
Literary Agent
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
John Harrison Streicker
Chairman
Sentinel Real Estate Corporation
Martin S. Tackel
Attorney at Law
Tackel and Varachi LLP
Byron Tucker
Robert Wechsler
Migs Woodside
Senior Advisor
Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center
Arizona State University
Michael Zigman
Founder
Partners in College Aid
Richard D. Parsons
Chairman of the Board
Citigroup, Inc.
Marshall Rose
Chairman of the Board,
The Georgetown Group, Inc.
Frances Degen Horowitz
University Professor & President Emerita
The Graduate Center
William P. Kelly
President
The Graduate Center
Sebastian T. Persico
Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration,
The Graduate Center
Chase F. Robinson
Provost
The Graduate Center
Linda Merians
Vice President for Institutional Advancement,
The Graduate Center
Executive Director, The Graduate Center Foundation, Inc.