Board of Directors
Matthew Ailey
Board Member
GenRock Capital Management, Founder
Corvex Management, Former Analyst
Saint Thomas Church, Manhattan, Member
Sarah Beshar
Board Member
Davis Polk, Former Legal Advisor
Whitney Museum, Conservation Fellow
Lincoln Center, Corporate Board
Invesco Ltd., Board of Directors
Episcopal Charities Advisory Committee Member
Christ Church Rye, Member
The Rt. Rev. Andrew ML Dietsche
Ex-Officio Member
XVI Bishop of New York
General Theological Seminary, Board Member
House of the Redeemer, Board Member
Seaman’s Church Institute, Board Chair
Cathedral Trust, Board Chair
Bard College, Board Member
Curran B. Estreich
Ex-Officio Member
Episcopal Charities Advisory Committee, Chair
Grace Church, Manhattan, Outreach Committee Member, Former Vestry Member
Grace Church School, Former Trustee
McCann Erickson, Former Art Buyer
The General Seminary, MA in Spiritual Direction
Felicia Eve
Board Member
String Thing Studio, Owner
Trinity Wall Street Stewardship Committee, Chair
Trinity Wall Street Congregational Council, President
Former Podiatric Surgeon
The Rev. Susan B. Fortunato
Board Member
Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, Rector
Hudson River Housing, President of the Board
Diocesan Leadership Development Commission, Chair
Robert Goodfellow
Board Member
Colgate-Palmolive Company, Director, Global Corporate Communications
Episcopal Relief & Development, Advancement & Communications
The Frick Collection, Young Fellow
James Hallowell
Board Member
Gibson Dunn, Partner
Andrew Horrocks
Board Member
UBS Investment Bank, Managing Director
Credit Suisse, Former Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Transportation & Autos Group
Cornell University School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Former Acting Professor
The Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest, Former Warden, Outreach Committee Co-Chair
Matthew Hurd
Board Member
Sullivan and Cromwell Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice, Partner
Metropolitan Opera, Board Member
International Women’s Health Coalition, Board Member
Peter Keller
President
Berkeley Research Group, Managing Director
St. Matthew’s, Bedford, Member
St. Matthew’s, Bedford, Former Vestry Member, Treasurer, and Search Committee Chair
St. Mary the Virgin, Chappaqua, Former Vestry Member and Clerk of the Vestry
Hebron Academy, Trustee Emeritus and Former Treasurer
Rev. Yein Kim
Board Member
Trinity Wall Street, Priest for Congregational Life
Keith Klein
Board Member
Trinity Wall Street, Stewardship Committee Chair, Executive Committee & Congregational Council Member
Trinity Wall Street, Congregational Council, Former President
Taste of Tribeca, Former Co-Chair
Lower Manhattan Community School, Executive Board
Downtown Little League, Former Board of Directors
Andrew Mason
Board Member
ATM Capital Partners, Family Office, Chairman
Troop 4 Larchmont, Scoutmaster and Member, National Eagle Scout Association
St. John's Church, Larchmont, Parishioner
Institute for Family Governance, Chairman of Advisory Board
UBS Technology Investment Banking Group, Founder for Asia-Pacific
Ann Natale
Board Member
Episcopal Charities, Advisory Committee Member
The Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry, Board Member and past President
St. Mark's Church, Mount Kisco, Vestry Member - Chair, Finance Committee and Co-Chair, Outreach Committee
Douglas E. Schimmel
Treasurer
Sandler Capital Management, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager
The Autumn Ridge Foundation, Founder
Trinity Church, Wall Street, Member
Gordon Smith
Board Member
Commercial Banking Group of JP Morgan Chase, Executive Director
Member of St. James Church Manhattan (Former Vestry Member)
Former Board of Governors Member of The Princeton Club of New York
Scott Sykes
Board Member
Capital Group, Partner
St. Barnabas Church, Irvington, Finance Committee
Owen Thomas
Board Member
Parishioner and Senior Warden, Christ Church Bronxville
Chief Executive Officer, Boston Properties
Urban Land Institute, Global Chairman
Tapua Tunduwani
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Hepsen Uzcan
Board Member
DWS, Managing Director, President and Head of Mutual Funds Business Americas
Deutsche US Mutual Funds, Managing Director and President
Life Medical Technologies, Inc., Advisory Board Member
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, Director
Campbell Wharton
Board Member
Penguin Random House, Associate Publisher
St. James’ Church, Manhattan, Former Vestry Member
Cecil Wray
Past President
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Partner (retired)
Search and Care, Inc., Board Member
Church Pension Fund, Trustee
Church Insurance Company, Director
Adirondack Park Agency, Commissioner
East Side Community Center, Board Member
St. James Church, Manhattan, Member
Directors Emeriti
James L. Abernathy |
Jesse Adelaar |
Dale Akinla II |
Thomas E. Angers |
John P. Banning, Jr. |
N. Kurt Barnes |
Margot Bogert |
The Rev. James L. Burns |
David J. Callard |
Helen V. Cantwell |
Susannah Carrier |
The Rev. Roy A. Cole |
Ellen Rouse Conrad |
Donald R. Crawshaw |
Evan A. Davis |
Joyce Burrows Dinkins |
Gordon DuGan |
Wolcott B. Dunham, Jr. |
Robert L. Durkee |
Robert R. Dyson |
The Rev. Terence L. Elsberry |
June Yee Felix |
Scott D. Ferguson |
James A. Florack |
Charles Garland |
Peter Gevalt |
Gary Giglio |
Gary Glynn |
The Rt. Rev. Richard F. Grein |
Robert H. Gutheil |
The Rev. Canon Susan C. Harris |
John C. Harvey |
William H. Herrman |
Christopher J. Hojlo |
Karen T. Hughes |
The Rev. Brenda G. Husson |
The Rev. Deacon Robert A. Jacobs |
Susan Jansen |
Sandra T. Johnson |
Hamilton F. Kean |
Henry L. King |
The Very Rev. Dr. James A. Kowalski |
Lorraine A. LaHuta |
The Rev. L. Kathleen Liles |
Kevin Lockhart |
Howard H. Mackey |
Michael J. McPherson |
Betty McWhorter |
S. Christopher Meigher III |
C. Douglas Mercer II |
Newton P. S. Merrill |
The Rev. Charles J. Minifie |
Nancy E. S. Murray |
Arthur J. Nagle |
Richard Pell |
The Rev. Yejide Peters |
The Rev. Deacon Frank L. Peterson, Jr. |
Lawrence E. Phillips |
Hope B. Preminger |
The Rev. Alison Quin |
Keith Reinhard |
Deborah Roberts |
John Sargent |
Michael J. Shepherd |
Philip D. Sherman |
The Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk |
Susan E. Skerritt |
William C. Steere III |
Sabin C. Streeter |
Martin J. Sullivan |
Laura Taylor Swain |
John Talty, Immediate Past President |
Robert Taylor |
W. James Tozer, Jr. |
The Rev. William McD. Tully |
Gwendolen L. Wade |
Nicholas Walsh |
Anthony J. Walton |
The Rev. J. Donald Waring |
E. Waide Warner, Jr. |
Gordon Whiting |
Caroline Williamson |
D. Scott Wise |
William H. A. Wright II |
Paul H. Zumbro |
Advisory Committee
Curan B. Estreich, Chair
Episcopal Charities, Board of Directors, Ex-Officio
Grace Church, Manhattan, Outreach Committee Member, Former Vestry Member
Grace Church School, Former Trustee
McCann Erickson, Former Art Buyer
The General Seminary, MA in Spiritual Direction
The Rev. Deacon Chisara Alimole
Deacon, Christ Church, Pelham
Sarah Beshar
Episcopal Charities, Board of Directors
Davis Polk, Former Legal Advisor
Whitney Museum, Conservation Fellow
Lincoln Center, Corporate Board
Invesco Ltd., Board of Directors
Christ’s Church, Rye, Member
Carla Burns
Church of the Holy Innocents, Highland Falls, Warden
Province II Antiracism Network, Leader
Executive Council of the Episcopal Church, Committee for Antiracism, Member
Diocesan Anti-Racism Committee, Chair
Diocesan Social Concerns Commission, Member
P.S. 154 (Central Harlem), Retired Faculty
Meighan Corbett
Christ’s Church, Rye, Member and Former Vestry Member
St. Bartholomew’s Church, Manhattan, Former Director of Giving
The Riverside Church, Manhattan, Director of Stewardship & Development
Clarissa Davis-Igle
NYC-DOHMH Nurse-Family Partnership Program, Administrative Clinical Supervisor, Advisory and Quality Improvement Boards
Nurse-Family Partnership National Service Office, Innovation and Advisory Committee
3100 Block Homeowners Association, Recording Secretary
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Bronx, Vestry Member
Daughters of the King, Vice President for the Episcopal Diocese of New York
Nancy Farrell
St. James Church, Manhattan, member and former Vestry member, chair of Property and Rockwell Committees
Fountain House, Vice Chair, Public Health
Retired healthcare executive, Weill Cornell Medicine
The Rev. Deacon Gail Ganter-Toback
Deacon, St. James Hyde Park
Episcopal Relief and Development, Mid-Hudson Region, Diocesan Coordinator
Diocesan Council, Former Mid-Hudson Executive Committee Member
Diocesan Strategic Advisory Committee, Former Member
Rural and Migrant Ministries, Volunteer
Evelyn Garzetta
Grace Immigrant Outreach, Director
Grace Church, Millbrook
Phyllis Guardino
Guild of St. Margaret's Soup Kitchen & Emergency Pantry, Director
Grace Church, Middletown
Abby Laryea
St. James Church, Fordham - Director of Lay Ministries, Stephen Ministry Leader, Former Vestry Member & Retired Warden
Lehman College - Admissions Advisor
MA in History, and M.S. ED in Higher Education Administration, Baruch College
Kevin Lockhart
Perella Weinberg Partners, Partner
Lockhart Creative Capital Solutions, Founding Member
Managing Director, BMO Capital Markets
St. Barnabas Church, Irvington, Member and Former Vestry Member
Former Board Member, Episcopal Charities
Ann Natale
Episcopal Charities, Board of Directors
The Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry, Board Member and past President
St. Mark's Church, Mount Kisco, Vestry Member -Chair, Finance Committee and Co-Chair, Outreach Committee
Davíd Patiño
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Manhattanville, Member
Bellevue Hospital, Chaplain
Bexley-Seabury Seminary, Seminarian
Trans Seminarians Leadership Cohort, Alumni
Union Theological Seminary, '20 M.A. Alumni
The Rev. Deacon Geraldine A. Swanson
Richmond Episcopal Ministry, Deacon
Retired School Teacher and Administrator
Fund for the Diaconate, Board Member
Staten Island Hunger Task Force and Coalition for Housing Equality, Member
The Rev. Dr. Gawain F. de Leeuw, OA
St. Bartholomew’s Church, White Plains, Rector
Order of the Ascension, Member
Meals on Wheels, Board Member
Westchester United, Board Member
Planned Parenthood, Clergy Advocacy Board
Housing Action Council, Board Member
Staff
Rev. Kevin VanHook, II
Executive Director
Kevin brings pastoral leadership with action-oriented, grassroots ministries to Episcopal Charities. Previously, he served as the Minister of Justice, Advocacy and Change at the Riverside Church in the City of New York.
Phone: 212-316-7403
Email: kvanhook@dioceseny.org
Patrick Bergquist
Chief Program Officer
Patrick brings with him varied experiences, including living with university students as a resident director to living with monks as a novice with the Society of St. John the Evangelist. He has written student leadership curriculum for high school and middle school students and run a large summer day camp program. Most recently Patrick has served at St. Bart’s, Manhattan as Minister for Children, Youth and Family Formation and Director of Special Projects for the Rector. He received a Master of Arts in Ministry and Theology from Northern Seminary in Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts with studies in Communication and Family Science from Anderson University.
Phone: 212-316-7426
Email: pbergquist@dioceseny.org
Lauren Jenkins Chung
Interim Director of Operations and Institutional Advancement
Lauren brings a background in New York City-based nonprofit management and policy to Episcopal Charities. Lauren is immediate past president of the New York Junior League and was a Coro New York Leadership fellow 2021-2022. She currently serves on the board of Citizens Committee for Children of New York. She is a parishioner, former stewardship chair and vestry member at Calvary-St. George’s Episcopal Church Manhattan. She holds an MPA in Nonprofit Management and Policy from NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service.
Phone: 202-288-5622
Email: lchung@dioceseny.org
Oluwatobi “Tobi” Mojeed-Balogun
Associate Director of
Programs for Program Support
Oluwatobi (Tobi) joined the staff at Episcopal Charities fresh out of college in February 2022 as the Associate Director of Programs for Program Support. He went to Howard University for Economics and was a Chapel Assistant at the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel where he assisted with various chapel initiatives. At Howard, he served as a team leader and site coordinator for Howard’s Alternative Spring Break program and acted as a co-Student Director for Howard’s Day of Service which was held virtually for the first time. He has been involved with student and community organizing in both New York and the DC-Maryland-Virginia area.
Phone: 212-932-7354
Email: ombalogun@dioceseny.org
Karen Schrage
Associate Director of
Programs for the Frances Perkins Fellowship
Karen joined the staff at Episcopal Charities in June 2022 as the Associate Director of Programs for the newly launched Frances Perkins Fellowship. Karen is
Phone: 212-932-7354
Email: kschrage@dioceseny.org