Panel Members

• Philip A. Berry
  Philip A. Berry was appointed by Governor George Pataki in June 2006 as a member of the Board of The City University of New York. He was appointed Vice Chairperson of the Board by Governor Eliot Spitzer in June 2007. (More)
• Linda Lausell Bryant
  Linda Lausell Bryant, who has a child in a public middle school in Brooklyn, is the Executive Director of Inwood House, a nationally-recognized innovator in teen pregnancy prevention, youth development and family support programs. (More)
• Joe Chan
  Joe Chan was appointed President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership in September 2006. (More)
• David C. Chang
  David C. Chang, the Chancellor of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, is an internationally-recognized scholar in the fields of engineering.  He was President of Polytechnic University in Brooklyn from 1994-2005 prior to the reorganization. (More)
• Joan Correale
  Joan Correale is a native of Staten Island and attended public school there. She has been married to her husband Philip for 19 years. They have two children in the New York City Public School system, Julia who is15 and Nicholas who is 13. (More)
• Dmytro Fedkowskyj
  Dmytro Fedkowskyj is a community advocate with a long history of volunteering his time and energies to the parents and children of this city. (More)
• Tino Hernandez
  Tino Hernandez is President and Chief Executive Officer of Samaritan Village, Inc. one of the largest nonprofit providers and community-based, substance abuse treatment services in New York. (More)
• Richard L. Menschel
  Richard L. Menschel is a Senior Director of Goldman Sachs, a firm he joined in 1959.  He is a Director and President of the Charina Endowment Fund, a member of the Dean’s Council at the Harvard School of Public Health, a Trustee and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and a Vice President and Trustee of the Morgan Library & Museum. (More)
• Tomás D. Morales
  Tomás D. Morales was appointed by the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York to serve as the third President of the College of Staten Island in June of 2007. (More)
• Gbubemi Okotieuro
  Gbubemi Okotieuro brings to the Panel his strong and diverse background in education. As the Associate Dean for Governmental and External Relations at Medgar Evers College, he has been instrumental in the ongoing development of one of the largest institutions of higher learning geared toward African American and Caribbean American students in this country. (More)