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Board of Trustees
Jane Clementi
Jane Clementi co-founded the Tyler Clementi Foundation she wants to make sure that our society learns the consequences of discrimination and bullying, as she learned all too personally through the loss of her son. A native of New Jersey and devoted mother of three sons, Jane speaks passionately to parents and community leaders about the need to not merely “accept” or “tolerate” children who come out as LGBT, but to embrace them as wondrous creations of God. Jane speaks on the need for parents of LGBT children to come out and speak openly of the love they have for their children, and in doing so each one of us can impact the world around us and create accepting environments. Since losing Tyler, Jane’s spiritual journey has continued to carry and transform her in ways she never would have imagined. She left her church home of many years because she felt that while sitting in the pews of a church that condemned LGBT people she was herself a bystander to bullying. Jane leads an inspirational life through her unique experience which she shares with other parents, and speaks passionately about the need to divorce the concept of “sin” from homosexuality. She has made difficult choices in an impossible situation, and leads by example. She has spoken out in support of LGBT rights and the need for families and communities to embrace their LGBT populations. Jane has spoken before the U.S. Congressional HELP Committee, the National Cathedral, and numerous other faith communities, colleges, universities, high schools, and workplaces.
Joseph Clementi
As a co-founder of the Tyler Clementi Foundation, Joseph Clementi has worked tirelessly to share the story of his personal loss with public audiences at a variety of organizations. Joseph is the proud father of Tyler Clementi, and the loss of his son has put Joseph’s life on a course of activism for LGBT and vulnerable youth across the United States. Having come of age in an era where the capabilities of modern technology (social networking websites, webcams, cell phones, camera phones, etc.) didn’t exist, Joseph had his entire world changed when he learned of the ways in which technology intensifies and exacerbates the issues around youth bullying. Additionally, Joseph has been affected in a very personal manner by the ways in which targeting someone because of their sexual orientation can be especially harmful to the victim. Joseph is speaking out because he wants to use his experience as an educational tool and a way to help reach other people who struggle with feeling isolated, uncared for or misunderstood in schools and homes, the areas where they should feel most valued. The primary message that he wants to spread is his goal of turning “Bystanders into Upstanders.” His view is that there are three people involved in any type of bullying situation: the bully, the victim, and the bystander who sees it but does nothing to help. Joseph wants to share his message that bystanders to hostile behavior have an obligation to get involved and defend those who are targeted. Joseph has spoken out at a number of institutions, including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Long Island Child Abuse Protection Services, Rutgers University 2011 Symposium and CONTACT We Care Suicide Hotline’s 2012 Annual Gala.
Alan S. Buie-King
Alan S. Buie-King is the president and chief operating officer of Workplace Options, a global employee well-being company providing emotional, physical, and practical support to more than 46 million people worldwide. He is highly regarded as an innovator and visionary by the international business community for his professional accomplishments, and known as a champion of social and political progress by the LGBT community for his efforts to advance an equal rights agenda. Living in North Carolina, Alan is a founding member of both the LGBT Center of Raleigh, the largest community organization of its kind in the state, and Out! Raleigh, one of the Southeast’s largest celebrations of LGBT life. He is also currently on the board of Equality NC, a statewide organization dedicated to securing equality and justice for LGBT people.
Danielle Malloy
Danielle Malloy as Director of Marketing Solutions for Brand Partnerships at Chegg, Inc., Danielle Malloy is responsible for developing digital and experiential programs that connect Fortune 500 brands with the youth market, particularly high school and college students. Chegg is the leading digital platform dedicated to helping millions of students succeed from the moment they start thinking about college through the time they land their first job out of college. Danielle thrives on leveraging data and insights about what matters most to students to help advertisers establish meaningful and mutually rewarding connections with them online and on campus. Last year, she worked with the Tyler Clementi Foundation and Rutgers University to promote the #Day1 campaign by producing and delivering 5,600 boxes of first-year essentials to incoming freshmen. The #Day1 box included items sourced from Chegg’s brand partners, #Day1 promotional materials, and information about various resources at Rutgers University to help new students transition to college.
Bert Orlov
Bert Orlov is a Director in the Health Care Services Group with nearly 30 years of experience as a management consultant in the industry. He specializes in strategy, transactions, business planning, and operations for physician groups and hospital systems, as well as not-for-profits. He also has developed interests in evaluating investment opportunities for P-E firms and designing medical cost management (and value-based contracting).
Previously, Bert was a Partner in the boutique firm of Integrated Healthcare (IHC). His other work at IHC included valuations and deal structuring for acquisitions and Joint Ventures in radiation therapy, ambulatory surgery, and general imaging; turn-around efforts for physician groups, hospital-physician practices and nursing homes, as well as the creation of new physician groups in the community; and development of hospital employment models of physicians.
Bert began his career in health care with APM Management Consultants, focusing on strategy for hospitals and academic medical centers and physician-hospital linkages. Thereafter, he was Director of Operations for the Healthcare Business Process Outsourcing, a division of Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC). This division served managed care plans with a full-service back-office solution, based on proprietary software. Bert has been published in books and articles.
Dan Chen
Dan grew up in New Hampshire and received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and MBA from Wharton. He started his career in investment banking at Lazard, where he advised some of the largest media and telecom companies in mergers and acquisitions. While a management consultant at McKinsey, Dan lived in Greater China and Australia, where he helped executives of Fortune 500 companies on some of their most pressing decisions. He later returned to New York, working as a tech stock analyst at AllianceBernstein and is a CFA Charterholder.
Dan previously served on the board of Gotham Volleyball, an LGBTQ community of nearly 1,000 members based in New York City, and was a leader of AllianceBernstein’s LGBTQ employee resource group.
Champ Knecht
[@chadnico] is a Hawaii-born New Yorker Chicagoan, student of the world, and current Senior Vice President for Strategy, Innovation and Impact with the YMCA of San Francisco. In this role, he serves as a catalyst in ensuring continuous strategic alignment across all areas of the Ys work in innovatively, equitably and nimbly responding to the needs of the diverse communities the Y serves across the Bay Area, formalizing the Y’s strategic-planning processes, translating it for people across functions, and driving equitable and community-centered organizational change.
Previously, Chad served with the YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) Diversity, Inclusion & Global (DIG) team for ten years, most recently as Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion where he helped to build local, state-wide, national and global capacity to engage diverse, vulnerable, underserved and marginalized communities, co-led Y-USA’s DIG strategy and network, and integration of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, practices and programs towards community bridge building and social cohesion for all in the 10,000 communities the Y serves across the U.S. Prior to that, he served as Director of International Operations & Youth Exchanges for the YMCA of Greater New York, where he was part of an era of dynamic growth in cultural exchanges, collaborations, and global education/inclusion programming. Chad holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services Administration & Youth Development and a Master’s degree in Organizational Management and Leadership from Springfield College in Massachusetts and a Global Studies Certificate from the University of Pittsburgh.
Chad serves on the Board of Directors for Howard Brown, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ health care networks, the Board of Trustees for the Tyler Clementi Foundation, dedicated to ending bullying in all forms, the Chicago Fair Trade Board of Directors supporting workers rights and global social responsibility, has traveled to 40 countries on almost every continent of the world, participated in the globally recognized Semester at Sea study abroad program, volunteered with the CASA YMCA youth shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, represented Y-USA in global settings and the World YMCA at the United Nations. He helped launch the Ys inaugural partnership with the Biden Foundation advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion and equity across 19 states and served as a policy volunteer with the Biden/Harris 2020 Campaign. He has lived in Hong Kong for two years, provided voter engagement support to various political campaigns, and served as Youth Director with the YMCA of Honolulu. Chad can be reached at CNHiu@ymcasf.org and lives in San Francisco, California with his husband of eleven years.
Stan Mitchell
Stan Mitchell currently serves as Co-Pastor of Everybody Church, an on-line and inclusive community. For sixteen years, from 2003 through 2019, Stan served GracePointe Church in Nashville, TN. as Lead Pastor. In 2015, GP made the move to the full affirmation and celebration of LGBTQ+ people. Prior to this he was a Teaching Pastor at Christ Church also in Nashville, TN. He spends his vocational time now as an author, speaker, LGBTQ+ advocate, and consultant within the Progressive Christian movement.
Alex Dorado
Alexandra Dorado is the founder of the Upstander Generation, TCF’s Young Professionals Group. UpGen is comprised of young professionals who volunteer their time, energy, and talents to raise awareness and funds to further TCF’s mission. In collaboration with the Staff, Board, and Advisory Council, the Young Professionals Group will act as a gateway to engage talented volunteers, reconnect with peers, and educate and raise awareness among a younger generation to ensure the longevity and support of our organization. UpGen’s members are Emma Bratman, Sara Cuddeback, Caroline Griffin, Annie Hull, Ashley Lozier, Jack Melick, Reid Shepard Rachel Swartz.
Alex is a Strategic Program Manager at a smart-access technology company called Latch. Previously, Alex spent 4 years at BlackRock and recently relocated from San Francisco to New York City. Back in San Francisco, Alex was an active member of the BlackRock Philanthropy Committee and served as Relationship Manager for La Cocina (SF based food entrepreneurial non-profit). She also served as a Volunteer for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco at both the De Young and Legion of Honor and was a mentor for the Latinos in Finance organization. Alex graduated from Bucknell University with a degree in Accounting and Financial Management.
Lisa Feldman Braude, Ph.D.
Lisa Braude is a Principal Consultant at the Center for Health Law and Policy at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Commonwealth Medicine. She has worked in the human services and public policy field for almost 25 years – bridging social justice, public health, and healthcare. Her work engages in project development and management, strategic planning, facilitating state healthcare reform initiatives, and analyzing evaluation data.
Lisa holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from The George Washington University. She also serves as a Gubernatorial Appointee of the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Commission and the Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council. Lisa lives outside of Boston with her husband and two teenage daughters.
Scott Lowell
Scott Lowell is best known for his roles on television as Ted Schmidt in Showtime’s popular, critically acclaimed, and groundbreaking series Queer As Folk (for which he was twice nominated for a Prism Award) as well as his portrayal of Dr. Douglas Filmore on the long-running series Bones. Mr. Lowell was born in Denver and raised in the suburbs of New Haven, Connecticut. He majored in theater at Connecticut College and upon graduating he moved to Chicago, where over the course of a decade he immersed himself in the local theater scene, including performances at the famed Steppenwolf and Goodman theatres.
Scott moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and quickly found himself in guest roles on sitcoms, including a favorite turn on Frasier. In 2000 he landed the role of the luckless Ted on Queer As Folk and spent the next five years shuttling back and forth between LA and Toronto, where the series was filmed. Along with Queer as Folk and Bones, he has appeared in a number of independent films and television series including NCIS:NOLA, I’m Sorry,The Fosters, CSI, Castle, CSI:NY, NCIS, Heroes, Criminal Minds, Leverage and various voices in the animated series American Dad.
In 2014-15 Scott made his Broadway and West End (London) debuts in the hit revival of The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson.
Most recently Scott has written, produced and starred in the first season of the award-winning Adoptable!, a comic fake documentary loosely based on the actual search for his birth parents and his life as an adult adoptee.
Scott remains a passionate voice for equality and speaks for many causes relating to the LGBTQ+ and Adoption communities whenever he can. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY
Hayley Berlent
Growing up in South Africa, Hayley saw the effects of social injustice firsthand — and the power that a fierce passion and shared purpose can have in bringing about positive social change. It was this discovery early in life that inspired her to pursue her passion for telling stories and driving action, ultimately founding the Additive Agency.
Under the banner of Additive, Hayley and team have led brand engagements for clients as diverse as Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), the City of Memphis, Child Mind Institute, Columbia Alumni Association, Harlem Children’s Zone, The Jed Foundation, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care, La Jolla Playhouse, Mouse, New 42, NYU School of Medicine, Mercy Corps, Syracuse University and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Prior to founding Additive, Hayley led large-scale brand transformation efforts at Siegel+Gale for clients such as the Y (YMCA), Aetna, Rotary International and Memorial Sloan Kettering, as well as launched new brands, such as Understood and Life Tuner (by AARP). She also developed corporate social responsibility programming benefitting social enterprises in Africa and Asia.
Previously, Hayley managed public affairs at Columbia University, where she was responsible for protecting and promoting the reputation of the Law School, its faculty and programs. Additionally, the first years of her career were spent working with advocacy and affinity groups to shape the conversation around infectious diseases and destigmatize issues like depression.
Hayley currently teaches a graduate class, “Purpose Driven Communications,” at Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.
Advisory Council
Peter Drake
Peter Drake graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Business School, and owned a consulting firm serving non-profit board and staff leadership for many years. He also worked in banking, marketing, and real estate. Peter has served on over 10 non-profit boards, and now volunteers through his COIL Foundation (http://www.coilfoundation.org). He came out in 2009 as a gay man after a long straight marriage, and has two adult children, both of whom are gay. Peter has appeared on the Dr. Oz show, testified in the California State Senate, and currently serves on the board of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, the Grace Cathedral, and TurnOut. He was a trustee of the Tyler Clementi Foundation. He is now the inaugural member of the TCF Advisory Council. Along the way, his passion for music led him to envision “Tyler’s Suite,” and he was central to commissioning this powerful song cycle. Peter is newly married to Jared Moreno Drake; they make their home in the San Francisco Bay Area, and travel extensively.
Scott F. Leibowitz, MD
is the Medical Director of Behavioral Health Services for the THRIVE gender and sex development program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz is a Native New Yorker, attended Cornell University for undergraduate studies, Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel for medical school and ultimately completed his child and adolescent psychiatry training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he first developed a psychosocial assessment and treatment clinic in 2008 in coordination with the hospital’s Gender Management Service- the first formal, multidisciplinary clinic for transgender youth in an American children’s hospital. He subsequently moved to Chicago and served in the Gender & Sex Development at Lurie Children’s Hospital before taking on his current role. He is currently the co-chairman of the Sexual Orientation Gender Identity Issues Committee for the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, a member of the Global Education Initiative for the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, and was appointed Chapter Lead for the Adolescent Assessment chapter in the upcoming revision of the WPATH Standards of Care, 8th edition. He is the lead child and adolescent trainer for the WPATH Global Education Initiative, where he has led trainings on transgender youth care both nationally and internationally including in Japan and Vietnam. He also served as an expert witness in 2016 for the United States Department of Justice in its legal action against the State of North Carolina for its anti-transgender HB2 bill as well as an ACLU 2017 federal case in Pennsylvania on school bathroom use, for which the ruling was in favor of transgender youths’ rights.
Maren Greathouse,
Maren Greathouse serves as the Associate Director for Diversity and Inclusion Education in the Provost’s Office at Tufts University. Ms. Greathouse oversees all plans, curricular development, and implementation of educational initiatives across the campus community to ensure that all members of the university community embody the virtues that of Tufts mission and ethos as a leader in social justice education and practice. Ms. Greathouse was the inaugural Director of the Tyler Clementi Research Center at Rutgers University, and the founding Director at both the LGBTQ & Intercultural Resource Center at Rutgers University-Newark and the LGBT Student Development Program at Towson University. She holds a Masters of Science degree in Social Responsibility from St. Cloud State University, a program grounded in the study of social identity politics, structural oppression, and the social responsibility of individuals, organizations, governments and the private sector. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, studying in the Higher Education Ph.D. track. Her research interests include equity and diversity, student affairs praxis and class dynamics in higher education.
Trisha Prabhu
is an 18-year-old innovator and Founder & CEO of ReThink, a social enterprise that’s working to end online hate and make the Internet a safer place. Spurred to action by the cyberbullying-related suicide of a 12-year-old girl, Trisha invented a proactive solution, ReThink: an award-winning, patented technology solution that detects and stops online hate before it occurs. Trisha’s work has been recognized by The White House, Google, MIT, and WebMD, and featured on ABC’s Shark Tank, and TED/TEDx stages. At President Obama’s invitation, Trisha was selected as one of few entrepreneurs in the world to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University. ReThink works closely with the U.S. State Department’s ShareAmerica program, and as a result, ReThink is now available in 3 languages and has reached over 5.5 million students and 1400 schools. In 2017, Trisha was elected the first female Youth Governor of Illinois in 28 years. She is pursuing an undergraduate degree at Harvard University and continuing her passion for innovation at the intersection of technology and society to make the world a better place.
Rabbi Victor S. Appell
Rabbi Victor Appell is the Reform Community Rabbi and Senior Jewish Educator at Rutgers Hillel in New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers Hillel serves over 6,400 Jewish undergraduate and over 1,000 graduate students. He received his master’s in Hebrew Literature from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, from which he also received his rabbinic ordination. In addition to serving as a congregational rabbi, Rabbi Appell worked for the Union for Reform Judaism, the organizational body of Reform Judaism, where he worked as an Outreach Specialist, in the areas of conversion, programming for interfaith couples and families and welcoming the increasingly diverse Jewish population into congregations. He also served as editor-in-chief of Ten Minutes of Torah, which each weekday brings to more than 20,000 subscribers the great variety of Jewish life from Torah commentaries written by scholars to explorations of Jewish life around the world. His writings have appeared in Achim Magazine, Torat Chayim, Ten Minutes of Torah, Kulanu Handbook, The Gender Gap, and The Still Small Voice – Reflections on Being a Jewish Man. Rabbi Appell, his husband, and their two sons live in Metuchen, NJ
Kevin Carroll
Kevin Carroll, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management, has been working with a small and select number of ultra-high net worth families and individuals across the country, customizing comprehensive wealth management solutions since 2001. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Kevin was at Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management for over 12 years, where he was selected for a seat on their prestigious Leadership Council.
Kevin hails originally from the Midwest, where he grew up in Chicago. He obtained his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Notre Dame and upon graduation immediately went to work for PricewaterhouseCoopers. At PwC for 5 years, he was promoted along the way to a manager, covering a variety of Fortune 500 accounts as a CPA. Kevin then opted to pursue business school and obtained his MBA from Wharton.
Kevin is charitably very active. In addition to TCF and having served on the Facing History & Ourselves Chicago Advisory Board for over 10 years, Kevin currently serves on the boards of NOVA Hope for Haiti and The Chris Lary Memorial Fund, which is part of the Alliance for Catholic Education at Notre Dame. He is a resident of Manhattan and makes his home in the West Village.
David Key
David Key is a native of Georgia and an ordained Southern Baptist pastor who has advocated for LGBTQ+ equality for over two decades. He is the founding pastor of the multi-denominational Lake Oconee Community Church, the first welcoming and affirming church in the unincorporated rural Southern United States. While as pastor of that church, Key has served on the DNC Interfaith Outreach, PETE for America Faith outreach and Joe Biden Faith Council. He is also a member of American United Faith Leaders Council and Faith in Public Life Georgia Leadership Council.
For seventeen years, Key was the Director of Baptist Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. During those years, he developed the Baptist Studies Program into one of the first welcoming and affirming places for Baptist students in ministerial training. He served as co-coordinator of Jimmy Carter’s New Baptist Covenant shifting that organization to be more welcoming of the LGBT community. He hosted the first openly transgendered minister to speak at Candler. He hosted the first National RISE Network for evangelical pastors with Brandan Robertson. Politically, he organized with Georgia Equality and Faith in Public Life to defeat the 2015 Religious Liberty bill in Georgia state legislature. From Georgia, he worked on the efforts around the SCOTUS Marriage Equality decision in 2014 and 2015. He is the former national chair and vice-chair of AWAB (the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists) and was a member of the Baptist World Alliance Theological Commission.
In 1990s, in addition to his work at Emory, Key was the Religious Advisor to Jane Fonda and her efforts at preventing teen pregnancies in Georgia through GCAPP. He was the Vice President of the Christian Council of Metropolitan Atlanta and the Treasurer of the Georgia Christian Council. He was also the President of the Georgia Interfaith Alliance and former Chair/Interim Executive Director of Georgians for Children. Key served on founding committee of and later as adjunct professor at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. He looks forward to working with the Clementi Foundation in its outreach efforts among the religious communities.