Board of Directors

(Pictured left to right: Lanita A. Ward-Jones, Vice Chair, Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R, Chair, Matthew Cohen, Treasurer and James T. Evans, PhD, Secretary)

Laura A. Jacobs, LCSW-R, Chair
Private Practice Psychotherapist

Lanita A. Ward-Jones, Vice Chair
Manager Administration
The Beacon Theater

Matthew Cohen, Treasurer
Vice President
Signature Bank

James T. Evans, JD, PhD, Secretary
Counsel
King & Spalding LLP

Will Craig
Executive Vice President
Handel Group

Justus Eisfeld
Independent Consultant
Former Co-director
GATE – Global Action for Trans* Equality

Carl Gaines
Senior Communications Manager
Capital One Bank

Geremy Kawaller
Director
BlackRock

Daniel McGee
Managing Director
National Lawyers Guild Foundation

Lisa Ayn Padilla, JD, LL.M.
We Cann Heal, LLC

William Pagano, MD, MPH
Retired Internal and Preventive Medicine Physician

Allison Palmer
Communications & Marketing
New York Public Library

Shane S. Spicer, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University

June Stafford, RN
Registered Nurse
New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center