Our Advisory Board

Chair

Gail Johnstone - Community Volunteer

Vice Chair

Patricia Garman - Community volunteer

Treasurer

Carolyn Valenti - Lougen, Valenti, Bookbinder & Weintraub, LLP

Secretary

Jennifer Balbach -- Summer Street Capital Partners

Stephanie Barber -- Buffalo State College

Tina Battistoni - Rich Products Corporation

Kristin Bauer - Community volunteer

Ann E. Evanko - Hurwitz & Fine, P.C.

Lisa Friedman - Community volunteer

Sue Gardner, Esq. - Kavinoky and Cook

Ellen E. Grant, Ph.D. - Healthcare consultant

Jane Griffin, Ph.D. - Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Inst.

Shaheen Hassanali - Community volunteer

Cheryl Howe - Blue Cross and Blue Shield of WNY

Alice Jacobs - Community volunteer

Alison Keane - Community volunteer

Michele Lee - Community volunteer

Sally Marks -- Community volunteer

Brenda Williams McDuffie - Buffalo Urban League

Katie Militello - Militello Marketing 

Bertha Mitchell -- Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority

Alex Montante - Community volunteer 

Margery Nobel - Community volunteer

Melissa Nowak - Eli Lilly

Marcia O'Neil-White - Buffalo Prep

Jayne Rand - M&T Bank

Paula Joy Reinhold - Joy Family Foundation 

Tricia Semmelhack, Esq. - Retired attorney

Lisa J. Walsh - Morgan Stanley Smith Barney 

Emeritus Members

Ann Cohn - Community volunteer

Dorothy T. Ferguson - Community volunteer

Marsha Henderson - University at Buffalo

Susan Hoskins - Community volunteer

Mary Jo Hunt - Community volunteer

Arlene Kaukus - University at Buffalo

Ruth Kahn Stovroff - Community volunteer

Ex-Officio Members

Clotilde Dedecker - Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

Michael Weiner -- United Way of Buffalo & Erie County