George Adams is a retired corporate and international partner of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where he was chairman of the corporate department and head of its London office. He currently serves as a trustee of the American Association for the International Commission of Jurists and the American Trust of the British Library, as a director of New Amsterdam Singers and as a member of the Board of Visitors of CUNY Law School. He also acts as an advisor to a number of not-for-profit organizations, including, on the recommendation of Gray Matters, Broadway Housing Communities and CUNY Law School. He was, for many years, a director of United Way of New York City and was the president of the Greater New York Fund (the distributing arm of United Way) and chairman of the board of trustees of Sarah Lawrence College. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School and served as a First Lieutenant, Artillery, during the Korean War.

Dennis Arrouet has been a member of Gray Matters Group since 2002 where he has worked with other members of the Group assisting Broadway Housing Corporation and Educational Video Center. He is Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Rainbow Broadband Inc. Prior to that he was Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer of a number of companies and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Columbia Business School. He has served as a member of the Board or Board of Advisors of companies and non profit organizations. He is a member of Financial Executives Institute and Rotary International. He graduated from the college, engineering and business school of Columbia University and Harvard business school advanced management program. He served as a Lieutenant jg in the Navy Civil Engineer Corp.

Matthew Bloom retired from Wall Street after twenty five years, first as a bond trader at Salomon Brothers in London and New York, and then as a fixed income portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein. He is currently a volunteer and board member at Broadway Housing Communities and a Principal For A Day at the Horizon Academy, a New York City public school inside the jail on Rikers Island.

He is on the board of Getting Out and Staying Out (GOSO), an organization that recruits young men who are in school on Rikers Island. Mr. Bloom mentors young men while in jail, encouraging them to contact GOSO upon release. GOSO helps with jobs, education and other needs with the goal of reducing the very high recidivism rates among this population. Mr. Bloom graduated from the London School of Economics and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Donald Fischman, M.D., is an Emeritus Professor at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He was formerly the Harvey Klein Professor of Biomedical Sciences at that institution. After graduating from Kenyon College and Cornell Medical College he did postdoctoral training at Cornell and Cambridge Universities in cell and developmental biology. He rose through the ranks to full professor at the University of Chicago and assumed the chairmanship of the department of anatomy and cell biology at SUNY Downstate Medical College in 1976. Five years later he moved to Cornell Medical College as chairman of cell and developmental biology, later serving as dean of the graduate school of medical sciences and senior associate dean for research. For over forty years he has had an active career in cardiac research, participating on many NIH and private foundation boards. At Gray Matters he has been mainly involved in assisting the Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center (BMS), Learning Leaders and Generation Schools.

Steve Freidus founded and is President of Andover Realty. He owns, manages and brokers commercial properties. Andover has brokered over 45,000,000 square feet of factory, loft, distribution, garage, office, and warehouse facilities in Manhattan and the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. Steve specializes in finding new uses for old facilities. He has brokered dozens of buildings that have been recycled. Examples include the conversion of the World Telegram Building to offices, a furniture factory to a mini-storage facility, a warehouse to art galleries and an ice cream plant into an apartment building. The aggregate value of these recycled properties exceeds one billion dollars. Through Gray Matters he counsels Broadway Housing Communities on its real estate requirements; and at the recommendation of Gray Matters, he is on the Board of Visitors of CUNY Law School. Steve is a graduate of New York University and also has a Masters in Liberal Studies from New York University.

Alan Gettner. After earning a Ph.D. in philosophy and a career in college teaching, Alan switched to law. He pursued a career as a corporate lawyer working mainly with European clients. He retired from the New York law firm of Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, where he had been a partner in the corporate department, at the end of 2006. He has also found time to follow interests in the arts and in ethical issues related to medicine. He is a graduate of Yale University, the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Science and Columbia Law School. He is on the board of the Friends of the Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York (where he is Treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee) and Hospital Audiences, Inc., a New York organization devoted to bringing visual and performing arts to underserved audiences.

Peter Gluck received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1965. After designing a series of houses from New York to Newfoundland, he went to Tokyo to design large projects for a leading Japanese construction consortium. This experience influenced Gluck’s later work both in his knowledge of Japan’s traditional aesthetics and of its efficient modern methods of integrated construction and design. His firm, Peter L. Gluck and Partners in New York, has been designing and building throughout the country since 1972, joined in 1992 by AR/CS, a construction-management firm, established to build the firm’s designs, and in 1997 by Aspen GK, Inc., a development partnership, founded to produce well-designed, high-quality speculative housing. Exhibitions of Gluck’s award- winning work have been held in the U.S. and Japan, and he is widely published in architectural journals around the world. He has taught at Columbia and Yale schools of architecture, and curated exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Milan Triennale.

Alvin Green. After having served as general counsel to two major U.S. corporations and as a senior executive at a major shipping company, he returned to the private practice of law. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Green is a director of the Institute for Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy (a post graduate training institute for therapists), an active participant in the Learning Leaders Program of the New York City Public Schools, an Arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers and a member of the American Bureau of Shipping. Mr. Green is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Law School.

Marilyn Orgus Katz was Dean of Studies at Sarah Lawrence College from 1982 to 1998, where she supervised the offices of Student Life, Service Learning, Career Counseling and the Health Service, and served on the Presidents executive staff. From 1998 to 2001, she worked in college development and admissions. She taught literature and writing at the Mt. Vernon Cooperative College Center,  and  as Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Purchase. Dean Katz has published academic articles about literature, the teaching of writing, and issues in higher education. Now Dean Emerita, and retired, she has extended her writing interests to include professional editing and publications on older womens issues. She has appeared on numerous panels discussing these issues throughout the New York area.  Her novel, The Life I Saved, is now with a New York agent. Recent editing projects include Doing Time: Writers from the Pen Prison Writing Project (2001) and One Mans Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream (2004). Dean Katz provides academic consulting and free-lance editing to individuals and institutions, including the Bank Street College of Education. She also promotes the work of The Counseling Center, a community based mental health provider in Bronxville and of the New York Womens Foundation, an organization that funds the grass roots projects of low-income women throughout the city.

Mark J. Kronman graduated from Cornell University and received an LLB from Columbia Law School and an LLM from New York University Law School. He practiced law for 25 years, concentrating in the corporate and real estate areas. Prior to his retiring from the practice of law to engage in other activities, he was the managing partner of Austrian, Lance and Stewart. Thereafter, he fulfilled a long term goal of having a second professional career by becoming a commercial real estate investor and advisor with emphasis on structuring investment partnerships and the financing of acquisition and sale of commercial properties. During his legal career, he provided pro bono legal and business advice, and extensive fundraising efforts to several community-based organizations including Community Resource Exchange, The Catalog for Giving and SHARE. Since his retirement he has become increasingly involved in the nonprofit area, working with Legal Outreach and Bushwick Housing Independent Project.

Bob Layton is a semi-retired New York City international lawyer, who was chair of the Senior Lawyers Committee at the Association of the Bar in New York City. He now sits as an arbitrator on large international infrastructure disputes when he is not working to assist not-for-profits through Gray Matters. His principal activity at Gray Matters is assisting CUNY School of Law, where he sits, along with George Adams and Steve Freidus, on its Board of Visitors and serves as an aide to Fred Rooney, director of a CUNY spin-off named CLRN (Community Legal Resource Network). He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Yale Law School, served on the faculty of Stanford Law School, and as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, prior to private law practice in New York City for some 30 years as a partner in several large firms.

Joseph Levie is a retired lawyer. He formerly was a banking partner at Rogers and Wells (now Clifford Chance). He was an active director at two small ethnic New York City banks for twenty years and active in continuing legal education. He was president of a not for profit corporation that unsuccessfully attempted to revive the Help Line of New York. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law school and has lived in New York City all his life.

Larry Levine. As founder and dedicated member of Gray Matters, Lawrence S. Levine (1934-2004) worked closely with three not-for-profit organizations: Broadway Housing, the East River Apprenticeshop, and CUNY Law School. A graduate of Colgate University and the Yale Law School, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District and was a founding partner of Beldock Levine & Hoffman, a law practice with a long-standing commitment to pro bono representation. As co-founder and past chair of the Jewish Fund for Justice, he was a passionate advocate for community-organizing initiatives aimed at addressing poverty and for efforts to sustain this work across the generations. Larry was an ardent supporter of CUNY Law School's mission to provide lawyers for underserved communities and a member of its advisory board.

Linda Levine. An elected Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, Linda Levine has been dedicated to advancing equity and social justice through education for over thirty years. A former professor of special education and museum education, and associate dean of the Graduate Faculty at Bank Street College, she was co-founder and first director of the Urban Education Semester - a partnership between Bank Street and the Venture Consortium colleges that affords liberal arts students an introduction to challenges and opportunities in urban teaching. In Linda’s teaching and research, she continues to highlight the need for teachers to be culturally competent and able to facilitate dialogues across difference. She has been honored as a ‘Woman of Valor’ by the Jewish Funds for Justice and a ‘Distinguished Alumna of Bank Street’ and is an ardent supporter of the Educational Video Center. Linda holds a B.A. in French literature from Smith College, an M.S. in Special Education from Bank Street, and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Anthropology and Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Katherine O'Donnell is a long time member of the faculty at Bank Street College of education Graduate School. She has been a course instructor, supervisor of interns, program director and project director and department chair. She taught Adult Development, Organizational Development and Processes of Supervision and researched stages of professional development among teachers. Her international work has been as co-director of the Bank Street College, Kathmandu University, Rato Bangala School Primary Teacher Preparation Program, a three-institution collaborative that prepares students for progressive elementary school teaching. This has been a wonderful opportunity to cope with the issues of a philosophy of one culture “fitting “ in another culture. Currently she’s in the Minds at Work program studying a model of coaching focused on addressing immunities to change. Katy received her undergraduate degree at the State University College, Buffalo, NY, a masters in education at the University of Minnesota and her Ed. D. at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Howard Rosof has been a Director of Md Advantage Insurance Co. since 2002. He was a senior banking executive with over 30 years of experience. Mr. Rosof served as Chief Credit Officer for Redwood Empire Bancorp in 1999. He also held various positions at NatWest Bancorp from 1977 until 1996 and during his last three years at the bank, he served as Chief Credit Officer. Mr. Rosof also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Lending Officer at Freedom National Bank from 1975 until 1977 and prior to 1975, he held positions at Israel Discount Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from New York University and his Master of Business Administration in Finance from Wharton Graduate Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mike Sweedler graduated from Yale in 1957 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. In 1960, he received his LLB from George Washington Law School. He has practiced law since his graduation and has been with Darby & Darby, an intellectual property law firm in New York City, for more than 40 years. Mr. Sweedler was the managing partner of the firm and is now Of Counsel. He is currently on the Board of Adaptive Design Association, a not for profit organization that seeks to provide adaptive equipment for disabled children.

D. Leslie Winter began his career in federal service working for USAID in India evaluating projects. After leaving the federal government, he started two successful businesses in New York City and after selling one of the businesses, he worked in Washington, D.C. for an international consulting firm. He was the Commissioner for Planning in the NYC Division of Real Property. Later he became the Director of Real Estate Programs for NYU’s Real Estate Institute. Mr. Winter is chairperson or director of a half dozen non-profits. He also co-founded two highly successful non-profits. He has received New York State’s Small Business Advocate of the Year Award and the Rudi Brunner Foundation Award for Economic Development Excellence. He has also received awards from the New York City Mayor’s Office, the New York City Council and the Borough President of Brooklyn.

Cecil Wray is a retired partner of the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, where his practice focused on general corporate matters. In the late 1970s, he was the managing partner of the firm's European office in Paris. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Yale Law School, and a member of various professional organizations. For five years after retiring from full-time practice, he was an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School. He is a commissioner of the Adirondack Park Agency, and has previously served on the Boards of environmental organizations. He is active in Episcopal Church affairs, and in 1995 he helped found Episcopal Charities and served as its President for seven years. He is also a Trustee of the Church Pension Fund and the Chairman of the Board of the Church Insurance Company. He is a long-time Board member (and past president) of Search and Care (an organization devoted to helping elderly home-bound people).

Fran Barrett, Executive Director, Community Resource Exchange (www.crenyc.org). Fran founded CRE 25 years ago and has been an advocate for nonprofits serving New Yorkers affected by poverty for almost three decades. She currently sits on the boards of the Non-Profit Coordinating Committee and the Community Food Resource Center. Fran formerly served as vice president of the board of the Community Service Society, and was on the board of the Campaign for Human Development. She has a master's degree in politics and education from Columbia University. Fran has been recognized by a number of organizations for her outstanding contributions to the city: The Andrew Glover Youth Program, Asian Americans for Equality, Flatbush Development Corporation, and the Industrial Areas Foundation.