Board Members & Committees

Marian Niles

President

Retired Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Board Member Los Angeles Master Chorale, and Lake Forest College, Lake Forest Illinois

Leena Mathew

Vice President, Immediate Past President

Stacy Blair Young

Secretary

Realtor, Douglas Elliman; Birkman International Board of Directors

Shan Cretin

Treasurer

Retired General Secretary, American Friends Service Committee; Board of Directors, The California Endowment; Senior Scientist, RAND Corporation; Professor, UCLA School of Public Health

Winifred Neisser

Executive Director

Retired Television Development Executive-NBC, Sony Pictures. Advanced Leadership Initiative; Harvard Business School, Cultural/Ethnic Arts Leadership Program; Rutgers Business School. Current Boards: Arts for LA, Otis College of Art and Design, Charles Drew Medical Center Advisory Board

Sue Fink

Artistic Director

ACC Artistic Director

Andrew Cheeseman

Member at Large

Director, Major Accounts, Dynatrace

Liliana Filopovic

Member at Large

Joy Horowitz

Member at Large

Writer-Author; Professor of Journalism, USC Annenburg Journalism School; Los Angeles Review of Books contributing editor

Peggy Norris

Member at Large

Retired Editor at Little, Brown, McGraw Hill, Summit Books (Simon & Schuster), Franklin Watts Board of Parenting Teens Resource Network, LA

Vicki Fleisig

Member at Large

Retired Program Manager-Satellite Navigation; Raytheon Company and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Cost Account Management and Program Control Certified; FAA, 6 Sigma Specialist; Raytheon Company, Society of Women Engineers Consultant and Speaker.

Yu-Fahn Yuen

Member at Large

Retired Physician, Board Certified Ophthalmology, Board Certified Dermatology, and Board of Directors Stanford Alumni Club South Bay

Desirée Galassi

Member at Large

Retired Finance and Personnel Director ITS Entertainment Logistics; Former Certified Public Educator; Preservation Commissioner, City of Redondo Beach, CA, Sustainable Energy Commissioner for Newtown, CT,  ACC Italy Concerts Producer, Tour Lead

Maury Leiter

Member at Large

Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court

David Steinburg

Member at Large

Vice President of Marketing, Custom Decorators, Inc.; Government Liaison Officer and Disaster; Action Team responder for the American Red Cross; UCLA and Pepperdine Alumnus

Grace Benn

Member at Large

Retired Creative Producer AR/VR/MxR Experiences and Applications, USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies; Television Development Executive Animation, Sony Television; Current Board Member of the Santa Monica Pickleball Club; Past Board Member Santa Monica AYSO