The Trust's Distribution Committee—our governing board—is composed of 12 distinguished New Yorkers who are selected for their judgment, integrity, and understanding of the City's opportunities and challenges.

Six members of this governing board are nominated by civic authorities representing the public:

• one by the mayor of New York;
• one by the chairman of the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce;
• one by the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit;
• one by the chairman of Lincoln Center;
• one by the president of the New York City Bar Association;
• and one by the president of the New York Academy of Medicine.
  

Five more members are nominated by our Trustees' Committee, and our president serves by reason of office.

Samuel S. Polk, Chairman
Retired Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy; Trustee: Hospital for Special Surgery, Medical Indemnity Assurance Co., Ltd., Collier Foundation, Westchester Land Trust; Former Trustee: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art, Frederick R. Koch Foundation, Mitsui Trust Company.
Nominated by the Trustees' Committee.

Robert M. Kaufman, Vice Chairman
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP; Board Chairman, Old Westbury Funds, Inc.; Trustee, Brooklyn Law School; Director: Legal Momentum, Visiting Nurse Service; Chairman Emeritus: Fund for Modern Courts, Times Square Alliance; Past President: Association of the Bar of the City of New York, American Judicature Society.
Nominated by the Trustees' Committee.

Anla Cheng-Kingdon
Partner, Centenium Capital; Director: Facing History and Ourselves; Member: Asian Arts Council—Metropolitan Museum of Art, China Institute, Committee of 100; Former Board Member, The Browning School; Former Chairman, ThinkQuest Advisory Board.
Nominated by the Chairman of the New York City Partnership.

Ernest J. Collazo
Managing Partner, Collazo Carling & Mish LLP; Director: Federal Defenders of New York; Member: Advisory Committee to the Rules Committee of the Second Circuit, City Bar Delegation to the NYS Bar Association House of Delegates, Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division First Judicial Department, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Member, Executive Committee of the City Bar.
Nominated by the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Jamie Drake
Founder and Principal, Drake Design Associates; Chairman, Alpha Workshops; Member: American Society of Interior Designers, Directors’ Council Historic House Trust of New York, Interior Design Hall of Fame; Former Co-Chairman, Furnish-a-Future Industry Committee.
Nominated by the Mayor of the City of New York.

Charlynn Goins
Trustee, Brooklyn Museum of Art; Chairperson, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation; Director: AXA Financial, Gracie Mansion Conservancy; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Senior Vice President, Prudential Securities.
Nominated by the Trustees’ Committee.

Roger J. Maldonado
Partner, Balber Pickard Maldonado & Van Der Tuin, PC; Member, Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary; Executive Committee, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Board Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, National Hispanic Business Group, United Neighborhood Houses (Vice President).
Nominated by the President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Anne Moore, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Medicine, Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University; Attending Physician, New York Presbyterian Hospital; Former Director, American Board on Internal Medicine; Past President, New York Metropolitan Breast Cancer Group.
Nominated by the President of The New York Academy of Medicine.

Lorie A. Slutsky
Director, The New York Community Trust; President: Community Funds, Inc., The James Foundation; Director: AllianceBernstein LP, AXA Financial, Independent Sector; Trustee Emerita: Colgate
University, The New School; Former Director: Council on Foundations (Chairman), Foundation Center (Vice Chairman), BoardSource (Chairman), Hispanics in Philanthropy, United Way of New York City.
Member ex officio.

Estelle (Nicki) Newman Tanner
Chair, WNYC Radio; Trustee: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, UJA Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Jewish Women’s Archive; Trustee Emerita: Wellesley College, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Nominated by the Trustees’ Committee.

Consulting Members

Bruce Ballard, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Retired Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Equal Opportunity Program, Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Barbara H. Block
Board Member, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Executive Committee).

William M. Evarts
Senior Counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP; Former Chairman, The New York Community Trust Distribution Committee.

Charlotte Moses Fischman
Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP.

Barry H. Garfinkel
Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Judah Gribetz
Counsel, Bingham McCutchen LLP.

Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff
Chair Emerita, American Museum of Natural History; Former Chairman, The New York Community Trust Distribution Committee.

Carroll L. Wainwright, Jr.
Retired Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy.

Lulu C. Wang
Chief Executive Officer, Tupelo Capital Management LLC.