Board Listing

UFC’s Board of Directors is currently organized into seven standing and operating committees: Executive, Finance, Audit, Governance, Development, Pathways, and Education.

UFC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Wendy B. Meyer, LCSW, Ph.D. (Chair)
Psychotherapist  
Director of Instructional Enhancement and Adjunct Professor, USC School of Social Work
Board of Councilors, USC School of Social Work
Board of Directors, Venice Family Clinic and American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California
Advisory Committee, Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

Polly Williams (President)
President, United Friends of the Children
Committee Member, Transition Age Youth (TAY) Partnership, TAY Workgroup and ILP Budget Committee

Judy Billings
Board of Governors, Hollygrove Children and Family Services

Carol Oughton Biondi
Member, California Corrections Standards Authority (Appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger)
Member, California State Advisory Committee On Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger)
Commissioner, L.A. County Commission for Children and Families
Board of Directors, Loyola Law School, Center for Juvenile Law and Policy, Homeboy Industries, Inc., and Children’s Defense Fund

Debra Martin Chase
President & CEO, Martin Chase Productions
Producer’s Council of the Producers Guild of America
President’s Advisory Committee, Columbia College of Chicago
Producing Mentor Board, USC’s Peter Stark Program

Kimberly Marteau Emerson
President, Los Angeles Zoo Commission
California Committee of Human Rights Watch

Mitchell Evall, Esq. (General Counsel)
Partner, Weissman, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall

David Fisher
Chairman, The Capital Group Companies
Board of Directors, UCLA and Harvard-Westlake School

Marianna Fisher
Chairperson, Westside Children’s Center

Carol Fuchs, Esq.
Attorney & Community Activist

Kelly Fisher Katz
Public Relations and Special Events, Martin Katz, LTD
Vice President, Rape Treatment Center Support Council

Denny Luria, Ph.D
Psychologist

Peter B. Manzo, Esq.
President/CEO, United Ways of California

Richard Merkin, M.D.
CEO, Heritage Medical Network
Founder, Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
Board of Trustees, California Institute Of Technology
Chair, Business and Economic Council, Asia Society Southern California
Board of Directors, The Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools

Gayle Northrop
President, Northrop Nonprofit Consulting

Ande Rosenblum
Parent Board, The Buckley School
Stanford Parent Advisory Board

Michael T. Schulman, Esq. (Secretary)
Partner, Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro & Schulman, LLP

Toni Schulman
Chairperson, Alliance for Children’s Rights

Clare Shephard (Vice Chair)
Chief Financial Officer, Los Angeles Universal Preschool

Erin Mulcahy Stein
Executive Director, California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women

William Temko, Esq. (Chief Financial Officer)
Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Co-Chair, California Committee of Human Rights Watch

Antonio Villaraigosa
Mayor, City of Los Angeles

Kiko Washington
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources, Warner Bros. Entertainment
Board of Directors, First Entertainment Credit Union, Workplace Hollywood and NAMIC