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

Mitchell Evall, Esq. (Chair)
Partner, Venable LLP

Polly Williams (President)
President, United Friends of the Children
Committee Member, L.A. County Self-Sufficiency Workgroup and ILP Budget Committee
Board Member, Raglesville Lake Foundation

Tremale Berger
Senior Project Engineer, C.W. Driver
Co-Founder & Director of Youth Initiatives, Gentlemen's Agenda

Judy Billings
Board of Governors, Hollygrove Children and Family Services

Carol Oughton Biondi
Member, California State Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Commissioner, L.A. County Commission for Children and Families
Board Member, Children’s Defense Fund
Advisory Committee, California Community Foundation Black Men and Boys Initiative (BLOOM)
Member, The Leadership Council of the Advancement Project
Former member of the California Corrections Standards Authority
Former member of the Homeboy Industries, Inc. Board of Directors

Sean Burton
President, CityView
Board of Directors & Investment Committee, CityView
Member, City of Los Angeles Planning Commission
Board of Governors, Urban Land Institute
Trustee, John Thomas Dye School

Debra Martin Chase
President & CEO, Martin Chase Productions
Board of Directors, NYC Ballet
Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College
Producing Mentor Board, USC’s Peter Stark Program
Producer’s Council, the Producers Guild of America
Advisory Board, Women at NBCUniversal and Heartland Film Festival

Robert A. Daly, Jr.
Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Securities
Founding Member, the Junior Committee for the Stephen D Hassenfeld Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders

Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Chair, Advisory Board, USC Center on Public Diplomacy
International Board Member, Human Rights Watch
Co-Chair, California Committee South, Human Rights Watch
Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
Member, Los Angeles Zoo Commission

David Fisher
Chairman Emeritus, Capital Group International, Inc. 
Trustee Emeritus, J. Paul Getty Trust
Board of Trustees, Alliance for College Ready Public Schools, Alternative Living for the Aging, California Institute for the Arts, Lowe Institute, and Harvard-Westlake School
Advisory Board Member, UCLA School of Public Policy, International Monetary Fund Retirement Plan and Monetary Authority of Singapore 

Marianna Fisher
Chairperson, Westside Children’s Center

Carol Fuchs, Esq.
Writer and Producer

Kelly Fisher Katz
Corporate Spokesperson and Voiceover Artist
Image and Marketing Director, Martin Katz, Ltd.
Vice Chairman, Kennedy Center National Committee for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC
Board of Directors, P.S. Arts
AVIVA, Volunteer
Dream Center, Volunteer

Denny Luria, Ph.D
Psychologist
Board of Director's, Creative Kids Education Foundation and Center for the Study of Women's Psychology

Graciela Meibar
Vice President, Global Sales Training & Global Diversity, Mattel, Inc.
Board Member, the Los Angeles Urban League, Executive Committee Member
Leadership Council Member, United Negro College Fund

Richard Merkin, M.D.
Founder + CEO, Heritage Provider Network
Founder, Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
Board of Trustees, California Institute Of Technology
Board of Directors, The Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools

Wendy B. Meyer, Ph.D., LCSW
Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Clinical Associate Professor, USC School of Social Work
Board of Councilors, USC School of Social Work
Board of Directors, Venice Family Clinic Foundation
Chair, Mental Health & Child Development Subcommittee, Venice Family Clinic
Board of Directors, ACLU Foundation of Southern California
Advisory Committee, Children's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

Gayle Northrop
President, Northrop Nonprofit Consulting
Associate Director, Johnson & Johnson's Partnership for Management Development
Faculty, Anderson School at UCLA and the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
Advisory Board Member, Johnson & Johnson / UCLA Health Care Executive Program
Founding Board Member, Clothes The Deal

Ande Rosenblum
Parent Board, The Buckley School
Member, Anne Banning, Operation School Bell
Member, Free Clinic Dinner Gala Committee 
Member, Stanford University Parent Advisory Board
Chairperson, Stanford University Parent Partners Program
Board Member, University of Southern California School of Social Work

Araceli Ruano
Commissioner, Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Trustee, California Institute of the Arts
Member, Roy and Edna CalArts Theatre Council
Board Member, Project of Justice in Times of Transition
Trustee, Mexican American Bar Foundation
Board Member, the Alliance for College Ready Public Schools

Nadine Schiff-Rosen
Circle of Friends of The Help Group
Board of Maria Shriver's Open Field (on the Women's Conference Board for seven years)
Member of Pacific Council

Toni Schulman
Board Member, Alliance for Children’s Rights
Past Board Chair , Alliance for Children’s Rights
Annual Dinner Co-Chair, Alliance for Children’s Rights
Executive Committee and Policy Committee, Alliance for Children’s Rights
Imagine LA Homeless Program Leader, Wilshire Blvd Temple

Erin Mulcahy Stein
Partner, SDS NexGen Partners LP
Equality Now
The Open Field Foundation
Make-A-Wish of Los Angeles

William Temko, Esq. (General Counsel)
Partner, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP
Co-Chair, California Committee South of Human Rights Watch

Kiko Washington
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources, Warner Bros. Entertainment
Board Member, First Entertainment Credit Union and Taproot Foundation

Clare Yorkison (Chief Financial Officer)
Chief Financial Officer, Private Health Management