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, Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall

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
Project Engineer, Sharp Interior Systems

Judy Billings
Board of Governors, Hollygrove Children and Family Services

Carol Oughton Biondi
Member, California Corrections Standards Authority 
Member, California State Advisory Committee On Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Commissioner, L.A. County Commission for Children and Families
Board Member, Homeboy Industries, Inc. (President) and Children’s Defense Fund
Advisory Committee, California Community Foundation Black Men and Boys Initiative

Sean Burton
President & CEO, 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
Producing Mentor Board, USC’s Peter Stark Program
Producer’s Council, the Producers Guild of America
Advisory Board, Women at NBCUniversal, Columbia College of Chicago, Heartland Film Festival and the Center of Dance Association of the Los Angeles Music Center

Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Advisory Board, USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Vice Chair, Southern California Committee of Human Rights Watch
Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
Member, Los Angeles Zoo Commission
Board Member, Getty House Foundation
Board Member, The St. Bernard Project

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.
Attorney & Community Activist

Kelly Fisher Katz
Corporate Spokesperson and Voiceover Artist
Board of Directors, P.S. Arts
Board of Directors and Chairman of Special Events, Kennedy Center National Committee for the Performing Arts

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
Board Member, Pasadena Playhouse
Board Member, South Bay Family Health Clinic

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 
Psychotherapist  
Director of Instructional Enhancement and Clinical Associate Professor, 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

Gayle Northrop
President, Northrop Nonprofit Consulting
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
Senior VP & Director of California Office, Center for American Progress
President, 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

Michael T. Schulman, Esq. (Secretary)
Partner, Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP
Director, Sierra Canyon High School Foundation

Toni Schulman
Board Member, Alliance for Children’s Rights

Clare Shephard (Chief Financial Officer)
Chief Financial & Technology Officer, Los Angeles Universal Preschool

Erin Mulcahy Stein
Partner, SDS NexGen Partners LP
Strategic Planning Committee, Windward High School
Board Member, Presentation High School
Member, Committee on the Status of Women, State of California

William Temko, Esq. (General Counsel)
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 Member, First Entertainment Credit Union, Workplace Hollywood, NAMIC and Taproot Foundation