Board of Directors

Officers

President
Patricia Mullahy Fugere, Esq.
Executive Director
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

Vice President
Shalita O’Neale
Founder and Director, Maryland Foster Youth Resource Center, Foster Care Alumna

Treasurer/Secretary
Rutledge Hutson
Child Welfare Director, Center on Law and Social Policy

Members

Rod Solomon, Esq.
Partner, Hawkins, Delafield & Wood LLP

Michael Kelly
Executive Director, New York City Housing Authority

Caren Kaplan
Director of Child Protection Reform
American Humane

Agnes Leshner
Child Welfare Director
Montgomery County (MD) Department of Children and Families

Karen Wallensak
Executive Director
Catholic Charities Housing Resource Center
Archdiocese of St. Louis, MO

Mark Courtney, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Partners for Our Children
Professor, University of Washington School of Social Work

Karolyn Gould
Founder, South Bronx Human Development Organization, Youth Independent Living Resource Center

Gordon Cavanaugh, Esq.
Attorney

Gerald G. Benoit
Former Director of Section 8 for HUD
Consultant, Nan McKay and Associates

David Berns
Executive Vice President of Child and Family Services
Casey Family Programs

Peter Nucci
Executive Director
The Connection, Inc.

Family Representative
The Connection, Inc.
New Haven, CT

Cheryl Zlotnick, Dr. P.H
Director
Center for the Vulnerable Child, Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland, Oakland, CA

Harry Spence
Former Receiver, Boston Housing Authority
Former Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Social Services

Debra Rog, Ph.D.
Vice President
Westat

Connie Lassandro, Executive Director, Nassau County Department of Housing and Community Development