Our Board

Loree D. Jones-Brown

Chair

Loree D. Jones-Brown serves as Chief Executive Officer for Philabundance, a nonprofit hunger relief organization. Prior to that role, Ms. Jones-Brown served as Chief of Staff at Rutgers University-Camden. Previously, she was Chief of External Affairs for the School District of Philadelphia and Chief of Staff and Executive Director of the Office of the School Reform Commission. Ms. Jones-Brown also served in two cabinet level positions for the City of Philadelphia: Managing Director and Secretary of External Affairs. Her nonprofit experience includes serving as co-Executive Director of City Year Greater Philadelphia, an educational nonprofit that deploys young leaders for a year of service as tutors and mentors to public school students, and as Executive Director of the African Studies Association, the largest scholarly association for the study of Africa in the world. Ms. Jones-Brown currently serves on multiple Boards of Directors, including Health Partnership Plans, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the Independence Foundation. She is a member of the UNCF Philadelphia Leadership Council and the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice advisory board.  As an Eisenhower Fellow, she studied how South African municipalities provide social services. Ms. Jones-Brown was the recipient of the Urban League of Philadelphia’s inaugural Whitney M. Young Jr. Young Leader Award, was identified as one of the “10 People Under 40 to Watch” by the Philadelphia Tribune Magazine, and was twice recognized as a “Connector” by Leadership Philadelphia. She holds a Bachelor in Art History degree from Spelman College and a Master in History degree with concentrations in 20th Century African History, African American Studies, and 20th Century American History from Princeton University.

Leslie M. Walker

Vice Chair

Leslie M. Walker serves as the Executive Director of the Sixers Youth Foundation, a nonprofit extension of the Philadelphia 76ers and a regional philanthropy focused on youth development across the Delaware Valley. Prior to that role, Leslie served as the Interim Director of the Free Library of Philadelphia where she managed and directed the operations of the Library, composed of 54 library branches, while providing leadership to a staff of over 750 employees. Ms. Walker began her role at the Library in 2017 as the Chief of Staff. Ms. Walker has over 20 years of experience working on behalf of vulnerable children and families in the Philadelphia region with a concentration in early childhood education, program development, implementation, and evaluation. She serves on several boards and advisory committees of community-focused organizations and is a coach and mentor as well. Ms. Walker holds a Bachelor in Urban Studies degree from Rutgers Camden College of Arts and Sciences and a Master of Science in Training and Organizational Development degree from Saint Joseph’s University.

Peter J. Zuleba, III

Treasurer

Peter J. Zuleba, III, CFA®, is Director of Investments for the Glenmede Trust Company, N.A. and Glenmede Investment Management LP (GIM). Mr. Zuleba is a member of Glenmede’s Management Committee and Chair of the Investment Policy Committee. Since joining Glenmede in 2004, Mr. Zuleba has held a number of senior leadership roles, including serving as President of GIM. He joined Glenmede following a nearly two decade career at J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. During his tenure, he created and managed the company’s US large-cap growth equity strategy. In addition, he managed discretionary assets for private clients, endowments, and foundations. Mr. Zuleba received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Delaware and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Miami. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the New York and Philadelphia Society of Security Analysts. Mr. Zuleba serves on the Board for St. James School and is the Treasurer for Philadelphia Health Partnership.

Lorena E. Ahumada

Lorena E. Ahumada is Of Counsel to Kleinbard LLC and member of the Litigation Department. She practices in the areas of complex commercial litigation, employment litigation and counseling, and insurance coverage. She also regularly counsels private and public employers on a broad range of issues, including compliance with civil rights and equal employment laws, hiring and firing practices, wage/hour and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) requirements, and racial and sexual harassment investigation practices. Prior to joining Kleinbard, Ms. Ahumada was an associate at Ballard Spahr LLP and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Petrese B. Tucker in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Before law school, she served as a congressional liaison in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and worked in the Environment Division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ms. Ahumada holds a Bachelor degree from the University of New Hampshire and Law degree from The George Washington University Law School.

José A. Bauermeister

José A. Bauermeister is a Penn Presidential Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the School of Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health and in the Perelman School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. His career focuses on developing community-engaged health promotion programs for racial/ethnic and sexual and gender minority youth, including interventions related to HIV/STI prevention and care. His scholarship includes over 200 scientific publications, supported by over $25 million as principal investigator and over $115 million as co-investigator in federally funded research grants. Dr. Bauermeister holds a Bachelor in Psychology degree from the University of Puerto Rico and a joint Master and Doctorate Public Health degree from the University of Michigan. Dr. Bauermeister is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute’s 2019 class of Health Innovators Fellows and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He is also a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Jordan A. Brown

Jordan A. Brown is a Vice President at 1315 Capital, a healthcare growth equity firm based in Philadelphia. In this role, she invests in growth-stage healthcare services, medical technology, and specialty therapeutics businesses. Previously, Jordan worked on the investment team at Northwell Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Northwell Health where she made investments in several early-stage healthcare companies. She began her career at Piper Jaffray in their Healthcare Investment Banking group and also spent time at a biopharmaceutical company doing mergers and acquisitions. Jordan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ted Dallas

Ted Dallas is President and Chief Operating Officer at Merakey, a leading developmental, behavioral health, and education non-profit provider offering a breadth of integrated services to individuals and communities across the country. Prior to serving as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Merakey, Mr. Dallas served as the Secretary of the Department of Human Services in Pennsylvania and as a Senior Advisor to Governor Wolf. During his tenure, Secretary Dallas implemented significant reforms to help vulnerable populations including a full Medicaid expansion that provided healthcare to approximately 715,000 Pennsylvanians who were previously uninsured. Previously, Mr. Dallas served as the Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources. Under his leadership, the Department set state records for moving individuals from welfare to work, collecting the highest amounts of child support in the state’s history, and serving children in the foster care system in a family setting. Mr. Dallas also served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Martin O’Malley in Maryland, as the Executive Deputy Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, and as First Deputy Managing Director for the City of Philadelphia. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for MANNA, as a member of the Board of Trustees for the HealthShare Exchange, and as a member of the Board of Directors for RCPA and Provanta. Mr. Dallas holds a Bachelor in Political Science and Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration in Executive Management from the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

Nadia L. Dowshen

Nadia L. Dowshen MD, MSHP is a faculty member at PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and serves as Director of Adolescent HIV Services in the Craig Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at CHOP. She is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania and a Stoneleigh Fellow. In addition to specialized care for youth living with HIV/AIDS, Dr. Dowshen provides general adolescent medical care at CHOP and Covenant House, PA, a Philadelphia youth shelter. She co-founded the CHOP Sexuality and Gender Development Clinic which now provides medical and psychosocial support to more than 2000 gender variant children and adolescents. Dr. Dowshen’s research focuses on using youth-friendly technology to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy and improve other health outcomes for adolescents living with HIV/AIDS. She was recently named an NIH Adolescent Trials Network (ATN) Scholar and a Best Young Investigator by the National Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR). Dr. Dowshen serves on the Board of Directors of the Sexual Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), a national non-profit which promotes comprehensive education about sexuality and advocates for the right of individuals to make responsible sexual choices. Dr. Dowshen received both her Doctor of Medicine and Master of Science in Health Policy Research from the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael G. Horsey

Michael G. Horsey, CPA is the CEO and Chairman of Horsey, Buckner & Heffler LLP. He previously served as the Managing Partner of the Philadelphia office of Mitchell & Titus. Mr. Horsey has over 39 years of experience in audit, taxation, and financial analysis with a focus on serving not-for-profit organizations, state and local government agencies, and private clients. Prior to joining Mitchell & Titus, he spent several years at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and Johnson & Johnson Co. Mr. Horsey is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), and the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a member of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Police Athletic League, Avenue of the Arts, Inc., Mu Omega Foundation, Committee of Seventy, and the Black Women in Sports Foundation. Mr. Horsey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.

Kamilah C. Jackson

Kamilah C. Jackson is the Medical Director for PerformCare New Jersey, the contracted system administrator for the New Jersey Children’s System of Care. In that role, she is responsible for medical policy pertaining to the quality of behavioral health care for children with behavioral health, substance use, and intellectual disability challenges up to age 21. Previously, Dr. Jackson was Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Children’s Services at Community Behavioral Health (CBH) and the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) in Philadelphia. Dr. Jackson holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University, a Medical Doctorate from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her Adult Psychiatry residency at the Emory University School of Medicine. At the Yale Child Study Center, Dr. Jackson completed a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, served as Chief Resident, and was an Edward Zigler Social Policy Fellow. She subsequently completed the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jackson is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. She is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and serves as a volunteer faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.

Nimrit K. Kang

Nimrit K. Kang is Co-Chief Investment Officer and Senior Portfolio Manager at NorthStar, where she provides high net-worth clients and non-profit organizations with integrative and effective portfolio management that connects social concerns to security selection, asset allocation, and activism. In this role, Ms. Kang works closely with the equity research, portfolio management, and client service teams to deliver highly personalized portfolios that integrate financial goals while upholding a commitment to social change and environmental sustainability. Prior to joining NorthStar, Ms. Kang was a partner, Portfolio Manager, and Director of Research at Coho Partners, a long-only investment manager with $10 billion in assets under management and advisement. While at Coho Partners, she championed the holistic integration of material environmental, social, and governance (ESG) perspectives across the research process and led the vision and end-to-end process design for the firm’s standalone ESG strategy. Before joining Coho in 2017, Ms. Kang was the Director of Research and Investment strategy for MissionSquare Retirement where she was responsible for leading manager research and due diligence and ongoing oversight across $10 billion AUM in multi-managed equity strategies. She also spent more than 10 years in various equity research and portfolio management roles at DuPont Capital Management. Ms. Kang currently serves on the Board of Directors and Audit, Finance, and Investment Committee of Philadelphia Health Partnership, the Finance Committee of The Community’s Foundation (TCF), and the Sustainable Investing Leadership Group of the CFA Society of Philadelphia. She is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia and the CFA Institute and served as a board member for the CFA Society of Philadelphia from 2013-2016. Ms. Kang graduated magna cum laude from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering, and she received a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.

Shelly D. Yanoff

Shelly D. Yanoff is the former Executive Director of Public Citizens for Children and Youth, where she played a major role in expanding the scope and quality of services to children and their families. A lawyer by training, Ms. Yanoff has been fighting for children and families for more than four decades. In the mid-1960s, she crafted the strategy to save the “Get Set” day care program for youngsters in Philadelphia and led 2,000 Philadelphians to Harrisburg to insist on more support for neglected children. In the mid-1990s, she helped organize more than 10,000 people from the Philadelphia region to travel to Washington to urge the investment in children. Ms. Yanoff served as Chair of the Governor’s Commission on Children and Families under then Governor Ed Rendell and was a member of the Philadelphia Commission on Children and the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board. Ms. Yanoff is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gimbel Philadelphia Award, the Edward S. Espen Humanitarian Award, The John B. Patterson Award for Excellence in Public Education, The Take the Lead Award, The Fleurette Angel National Child Advocate Award, and the Red Cross’ Clara Barton Humanitarian Award. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Villanova University School of Law.