Staff & Board
Staff
Frances Hoover, Executive Director
Natasha Liggins, Program Director
Zoe Lowry, Associate Director of Communications
Shadirah Myrick, Office Manager
Jim Neal, Director of Facilities & Operations
Neil Thompson, Manager of Visitor Services
Board
Anna Forrester, President, CityPlay
Marc Mannella, Vice President, Mannella Consulting
Erik Sendel, Treasurer, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Shanell Ransom, Secretary, Samuel S Fels Fund
Lindsey Ermey, Ballard Spahr LLP
Virginia G. Essandoh, J.D., Ballard Spahr LLP
Erin Galbally, Thomas Jefferson University
Charles Henries, Independence Blue Cross
James Kearney, Vanguard
Abby Kelton Thaker, Free Library of Philadelphia
Joe Khan, Bucks County Solicitor
Mary Beth McNeish Fedirko, The Philadelphia School
Kathy E. Ochroch, Blank Rome LLP
Ivy Olesh, Playworks
Betty J. Pettine, Wells Fargo Private Bank
Nedia Ralston, Office of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf
Rupali Shah, BakerHostetler
Meghan Talarowski, Studio Ludo
Jamie Unkefer, DIGSAU
Cynthia Warren, M.D., FAAP, Center City Pediatrics
Stephen Wielgus, University of Pennsylvania
Advisory Committee
The Hon. Donna Bullock, PA State Representative, District 195
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow at Temple University
Eric Jones, Head of School, Community Partnership School
The Hon. Malcolm Kenyatta, PA State Representative, District 181
Kathryn Ott Lovell, Commissioner, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation
