CWOP Board
Our current
Board members are:
- Jillian Cohen, Social Work Supervisor, Center for Family Representation, former CWOP student interm
- John Courtney, Fund for Social Change, former Contributing
Editor, Child Welfare Watch, former Associate Executive, Little Flower
Children's Services, former NYC Child Welfare Administration, Director of Program Planning.
- Kaela Economos, Programs Officer, Child Welfare Fund, former CWOP student interm
- Eloisa Gordon-Mora, Safe Horizon
- Jacquelyn Israel, Parent Advocate, Graham Windham
- Terrasina Johnson, Parent Advocate, Columbia Presbyterian Mediacal Center, 2004 CWOP East Harlem Parent Leadership Curriculum graduate
- Bevanjae Kelley, 2004 CWOP East Harlem Parent Leadership Curriculum graduate
- Jeremy Kohomban, Ph.D., Treasurer, President and CEO, The Children's Village and the Center for Child Welfare Research, former Senior Vice President, Easter Seals NY/NY/VT & ME, and president of the DC-based National Asssociation for Family Based Services 2000-2003
- Terry Mizrahi, Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work, Director, Education Center for Community Organizing,
former National Association of Social Workers President
- Sharwline Nicholson, Chair, Lead plaintiff, Nicholson v. Williams
- Rosita Pagan, Parent Advocate, Children's Village, graduate of CWOP's 2005 East Harlem Leadership Curriculum
- Milagros Sanchez, Outreach Worker, CASAWorks/Palladia, 2004 CWOP East Harlem Parent Leadership Curriculum graduate
- Lauren Shapiro, Director, Family Law Unit, South Brooklyn Legal Services
Corp. B
- Julie Vasquez, Parent Aide, Family Consultation Services Bushwick Family
Rehabilitation Program, graduate of CWOP's Bushwick Parent Leadership Initiative
- Robin Wiley, 2003 CWOP East Harlem Leadership Curriculum graduate
- Voices of Youth, Organizational Seat, a consulting and advocacy
organization founded and led by and for young adults who are, or have
been, in foster care
- Jill Zuccardy, Attorney and Director of Sanctuary for Families' Child Protection Project, trial and appellate co-counsel in Nicholson v. Williams
Former Board Members:
Alfred Herbert
Thomas Hoffman
Julia MacGuire
Denice Williams