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Staff DirectoryLeadership & Administration:
WHEDco’s Programs:
Executive LeadershipNancy Biberman President Davon Russell Executive Vice President Tom Guiltinan Chief Financial Officer Rebecca Kramnick General Counsel and VP for Governmental and External Relations
Development & CommunicationsDebbie Grunbaum Director, Communications and Development Eva Neubauer Alligood Senior Director for Program and Development Rachel Barany Development Officer Julia Roberts Development Officer Hilary Whitham Communications & Development Assistant
Research & EvaluationMeredith Reitman Director, Research & Evaluation Elizabeth Valone Program, Quality Assurance Specialist FinanceMaruja Saavedra Senior Human Resources Administrator Maggie Colon Controller
Education & Youth DevelopmentKatie Aylwin Director of Youth Programs Chris Nieves Director of After-school, PS 2/63 Kellyann Harvey Youth Programs Assistant
Home-based Childcare Microenterprise Network/Childcare Improvement ProjectDiana Perez Director Home-based Childcare Services
Family SupportDoxene Roberts LCSW/ACSW Director of Family Support Services
Head Start – Early Childhood Discovery CenterRose P. Rivera Director Head Start –Early Childhood Discovery Center Margarita Rojas Education Director, MS Constance Manley Family Worker Lauris Laureano Family Worker Housing & Community DevelopmentValerie Neng Director of Housing and Community Development Colleen Weigle Project Manager, Housing Development Kerry McLean Community Development Project Manager/Planner Urban Horizons KitchenMarcus Gotay Kitchen Manager Information TechnologyEric Maten Director Executive Leadership & Program Director BiographiesNancy Biberman President, has long been working to make the Bronx a more beautiful, more prosperous place. As the Founder and President of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco), Nancy foresaw the profound community-wide economic and educational opportunities that would result from transforming the abandoned Morrisania Hospital complex into the award-winning, architecturally stunning Urban Horizons Economic Development Center. Founded in 1991, WHEDco realizes Nancy’s vision of providing low-income women and families with both affordable homes and high quality solutions to the obstacles they face. As a practicing legal services attorney and Director of the East Side SRO Law Project, Nancy's early career focused on housing and domestic violence issues affecting low-income families. After completing a Revson Fellowship at the Columbia University School of Architecture and Planning, she developed the West End Intergenerational Residence, an award-winning program that integrates homeless adults with young families. Nancy began restoring the Bronx in the late ‘80s, when she led an organization that redeveloped 23 abandoned buildings into over 700 affordable apartments. She was acutely aware, however, that housing alone was not going to lift families out of poverty, especially in a borough as devastated as the Bronx. Nancy is a graduate of Barnard College and Rutgers Law School, has taught at NYU and CUNY, and was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a Johnson Fellow at the Fannie Mae Foundation. She has served as a Trustee of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Freelancers Insurance Company and the Hostos Community College Foundation.top Tom Guiltinan Chief Financial Officer has been at WHEDco since 2004. Prior to joining WHEDco, he worked with a start-up community development venture capital fund known as Opportunity Growth Fund here in New York. Before that, Mr. Guiltinan worked for Yale University Properties in New Haven, where he was responsible for overseeing and strengthening Yale's community development initiatives. For a summer, he worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation researching and assembling a database to critique the art museum industry and develop a more sustainable business model for museums. Mr. Guiltinan started his professional career in Philadelphia, where he was Executive Director of United Communities Community Development Corporation, an organization devoted to revitalizing an economically distressed urban community through planning, real estate development, and economic development initiatives. He earned an MBA from Yale University and a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He has served on the board of several not-for-profits, including the Greater Dwight Development Corporation in New Haven and the Grass Roots Alliance for a Solar Pennsylvania. top Rebecca Kramnick General Counsel and VP for Governmental and External Relations joined WHEDco in 2005 after serving as a senior staff attorney at Lawyers Alliance for New York, a nonprofit provider of legal services to New York City’s community-based organizations. At Lawyers Alliance, Ms. Kramnick headed the employment group, advising nonprofits on human resources and personnel matters. She also directed Lawyers Alliance's youth services initiative, advising nonprofits on a wide range of legal issues related to working with children. Ms. Kramnick frequently lectured to nonprofit managers on employment law, nonprofit law, contracts, insurance, volunteers and other topics. She has led workshops for the Robin Hood Foundation, The After-School Corporation and United Way of New York City. She has taught continuing legal education courses to attorneys on subjects related to nonprofit and employment law. She is a co-author of The Volunteer Workforce: Legal Issues and Best Practices for Nonprofits, published by Lawyers Alliance for New York. top As the Director of Education & Youth Development, Mr. Russell coordinated and supervised the After-School, Summer Arts, and Teen programs. He managed a staff of over 100 with a $1.3 million budget and served as the liaison between WHEDco and the school’s staff. In fall 2006, he launched an additional after-school program at PS 2 in Morrisania. Mr. Russell is the 2001 recipient of the PASEsetter Award Certificate in recognition of outstanding service to New York City’s youth from the Partnership for After-School Education. He serves as a Program Coach in The After School Corporation's Coach-Mentee Program, and the Advisory Committee of the Madison Square Garden Cheering For Children Foundation. Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión appointed Mr. Russell to serve on the Community Education Council of the New York City Department of Education. Mr. Russell holds earned a BA in Telecommunications and Film and a MA in Theatre from the University of Oregon, Eugene. He worked as a professional actor for five years. top Prior to joining WHEDco in 1995, she worked with the Athena Project. Her background also includes working as a parent educator with the Mount Hope Housing Corporation in the Bronx, and training in early childhood development, child abuse, and family day care at Bank Street College of Education. Ms. Perez is a advocate and advisor on policy and licensing issues and practices. top Doxene Roberts, LCSW/ACSW Director of Family Support Services manages both WHEDco’s center- and school-based Family Support programs that that helps women and their families with basic needs and wrap-around supportive services. She develops and oversees protocols and systems consistent with accepted social work standards. She joined WHEDco’s staff in March 1998 with over a decade of clinical and administrative experience working with individuals and families in the Bronx and Westchester. Ms. Roberts serves as Treasurer of the Board of Directors of Prevent Child Abuse New York and organizes a neighborhood walk each April to raise support and awareness. top Rose Rivera Director of Head Start –Early Childhood Discovery Center joined WHEDco in 1997 to direct our on-site childcare facility that fully services the needs of 104 neighborhood pre-school children and their families each year. She has over 30 years of experience in the field of childhood education – as an assistant teacher, paraprofessional, and teacher – in both public and private school settings. Ms. Rivera previously worked as an early childhood program developer for the American Red Cross, director of an LPOS pre-school, and education director for a Head Start program for The Children's Aid Society's Community Schools Program in Upper Manhattan. top Valerie Neng Director of Housing & Community Development, joined WHEDco in 2007. She is leading WHEDco's green building efforts, including programs for whole building health, tenant education, green property and asset management practices, and implementing a multi-year energy retrofit project. She also seeks new development opportunities in the South Bronx that align with WHEDco's mission to provide beautiful, green, and affordable housing. Prior to WHEDco, Ms. Neng worked in several capacities at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD), including project management and underwriting for multifamily new construction projects. Before entering public service, Ms. Neng was a researcher with consulting firm McKinsey & Company. She has a B.A. in International Studies from Southern Methodist University.top
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