Alberto Minujin is professor at The New School University, New York. Minujin is Founding Executive Director of Equity for Children and Equidad para la Infancia, a non-profit working to improve living conditions for deprived children (www.equityfrochildren.org). A UNICEF Senior Officer from 1990-2005, Minujin is a mathematician with training in Applied Statistics and Demography. From 2013 to 2018 Minujin served on the Board of Comparative Research on Poverty (CROP), a Scientific Committee at the University of Bergen. He has authored volumes including “Leaving No Children and No Adolescents Behind” Ibedem (2021), “Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America”, CROP-Ibidem (2017),”Global Child Poverty and Well-Being”, Policy Press (2012). In 2010, Minujin was awarded the Bicentennial Medal by the government of Argentina in recognition of his decades-long work on behalf of the world’s most impoverished children and adolescents.
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Gabriel administers Equity for Children, overseeing all the programmatic areas including project design and implementation, strategic communications, and fundraising. He is a parent and committed child rights advocate. His research interest focus on social innovation and effective policies for the reduction of poverty and urban inequality. Gabriel has a law degree from Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, in international law and human rights. He received an M.A. in International Affairs from The New School, prior to that, he obtained an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
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Born in Rosario, Argentina; she holds a degree in Education Sciences, a master’s in political philosophy and education, and is a doctoral candidate in Education. She works on issues related to Childhood and Education. She is a university professor of Pedagogy at the National University of Rosario. She is the author of the book “Conjugations: Toward an Ethical and Aesthetic Education”, published by Editorial El Remanso, Rosario, 2014. Leandra held various management positions in the municipal government, in the areas of Childhood and Education.
She coordinated the project “La Ciudad de los Niños” (The City of Children) and was part of the design and training team for the Childhood Triptych. She served as the Director of Education and the Director of the Children’s Garden.
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Stephanie is a human rights lawyer from Peru and a graduate student in anthropology at The New School, specializing in childhood, indigenous rights, and issues related to the Amazon. She holds a law degree, a Master’s in Human Rights, and a specialization in Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism in Latin America from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, as well as a Master’s in Law with an emphasis on Transitional Justice from the Universidad del Rosario. Professionally, she has worked as a legal consultant for various Peruvian institutions and non-governmental organizations, focusing on participation, access to justice, and gender-based violence.
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Agustina Orseli is a specialist in communication, social media, and digital marketing. She holds a diploma in Data Science, a degree in Communication, and a degree in Tourism with a specialization in analysis and processes. Her experience includes communication management, team leadership, and data analysis, shaping a comprehensive and strategic profile.
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Jace Schinderman is an expert in board development and strategic management of non-profit institutions, especially in education from pre-school through post-graduate learning. Since 2006 when she founded consultancy JLS Enterprises, Schinderman has served a range of clients including the Bronx Children’s Museum, Equity for Children at The New School, Archdiocese of New York, Rice University, Jewish Theological Seminary, NYU Langone Medical Center Cancer Institute and Touro Hospital of New Orleans.
As Associate Dean of Columbia Business School from 1990-2006, Schinderman staffed the 80-member Board of Overseers, supervised marketing and communications and developed and operated the Chazen Institute of International Business. Before Columbia, she worked at the Illinois Institute of Technology and Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, which she joined after founding and operating for six years the social services program Crescent House, Louisiana’s first shelter for battered women and children.
Schinderman serves as Independent Director of alternative investment funds at Oppenheimer & Co. and Macquarie Group. She is a graduate student in Johns Hopkins University’s M.A. in Writing program and received her BA and MBA degrees from Tulane University. Schinderman speaks Spanish, Italian and French.
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Tom Fernandez is a founder of Balto Therapeutics, a specialty pharmaceutical company in New York. Previously, he co-founded Retrophin, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and marketing innovative therapies for rare, catastrophic childhood diseases. Before that, he was a partner at a family of hedge funds, Galleon Group, where he led Investor Relations and the marketing effort. Prior to Galleon, Tom was Assistant Dean for MBA Career Services and Director of The Chazen Institute of International Business at Columbia Business School. He is a Trustee of Synchronicity Earth, a UK-based nonprofit dedicated to preserving global biodiversity. Tom holds a BA in History from Yale University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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Marilyn F. Kohn, is Associate Dean of Institutional Advancement at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies. Prior to this Marilyn was Vice Chancellor and Chief Development Officer of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Marilyn has been a development professional for 30 years. She directed and worked with fundraising teams for a variety of organizations, large and small, including serving as director of Principal Gifts at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Associate Dean of External Relations and Development of Columbia Business School. Prior to that, she served as Vice President of Caesar & Washburn Incorporated, consulting with clients such as Cancer Care, Facing History and Ourselves, Jewish Home and Hospital, Ms. Foundation, and Victim Services.
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Tamara Kreinin is the Director of the Reproductive Health program at the Packard Foundation. Prior to that, Tamara served as the executive director of women and population at the United Nations Foundation where she designed and implemented initiatives to improve life for women and girls globally, with an emphasis on reproductive health, comprehensive programs for adolescent girls, U.S. policy on behalf of women and girls globally, global south advocacy, and partnerships with UN agencies. Tamara’s experience in health and human services spans more than 25 years. She has traveled the globe as an advocate and public policy advisor for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Throughout her career, Tamara has been a passionate voice for social justice and social change. She has consulted in the areas of advocacy, fundraising, public relations, and numerous issues related to social change domestically and internationally. She has advised governors, legislators, state and local public health officials, parliamentarians, and advocates on effective public health policy; and has worked on numerous political campaigns. Tamara is the co-author of Girls’ Night Out, a book about women’s groups across America, published in 2002 by Crown, Random House. Tamara holds a Masters in Health Services Administration (M.H.S.A.) from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
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