Tag: Board Of Directors

Chair, Board of DirectorsMember, Audit Committee Member, Executive Committee Tim is the Supervisor of the Town of New Paltz, NY, where he lives with his family. He has been an active supporter of Writopia Lab and has served on the board since its inception in 2007, advising on everything from short-term problem solving to general…

Member, Benefit Committee Kevin R. Free is a writer/performer/director and OBIE Award winning producer whose work has been showcased and developed in many places, including the Moth Radio Hour, The Fire This Time Festival, The New Black Fest, The Blackboard Reading Series, the Estrogenius Festival, and the New York International Fringe Festival. The former Education…

Chair, Audit Committee Warren Hrung is currently the Head of Research at the American Bankers Association. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Economics and holds a PhD from UC-Berkeley, also in Economics. Warren began his career as a tax economist at the US Department of the Treasury before joining the Federal Reserve…

Co-chair, Fundraising Committee Jennifer Divina is the Manager of Donor Research and Reports on the Development Team at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and has worked as a book editor and occasional writer for over twenty years. Jennifer grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. As a child, she was often lost in a book, identifying flora and…

Co-chair, Fundraising Committee, Secretary John Christian Plummer is television writer.  Nazarenes, his original spy drama set in ancient Rome, is in development for Netflix with Sony TriStar, Affirm and Revelations producing. Mystery Island, an original whodunnit for Hallmark Mystery, premiered in 2023 and three sequels are in the works.  John wrote the 2022 Hallmark mystery hits Francesca Quinn,…

Member, Fundraising Committee Theresa (she/her) has spent the past two decades working to understand global poverty and injustice and to support efforts on the ground aimed at transforming political, economic, and social systems in order to better the lives of individuals.Theresa received her BA in Anthropology and Gender Studies from Scripps College and her PhD…

Fundraising Committee For over 15 years, Tracy has delighted in advising individuals, families, institutional foundations, businesses and communities on their philanthropy. She began her philanthropy career as a senior officer with The Pew Charitable Trusts, where she encouraged donor collaboratives and public-private partnerships. She then served with The Philanthropy Workshop from 2011-2017, ultimately as CEO,…

Board Member Rebecca founded Writopia Lab in April 2007, and currently directs the national organization. You can read the founding story in The Village Voice. She designed the organization’s mission and no-barriers sliding scale model, as well as its instructional approach, which has been embraced by thousands of children, teens, schools, and nonprofit partners across…

Board Member Jeremy Wallace-Segall is our Chief Operations officer, bringing together the efforts of our technology, human resources, media, finance, accounting, and facilities management teams to ensure that our program staff have the tools and human support to accomplish their goals. Jeremy joined Writopia Lab in 2009 with 15 years of nonprofit experience building databases…