PennPAC is led by an expert team of professionals, who serve on our Executive Committee, Operating Board and Advisory Board.
Recently we added professional staff to our volunteer-run management team.
Executive Committee

Founder & Executive Director
Jackie has over 20 years of strategic planning and new program development experience in the nonprofit and healthcare fields. In addition to running PennPAC, she serves on the Trustees Council of Penn Women, Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Overseers of Penn Hillel, Community Service Chair for her Penn class, and as Chair of Social Impact for PennNYC. Jackie also holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Anne Turner, WG ’94
PennPAC Vice Chair
Anne is a strategic management consultant and nonprofit manager with over 25 years of public and private sector experience, including stints at American Express and Price Waterhouse’s Strategic Consulting Group. Anne is a founding member of PennPAC, oversaw all client recruitment and consulting services for PennPAC’s first 8 years, and chairs the Nonprofit Relations function. She also consults with nonprofits on a wide range of strategic issues.

Bleema Bershad, W ’95
Secretary & Chair, Marketing & Communications

CJ Bilangino, WG ’15
Treasurer
Operating Board

Stacy Bookman, C, W ’98

Kelsey Brongo, EAS ’14

Karen Finkel, EAS ’79
Co-Chair of Nonprofit Relations
Karen has over 20 years of business experience. She has been recognized for her performance as an equity portfolio manager and her expertise encompasses investment/business analysis, non-profit consulting, and board governance. As a volunteer, Karen has worked in community health and emergency room settings, as well as at the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, where she currently tutors high school students. Her involvement with PennPAC began at an ImPACt event and on the Nonprofit Relations Team, which inspired her to become a Team Leader on multiple projects.

Nicole Goldberg, C ’98
Nicole is a nonprofit arts management professional with over twenty years of experience. In her career, she has raised critical support for New York City art museums including The Jewish Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and The Drawing Center. She specializes in grant writing, Board development, and event planning. Nicole is a member of Art Table and a Board Member of Experiments in Opera. Her involvement with PennPAC began in Spring 2019 as a volunteer consultant for the Sunnyside Community Center project.

Sarah Jiang, EAS, W ’08
Co-Chair of Volunteer Relations

Lauren Lorberbaum, C ’08
Chief Technology Officer

Craig Mills, G ’07
Chair of Mini Projects

Kevin Park, W ’17
Co-Chair of Volunteer Relations

Howard Seibel, WG ’85
Co-Chair of Business Development

Harriet Wachs Shaiman, C ’84, GED ’84, WG ’89
Co-Chair of Nonprofit Relations
Advisory Board

Tobi Bosede, C ’11
Founder, Ilekun Health

David Bradley, WG ’82
Head of Worldwide Automotive Equity Research, JP Morgan (Retired)

Crystal Caligiuri, W ’99
Chief Customer Officer, ShopKeep

Dale Kramer Cohen, W ’76, PAR ’14
President of DKC Resources & Managing Director of Sequel, Private Equity Solutions

Atish Davda, EAS, W ’08

Marcia Fox, PhD, G ’65
CEO & Founder, Fox Management Consulting

Vivien Hoexter, WG ’86
President, Aviva Strategic Advising

Scott Millstein, C ’92
Executive Director, Coro New York Leadership Center

Marc Packer, W ’81
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Susan Pechman, C ’79
Chief Marketing Officer, The NPD Group

Susan Peters, C ’89
President, Greybridge PR
Chapter Leadership

Ellen has had a 20 year career in Investment Finance, working in NY and London before moving to San Francisco 22 years ago. Her last private sector role was as SEVP, Director of Corporate Investments at Wells Fargo, where she managed a securities portfolio of over $250 Billion. After leaving finance, Ellen began doing pro-bono non-profit work with a focus on youth development and career coaching. She is on the board of Year Up Bay Area where she is also an Academic Coach, Mentor and Strategic Advisor. In addition, Ellen provides career coaching to veterans and their spouses through American Corporate Partners, and she was a Court Appointed Special Advocate for foster youth (CASA) for four years. She has worked with Girls Inc., and tutored within SFUSD through The San Francisco Education Fund.
Staff

Deputy Director
Karen Schub Epstein spent 12 years in the private sector, starting her career in public accounting at Ernst and Young. She then joined Interpublic where she focused on mergers and acquisitions, investor relations, financial analysis, human resources, systems implementations, business development and strategy.
In 2005, Karen transitioned to the nonprofit world. She spent the next 10 years at the Growth Philanthropy Network, an organization focused on building a capital marketplace for high performing organizations that serve at-risk populations. Her work there focused on evaluation, program design, strategy and operations. Since 2015, she has been consulting with a broad range of clients and was the Interim Executive Director at Change for Kids in 2018. Currently, she serves on the Boards of Change for Kids and Youth Action YouthBuild.
Karen graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in accounting and psychology, and graduated from the Executive MBA program at Columbia University with honors.

Program Coordinator
Cynthia has almost a decade of experience working in New York City’s nonprofit sector. Most recently she worked at Candid (previously Foundation Center), and before that was the Director of Administrative Services at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center.
Cynthia is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Guatemala from 2007-2009. She has a Master’s of Public Administration (MPA) from Binghamton University.