board members

Board of Trustees

Taro Alexander, actor, teacher, Founder & Director, Our Time

Evan R. Bell, Managing Partner of personal financial and business management firm, Bell & Co.

Everett Bradley, musician/performer, musical director, Our Time

David Friedman (Treasurer) Vice President, Penmark Realty

Brandon K. Guidry (Secretary) legal assistant, Office of Cabot J. Marks, Esq.

Charles E. Helme (Chair). Managing Director, BH Asset Management, LLC

Fred Kaplowitz, President, The Kaploe Group

Budd Mayer (Chair Emeritus), entrepreneur

Jennifer McGuire, art therapist

Fred Nelson, President, People's Choice Awards

Clifford Perlman, Esq., Our Time parent, partner, Perlman & Perlman, LLP

Kate Popovich, Our Time parent

Paul Rudd, actor

Liz Tuccillo (Vice-Chair), writer

Advisory Board

Jace Alexander, director

Tessa Blake, director

Peter Bonerz, actor, director

Tara Bracco, writer, founder of Poetic People Power

Donisha Brown, actor

Brenda Buksha, Our Time parent

Lindsay Campbell, Our Time alum, first ever company member of Our Time

Dave Chappelle, comedian, actor, writer

Mel Chasen, entrepreneur

Arnold J. Civins, CPA, partner, Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP

Noah Cornman, vice president, Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records

Jackie Green, publicist, Boneau/Bryan-Brown

Barry T. Gurland, CPA, RSM McGladrey

Julianne Hoffenberg, producer

Frankie Jones, performer, writer

Judith Kuster, professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Jay Lambert, designer

Jesse L. Martin, actor

Kelli O'Hara, actor

Austin Pendleton, actor, writer, director

Leigh Pennebaker, artist, mother

Dr. Alan Rabinowitz, director of science and exploration, Wildlife Conservation Society, author

Tim Ransom, actor, Apple computer consultant

Susan Roth, speech language pathologist

Dr. Phillip Schneider, associate professor emeritus, Queens College, speech language pathologist at Schneider Speech

Andy Shallal, artist, restaurateur

Ed Sherin, director/producer, PumpkinHouse Productions

Michael Sugarman, co-founder and former executive director, National Stuttering Association, vice chair of ISA and chair of IFA Support Group and Consumer Affairs Committee

John Van Riper, son of speech language pathologist, Charles Van Riper

Tom Viola, executive director, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Karin Wexler, Ph.D., board recognized stuttering specialist and professor, T.C., Columbia University