Benefits
- Access to key University and alumni leaders via Young Leaders Council events and programming.
- Networking opportunities with young alumni peers.
- Opportunities for growth within the Columbia College volunteer community based on level and quality of engagement.
- Curated invitations to and notifications of College and University events.
- Quarterly guest speaker series bringing together powerful, unique, and interesting voices from within the Columbia College network to young alumni.
Past Events & Speakers
George Stephanopoulos CC’82, News Anchor, Former White House Advisor in the Clinton Administration
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Senator Judd Gregg CC'69, Former U.S. Senator Judd A. Gregg ’69 (R-NH)
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Alex Castellanos, Founding Partner of Purple Strategies and media consultant for five U.S. Presidential campaigns.
Jennifer Hanley, Managing Director at Tusk Ventures and former press secretary for Hillary Clinton.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Lt. Michael Leiter CC’91, former Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center under President G. W. Bush and President Obama
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Nicholas Vita CC’95, Chief Executive of Columbia Care LLC, a medical-marijuana company
Wednesday, April 26 2017
Judge Joseph Greenaway CC’78, United States District Court Judge for the District of New Jersey
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Judge Rolando Acosta CC’79 LAW ’82, Associate Justice of the New York State Supreme Court
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Peter Hatch CC’92, Chief of Staff, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Doug Cifu CC’87 LAW ’90, CEO of Virtu Financial Inc. and Vice Chairman, Partner and Alternate Governor of the Florida Panthers Hockey Club
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Sports Media Industry Panel Discussion, featuring Leslie Gittess Brodsky CC’88, Founder of Blue Sky Media NYC, Danielle Maged CC’89, BU’97, Executive Vice President of Global Solutions, Fox Networks Group, and Marie Donoghue CC’87, LW’91, former Executive Vice President of Global Business & Content Strategy, ESPN.
Monday, May 7, 2018
2018 Board Members
- Eric Allbin CC’01*
- Randy Berkowitz CC’04
- Ganesh Betanabhatla CC’06
- Francesca Bodini CC’06
- Tyler Boyd CC’06 (Co-Chair)
- Caitlin Brodie CC’06
- Mike Brown CC’06 (Co-Chair)
- Zecki Dossal CC’02
- Avram Drori CC’04
- Kevin Galligan CC’05
- Megan Lundy CC’08
- Tom Meister CC’09*
- Heather Meyerdirk CC’06*
- Vijay Mohan CC’01*
- Sumana Rao CC’08*
- Lisa Heffner Scolnik CC’06
- Geoffrey Williams CC’03
- Alastair Wood CC’01
- Alisa Wood CC’01 (Chair Emerita)
- Iain Wood CC’03
2018 Council Members
- Zila Acosta-Grimes CC’11
- Ram Ahluwalia CC’01
- Tala Akhavan CC’13
- Jeremy Banon CC’13*
- Matt Barsamian CC’07
- Katie Day Benvenuto CC’03
- Christian Capasso CC’07
- Sarah Coleman CC’15
- Carlos Cuevas CC’05
- Stephanie Davis CC’09Adrian Demko CC’07
- Ravi Desai CC’05
- Erica Dorfman CC’11*
- Mariele Dunn CC’11
- Tommy Enright CC’03
- Samantha Feingold-Criss CC’07
- Sarah Gitlin CC’13
- Thomas Gorman CC’04*
- Brian Grimes CC’11
- Stephanie Hagio CC’06*
- Andrew Heinrich CC’13
- Laura Heller CC’01
- Keith Hernandez CC’07
- Sonia Hirdaramani CC’02
- Adria Hou CC’02*
- Oleg Ilichev CC’04
- Janice Mok Ince CC’01*
- Ian Jay CC’05
- Mallory Jensen CC’05*
- Christopher Jones CC’07*
- Arvind Kadaba CC’07
- Arjun Kapoor CC’09
- Venkat Kausik CC’13
- Jon Keehner CC’00
- John Kenney CC’13
- Michelle Klein CC’02
- Scott Koonin CC’02
- Kevin Lawi CC’00
- David Matteini CC’01
- Rob Meyerhoff CC’06*
- David Morgan CC’12
- Dan Moss CC’03
- Nathania Nisonson CC’03
- Susan Phan CC’12*
- Preston Pohl CC’09
- Azhar Quader CC’02
- Carter Reum CC’03*
- Adam Rozencwajg CC’06
- Diana Benton Schechter CC’05
- David Seidman CC’06
- Dan Shapiro CC’07
- Tao Tan CC’07
- David Toledano CC’05
- Miklos Vasarhelyi CC’04
- Paul Wang CC’12*
- Charlotte Evans Will CC’03*
- John Zaro CC’05
- Kevin Zhang CC’14*
*Founding Members of the Bay Area Chapter.
