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.
Upcoming Events
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
Past Events & Speakers
George Stephanopoulos CC’82, News Anchor, Former White House Advisor in the Clinton Administration
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Frederick Stanton CC'96, President, Service-Planet Com
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Senator Judd Gregg CC'69, Former U.S. Senator Judd A. Gregg ’69 (R-NH)
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Chris Wiggins CC'93, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, and Chief Data Scientist of the New York Times
Friday, May 1, 2015
Anthony Bugg-Levine, CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund
Thursday, June 23, 2016
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
Reception for new Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition at MoMA
Thursday, June 8, 2017
2017 Board Members
- 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
- Lisa Heffner CC’06
- Megan Lundy CC’08
- Tom Meister CC’09
- Heather Meyerdirk CC’06
- Vijay Mohan CC’01
- Sumana Rao CC’08
- Geoffrey Williams CC’03
- Alastair Wood CC’01
- Alisa Wood CC’01 (Chair Emerita)
- Iain Wood CC’03
2017 Council Members
- Ram Ahluwalia CC’01
- Stephanie Davis CC’09Adrian Demko CC’07
- Mariele Dunn CC’11
- Andrew Heinrich CC’13
- Keith Hernandez CC’07
- Oleg Ilichev CC’04
- Christopher Jones CC'07
- Arvind Kadaba CC’07
- Arjun Kapoor CC’09
- Venkat Kausik CC’13
- Scott Koonin CC’02
- Rob Meyerhoff CC’06
- David Morgan CC’12
- Dan Moss CC’03
- Nathania Nisonson CC’03
- Azhar Quader CC’02
- David Seidman CC’06
- David Toledano CC’05
- John Zaro CC’05
- Kevin Zhang CC’14
