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CCAA Elects 12 New Board Members

New CCAA Board Members

The Columbia College Alumni Association elected 12 new members to its Board of Directors, with terms beginning on July 1, 2026. Their diverse skills, expertise and insights will complement the collaborative leadership of the CCAA and support an array of opportunities for alumni to stay involved with and support the College.

  • Tiffany Bryant
    Tiffany Bryant CC’08

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    Tiffany Bryant CC’08 is a political strategist whose expertise includes lobbying, electoral politics and strategic communications. She drives change at the federal, state and local levels in arenas that span education, emerging technology, energy, healthcare and labor. Bryant began her career working for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the State of New York. An active alumna, Bryant served as president of Columbia College Women, as VP of the Black Alumni Council, and as a member of the University Senate and Columbia Alumni Association.

  • Michael Camacho
    Michael Camacho CC’91

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    Michael Camacho CC’91 and his spouse, Patricia Labrada Camacho CC’91, have been connected to Columbia in recent years through their involvement in the Alumnae Legacy Circle, the establishment of the Camacho Family Scholarship Fund and the Parent Leadership Council. He received an E.M.B.A. in finance from NYU in 1996 and spent 33 years at J.P. Morgan in a variety of senior roles in the investment bank capital markets business, and in asset management and wealth management. Camacho has been head of North America Wealth Management at UBS since fall 2024. The Camachos are proud parents to Samantha CC’23, LAW’29 and Lucas CC’29.

  • Austin Glover
    Austin Glover CC’14

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    Austin Glover CC’14 is a VP and a vertically integrated real estate investment manager at Jamestown, where he leads retail leasing and advisory. Glover has served as a Class Agent, member of the Alumni Representative Committee and co-chair of the Class of 2014’s 10th Reunion Committee, and currently serves as co-chair of the Marketing and Communications subgroup of the CCAA Intellectual Programming Committee. He earned a B.A. in political science and anthropology and lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Dr. Brianna Hill BC’14, and their young daughter.

  • Seth T. Goldsamt
    Seth T. Goldsamt CC’91, LAW’95

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    Seth T. Goldsamt CC’91, LAW’95 is a partner in the New York office of McGuireWoods, an international law firm. He advises clients in some of the most dynamic industries, including sports, media and technology, and is co-leader of McGuireWoods’ Sports Industry Team. Particularly experienced in representing clients in cross-border transactions, Goldsamt regularly presents on international transactions at conferences such as the Nordic Growth Summit in Copenhagen, the DKBIO Life Sciences conference in Boston and the LEAP Accelerator Program in New York City. Since 2021, he has served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Danish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York City, a not-for-profit corporation established to help promote business, investment and trade relations between Denmark and the United States.

    Goldsamt mentors Columbia College students as part of the Odyssey Mentoring Program. He is a member of his 35th Reunion Committee and was a member of his Law School 30th Reunion Committee. As a proud parent of Anna Goldsamt CC’28, he enjoys being part of the Parent Leadership Council and taking the 1 train to campus. He lives in Larchmont, N.Y., with his wife, Nina, and their son, Mathias.

  • Andrew Heinrich
    Andrew Heinrich CC’13

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    Andrew Heinrich CC’13 works at Project Rousseau, a nonprofit that helps young people in communities in the highest need to reach their full potential. Project Rousseau provides comprehensive legal services, social services, and education and enrichment programming. Heinrich also teaches at SIPA and the University. His work has been published by Oxford University Press, and in Foreign Affairs and the New England Journal of Medicine, among others.

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    Heinrich majored in political science and French, and played Lions football. He also earned an M.Phil. at Oxford University and J.D. at Harvard Law School.

  • Keith Hernandez
    Keith Hernandez CC’07

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    Keith Hernandez CC’07 is a product manager at Meta, focusing on the Facebook app’s discovery organization and content ecosystem initiatives. He specializes in recommendation systems and sustainable platform growth and built this expertise during a unique, 12-year tenure, thriving within China’s competitive technology sector. He previously served as chief business officer at Blacktail Technology, a short-video platform for Latin America that achieved a double exit to ByteDance and Kuaishou. At Kuaishou, he served as chief of staff to the VP of global operations and was the primary architect for internationalizing the Chinese content playbook.

    Hernandez’s dedication to Columbia began early in his career as an admissions officer, and he remains fiercely loyal, particularly advocating for a diversity of student experiences. He is a former board member of the Latino Alumni Association of Columbia University, a member of the Young Leaders Council and a three-time fundraising co-chair for his class’ Reunion Committee.

    A native of Mexico City who has lived in five countries, Hernandez’s global trajectory is deeply tied to his academic background. He earned a master’s from the University of Chicago, studying the history of foreigners navigating global politics and developing businesses, and resides in San Francisco with his partner, Dunyu.

  • Arvind Kadaba
    Arvind Kadaba CC’07

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    Arvind Kadaba CC’07 is the chief financial officer of Aidoc. He is a member of the finance committee at the University Club of New York in addition to his involvement at Columbia College. Kadaba lives with his wife, Shreya Agarwal CC’12, and son in Manhattan.

  • Stefanie Katz-Rothman
    Stefanie Katz-Rothman CC’88

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    Stefanie Katz-Rothman CC’88 is a marketing, advertising and business development executive. She spent more than 15 years at Pfizer, American Express and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. After leaving the corporate world, Katz-Rothman co-founded gifthero.com, an online retailer curating and selling children’s gifts. Since closing gifthero.com, she has focused her efforts on philanthropy and not-for-profit board work.

    Katz-Rothman is president and chair emerita of the Board of Columbia/Barnard Hillel. From 2014 to 2025, she was on the CCAA board, where she held many roles including VP, State of the College, and is excited to rejoin the board.

    Katz-Rothman is the secretary of the Board of Directors of New 42 and is an officer of the Board of Trustees of Park Avenue Synagogue. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Management. Katz-Rothman and her husband, James Rothman, have a son, Benjamin CC’26, and live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

  • Danny Lee
    Danny Lee CC’95

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    Danny Lee CC’95 has been involved with the Columbia alumni community since moving to Hong Kong in 1997. During the last 28 years, he has served the Columbia University Alumni Association of Hong Kong as committee member, VP and currently as an adviser.

    Lee established the Danny L. Lee Scholarship Fund to support international students with financial need. The fund honors the memory of Alan W. Steinberg CC’48, SEAS’50, whose own scholarship support made Lee’s Columbia education possible. Lee’s work in education continues as chair of the Seed Foundation, which provides tech training to underprivileged high school students, and as a board member of the Bai Xian Asia Institute.

    Lee manages VCA Capital, a private equity fund in Hong Kong. He was previously with Blue Pool Capital, Bain Capital, Investor AB and Lehman Brothers. He serves as an adviser to Our Hong Kong Foundation and Happiness Capital, and is an Aspen Fellow and Edmund Hillary Fellow. Lee is also a founding patron of the Hong Kong Palace Museum. He earned a bachelor’s in economics and is a CFA Charterholder.

  • Annie Ma-Weaver
    Annie Ma-Weaver CC’09

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    Annie Ma-Weaver CC’09 is a group product manager for high-performance computing that enables scientists, researchers and engineers to run workloads on Google Cloud. She has been with Google for more than 16 years in roles spanning the chief of staff to product ops, strategy and business development.

    Before joining Google, Ma-Weaver conducted behavioral economics research at the Business School, worked in investment banking in Hong Kong and consulted for the Scottish government. She earned a master’s from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where she is a guest lecturer. Ma-Weaver enjoys playing classical piano, mentoring college students and early-career professionals, and visiting parks with her dog, kids and husband, Jacob Ma-Weaver CC’09, GSAS’09.

  • Rita Pietropinto-Kitt
    Rita Pietropinto-Kitt CC’93, SOA’96

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    Rita Pietropinto-Kitt CC’93, SOA’96 is the director of performing arts, engagement and advancement at the Marymount School. She also serves as chair of the drama department, where she leads a vibrant performing arts program. A longtime educator and theater professional, Pietropinto-Kitt taught for more than 15 years with the theater departments at Barnard College and NYU.

    As an artist, Pietropinto-Kitt has worked on Broadway, in regional theater, and in television and film as an actor, producer and director. She earned her bachelor’s in political science and her master’s from the School of the Arts. She also studied directing as a fellow at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

    A dedicated leader in the alumni community, Pietropinto-Kitt served as the first female chair of the Columbia Alumni Association Board and helped establish the Columbia Arts Access Program, which connects students and alumni through arts engagement. She currently serves as VP of Strategy for Columbia College Women, for which she recently co-chaired the CCW Signature Event and Development Committees. She also served three terms as VP of the CCAA Board, and has remained involved as a Class Agent and Reunion Committee member. Pietropinto-Kitt received a Columbia Alumni Medal at the 2016 Commencement. In 2019, she and her husband, Tom Kitt CC’96 — a Pulitzer, Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer — received Columbia’s Community Impact Award.

    Pietropinto-Kitt also serves as a trustee of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, is a founding member of NYC Next and is a board member of The Lilly Awards. She and Kitt live in New York City with their three children and are proud Columbia parents.

  • Elizabeth Yuan
    Elizabeth Yuan CC’96, JRN’98

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    Elizabeth Yuan CC’96, JRN’98 served on the board of Columbia College Women from 2021 to 2026, most recently as its VP, and has organized events that cultivate connections among alumni and students. Yuan has been involved with the CC’96 and JRN’98 Reunion Committees for many years, is a past member of the Columbia Club of Atlanta and of the Columbia University Alumni Association of Hong Kong, and was a mentor with the Columbia Experience Overseas program in Hong Kong.

    Yuan earned a bachelor’s in English and French and a master’s from the Journalism School. She is a senior staff editor at The New York Times and previously worked at The Wall Street Journal, in New York City, for nine years; and at CNN, in Atlanta and Hong Kong, for 14 years. She also distributed the 2002 feature film Hard Goodbyes: My Father by Penny Panayotopoulou in the United States.

    During her term on the CCAA board, she will recuse herself from editing articles related to Columbia.

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