The Young Leaders Council is a leadership giving society for Columbia College alumni from the Classes of 2003–22. Members support the Columbia College Fund at a leadership level and help the College cultivate young philanthropists and develop a pipeline of committed and engaged alumni.
Membership Levels
Columbia College alumni from the Classes of 2003–22 may join the Young Leaders Council with a gift of $1,500 in support of the Columbia College Fund.
Columbia College alumni from the Classes of 2003–22 may join the Young Leaders Council Executive Board with a gift of $5,000 or more in support of the Columbia College Fund. The Executive Board attends quarterly board meetings and partners with Columbia College staff to plan events and cultivate new members of the Young Leaders Council.
Benefits
Membership in the Young Leaders Council includes unique opportunities to engage with fellow young alumni and other leaders at Columbia College.
Networking opportunities with young alumni peers
Exclusive invitations to College and University events
Alumni speaker series
Opportunities for growth within the College volunteer community
Recognition on the 2021–22 Young Leaders Council Annual Report
Past Speakers
Panel discussion with University Trustees Lisa Carnoy CC’89, Wanda Holland Greene CC’89, TC’91, Jonathan Lavine CC’88 and Victor Mendelson CC’89
Sports Media Industry discussion featuring Leslie Gittess Brodsky CC’88, Founder of Blue Sky Media NYC, Danielle Maged CC’89, BUS’97, Executive Vice President of Global Solutions, Fox Networks Group, and Marie Donoghue CC’87, LAW’91, former Executive Vice President of Global Business & Content Strategy, ESPN.
Intimate discussions with Judge Rolando Acosta CC’79 LAW ’82, Associate Justice of the New York State Supreme Court and Judge Joseph Greenaway CC’78, United States District Court Judge for the District of New Jersey, Lt. Michael Leiter CC’91, former Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center under President G. W. Bush and President Obama, Alisa Amarosa Wood CC’01, BUS’08, Founding Co-Chair and YLC Board Member and Partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
2021–22 Board Members
Lauren Accordino CC’09 (Co-chair)
Randy Berkowitz CC’04
Ganesh Betanabhatla CC’06
Francesca Bodini CC’06
Tyler Boyd CC’06 (Chair Emeritus)
Caitlin Brodie CC’06
Mike Brown CC’06 (Chair Emeritus)
Begumhan Kurdoglu CC’20
Christian Capasso CC’07
Cynthia Chen CC’04*
Carlos Cuevas CC’05
Beatrice Edmonds CC’19
Kevin Galligan CC’05 (Chair Emeritus)
Andrew Heinrich CC’13
Maya Ho CC’18 (Co-chair)
Jennifer Hsia CC’06
Christopher Jones CC’07*
Allan Kang CC’14
Kelsey Kats CC’13*
Venkat Kausik CC’13
Sabrina Korman CC’14
Tom Meister CC’09* (Chair Emeritus)
Heather Meyerdirk CC’06*
Andrew O’Connor CC’07
Emily Lavine Rosin CC’18
Lisa Heffner Scolnik CC’06
Michelle Tan CC’16*
Maxwell Tobin CC’09
Cecilia Wang CC’09
Iain Wood CC’03
Alex Zhang CC’20
Mitchell Zhang CC’17
2021–22 Council Members
Michael Accordino CC’07
Zila Acosta-Grimes CC’11
Tala Akhavan CC’13
Zachary Ali CC’11*
Jeremy Banon CC’13
Jennifer Baskin CC’03
Iyobosa Bello-Asemota CC’19
Katie Day Benvenuto CC’03
Sulman Bhatti CC’06
Nathan Bram CC’14
Tiffany Bryant CC’08
Theodore Buchsbaum CC’14
Allie Carieri CC’15
Megan Carley CC’12
Adriana Garcia Ceja CC’13
Kasey Chaleunsouk CC’06
Cathy Hanxin Chen CC’11
David Cho CC’20
Christopher Chu CC’17
Kevin Chu CC’19
Brian Chung CC’16
Katherine Chung CC’16
Katie Chung CC’13
Jordan Cline CC’19
Sarah Coleman CC’15
Andrew Colvin CC’10
Jeremy Colvin CC’08
Leigh Colvin CC’14
Eleanor Coufos CC’03
Marcello Cricco-Lizza CC’11
Evan Daar CC’09*
Stephanie Davis CC’09
Adrian Demko CC’07
Elizabeth DeLuise CC’14
Ravi Desai CC’05
Luke Donatelli CC’04
Erica Dorfman CC’11*
Mariele Dunn CC’11
Kathryn Ebner CC’05
Tommy Enright CC’03
Michael Exter CC’14
Christina Fang CC’07
Elizabeth Fallon CC’20
Samantha Feingold-Criss CC’07
Thomas Flynn CC’15
Ari Freisinger CC’08*
Zuzanna Fuchs CC’13
Sarah Gitlin CC’13
Austin Glover CC’14
Aryeh Goldstein CC’15
Thomas Gorman CC’04*
Brian Grimes CC’11
Emily Gruber CC’19
Erin Gun CC’15
Stephanie Hagio CC’06*
Gairy Hall CC’11
Halle Hammond CC’06
Eric Han CC’13
Ken Harada CC’05
Stephanie Hart CC’12
Keith Hernandez CC’07
Gillian Ho CC’20
Katherine Howitt CC’13
Robert Hung CC’10
Ian Jay CC’05
Mallory Jensen CC’05*
Maggie Johnson CC’11
Arvind Kadaba CC’07
Justin Kahn CC’13
Daniel Kanak CC’10
David Kang CC’15
Arjun Kapoor CC’09
Jon Keehner CC’00
John Kenney CC’13
Rishi Kodali CC’12
Sabrina Korman CC’14
Kristin Kramer CC’09
Kara Kupferberg CC’18
Andrew Lake CC’13
Sadia Latifi CC’09
Richard Lee CC’16
Ivan Leniski CC’16
Megan Lundy CC’08
Stephanie Lung CC’04
Ren McKnight CC’12
Alexander Meshel CC’18
Rob Meyerhoff CC’06*
Jacob Miller CC’11
Solomon Moshkevich CC’04*
Dan Moss CC’03
Zehra Naqvi CC’21
Jose Negrette CC’05
Brendan O'Hearn CC’13
Maya Pandit CC'17
Michael Paranac CC’10
Ishaan Patel CC’11
Adam Pencz CC’13
Susan Phan CC’12*
Preston Pohl CC’09
Meredith Milstein Polivy CC’09
Sumana Rao CC’08*
Michael Roberts CC’09
Elisse Roche CC’14*
Nathan Rosin CC’18
Adam Rozencwajg CC’06
Sara Sakowitz CC’18
Olivia Santoro CC’13
Diana Benton Schechter CC’05
David Seidman CC’06
Lauren Schy Seidman CC’08
Dan Shapiro CC’07
Eric Shapiro CC’13
Dara Shapiro CC’14
Terrance Smith CC’08
David Simons CC’06
Michael Sin CC’05
Jason Sun CC’12
Tao Tan CC’07
Max Taffel CC’08
Miljan Todorovic CC’16
David Toledano CC’05
Michael Topol CC’10
Brandon Thompson CC’12
Paul Tietz CC’08
Brian Trippe CC’16
Jonathan Truppman CC’07
Miklos Vasarhelyi CC’04
Paul Wang CC’12*
Scott Shu Wang CC’10
Andrew West CC’13
Courtney Wilkins CC’07
Charlotte Evans Will CC’03*
Josh Williams CC’10*
Gregory Winchell CC’06
Andrew Wood CC’14
Fan Wu CC’12
Eric Xu CC’18
Lauren Yagoda CC’20
Michelle Yan CC’20
Sharon Yang CC’07
Sue Yang CC’10
Mary Ye EN’12
Sandra Yin CC’18
John Zaro CC’05
Kevin Zhang CC’14*
Feifei Zheng CC’09
Kenneth Zhu CC’17
Jessica Wong Zen CC’07
Katie Chung CC’13
Anonymous CC’12
Anonymous CC’19
*Members of the West Coast.
