Staff
Our staff are representative of the constituencies and grantees they serve. We promote gender and race equality inside and outside the foundation. More information on how to contact us, here.
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Blog author, President, StaffPresidentDr. Colin Greer has been the President of The New World Foundation since 1985. He was a Professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and has written several books. Colin Greer has participated in and directed several studies of U.S. immigration and urban schooling policy and history (at Columbia University and CUNY), and Chairs numerous organizations. See full biography, here.
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StaffSenior Program OfficerAnn Bastian is a Senior Program Officer with responsibility for Research, Communications and Social Movements. She came to New World in 1984, having worked as a union organizer, labor educator, and movement activist. Ann is also a college history teacher at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has been a consultant and writer on education policy issues.
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StaffSenior Program OfficerAnna Levine Fink is a Senior Program Officer with responsibility for COIN and The Phoenix Fund for Workers & Communities The New World Foundation. She previously worked as the coordinator of a grassroots human rights advocacy program in Mexico for the Fund for Global Human Rights. She also served as the co-director of Unite for Dignity for Immigrant Workers Rights in Miami, Florida. Anna holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas, Austin.
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StaffSenior Program OfficerHeeten Kalan is Senior Program Officer for the Environmental Health & Justice Fund at The New World Foundation. He is also the part-time director of groundWork USA, the American office of one of South Africa’s strongest environmental justice organizations.
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StaffGrants ManagerMinnette Coleman is Grants Administrator for The New World Foundation, and manages the partnership between New World and the K.I.D.S. in Distress Situations Foundation. She is an actress, writer and singer raised in Atlanta, GA at the height of the civil rights movement. She has written poems and articles about youth and community service.
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StaffFinanceBeata Pudelko is the Director for Finance and Administration and Assistant Treasurer at The New World Foundation. She has 16 years experience in non-profit management, finance and accounting. She is Treasurer and Co-Founder of the Children's Smile Foundation. Beata also works with other non-profit organizations advising on finance and management issues. She was born in Poland and has lived in New York since 1980.
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StaffFinanceMira Zalewska is Assistant Bookkeeper of The New World Foundation. She also consults non-profit groups on organizing fundraisers. She is a jewelry designer and artist from Poland.
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StaffAdministrationNubia Scott-Bennett is the assistant to the President at The New World Foundation. A native of New York City, she is a recent graduate of Hampton University with a degree in journalism and communications.
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Editor, StaffWebsiteSolana Larsen is responsible for the creation and maintenance of The New World Foundation website. She is a Danish-Puerto Rican journalist and activist. She was formerly an editor with openDemocracy.net, and is now managing editor of Global Voices Online.
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