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.

  • Colin Greer's picture
    Blog author, President, Staff
    Colin Greer
    Colin Greer
    President

    Dr. 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.

    United States
    New York
  • Adrianne Shropshire's picture
    Staff
    Senior Program Officer

    Adrianne Shropshire is a Senior Program Officer with the New Majority Fund and other special projects. She comes to New World with nearly two decades of community organizing, alliance-building, political organizing, and public policy campaign experience. Adrianne was a community organizer in South Los Angeles, directed a labor/community/faith-based coalition in New York, and trains undergraduate students preparing for careers in public policy.

    United States
    New York
  • Ann Bastian's picture
    Staff
    Ann Bastian
    Ann Bastian
    Senior Program Officer

    Ann Bastian is a Senior Program Officer with responsibility for Communications and Leadership Development. 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.

    United States
    New York
  • Anna Fink's picture
    Staff
    Anna Fink
    Anna Fink
    Senior Program Officer

    Anna 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.

    United States
    New York
  • Heeten Kalan's picture
    Staff
    Heeten Kalan
    Heeten Kalan
    Senior Program Officer

    Heeten 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.

    United States
    Massachusetts
  • Minnette Coleman's picture
    Staff
    Grants Manager

    Minnette 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.

    United States
    New York
  • Beata Pudelko's picture
    Staff
    Finance

    Beata 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.

    United States
    New York
  • Mira Zalewska's picture
    Staff
    Finance

    Mira 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.

    United States
    New York
  • Marisol Ramos's picture
    Staff
    Program Associate

    Marisol Ramos is a Program Associate at the New World Foundation. She works primarily with the Phoenix Fund for Workers and Communities, which provides organizational and development support to grantee immigrant rights organizations in the US and Mexico. Marisol is also a co-founder of the New York State Youth Leadership Council and was previously a youth organizer at Esperanza del Barrio both organizations which campaign actively on behalf of the Dream Act and Comprehensive Immigration Reform.

    United States
    New York
  • Nubia Scott's picture
    Staff
    Nubia Scott
    Nubia Scott
    Administration

    Nubia 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.

    United States
    New York
  • Solana Larsen's picture
    Editor, Staff
    Website

    Solana 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.

    United States
    New York

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