Steven B. Rosenfeld was appointed to the Board in May 2002 and was named Chair in June 2002.  Now Of Counsel to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Mr. Rosenfeld’s litigation practice has spanned a variety of areas, with emphasis on securities, insurance and reinsurance, and complex trust and estate disputes.  

Mr. Rosenfeld's active pro bono practice has ranged from Legal Aid cases, to criminal appeals, to a Texas death penalty case.  In October 2003, he was elected as Chair of the Board of Visitors of City University of New York (CUNY) Law School, where he is currently teaching a seminar in Government Ethics.

Mr. Rosenfeld served as law clerk to the Honorable Charles M. Metzner of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and as Deputy General Counsel of the New York State Special Commission on Attica.  He is a past member of the Executive Committee and past Vice President of the Association of The Bar of the City of New York.  He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society, and served as its President from 1989 to 1991.   As a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School, he has taught in the Profession of Law and Trial Practice courses.

Mr. Rosenfeld graduated from Columbia College and Columbia Law School, magna cum laude.

ANGELA MARIANA FREYRE, BOARD MEMBER

Angela Mariana Freyre was appointed to the Board in October 2002 and reappointed in March 2005.  As Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Legal and Strategic Affairs of the Nielsen Company, Ms. Freyre oversees major contracts and expands strategic relationships with Nielsen’s clients, industry groups, and other entities and supports Nielsen’s political and governmental affairs.  Prior to joining Nielsen, Ms. Freyre was a partner of Coudert Brothers LLP, where she jointly headed the firm’s Latin American practice.  She began her legal career at Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon LLP, serving in both the New York and Paris offices.

Ms. Freyre is a member of the New York City Latin Media and Entertainment Commission; a member of the Task Force on Diversity in Film, Television and Commercial Production in New York City; a member of the Board of Trustees of The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Inc.; and a member of the Board of Trustees of LongHouse Reserve.

Born in Havana, Cuba, Ms. Freyre is trilingual in Spanish, English, and French.  She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College, her D.E.J.G. (Mention Assez Bien/Honors) from Université de Droit, d’Economie et des Sciences Sociales de Paris (Paris II), and her J.D. and her LL.M. (in International and Comparative Law) from Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Freyre was also a Fulbright Lecturer at the Université de Droit, d’Economie et des Sciences Sociales de Paris (Paris II), where she established an American Common Law Program for l’Université de Paris II and authored Legal English II, a textbook published in France and used in the American Common Law Program of l’Université de Paris II and twelve other universities in France.   

MONICA BLUM, BOARD MEMBER

Monica Blum was appointed to the Board in August 2004 and reappointed in October 2006.  Ms. Blum is the President of the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District, a position that she has held since October 1996, prior to the official formation of the business improvement district. Prior to that, sheworked as a consultant and legal advisor to the 92nd Street Y, which she joined in 1995 after more than 20 years in various senior positions in New York City government.  She began her career as an Assistant to then Congressman Edward I. Koch in 1969. 

Ms. Blum was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to the Mayor’s Committee on Appointments in 2002, is the former President of the BID Managers’ Association, and is currently a member of the Association’s Executive Committee.

Ms. Blum graduated from Connecticut College and received a Masters of Arts in Russian Literature from NYU.  She received her law degree from New York Law School after attending night school while working full time.

ANDREW IRVING, BOARD MEMBER

Andrew Irving was appointed to the Board in March 2005.  Mr. Irving serves as Managing Director and General Counsel of Independent Fiduciary Services, Inc., a registered investment adviser that provides consulting and decision-making services to public and private sector benefit plans and other institutional investors.  He leads IFS’ fiduciary decision-making practice, which focuses on providing independent, conflict-free, discretionary decisions regarding particular transactions or plan assets. As General Counsel, Mr. Irving also oversees IFS’ internal legal affairs.  Prior to joining Independent Fiduciary Services, Mr. Irving was a partner at Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman and Bryan Cave LLP, where his practice focused on employee benefits, labor relations, and collective bargaining matters, and also included representation of regulated companies in the telecommunications and energy industries.  While at the firm he supervised its New York office’s pro bono activities, and mentored the Moot Court team from Brooklyn’s Thomas Jefferson High School.

After graduating from Yale College and Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review, Mr. Irving clerked for the Honorable Eugene H. Nickerson, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.

BURTON LEHMAN, BOARD MEMBER  

Burton Lehman was appointed to the Board in July 2009.  He is Of Counsel to Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a law firm which he helped to found in 1969.  Mr. Lehman is an alumnus of Columbia College (A.B. 1962) and Columbia Law School (J.D. 1965, magna cum laude), where he was the Writing and Research Editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Mr. Lehman has been a lawyer, advisor and counselor throughout his career.  His practice has been very broad-based, with an emphasis on financial and real estate transactions and partnership matters.

Mr. Lehman was Chairman of the Board of Governors of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion from 1997 through 2006.  He continues to serve on that Board and is also a trustee of The HealthCare Chaplaincy.  Mr. Lehman is a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School and was a trustee of The Town School from 1980-1989.

Mr. Lehman served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harold R. Medina, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Judicial Circuit, in 1965-66, and also was Associate Counsel to the Temporary New York State Commission for the 1967 Constitutional Convention.