The Young Leaders Council is a leadership giving society for Columbia College alumni from the Classes of 2005–24. 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 2005–24 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 2005–24 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 2022–23 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.
2024–25 Board Members
Tala Akhavan CC’13*
Iyobosa Bello-Asemota CC’19*
Francesca Bodini CC’06
Caitlin Brodie CC’06
Christian Capasso CC’07
Sarah Coleman CC’15
Ari Freisinger CC’08*
Andrew Heinrich CC’13
Maya Ho CC’18 (Co-chair)
Jennifer Hsia CC’06
Christopher Jones CC’07*
Kelsey Kats CC’13 (Co-chair)*
Venkat Kausik CC’13 (Vice chair)
Sabrina Korman CC’14
Megan Lundy CC’08
Sophia Naqvi CC’23
Andrew O’Connor CC’07
Emily Lavine Rosin CC’18
Lisa Heffner Scolnik CC’06
Maxwell Tobin CC’09
Alex Topkins CC’08
Barney Wang CC'19
Cecilia Wang CC’09
Andrew Wood CC’14 (Vice chair)*
Alex Zhang CC’20
Mitchell Zhang CC’17
Chair Emeriti
Lauren Accordino CC’09 *
Alisa Amarosa Wood CC’01
Tyler Boyd CC’06
Mike Brown CC’06
Kevin Galligan CC’05
Tom Meister CC’09*
2024–25 Council Members
Michael Accordino CC’07*
Zachary Ali CC’11*
Jeremy Banon CC’13
Carolyn Braff CC’07
Nathan Bram CC’14
Tiffany Bryant CC’08
Theodore Buchsbaum CC’14
Suzanne Byowitz CC’13
Allie Carieri CC’15
Megan Carley CC’12
Kasey Chaleunsouk CC’06
Cathy Hanxin Chen CC’11
David Cho CC’20
Calvin Chu CC'13
Christopher Chu CC’17
Brian Chung CC’16
Katherine Chung CC’16
Katie Chung CC’13
Jordan Cline CC’19
Andrew Colvin CC’10
Leigh Colvin CC’14
Stephen Cone CC'20
Marcello Cricco-Lizza CC’11
Evan Daar CC’09*
Stephanie Davis CC’09
Elizabeth DeLuise CC’14
Adrian Demko CC’07
Ravi Desai CC’05
Erica Dorfman CC’11*
Michael Exter CC’14
Christina Fang CC’07
Rebecca Fine CC’12
Thomas Flynn CC’15
Zuzanna Fuchs CC’13
Sarah Gitlin CC’13
Austin Glover CC’14
Aryeh Goldstein CC’15
Stefanie Goodsell CC'09
Erin Gun CC’15
Stephanie Hagio CC’06*
Gairy Hall CC’11
Eric Han CC’13
Ken Harada CC’05
Stephanie Hart CC’12
Marc Heinrich CC’16
Keith Hernandez CC’07
Gillian Ho CC’20
Mallory Jensen CC’05*
Maggie Johnson CC’11
Arvind Kadaba CC’07
Justin Kahn CC’13
Daniel Kanak CC’10
Arjun Kapoor CC’09
Erica Kassman CC’11*
Nicholas Kensinger CC’18*
Rishi Kodali CC’12
Erik Kogut CC’12
Kristin Kramer CC’09
Kara Kupferberg CC’18
Andrew Lake CC’13
Sadia Latifi CC’09
Richard Lee CC’16
Ivan Leniski CC’16
Sida Li CC’15*
Haidun Liu CC'19
Megan Lundy CC’08
Andrew Marcus CC’19
Maya Matthews CC’20*
Carlos Maturana SEAS'08*
Minha Maturana CC'08*
Ren McKnight CC’12
Alexander Meshel CC’18
Heather Meyerdirk CC’06*
Rob Meyerhoff CC’06*
Jacob Miller CC’11
John Murphy-Teixidor SEAS'10
Zehra Naqvi CC’21
Maya Pandit CC'17
Adam Pencz CC’13
Jason Ping CC'11
Preston Pohl CC’09
Meredith Milstein Polivy CC’09
Dayalan Rajaratnam CC'17
Kayla Rajaratnam CC'17
Sumana Rao CC’08*
Travis Reim CC'16
Andrew Ren CC’15*
Eric Rice CC'11
Julian Richardson CC'14
Alexander Rosen CC’11*
Nathan Rosin CC’18
Peter Rutkowski CC'21
Olivia Santoro CC’13
Miles Savitz CC’23
Diana Benton Schechter CC’05
Laura Schnaidt CC’06
David Seidman CC’06
Lauren Schy Seidman CC’08
Dan Shapiro CC’07
Dara Shapiro CC’14
Eric Shapiro CC’13
Michael Sin CC’05
Sidarth Singh CC’18*
Terrance Smith CC’08
Rob Stewart CC'09
Jason Sun CC’12
Tao Tan CC’07
Max Taffel CC’08
Brandon Thompson CC’12
Paul Tietz CC’08
Miljan Todorovic CC’16
David Toledano CC’05
Michael Topol CC’10
Christopher Tortoriello CC’08
Brian Trippe CC’16
Paul Wang CC’12*
Scott Shu Wang CC’10
Camille Ward CC’19
Andrew West CC’13
Courtney Wilkins CC’07
Fan Wu CC’12
Eric Xu CC’18
Michelle Yan CC’20
Allison Yang CC'09
Sharon Yang CC’07
Sue Yang CC’10
Mary Ye SEAS’12
Sandra Yin CC’18
John Zaro CC’05
Annie Shi Zhang CC'15*
Kevin Zhang CC’14*
Feifei Zheng CC’09
Kenneth Zhu CC’17
Jessica Wong Zen CC’07
Anonymous CC’12
Anonymous CC’19
*Members on the West Coast.
