Meet our staff team.
Foundation Board
Our volunteer board of directors is responsible for overseeing the Foundation’s mission and strategic direction, safeguarding our financial health and sustainability, and setting organizational policies. Directors are chosen for their community leadership and knowledge.
Mary Brooks Wall, Chair
Retired, Managing Director, Royal Bank of Scotland
Michael K. Allio
President and CEO, Allio Associates LLC
Carrie Bridges Feliz, MPH
Director, Lifespan, Community Health Institute
Jonathan D. Fain
Chairman of the Board and CEO, Teknor Apex Company
Ann-Marie Harrington
Founder, Embolden
Meghan Hughes, Ph.D.
President, Community College of Rhode Island
G. Alan Kurose, MD, MBA, FACP
President and CEO, Coastal Medical
Marie J. Langlois
Retired, Managing Director, Washington Trust Investors
Mary F. Lovejoy
Retired, Vice President and Treasurer, Textron
Janet Robinson
Former President and CEO, New York Times Company
The Honorable Ernest C. Torres
Retired, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island
James Wright
CEO, Bridge Technical Talent
Neil D. Steinberg
President & CEO, Rhode Island Foundation, Ex officio board member
Previous Board Members
- Charles V. Chapin, 1917-1927
- William H. P. Faunce, 1917-1928
- Mary B. Steedman, 1917-1929
- William L. Hodgman, 1917-1935
- Henry D. Sharpe, 1917-1951
- Albert D. Mead, 1917-1933
- John Nicholas Brown, 1930-1972
- Walter A. Edwards, 1933-1964
- Percival de St. Aubin, 1933-1940
- G. Maurice Congdon, 1935-1961
- Alfred K. Potter, 1936-1936
- Arthur H. Ruggles, 1940-1958
- Thomas P. Hazard, 1951-1963
- Margaret Kelly, 1958-1965 & 1970-1973
- G. William Miller, 1963-1977
- Bancroft Littlefield, 1964-1989
- Joseph J. Baker, 1966-1970
- Andrew M. Hunt, 1972-1987
- Norman M. Fain, 1972-1987
- Erskine N. White, Jr., 1977-1986
- Patricia H. Blackall, 1972-1990
- Frank Licht, 1973-1987
- Robert H.I. Goddard, 1960-1994
- William H. Heisler III, 1987-1996
- Paul J. Choquette, Jr., 1987-1997
- B. Jae Clanton, 1989-1998
- Edward L. Maggiacomo, 1987-1997
- Melvin Alperin, 1987-1999
- Ann Conner, 1991-2000
- Norman E. McCulloch, Jr., 1994-2002
- Ruth J. Simmons, Ph.D., 2002-2003
- John W. Wall, 1994-2004
- Pablo Rodriguez, M.D., 1994-2005
- Margaret G. Leeson, 1997-2006
- Elizabeth Z. Chace, 1998-2006
- Ronald V. Gallo, 1993-2007
- Walter R. Stone, Esq., 1998-2007
- Carol J. Grant, 2002-2008
- George Graboys, 1999-2008
- Benjamin G. Paster, Esq., 2007-2009
- Peter S. Damon, 2001-2010
- Stephanie Danforth Chafee, 2008-2011
- Cynthia Garcia Coll, 2003-2011
- Keith W. Stokes, 2010-2011
- The Hon. Maureen McKenna Goldberg, 2003-2012
- David M. Hirsch, 2003-2012
- M. Anne Szostak, 2006-2013
- Lorne Adrain, 2009-2013
- Kathleen C. Hittner, M.D., 2012-2013
- Professor Jorge O. Elorza, 2012-2014
- Patricia J. Flanagan, M.D., 2005-2014
- The Hon. Ronald K. Machtley, 2007-2016
- Cynthia Stewart Reed, 2007-2016
- Howard G. Sutton, 2015-2016
- Frederick K. Butler, 2008-2017
- Edward "Ned" O. Handy, III, 2011-2018