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Board of Directors
Peter Abrons
Peter Abrons is a psychologist living on the upper west side of Manhattan. He credits the Ackerman Institute externship program, from which he graduated in ...
Clyde Brownstone
Clyde Brownstone has served on the board of the Ackerman Institute for the Family since 1980. He is the owner of The Gift Box Corporation ...
Jeannie Ackerman Curhan
Jeannie Ackerman Curhan is the daughter of Ackerman Institute for the Family’s founder, Dr. Nathan W. Ackerman. Ms. Ackerman Curhan assumed Gwendolyn Ackerman’s (Mrs. Nathan ...
Linda Dishy
Linda Dishy joined the Ackerman Board of Trustees in 2000 and became Vice Chair of the Board in June 2008. Currently, she serves as Chair ...
Beverly A. Greene
Beverly Greene, PhD, ABPP is a Professor of Psychology at St. John’s University, and the recently appointed founding co-editor of St John’s Institute for Critical ...
Thomas G. Kahn
Thomas G. Kahn is President of Kahn Brothers Group, Inc. He graduated from Cornell University in 1964 and earned an MBA degree from New York University’s ...
Alan Koenigsberg
Board Member Professionally, Alan Koenigsberg is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Treasury and Working Capital Solutions at Visa. This is a new appointment ...
Leslie Roberts
Leslie Roberts, LCSW, is a therapist in private practice in New York City, working with couples, families and individuals. She also works with clients in need ...
Sheri Sandler
Sheri Sandler was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. She received a BBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She joined the ...
Arnold Syrop
Arnold Syrop is the Principal and creative director of Arnold Syrop Architects and the architect responsible for the design of the Ackerman Institute’s state-of-the-art training facility ...
Janine Weisenbeck
Janine Weisenbeck, JD, LMSW is a graduate of the Ackerman Institute’s Clinical Externship Program. Janine has worked at Safe Horizon, a nonprofit organization that works to ...
Deborah Werner
Deborah Werner is a therapist in private practice working with individuals, couples and families. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Boston University ...
Board Emeriti
Lois Braverman (President Emeritus)
Alfred G. Feliu
Doris C. Kempner (deceased)
Arthur Maslow (deceased)
Carol Maslow (deceased)
Alice K. Netter (deceased)
Paula Oppenheim (Board Member Emeritus)
Dan Rocker (Board Member Emeritus)
Gregory T. Rogers
Stephen Sokoloff (deceased)
David H. Strassler (Board Member Emeritus)