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Administrators

Will DeJesus (Treasurer)

Will DeJesus is a Senior Manager with CBIZ Mahoney Cohen, a top ten provider of professional services in the U.S. He specializes in corporate governance and risk management as well as information systems control and re-engineering. Prior to joining CBIZ Mahoney Cohen, Mr. DeJesus was an internal auditor for Altria Corporation, a Fortune Five consumer products entity where he led financial, operational and information systems audits in South and Central America.. Mr. DeJesus received an accounting degree from Queens College. He is a Certified Internal Auditor, a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a member of both the Institute of Internal Auditors and Information Systems Audit and Control Association.

Loren Siegel (President)

Loren Siegel is an attorney and strategic communications consultant.  Her client roster includes the Ford Foundation, The New Press, the Drug Policy Alliance, the Opportunity Agenda, and the New York Civil Liberties Union.  From 1991 to 2001 she served as the Director of Public Education for the American Civil Liberties Union where she built an integrated communications program specializing in media relations, publications, and website development and managed the organization’s public opinion research program.  Ms. Siegel conceived and implemented numerous multi-media, multi-dimensional public awareness campaigns, including the Campaign Against Racial Profiling for which the ACLU was awarded the Public Relations Society of America’s 2000 Silver Anvil Award for Excellence for Public Affairs.  Her writings on criminal justice issues have appeared as chapters in several books including Crack in America (Eds. Levine & Reinarman, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1997) and Gangs And Society (Eds. Kontos, Brotherton, and Barrios, Columbia Univ. Press, 2003).

Andrew Tatarsky, Ph.D. (Vice-President)

Andrew Tatarsky, Ph.D. holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from City University of New York. He is a founding member and past President of the Addiction Division of the New York State Psychological Association and Chairperson of Mental Health Professionals in Harm Reduction.

Dr. Tatarsky has a private practice in New York City specializing in harm reduction psychotherapy with drug and alcohol users and is co-director, with Dr. Mark Sehl, of the Harm Reduction Psychotherapy and Training Associates, a treatment and training organization. He is the editor of the groundbreaking book, Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A New Treatment for Drug and Alcohol Problems (Jason Aronson, 2002).

Board of Directors

Saad Bounjoua (Member)

Saad Bounjoua is a director with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's largest professional services.  He specializes in governance and risk management and has developed credentials and expertise in these fields over the last eighteen years with a career that includes positions working with Fortune 500 companies in Europe and the United States.  Mr. Bounjoua specializes in the retail and consumer products sectors and has advised large organizations on best practices for implementing effective risk management procedures and enhancing transparency and efficiency around organizational structure and operational effectiveness.  Prior to joining PwC, he spent four years at Philips Electronics North America, a Dutch conglomerate, where he was an Internal Auditor.  Mr. Bounjoua received a diploma from the Paris Graduate School of Management.  He is a Certified Internal Auditor and a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors where he has lectured on issues of governance and risk management. 

Melissa Goodman (Member)

Melissa Goodman is a Staff Attorney in the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project. She works on the ACLU’s national security docket and litigates cases concerning surveillance, excessive government secrecy, torture and detention, and the freedoms of speech and association. Most recently, she has been counsel in the ACLU's lawsuits challenging the FISA Amendments Act, warrantless NSA surveillance, the Patriot Act, the government's practice of ideological exclusion, and the CIA’s practice of "extraordinary rendition." Ms. Goodman is a graduate of New York University College of Arts and Science, and New York University Law School.

Gregory John Pereira, M.P.A. (Member)

Gregory John Pereira is the founder and CEO of First Steps to Urban Outreach, Inc., a professional training and resource center and DMV- DWI program with locations in Manhattan and the Bronx. He has held key management positions with several community-based organizations in the areas of HIV prevention, leadership development, young adult education, harm reduction, substance use/abuse, SUNY Health & Safety training, Department of Motor Vehicle DWI Programming, CPR and First Aid. He has performed in “Prepare New York” disaster training with the Offices of Emergency Management and the American Red Cross of Greater New York. Mr. Pereira’s experience with the College and Community Fellowship, a City University program that helps formerly incarcerated people pursue college degrees, was featured in The New York Times in 2006. His PHP board membership is in furtherance of his goal in life: to enhance the lives of all members of New York City community.

Marion Riedel, PhD, LCSW (Member)

Marion Riedel is an associate professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, a staff trainer with the Harm Reduction Training Institute and as clinical supervisor in numerous community-based organizations. She has trained extensively on Motivational Interviewing (MI), and is co-investigator on multiple intervention research projects testing the efficacy of the use of MI with various populations to reduce drug and alcohol related harm and/or to increase a range of health improvement behaviors.  Dr. Riedel has also trained drug treatment staff in Central Asia and Mongolia on the use of MI techniques and has published and presented nationally in the areas of suicide, substance use, and families affected by HIV/AIDS.  Finally, she is an anti-racist educator and organizer.

Paul Silva (Member)

Paul Silva is a communications officer for the Open Society Institute Public Health Program, which supports health policies and practices based on inclusion, human rights, and scientific evidence. At the Open Society Institute, Paul develops communications strategies on a wide range of global health issues, including harm reduction, sexual health and rights, pain relief and hospice care for terminally ill patients, mental health, and access to essential medicines. Paul came to the Open Society Institute from the American Civil Liberties Union, where he served as a national media relations associate from 2004 to 2007. At the ACLU, Paul specialized in immigrants’ rights, religious liberty, racial justice, freedom of speech, and national security issues. Prior to the ACLU, he was a project manager for PAX/Real Solutions to Gun Violence, and a communications associate for Catholics for Choice.

Joe Voeller (Member)

Lindsey Davis (Member)

Lindsey Davis is the Director of Crisis Services at the Coalition for the Homeless where her work has focused on advocacy for effective, common sense policies and programs to address New York City's growing homeless population and to ensure the rights of homeless New Yorkers are upheld.  She is a trainer and consultant on New York City funded rent subsidy programs and has conducted research and led advocacy efforts that have effectively changed housing subsidy programs available to homeless families.  She received her Master's in Social Work from Columbia University. 

 

PHP peer educator presenting at the Safe Injection Site conference