About Us: Board of Advisors
The Museum has a large advisory committee in development as well as two advisory committees in health and early childhood.
Bill Aguado: Founding Bronx Children’s Museum Board member and former Executive Director, Bronx Council for the Arts
Candice Anderson: Cool Culture, Executive Director
John Boudreau: Boudreau Design, Principal, BCM Marketing Committee
Wendy Bronfin: Innovator in children’s technology & interactive experiences—Director, Barnes & Noble Digital Products
George Burns: Fieldston Lower School, Principal
Melissa Cebollero: Director of Health and Human Services, Office of the Bronx Borough President, BCM Health Advisory member
Sherry Cleary: NYC Early Childhood Professional Development Institute, Office of Academic Affairs, The City University of New York, Executive Director
Anissa Chalmers: Principal, PS 132
Jennifer Chiu: Community Health Organizer, Montefiore School Health Program, BCM Health Advisory member
Saul B. Cohen: New York State Education Department Board of Regents member; Chair of the Regents Steering Committee for Standards Review; President Emeritus of Queens College
Diana Correa: North Star Fund Deputy Director for Programs & Strategic Initiatives
Takisha Dozier: Parent Leader & Community Outreach Volunteer
Carol Enseki*: Former Executive Director of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the first and oldest children’s museum in the country
Laura Ensler: Early childhood expert
Lilli Genovesi: Coordinator, NYC and NYC Watersheds Trout in the Classroom
Diane Black Green: Assistant Director, Division of Child Care/Head Start, NYC Administration for Children’s Services
Diane Black Green: Assistant Director, NYC Children Services, Childcare Head Start
Damian Griffin: Education Director, Bronx River Alliance
Ileana M. Infante: Director, Early Childhood & Childhood Clinical Experiences, School of Education, Hunter College
Justin Israel: Businessman
Nina Jensen: Bank Street's College Museum Education Program
Sharon Klotz*: Children’s museum expert
Anne Lawrence: Robert Bowne Foundation, Educator and Program Officer,
Marcia Lawrence BronxWorks Early Childhood;
Suzanne LeBlanc*: Executive Director of the Long Island Children’s Museum
Javier W. Lopez, MPA: Director, NYC Strategic Alliance for Health, BCM Health Advisory member
Sonia Manzano: Children’s book author and actor (Maria of Sesame Street)
Carolyn McLaughlin: BronxWorks, Executive Director
Juliet Gray Moliere: Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Manager of Early Childhood Education,
Michele Morales: Bank Street, Director of Early Childhood and Childhood Education
Arturo O’Farrill: Jazz pianist, composer, and educator
Nicole Perrino: BronxMama.com Bronx parent leader
Dawn Peters: Woodhull Hospital, Medical Communications Director, BCM Marketing Committee
Marilyn Runge: NYC Department of Education, Bronx Office of Early Childhood Education Program Manager
Doris Quinones: Bronx Tourism Council; Marketing Director, Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, Executive Director
Krystal Reyes: Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services City of New York: Office of Early Care and Education Steering Committee Office of the Mayor, Senior Advisor for Children and Family Services and Co-Chair of Committee
David Rivel: City Parks Foundation, Executive Director
Gloria Yolanda Rivera: FIG Horizons LLC, Vice president of (real-estate holding company)
Sandra Priest Rose: Chair, Reading Reform Foundation
Magali Figueroa-Sanchez, PhD: Executive Director, Hostos Community College Children’s Center
Meryl Schwartz: Blue Ridge Foundation, Program Officer
Eric Soto: Con Edison, Director Bronx Public Affairs
Kellie Terry-Sepulveda: The Point, Executive Director
Major and Eileen Thomas: Educators and community leaders
Luis Torres: PS 55 Principal and Elementary School Principal Consortia Chair, BCM Health Advisory member
Wendy Trull-Aja: Director of Strategic Planning, Division of Child Care/Head Start, NYC Administration for Children’s Services
Lena Townsend: Robert Bowne Foundation, Educator and Program Officer
Ellie Meek Tweedy: Museum/library archivist, editor and consultant, BCM Marketing Committee
Cathleen Wiggins: Bank Street, Director of Leadership and Technology and the Arts Museum Education Faculty
Chauncy Young: Education Organizer, Highbridge Community Life Center
Paulette Zalduondo-Henriquez: Lehman College, Director of Corporate /Foundation /External & Government Relations
Xanthe Zory: Bronx Charter School for the Arts, Founder and Executive Director
* Carol Enseki, Suzanne Le Blanc, Sharon Klotz, and Juliet Gray Moliere are pioneering leaders in the children’s museum field and are active Board members of many museum associations including the Association of Children’s Museums and the Museum Association of New York.
Bronx Children’s Museum is a member in good standing of the Association of Children’s Museums. As such, the Museum will receive technical assistance and training from experienced professionals in the field and will have access to important resources and useful analysis, as well as a professional network of educators, curators, designers and administrators
