Sigo Falk, MBA

Sigo Falk serves as Chairman of the Falk Foundation and as Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Foundation's Leon Falk Family Fund. He serves on the boards of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania and is a Trustee of Chatham University, where he served as Board Chair from 1995-2002. He formerly was Chairman of the Leon Falk Family Trust, a Director of Duquesne Light Holdings, the Associate Director of Health Systems Agency of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and the President of Cranberry Emergency and Diagnostic Center. In 2001, Mr. Falk was honored as the Outstanding Philanthropist by the Association of Fund-raising Professionals on National Philanthropy Day in Western Pennsylvania. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Chatham College in 2002.

Estelle F. Comay, J.D.

Estelle Comay is a partner in the law firm of Marcus & Shapira LLP. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Pittsburgh Symphony, The Rauh Jewish Archives Advisory Committee of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Three Rivers Arts Festival, The Aleph Institute, and the National Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee. In addition, she is a Trustee of the Charles Kaufman Foundation, the Buncher Foundation, and the Urban Affairs Foundation of the Pittsburgh Jewish Federation and is an Emeritus Trustee of The Pittsburgh Foundation. She has been chair of The Forbes Funds, the Pittsburgh Jewish-Israeli Film Festival, the Real Property Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association, and the Lawyers Committee of the Negro Education Emergency Drive.

Michele Rone Cooper is Executive Director of McAuley Ministries, the grantmaking arm of Pittsburgh Mercy Health System. Michele earned bachelor and master’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. Her professional career includes positions at Magee-Women’s Hospital, the Health Systems Agency of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and the Pittsburgh Mercy Health System, where she served as Vice-President of Planning and Marketing, responsible for strategic planning, marketing, advertising, community relations, and government relations. She has served on numerous community boards and is currently a member of the boards of the Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania and Macedonia Development Corporation. Michele is passionate about education and currently volunteers with Everybody Wins! a lunchtime literacy and mentoring program, and the Hill District Education Council.

Andrew D. Falk, MSPPM

Andy Falk is the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management (MSPPM) degree from the H. John Heinz III College at Carnegie Mellon University. Andy worked with both the James Ford Bell Foundation and Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Foundation's Leon Falk Family Fund.

William Lipscomb, M.P.A.

Bill Lipscomb, a consultant to nonprofit organizations, lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Before becoming a consultant, Bill served as Executive Director of the Corella and Bertram Bonner Foundation in Princeton, N.J. and as a Program Officer at The Kresge Foundation in Troy, Michigan. Bill also serves as a trustee of the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation and its Transformer Station experimental art space, which will be operated in conjunction with the Cleveland Museum of Art when it opens in early 2013. He has served as President of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Artists Foundation and President of the Intermuseum Conservation Association. He holds a Masters in Public Administration (MPA2) from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Eric W. Springer, L.L.B.

Eric Springer is a retired senior partner of Horty, Springer and Mattern, P.C., which he co-founded in 1971. He currently serves as counsel to the firm, which concentrates exclusively on health and hospital law. Eric was Senior Editor of ACTION KIT for Hospital Law and served on the Faculty of Estes Park Institute. He has edited or authored several books, including Nursing and the Law, Group Practice and the Law, and Automated Medical Records and the Law. He recently received the American Inns of Court Foundation's 2006 Professionalism Award for the U. S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Eric has served as a member of the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations and is a Past President of the Allegheny County Bar Association. He has served on the Boards of numerous hospitals, healthcare facilities, corporations and foundations.

Angela M. Reynolds, Ph.D.

Angela Reynolds is the Research Director for the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. She conducts research on policy issues within the urban core. In addition to her research activities, she is also an instructor of quantitative methods, multivariate analysis, research methods, and housing policy. Her research focuses on fair housing, aging, and self-sufficiency for low-income households. She has conducted several studies including A Study of Affordable Housing: Supply and Demand in Allegheny County, and the Braddock Housing Study, as well as The Path to Homeownership, funded by the HUD Urban Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Dr. Reynolds served as a consultant for the Allegheny County Comprehensive Plan: Allegheny Places. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.