Service Fund Board of Directors
Jane Manning, Chair, has been a member of NOW-NYC since 1992 and has a long and proud history as a leader within the organization. An attorney specializing in criminal law and violence against women, she has worked on the frontlines of the feminist movement. She helped lead NOW-NYC's successful campaign to repeal New York's statute of limitations in rape cases, and she was an architect of the New York State Anti-Human Trafficking Law. In 1992, she was a lead organizer of the Coalition to End Violence Against women, which led a rally of 5,000 demonstrators to the steps of the Democratic National Convention, urging passage of the Violence Against Women Act.
Meaghan Carey has been a lifelong feminist. Before she even knew about the women's movement, she was fighting her parents for her right to wear pants to church on Sundays. An attorney whose practice focuses on family law issues, Meaghan sought to head NOW-NYC's fundraising efforts because she believes the power of a thriving activist organization depends on both people's passions and their purses. As Development VP she plans to continue building on her work: Meaghan was instrumental in tripling the revenue of our annual Women of Power and Influence Awards fundraiser and raising the visibility and prestige of this and other chapter events. She also secured a grant with the New York Lawyer's Alliance.
Arthur Lundquist, Secretary, formerly served as the Director of Volunteers for the NOW-NYC Board of Directors, where he undertook a project to create a volunteer database so that NOW-NYC could bolster our interaction with volunteers and members on key issues. Arthur serves on the board's Women and the Workplace Committee and has been integral to creating resource information on workplace discrimination. Arthur has more than 20 years experience with databases in the legal field. He is proud to call himself a feminist and cherishes his work with NOW-NYC.
Elizabeth A. Mason is an attorney who has been practicing law for the past twenty years, specializing in discrimination and commercial litigation in New York State and federal courts. She maintains her law office at 630 Fifth Avenue in Rockefeller Plaza, New York. Ms. Mason's focus is on representing people who have been discriminated against in the workplace, and she has handled many successful cases including sexual, discrimination, racial discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, disability and age discrimination. Over the years, Ms. Mason and her cases have received considerable press on both a state and national level, including stories appearing on 20/20, Dateline, CNN, Nightline with Ted Koppel, Daily News, Herald Tribune, New York Times, ABC News, NBC News and CBS News, New York Law Journal, National Law Journal, and The Wall Street Journal. Ms. Mason also conducts The Service Fund of NOW-NYC's Employment Discrimination Legal Clinic, which offers practical information to individuals who believe they may be discriminated against in the workplace. Ms. Mason is a past recipient NOW-NYC's Women of Power and Influence Award, which she received in 1997 for her legal and legislative work to protect women who have been raped in the workplace.
Anna Pinedo is a partner at Morrison & Foerster and has concentrated her practice on securities and derivatives. Ms. Pinedo works closely with financial institutions to create and structure innovative financing techniques, including new securities distribution methodologies and financial products. Ms. Pinedo’s work in the area of structured products, derivatives and innovative financial products has been groundbreaking and make Ms. Pinedo a regular first call for leading investment banks and other financial institutions. Ms. Pinedo has been recognized by Crain’s New York Business “Forty Under 40” and Investment Dealer’s Digest “Forty Under 40,” and as a leading capital markets lawyer by various rankings and directories, including Chambers USA, Chambers Global, IFLR1000 Guide to Leading Lawyers and The Legal 500. Ms. Pinedo also was named by Hispanic Business magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics.” For some years now, Ms. Pinedo has been both a symbol for, and a mentor to, young lawyers, particularly women who aspire to develop and succeed as capital markets lawyers (an area that is still predominantly male). Her teaching and mentoring within her firm and industry organizations is significant. She regularly speaks at industry conferences, bar association and other professional gatherings. Ms. Pinedo is the author of a treatise, Exempt and Hybrid Securities Offerings (Practising Law Institute, 2009), and of numerous journal and other articles. Ms. Pinedo received her B.S. from Georgetown University and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Judith J.K. Polson has been an active NOW-NYC member since 2000 and served as Board Chair since 2007. Judi has helped shepherd the Chapter to having stable finances that support operating costs and a staff. Judi has led technology projects for IBM, and she joined Merrill Lynch in 1993, rising to Vice-President and leading institutional markets technology compliance until 2008. She is currently a project manager for a European bank. Judi has substantial activist credentials as well, leading a cadre of demonstrators to the 2004 March for Women's Lives in D.C. and participating in innumerable rallies and protests. An actor, she appeared in the Oscar-nominated film, Kinsey.
Helen Rosenthal, currently the Chair of Manhattan Community Board 7, is a community leader and strong advocate for improving the lives of women and families here in New York City. She is a founding member of the Friends of the Birth Center, an organization that expands childbirth and reproductive health care options for women, and she serves as a Board member of WomenCare Inc., NARAL ProChoice America, the Westside Crime Prevention Program, the Broadway Malls Assocaition, and the Strykers' Bay Neighborhood Council, and is an Advisory Board member for Parent JobNet. From 1988-1995 she served as Assistant Director at the New York City Office of Management and Budget, overseeing the health care budgets of the city. She holds a Masters in Public Health from the Yale University School of Medicine and is a graduate of Michigan State University. She has received numerous awards for her community contributions.
Anne C. Vladeck is a partner at Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C. where she focuses her practice on employment matters, including discrimination, sexual harassment, defamation, union-side labor law, and litigation. In addition to being an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University Law School and Fordham Law School, Ms. Vladeck is a past President of the Federal Bar Council Inn of Court, a trustee of the Federal Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the Professional Discipline Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. In 2007, she and her partners took on and won the high profile case of Anucha Browne Sanders, who sued Isiah Thomas and Madison Square Garden for sexual harassment. Ms. Vladeck received her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. She has previously served as an adjunct faculty member at Cardozo Law School. She regularly speaks on employment law and related topics at the Practicing law Institute, ALI/ABA, ABA, NYSBA, and N.Y.U. Conference, among others.
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