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Counselors, and the International
Association of Christian Clinical
Counselors. Within his church
organization, he sits on the
Board of Bishops, and the Board
of Directors of the Connecticut
District Council and the Aenon
Bible College.
JAMES E. COHEN
Chair, Education Subcommittee;
Member, Governance & New
Haven Neighborhood Advisory
Committees
Appointed by the Mayor of
the City of New Haven for a
term of seven years beginning
January 1, 2006
Jamie is the President and CEO
of the Valley Community
Foundation. Previously, he had
been a practicing attorney and
partner in the law firm of Cohen
& Thomas since 1971, and had
served twice as the City of
Derby’s Corporation Counsel.
Jamie has been a member of
many civic organizations (the
Derby Public Library and New
Haven Symphony Boards of
Directors, and the New Haven
Charter Revision Commission,
among others), and has been
honored by several, including the
Martin Luther King Brotherhood
Committee and Housatonic
Council of Boy Scouts, and
received the 2006 Gold Seal
Award from the Valley Chamber
of Commerce.
ANNIE GARCIA KAPLAN
Chair, Governance Committee;
Member, Executive and
Development Committees &
Education Subcommittee
Appointed by The Community
Foundation’s Board of Directors
for a term of seven years beginning
January 1, 2006
Annie currently holds the position
of Volunteer Coordinator at the
Volunteer Services Department
in Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Annie became the director of
Friends of Yale-New Haven
Children’s Hospital in 2005 after
being a board member for a
decade. The Friends’ mission is
“improving the health and well
being of children and their
families at Yale-New Haven
Children’s Hospital through
clinical care, education and
outreach.” She is a member of
University of Hartford’s
Mortensen Library board of
visitors and a member of the
Parenting Advisory board at Yale-
New Haven Children’s Hospital.
She has served on the boards of
the New Haven Symphony
Orchestra, Guilford Art Center
and Tommy Fund for Childhood
Cancer. Annie is past president
of the Yale-New Haven Hospital
Auxiliary, as well as past co-chair
of the Toy Closets Program and
a former member of Yale-New
Haven Hospital board of trustees.
She has also volunteered with the
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
Discovery School and the United
Way of Greater New Haven
Community Impact Cabinet.
DAVID I. NEWTON
Member, Investment Committee
Appointed by The Community
Foundation’s Board of Directors
for a term of seven years beginning
January 1, 2008
David is President of Elm Advisors
LLC. Prior to establishing Elm
Advisors, he served as the
Associate Vice President and
Director of University Properties
at Yale University. He was the
cofounder and President of the
Facilities Resource Management
Co. He currently serves as
President of the Committee of
Trustees, Hopkins School,
Trustee and member of the
Executive Committee, Long
Wharf Theatre, and as a member
of the Board of Directors for Elm
Shakespeare Co, Festival of
Arts & Ideas, and New Haven
Road Race.
BARBARA L. PEARCE
Chair, Investment Committee;
Member, Executive Committee
Appointed by the President,
Greater New Haven Chamber of
Commerce, for a term of seven
years beginning January 1, 2002
Barbara is president and CEO of
H. Pearce Real Estate Company.
Before joining the family business,
Barbara was an associate in the
New York law firm of Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Barbara is a graduate of Harvard
College, Harvard Graduate
School of Business Administration
and the Harvard Law School.
She has served on many for-profit
and not-for-profit boards in
Connecticut and has served as
chair of many including: the
Hospital of St. Raphael, Long
Wharf Theatre, the Regional
Leadership Council, the
Connecticut Business and
Industry Association, and The
United Way of Greater New
Haven. She is the immediate past
chair of The Foundation’s Board.
JAMES E. PERILLO
Member, Audit Committee;
Liaison, Communities of
Color Initiative
Appointed by the Judge of Probate
Court for the District of New
Haven for a term of seven years
beginning January 1, 2008
James is presently a mathematics
and computer science teacher
at Guilford high school. His
previous teaching experiences
include teaching math, coaching
varsity basketball and serving
as a guidance counselor at West
Haven High School. Between
his teaching careers, he served as
Executive Director of the New
Haven Coliseum for sixteen
years. He has served on the
Board of Directors of The New
Haven Coliseum Authority, The
New Haven Board of Alderman,
the Albie Booth Boys and Girls
Club and the New Haven
Democratic Town Committee.
DAVID R. SCHAEFER, ESQ.
Chair, Development Committee;
Member, Executive, Audit &
Governance Committees
Appointed by the New Haven Bar
Association for a term of seven
years beginning January 1, 2004
David is the managing partner of
Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman
LLP in New Haven, where he
leads the firm’s commercial
litigation department. He is a
former president of the New
Haven County Bar Association,
the Jewish Federation of Greater
New Haven and Congregation
Mishkan Israel. He is a member
of the Anti-Defamation League’s
National Commission and its
National Executive Committee.
David has served for over ten
years as chairman of Hamden’s
Farmington Canal Commission,
which is involved in building a
linear park along an abandoned
railroad line.
ROLAN JONI YOUNG, ESQ.
Member, Finance Committee
Appointed by The Community
Foundation’s Board of Directors
for a term of seven years beginning
January 1, 2008
Rolan has an extensive seventeenyear
background in affordable
housing and economic and
community development,
representing clients including
the City of Bridgeport, the State
of Connecticut and not-for
profit entities. She is Senior
Partner in the firm of Berchem,
Moses & Devlin PC,
concentrating in the areas of
municipal law, real estate,
affordable housing and economic
and community development,
and is chair of the Board of
Commissioners of the Connecticut
Housing Finance authority. Prior
to joining her current firm in
2004, she was a principal in the
firm of Updike, Kelly & Spellacy
PC She also has served as the
Executive Director and Chief
Operating Officer of the
Community Health Center
Capital Corporation and the
Assistant Vice President in the
Community Development
Lending Group at American
Security Bank, both located in
Washington, D.C. Rolan
presently advises the Housing
Authority of the City of
Bridgeport and the Housing
Authority of the City of New
Haven and has been both as
visiting lecturer in law and a
tutor at the Yale Law School
Clinic on Housing and
Community Development.
Rolan is a member of the
American Bar Association, the
American Bar Association Forum
on Affordable Housing, the
Connecticut Bar Association,
the New Haven County Bar
Association, and the National
Bar Association. She is the past
President of the Boards of First
City Fund Corporation and
Greater New Haven NAACP.
In 1999, Rolan was named the
Minority Business Person of the
Year by Business New Haven,
a regional business trade
publication, and was also named
one of Twenty Noteworthy
Women by the New Haven
Business Times. She is a life
member of the NAACP and
received a Juris Doctorate
from the American University
Washington College of
Law in Washington, DC,
and a bachelor’s degree from
Dartmouth College.
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