AD-HOC EXPANSION ADVISORY COUNCIL (In Formation)
We are proud to welcome these members to our organization
Bruce Frankel
Bruce Frankel joined BSLI Redstring in 2010 and since has become the Chief Content Officer of the world’s most innovative, engaging, and effective platform for community-building technology for non-profits and businesses. Furthermore, as the Co-President of The Life Planning Network, co-leader of LPN's New England chapter, and the Founding Editor of the organization's journal, LPN-Q, he’s committed himself to change the culture of aging, fighting ageism in all its forms, and helping people optimize their second half. Prior to his work with Redstring, Frankel established himself in a successful career as a best-selling and award-winning author, national news reporter, and magazine writer/editor. His award-winning, best-selling book, What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life? was published in hardcover by Penguin in 2010 and in a paperback edition in 2011. After serving as the New York-based National Reporter for USA Today and a Senior Writer/Editor for People Magazine, he co-authored the best-selling World War II: History's Greatest Conflict.
Steven Garibell
Steven Garibell currently works as the Vice President of Business Development LGBTQ2+ at TD bank after being with the company for over ten years. In his position, Garibell cultivates relationships in the community to uncover ways to improve a client’s financial position through TD Bank’s Small Business, Commercial, Wealth, and Retail Networks. He also serves as a Financial Literacy advocate and facilitates classes in all aspects of financial wellbeing. In recent years, Garibell’s work has led to recognition on multiple platforms as an influential figure in the LGBTQ+ community, including Bronx Power 50 (2018), the Gay City News Impact Award (2019), Pride Power 100 (2019), and Crain’s New York — Notable LGBTQ Leaders and Executives (2020). Outside of his work with TD Bank, Garibell continues to be involved with the Hudson County Community College Foundation as a Board Member as well as NGLCC as a Certification Committee Member.
Louise Hawkley
Louise Hawkley is a Senior Research Scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago, after more than a decade with the Psychology Department at The University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the role of psychosocial factors, particularly loneliness and social isolation, in explaining individual differences in health and well-being in older adulthood. Her current work on the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Prior to her position at the NORC, she was Director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago where she was an investigator on NIA-funded studies of loneliness and its antecedents and consequences in middle to older adulthood. She was also a co-investigator on a randomized clinical trial funded by the Department of the Army to evaluate the effects of a social resilience intervention on Soldiers' job performance and health outcomes. She has given invited lectures and panel presentations for academic and service institutions in Spain, Hungary, France, England, as well as the United States. Hawkley is a member of the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America and serves on the editorial board for Research on Aging and Social Science & Medicine. Dr. Hawkley is an international speaker and served as an expert witness for the solitary confinement case, Ashker v.Louise Hawkley is a Senior Research Scientist at NORC at the University of Chicago, after more than a decade with the Psychology Department at The University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the role of psychosocial factors, particularly loneliness and social isolation, in explaining individual differences in health and well-being in older adulthood. Her current work on the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) is funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Prior to her position at the NORC, she was Director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago where she was an investigator on NIA-funded studies of loneliness and its antecedents and consequences in middle to older adulthood. She was also a co-investigator on a randomized clinical trial funded by the Department of the Army to evaluate the effects of a social resilience intervention on Soldiers' job performance and health outcomes. She has given invited lectures and panel presentations for academic and service institutions in Spain, Hungary, France, England, as well as the United States. Hawkley is a member of the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America and serves on the editorial board for Research on Aging and Social Science & Medicine. Dr. Hawkley is an international speaker and served as an expert witness for the solitary confinement case, Ashker v. Governor of California, 2015.
Wendy Holmes
Wendy Holmes has served as the Senior VP of Consulting and Strategic Partnerships at Artspace Projects for over two decades. She’s engaged with nonprofit and social justice organizations in cities to identify ways to creatively foster and preserve long-term affordable space for artists and creative businesses. She has a personal curiosity for cities, and what makes them work well and equitably. Holmes has worked for the Walker Art Center, the Science Museum of Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio, and her alma mater. Holmes has been active on local and national boards and advisory committees including James Sewell Ballet, the Urban Land Institute, Cantus, the Minneapolis Park Foundation, and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. She has been a speaker at numerous national arts and urban affairs conferences, as well as a guest lecturer at the University of St. Thomas, Macalester College, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of the University of Minnesota. Holmes is a national resource for information about urban redevelopment issues and has been interviewed by many local and national publications.
Si Kahn
Si Kahn founded the national organization Grassroots Leadership in 1980. Coming into the organizing field as a folk singer-songwriter and community activist, he found his roots in the civil rights movement and worked to build a progressive movement in the southern U.S.. The organization’s legacy work includes being an Open Society grantee for their work in the abolition of for-profit prisons and immigrant family detention as well as halting prison expansion and the 287(g) program. In 2009, Grassroots Leadership won a major national victory in its Campaign to End Immigrant Family Detention, when the Federal government removed 150 children from the notorious for-profit private T. Don Hutto “family residential center.” While Kahn is now retired after 30 years of leadership, he has been actively involved as a passionate volunteer in the international campaign to stop the proposed Pebble Mine and to protect permanently the people, jobs, communities, Native languages, cultures, traditions, and wild sockeye salmon of Alaska’s Bristol Bay, one of the great remaining wild places in the world. Committed to this work, he also became one of the three co-founders of Musicians United to Protect Bristol Bay.
Floyd Rumohr
Rumohr is a transformational leader and has been a teacher, author, consultant, and Founding and Chief Executive Officer of Brooklyn Community Pride Center, Inc., Brooklyn’s only LGBQ+ community center and described by Mayor Mike Bloomberg as one of the most effective serving New York City. He is also the Founder of STAGEiT! Shakespeare, an organization that supports the development of literacy-rich schools lays based on Stage of Learning practices for every child on earth. Following over two decades of arts leadership, he was interim executive director for Love Heals, the Alison Gertz Foundation for AIDS Education, and Apple Arts-NYC, for which he facilitated a merger with another nonprofit organization. Rumohr has been an affiliate consultant for the Support Center | Partnership in Philanthropy for which he participated in a community of practice around interim executive leadership; served on the virtual faculty for 501(c)(3) University, and was a founding partner of Rumohr and Clarke Nonprofit Consulting for which he developed online resources for nonprofit organizations and emerging leaders. He was recently named among Brooklyn Power 50 (2020 and 2018) and Brooklyn Power 100 (2019) by City and State New York, awarded the 2019 Plug'd Award of Excellence from Haitian-American Community Coalition (HCC), 2019 Gay City News Impact Award, and 2018 Outstanding Leadership Excel Pride Award by the My True Colors Festival.