
People
Board of Directors
President
Karl G. Wellner
Vice President
Elizabeth Mayhew
Treasurer
Mark S. Weiss
Secretary
Frank E. Sommerfield
Directors
Rosario Coniglio
Vicky Cornell
Jodie Fink
Neil Friedman
Maarit Glocer
Daniel M. Healy
Valesca Guerrand-Hermès
Tania Higgins
Holly M. Kelly
Federico G.M. Mennella
Tatiana G. P. Perkin
David R. Stack
Oerta Trepca
Honorary Director
Elbridge T. Gerry, Jr.
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Executive Director

Mary L. Pulido, Ph.D.
mpulido@nyspcc.org
Mary L. Pulido, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the first child protection agency in the world. She has held senior management positions at the Child Protection Center of Montefiore Medical Center (a Child Advocacy Center), the Children’s Village, and at Covenant House/Under 21. Dr. Pulido’s protocol for crisis debriefing following child fatality and critical incidents is utilized throughout the New York City Child Protective Services system. Dr. Pulido is a member of the Medical Reserve Corps of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In 2006, Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Dr. Pulido to the New York City Child Fatality Review Team (CFRT) where she served until 2015. She serves on the National Board of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and on the NYS Chapter Board of APSAC and is Chair of their Public Policy Committee, and is a member of the World Childhood Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Pulido holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the City University of New York and Master’s Degrees in Social Work from Hunter College School of Social Work and in Teaching from Sacred Heart University. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She has published in the areas of detection and prevention of child abuse and neglect, child sexual abuse prevention, providing supervised visitation services, crisis debriefing, and preventing secondary traumatic stress.
ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Brett Baehr
Director of Finance and Operations
bbaehr@nyspcc.org
CLINICAL DEPARTMENT
Amy Pumo, LCSW
Director of Clinical Services
apumo@nyspcc.org
DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
Sharon L. Scimeca
Chief Development & Communications Officer
sscimeca@nyspcc.org
RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
Jacqueline L. Holloway, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Evaluation
jholloway@nyspcc.org
THE TRAINING INSTITUTE
Annie Costello, MPH
Director of the Training Institute
acostello@nyspcc.org
CHILDREN’S COUNCIL
Anne and Bob Arns
Emma Bengtsson
Regina Calcaterra
Victor de Souza
Michael Ferraro
Aaron Fisher, Dawn Hennessy, & Michael Gillum
Sophie B. Hawkins
Tania Higgins
Dr. Thomas Kelly
Hon. Joseph M. Lauria (Ret.)
Anita Lo
Eric MacLeish
Deborah Norville
Kelly Rutherford
Sapphire
Costas Spiliadis
JUNIOR COMMITTEE OFFICERS
President
Oerta Trepca
Vice President
Lea Kadish
Secretary
Alexandra Rak
Treasurer
Christine Curran