Executive Director
Kayla Carlsen
Directors Emeritae
Tammis K. Groft
Board of Trustees
Updated April 2026
OFFICERS
George R. Hearst III, Chair
Alan P. Goldberg, Vice Chair
Leigh Metzger, Treasurer
M. Christian Bender, Secretary
EX-OFFICIO:
The Honorable Dorcey Applyrs, Mayor, City of Albany
Trustees
Wallace Altes
Susan L. Blabey
Daniel Butterworth
Prentiss Carnell
Benjamin M. Farber
Denise Gorman
Ellen Jabbur
Mehak Jamil, Esq.
E. Stewart Jones
Robert J. Krackeler
Daria Mallin, AIA
Christine Miles Kelliher
Marcia Moss
Vicary Thomas
Mary Ellen Tomson
F. Michael Tucker
Judy White
Trustee Emeritus
Phoebe Powell Bender
Associates
Douglas L. Cohn, DVM
Barbara Featherstonhaugh
Karen Hartgen Fisher
Geraldine Golub
Michael M. Hayes
Nancy L. Hodes
Barbara K. Hoehn
Linda Jackson-Chalmers
Jean Lewis Maloy
Louise F. Marwill
Meaghan Murphy, Esq.
Susan O’Connor
John Puig
I. David Swawite
Miriam Trementozzi
Sabrina M. Ty
John G. Walsh III
Candace K. Weir
Morgan White Whalen
Michael Zahler, Esq.