December 2015
The Responsible 100
LISA BEL ZBERG Founder & Chair Emerita PENCIL
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Dr. Lisa Belzberg is Founder and Chair Emerita of the non-profit organization PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning). Her wide experience includes working for political campaign consultant David Garth, as a producer of The Charlie Rose Show, as a Principal at Leeds Equity Partners, and she, currently, as Adjunct Professor at Teacher’s College/Columbia University. One of New York’s preeminent social entrepreneurs, Dr. Belzberg is an acting Board member for OneFamily Fund, Action Canada, JDC and the Barnard/ Columbia Center for Urban Policy. She also sits on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York Education Reform Commission, the Dean’s Council for NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education and is an active member of the Advisory Board of Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Ed).
ANTHONY MARX President and CEO New York Public Library
Anthony Marx has worked to expand the New York Public Library’s essential role as a provider of free educational opportunities for all New Yorkers, focusing on increasing services to students, researchers, and scholars; improving educational programming in the New York Public Library’s 87 neighborhood branches; partnering with the city’s Department of Education to increase public school access to critical learning materials; and expanding public access to e-books and other digital resources. In his prior position as president of Amherst College, Marx – a recipient of multiple fellowships and the prize-winning author of three books and various scholarly articles – passionately promoted access to higher education for economically disadvantaged students.
City & State Reports
MICHAEL WOLOZ Managing Partner
Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz Michael Woloz has managed public relations, government relations and marketing campaigns for corporations, boards of trade, universities and nonprofit organizations. He successfully negotiated landmark state and city environmental legislation on behalf on multiple energy clients, shaped the media narrative of clients undergoing major regulatory changes, built marketing campaigns for start-up businesses and helped secure funding and public awareness for a wide variety of cultural clients. Woloz holds various appointments, including the nationally recognized Mayor’s Clean Heat Task Force. A volunteer for a multitude of causes, Woloz is active in numerous non-profit and charitable organizations, including the arts education group, Young Audiences New York, where he is a longtime Board Member. He is an Advisory Board Member for the citywide arts advocacy group One Percent for Culture. Woloz is also Co-Chair of the Powhattan Democratic Club.