Deborah K. Fleischman is a founding partner of Fleischman Gerber & Associates, a public relations and special events firm specializing in non-profit organizations. Hailed by Philadelphia Magazine as "one of the city's leading arts publicists," she has served a variety of performing arts and social service organizations such as the Philadelphia Theatre Company, the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, Mural Arts Program, Anti-Defamation League and the Curtis Institute of Music. She has provided marketing services for a tenth anniversary season, regional music and film festivals, world and American theatre premieres, a U.S. debut concert, several national touring productions of Broadway shows, a record album, and the inaugural season of a national music theatre festival. She has been an Adjunct Professor teaching graduate level courses in Marketing and Public Relations at both Drexel University and Rosemont College. She currently serves as the Program Chair at the Gershman Y and sits on its Executive Board.

Richard Charles Greenwald is a Senior Fellow of the Center of Civic Innovation, Manhattan Institute. As part of the Manhattan Institute's commitment to urban social entrepreneurial initiatives, Mr. Greenwald is assisting Newark Mayor, Cory Booker, and his team in designing and planning the implementation of a strategy to assist formerly incarcerated individuals and the chronically unemployed both in finding and retaining employment and in strengthening family ties. Until early 2007, Mr. Greenwald was the first President and Chief Executive Officer of the Philadelphia-based Transitional Work Corporation (TWC) starting in 1998.

For fifteen years, Mr. Greenwald has been addressing the complex economic development and human services issues facing unemployed people. He has done that as a Vice President at America Works - a New York City-based private company that places welfare recipients into the labor market, then at TWC, the Manhattan Institute, as well as serving on a HHS evaluation through Abt Associates of innovative strategies for improving self-sufficiency. Mr. Greenwald also spent two years on Capitol Hill working for Albert Gore Jr. in the U.S Senate. Mr. Greenwald served on the National Transitional Jobs Network Steering Committee. He was also a Member of the Board of the Philadelphia-based Matrix Research Institute, a research and training center focused on employment programs and policies targeting people with disabilities.

Mr. Greenwald is an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he received a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Administration. He completed his Bachelors Degree at Connecticut College. Richard Greenwald was raised in Memphis and currently lives in Philadelphia.

Sue Harbison has been a resident of center city for the past 16 years. She and her husband Sean converted a carriage house in the Rittenhouse Square area into their home in 1996 and have raised two children there. Sue is currently a substitute teacher for grades pre-k through 8th at Green Street Friends School and volunteers extensively at her children's school, Penn Charter.

Cordula T. Holzer, MD, a native of Cologne, Germany came to Philadelphia in the 1980's to pursue graduate medical training in psychiatry. She has lived in Center City with her family ever since. Cordula is the medical director of Horizon House, Inc., a non- profit community agency providing behavioral health care to Philadelphia residents. She is interested in working on creative solutions to homelessness, street safety and a cleaner city.

Meg McKenna is currently the Director of Information Technology for ARAMARK Sports and Entertainment. Meg Joined ARAMARK as the Director of Information Technology for the Harrison Lodging division of ARAMARK in 2004 after serving in a variety of management position in the hospitality industry around the country. Meg will be working in Beijing, China this summer for ARAMARK during the 2008 summer Olympic Games. Meg graduated from Bryant College with a Bachelor of Science degree, Magna Cum Laude in 1990. Meg was raised in Bala Cynwyd, PA

Virginia K. Nalencz is a journalist and teacher. In recent years she has taught in the English department at Temple University and has been a staff writer for university publications. Writing about issues of urban planning, environmentalism and historic preservation contributed to the process that led her and her husband, Len, to move to the city from Wayne, where they had lived for thirty years and raised their three sons. Since November, 2006, they have lived near Fitler Square. Virginia is a graduate of Manhattanville College and received an M.A. in history from Northwestern and an M.A. in creative writing from Temple.

Roberta Pichini has been an avid fan of Philadelphia since she came to the University of Pennsylvania after high school. She has spent her entire professional career as a lawyer in center city and has been active in the City's Bar Association over that time, serving as a volunteer in various legal initiatives directed at benefiting city residents. She lived in the Rittenhouse Square area after college and moved back to that area of center city in 2002. Before law school, she worked for years in public health, including serving as a public health nurse in disadvantaged areas of Philadelphia. She very much appreciates the enhancement of the quality of life in center city as a result of the efforts of CCRA.

Laura Weinbaum is Director of Public Policy for Project H.O.M.E., a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization that provides street outreach, supportive housing, and comprehensive services to address homelessness. Prior to joining the staff of Project H.O.M.E., Laura worked with two organizations - LibertyNet and TechRocks - that helped nonprofits use technology in advocacy, recruitment, and fundraising to further their missions. In addition, Laura worked with Philadelphia's Redevelopment Authority, the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, and the Committee of Seventy. Laura has a BA in Urban Studies from Columbia University and an MA in Governmental Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently on the Board of the Homeless Advocacy Project and active with Independence Charter School. Laura is a lifelong Philadelphian and a resident of Center City, where she lives with her husband, Brett, and children, Rose, Ariel, and Sidney.

Dane Wells and his wife Joan moved from Philadelphia in 1981, leaving his job as an Economic Development Program Manager for Philadelphia, to restore and run The Queen Victoria Inn, in Cape May, NJ. In Cape May they also worked to develop the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts into the resort's economic engine and largest employer. Dane was also President of the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce in 1990 and 1991. Although they remain active with several innkeeping organizations, in 2004 Dane and Joan sold their Inn and returned to Center City Philadelphia to restore one of Rittenhouse Square's 1860's Brownstone town homes. Dane is also a volunteer walking tour guide for the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks, and sings in the choir of the First Unitarian Church. Dane Grew up in Villanova, PA and graduated in 1971 from Hobart College with a degree in economics and finance. Dane also served in the US Army as a Special Agent for the Allied Command Europe Counter Intelligence activity in Brussels, Belgium.