Board of Directors
Keith Fox, Chair
Keith is Chief Executive Officer of Phaidon, Artspace, and Monacelli Press, global publishers of books on art, architecture, design, fashion, photography, and popular culture, as well as cookbooks, children's books, travel books, and artist editions. Previously, he served as president of BusinessWeek and McGraw-Hill Professional.
Christopher Tepper, Vice Chair
Chris is Chief Development Officer at the Trust for Governors Island. He previously worked as a Senior Project Manager at the Hudson Companies, as well as for Jamestown, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Chris is also the co-founder of the New York City AIDS Memorial.
John Tantillo, Treasurer
John is a retired consulting executive with over 35 years of experience advising the financial services sector in addressing risk, regulatory, and control issues with a specific focus on advising internal audit departments. John gained this experience as a Partner at the global consulting firms of PwC (2012-2023) and KPMG (1985-2012). John has been engaged in various LGBTQ initiatives including starting the LGBTQ ERG at KPMG in 2001 and served on the Board of PFLAG National for over 12 years and is currently serving on their President’s Circle which includes former board members of PFLAG National.
Richard D. Burns
Richard D. Burns is the interim executive director of GLAD, the LGBTQ impact litigation firm based in Boston, and is Senior Advisor at the Johnson Family Foundation. He has served as interim executive director of JFF, the Drug Policy Alliance, Lambda Legal, the North Star Fund, PENCIL, the Funding Exchange, Funders for LGBTQ Issues, and the Stonewall Community Foundation. He is chair of the founding board of directors of the American LGBTQ+ Museum. He was previously the chief operating officer of the Arcus Foundation and was executive director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City for 22 years, from 1986 to 2009. Richard is a trustee of the Proteus Fund and served on the advisory board of the Center for HIV Law & Policy from 2005 through 2022. He was Managing Editor of Gay Community News in the late 1970’s. Richard is a graduate of Hamilton College and Northeastern University School of Law.
John Carlin
John started his career in the art world as a curator, writer and college professor in the 1980s where he worked with and helped support artists like Keith Haring, Art Spiegelman and David Wojnarowicz. Later as an entertainment lawyer, he produced one of the first major AIDS benefits, Red Hot + Blue. He left the firm to run Red Hot, producing over 20 projects and giving away millions to help fight HIV/AIDS around the world. At the same time he started one of the first digital design companies in New York, Funny Garbage, which created some of the most important early media websites for Cartoon Network, Comedy Central, VH-1 and many others. John is currently reinventing Red Hot for the digital era and developing several new technology platforms.
Guillermo Chacón
Guillermo is president of the Latino Commission on AIDS. In August 2021, Guillermo was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). Previously, Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed Guillermo to the New York State AIDS Advisory Council. The Council develops recommendations regarding policy and programs, publishes reports and provides leadership on issues relating to HIV/AIDS. Guillermo pioneered the First National Latino/Hispanic AIDS Leadership Summit in 2008. He played a key role in launching the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day in 2003.
Debra Fraser-Howze
Debra is the founder and former President/CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS and was formerly the Senior Vice President for Government/External Affairs at OraSure Technologies, Inc. Debra has been widely recognized for more than three decades of global leadership to communities of color regarding teenage pregnancy, social welfare, and HIV and AIDS. She advised two U.S. Presidents while serving on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995-2001.
Ethan Geto
Ethan is a Principal of the public affairs consulting firm Geto & de Milly, Inc. He advises Fortune 500 companies, real estate development organizations, issue advocacy coalitions, hospitals, universities and industry associations on government affairs, crisis management, media relations and community relations. Ethan also has served at high levels in city, state and federal government.
Alvin Hall
Alvin Hall is an award-winning television, radio broadcaster, and podcast host, featured on the BBC, as well as a financial educator, best-selling author, and prominent collector of contemporary art. Recently, Alvin completed the companion book for his Driving the Green Book podcast series and is currently writing a memoir of his childhood in the Florida Panhandle. He also writes consistently for the “My Week” column in Waitrose Weekend magazine in the UK. He is Trustee Emeritus of Bowdoin College (his alma mater), from which he received the 2019 Alumni Service Award. He is currently the Chair of the Black Art Council (BAC) at the Museum of Modern Art., the incoming chair of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art Advisory Council, on The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Acquisition Committee, as well as a board member of The Conversation US and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation.
Corey Johnson
Corey Johnson is the founder and principal of CoJo Strategies, a government relations consulting firm. From 2014 to 2021, Corey represented District 3 – which includes Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, the West Village – and the New York City AIDS Memorial – on the New York City Council, becoming the first openly HIV+ politician in New York State. From 2018 to 2021 Corey served as the Speaker of the City Council. During his time in the Council, Corey served on seven committees, chairing the Committee on Health, and was a member of the LGBT Caucus. While in office, he earned a reputation as a tenacious advocate for his constituents and a prolific legislator at City Hall, passing legislation which included protecting victims of domestic violence and LGBT New Yorkers, improving school health services, and aiming to end the school-to-prison pipeline.
Fraser D. Mooney
Fraser (“Skip”) Mooney is currently the Executive Director at Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde, a respected international health and human rights organization working in 80 countries worldwide. A long-term public health activist and advocate for social justice, human rights, global health, and equitable public health policy, Fraser has served in leadership positions at national and international NGOs, including the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and the International Center for Transitional Justice. He started the development department at Broadway Cares and was previously the development director at The Asia Society, the Drawing Center, and PS1/MOMA. Fraser has a wealth of experience and a proven track record in both the global health and cultural sectors in program and project management, strategic planning, international public and private sector development, board and staff development, institutional learning, and multi-disciplinary fundraising campaigns. He was an early member of the AIDS activist movement ACT UP/NY, a member of the first board of Visual AIDS when it was housed at PS1’s Clocktower Gallery, and a Board Member emeritus of the acclaimed cultural organization Triple Canopy.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore currently is the Senior Vice President, Head of Events and International Exhibition Tours at Christie’s and has spent the last seven years based in the New York headquarters where he has conceptualized and executed hundreds of events annually across the region, from Art Basel Miami to Beverly Hills, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, and Aspen, in addition to international programs throughout Europe. He has produced numerous event-driven auctions for prominent charitable organizations including Bono’s RED Auctions and most recently for the New York AIDS Memorial last fall. Moore lives in both New York City and Chicago. His interest in art is second only to his love of theatre and he is currently working with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS on a mash up of these two favorite things - an art and theatre related charity auction.
Wesley Powell
Wes is a Partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where he practices litigation and competition law and co-chairs the firm’s pro bono practice. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Luke’s School (NYC) and the Board of Visitors of the College of Arts & Science at Vanderbilt University. He previously was Chair of Hetrick Martin Institute Board of Directors and Chair of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Eric Sawyer
Eric is a social justice and HIV activist who co-founded a number of vital nonprofit and activist organizations including ACT UP, Housing Works, Inc. and Health GAP, Inc. He is a Director on the Fire Island Pines Property Owners’ Association (FIPPOA) and serves on FIPPOA’s Charitable Foundation. He previously served as the Civil Society Partnership Advisor at the UNAIDS New York U.N. Headquarters Liaison Office.
Renier van Aswegen
Renier is a Partner with PwC’s M&A Deals practice in New York and specializes in providing financial and accounting due diligence services to clients investing primarily in the consumer markets and industrial products sectors in the US and internationally. Renier started his career with PwC in London and transferred to New York in late 2006. Renier also serves on the Board of Directors for Free Arts NYC, a nonprofit that empowers underserved youth through arts and mentoring programs to develop their creativity, confidence, and skills to succeed, and as an elder and Treasurer of the Board at Marble Collegiate Church in New York City.
Max Walden
Max is a second-year MBA candidate at the NYU Stern School of Business. He holds a PhD in history from Yale, where he served as managing editor of the Yale AIDS Memorial Project (YAMP) and completed a dissertation on monuments and memorials on university campuses. He has since held internships at DE Shaw & Co, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Investments Office, and Goldman Sachs, and has worked full time as a corporate historian for an investment bank. He will join the New York office of Goldman Sachs as a private wealth advisor in July 2022.
Tucker Woods, DO, FHELA
Tucker is chair of the emergency department and associate medical director of Lenox Health Greenwich Village. Throughout his career, Tucker has served in leadership roles in the emergency departments of several other facilities. He was chairman of the department of emergency medicine at CarePoint Health System in Hudson County, NJ, the chief medical officer of the system’s Christ Hospital, the interim medical director at Northwell Health’s Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital, chief of operations and vice chairman at NYU Lutheran Medical Center, and chairman and chief of services at Long Island College Hospital/SUNY Downstate Medical Center. For his healthcare advocacy for the LGBTQ community, he earned a citation from the city council of Jersey City and received the Evolution Award from the Hudson Pride Center. Tucker graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelor‘s degree in science, received his medical degree in osteopathic medicine from Nova Southeastern University, and completed his emergency medicine internship and residency at St. Barnabas Hospital/Union Hospital.
Janet Weinberg
(April 3, 1955 – September 1, 2018)
Janet was a nonprofit consultant providing creative management solutions to social service and healthcare agencies. She was a recognized leader in the health, social justice and fundraising fields for over 35 years. She served as Co-Chair on the board of the New York City Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, secretary of the iHealth Board of Directors and numerous other Boards throughout her career.
Board Alumni
Eric Cruzen, MD, MBA
Paul Kelterborn
Doug Wingo
Patricia Evert
Susan Rodriguez
Richard Grossman
Andrew Shackett
Paul Kawata
Kendall Thomas
Staff
Dave Harper, Executive Director
Dave joined as the first Executive Director of the New York City AIDS Memorial in June 2019 after fifteen years of professional experience in nonprofit management and cultural programming including positions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as well as at AIDS Service Organizations such as Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and ACRIA. His programs and exhibitions have been regularly reviewed in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Hyperallergic, ArtNet News, and others. He currently serves as the Board President of Shandaken Projects, an artist-centric organization that creates opportunities for artists of all disciplines to forge new pathways in their work through free residency, educational, and public programs throughout New York City and State.