Rev. Linda Tarry-Chard
PPF Founder & President
For over thirty years, Rev. Linda Tarry-Chard’ career has focused on the welfare of disadvantaged urban children and their families, diversity and social justice issues in the US and South Africa. She has held executive positions in voluntary child-care agencies and with the New York City Human Resources Administration. Tarry-Chard served as the Director of Adoption Services at Graham Windham Children’s Services; Director of Victim Services Agency/Community Outreach in the five boroughs of New York City; and Director of Special Projects for the New York City Board of Education.
Linda Tarry-Chard is a lifetime member of the NAACP, and sits on the Board of Directors of The Sister Fund, a private foundation that supports women and girls in New York City. In addition, she is a founding board member of the New York Women’s Foundation and serves on the Advisory Committees of the Jewish Museum and The Facing History and Ourselves Teacher Training Foundation. Among many of her credits, she is also the co-author of a children’s book entitled King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
She holds a Master of Science in Education from Fordham University and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. Shortly after her studies, Linda became an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and served as the Minister for Social Justice at Broadway United Church of Christ. She now serves as the Minister for New Members and Ecumenical-Interfaith Relations at The Riverside Church in New York City.
Lorelei Williams
Consultant
Lorelei Williams serves as Programs Consultant for Project People Foundation. She launched PPF’s South Africa Grant Fund and managed the Uniforms 101 and Craftnig Social Change projects. Williams led PPF’s recent strategic planning process and co-produced PPF’s Celebrating Life Concert Series: Atlanta DVD. Lorelei has worked for the last fifteen years to empower youth throughout the African Diaspora, including the US, South Africa and Brazil. In 2003, she earned a Fulbright to Brazil where she founded POMPA, a leadership development program, to train Afro-Brazilian college students for public service careers. In addition to her work with youth, Lorelei has also been a Production Editor for the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy and interned at the White House and the South African Parliament. She currently works as a consultant for organizations such as the Ford Foundation, Brazil Foundation, The Brazilian Institute of Ethnic Media, and others. Lorelei holds a B.A. from Yale University in Political Science and African American Studies and a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Board of Directors
Kiron Bloom
Rev. Linda Tarry-Chard
Jo Renee Fine, PhD
Sheree Hairston
Ashley Hufft, Esq.
John Monahan
Laura J. C. Nurse
Fredric M. Sanders, Esq.
Dorothy Tananbaum
Nelia Watten
Ken Walker
Advisory Board
Judy Barker
Kristen Chard
Tony Cheng
Andrea DuBois
Catalina Fortino
Janice Johnson
Lorraine Monroe, PhD
Elijah Saunders, MD
Nikki B. Springer
Ruby Sprott, EdD
