Dr. Greer's current involvements include: Trustee, the RAND Corporation; Board of Governors, the RAND Corporation Graduate School; Advisory Board, DPRC (Drug Policy Research Center) and RAND Health; Board Member, United-Mellon Bank; Member, Board of Comic Relief, Hispanic Heritage Award Foundation; and Chairman, Camillus Health Concern. His leadership honors include the prestigious MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, 2 Papal Awards; and receiving the Presidential Service Award from Presidents Clinton, Bush, Carter and General Colin Powell in 1997. Dr. Greer has published over 25 articles and book chapters, in addition to his book "Waking Up in America," an autobiographical account of his early years as a physician from taking care of the homeless under the bridges to advising in the Bush and Clinton administration.

Ann R. Kashmer is the Director of Fannie Mae’s South Florida Partnership Office where she oversees the company’s $28 billion, five-year investment strategy to provide affordable housing opportunities to more than 275,000 South Florida families in 18 counties.

Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Ann was the First Vice President/Community Lending SE for Washington Mutual’s markets in Florida and Georgia. In that capacity, she worked with not-for-profits in financing affordable housing, multi-family and single-family transactions. She also held the position of Corporate Affairs Manager for Florida and Georgia. In that role, she was responsible for representing Washington Mutual’s interests and activities that focused on affordable housing, multi-family lending and community development.

Ann has more than 27 years of banking experience that includes serving as Senior Vice President, Community Reinvestment Act Executive and Officer for SunTrust Bank in Miami. She also served SunTrust in several key roles as Corporate Banking Group Manager, Senior Credit Analyst, CRA and Consumer Compliance Manager, Real Estate Portfolio Relationship Manager, and Small Business Manager Administration Manager.

Ann was appointed by Governor to serve on his Affordable Housing Study Commission through 2007. The Study Commission annually reviews affordable housing policies for the state of Florida. She was also appointed by the City of Miami to serve on the City of Miami Housing and Loan Committee to help oversee the City’s CDBG program and other community development funding programs and serves as its Vice Chair. In addition, she was appointed to Miami-Dade County’s Strategic Planning Committee for Economic Development and Housing.

She had served as an executive board member and development committee chairperson of Greater Miami Neighborhoods, Inc for 10 years; she served on the statewide board of the Florida Community Loan Fund, and on their credit committee. She was also a board member of the Little Haiti Housing Association and served on their fundraising committee.

Ann is actively involved with the South Florida Local Initiative Support Corporation, and serves on the Local Advisory Board. She also has held positions on the Greater Miami Local Initiative Support Corporation’s executive committee, credit committee, and has chaired the building capacity committee and the executive director search committee. She serves on the Leadership Team for the Miami Prosperity Initiative (Imagine Miami), to help low-and moderate-income families become homeowners and remains active in the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and the Miami-Dade Empowerment Zone. She sits on the executive committee as Treasurer of the Miami-Dade American Cancer Society Board of Directors, and is an Advisory Board member of The Junior League of Miami, Inc.

Ann received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Miami and her MBA from Florida International University. She has lived in Miami since 1964 and currently resides in Coconut Grove with her Florida-native husband, Lee Price. She remains an active community volunteer and supports historic preservation through participation in Dade Heritage Trust and the Vizcayans.

Israel Kreps is managing partner of Kreps/DeMaria, a 15 year-old Miami-based international public relations firm providing a broad range of services and expertise in media relations, business development and strategic partnerships.

Kreps, and his partner, Suzanne (Sissy) DeMaria, have built one of the largest and nationally recognized independently-owned public relations firms, utilizing a results-oriented, innovative ‘model’ in order to help their clients prosper in today’s complex domestic, regional and international business arenas.

Kreps/DeMaria has particular expertise in the area of real estate, hospitality, tourism, banking, and professional services, and currently represent dozens of highly respected local, national and international corporations, including InterContinental Hotels Group, Fisher Island, Millennium Partners, Esslinger-Wooten-Maxwell, and Commercebank, among many others. The firm is also recognized for its media crisis management capabilities.

Kreps is particularly sought after for his strategic marketing, and business-to-business skills. He has developed innovative marketing venues for clients in a variety of fields, and is a frequent speaker on public relations, having spoken before Chambers of Commerce, Legal Bar Associations, and various public and private corporations and organizations, as well as having taught a strategic PR course to masters candidates at the Externado University in Bogota, Colombia

A University of Miami graduate, he has served on the Jackson Memorial Hospital Foundation Board, Jackson Memorial Golden Angel Society, is a vice chairman of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, in that capacity, chairing the organization’s Small Business Resource Institute. He has also worked in an advisory capacity with the Health and Human Services Board of the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS).

Kreps is married and has three children.

Mr. Lawrence is a board member of the Foundation for Child Development in New York. He has served two terms as chair of the National Task Force on Minorities in the Newspaper Business, was the 1991-92 president of the American society of Newspaper Editors and the 1995-96 president of the Inter American Press Association. His board activity includes Miami Art Museum and United Way, the New World School of the Arts, Phoenix House, NCCJ and the University of Florida Foundation. As a member of the Governor's Commission on Education, he chaired the Readiness Committee. He was the local convening co-chair of the 1994 Summit of the Americas. Mr. Lawrence was named "Father of the Year" by the South Florida Father's Day Council and "Child Advocate of the Year" by Family Central. In 2001, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce named him a "Health Care Hero."

Judge Cindy Lederman, Administrative Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Court, Miami-Dade County, Florida, Juvenile Division, is a faculty member of the National Judicial College, a member of the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women, and past president of the National Association of Women Judges. She has been a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Family Violence Interventions and serves on the Council's Board of Children, Youth and Families and Juvenile Crime Panel. Judge Lederman has served on the Florida Supreme Court's Gender Bias Implementation Commission, Race and Ethnic Bias Commission, Education Council, and currently serves on the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Fairness. Her courtroom operates the Dependency Court Intervention Program for Family Violence, a national demonstration project funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Violence Against Women Grants Office.

In addition, Judge Lederman initiated the Girls Advocacy Project (GAP) that sees time spent in detention and away from negative influences as an opportunity to educate, gain trust and modify behavior. It is the only project in the State of Florida (and one of the few in the nation) that serves girls while they are held in detention. Her innovative and pioneering work in the areas of family violence include Advisory Committee Member of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence, at the Yale Child Study Center. Judge Lederman was awarded the Florida Governor's Peace at Home Award in 1997 and the William E. Gladstone Award (Florida's highest honor for children's advocacy).

The Honorable Deborah White-Labora presently serves in the Domestic Violence Division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County. In the most recent Dade County Bar Poll she was the highest ranked County Court Judge. Prior to her appointment to the bench in 1996, Judge White Labora served as an appointed General Master and Administrative General Master in the Miami-Dade Family Division for five years. She was in private practice for nine years, from 1982 to 1991, specializing in personal injury, criminal defense and family law. She serves as an adjunct faculty member at Florida International University in the Legal Studies Program.

Judge White-Labora is a frequent lecturer on Family Law and Domestic Violence. She is married to Alexander Labora, an attorney, and they have three children.

Past Advisory Board Members

Peter Bermont
Judge Linda Dakis
R. Ray Goode
Mr. Arnold Greenfield
George Knox
Harve Mogul
Laurence Olmstead
Merrett Stierheim
Stanley Tate

Past Advisory Board Member Biographical Sketches

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Arnold Greenfield is a retired attorney who is still a member of the Florida Bar. He was an investment banker for 18 years serving as Managing Director of Lehman Brothers. Mr. Greenfield has served as: Chairman, State of Florida Preservation Advisory Council; President, Florida Trust for Historic Preservation; and President, Florida Education Foundation. His current involvements include: Trustee, Foundation for Villa Vizcaya; Board of Trustees, Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota); and Board of Directors, Bonnet House Museum (Ft. Lauderdale.) Mr. Greenfield was instrumental in the Junior League's receipt of the State of Florida Historical Preservation grant for our Headquarters renovation and was awarded the Junior League of Miami Service Award in 1996-97. Arnold was the husband of past JLM President, Priscilla Greenfield until he passed away in Fall 2004.

Mr. Knox is also a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, a Panel Member of the American Arbitration Association's Large Complex Case Program, and was appointed by the Governor of Florida as a Director to the Wages Program State Board. Included among Mr. Knox's many civic activities are memberships on the Board of Trustees of Florida Memorial College, Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Beacon Council, the Orange Bowl Committee, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA of Greater Miami and The Wolfsonian-Florida International University Advisory Board. He served as Co-Chair of the Strategic Planning Team for the 1998 Miami-Dade Empowerment Zone Application Process and, on June 1, 2000, he was appointed Chairman of The Welfare to Work Partnership's Miami BizLink Program. Mr. Knox has been a board member of United Way of Dade County since 1990 and served as Campaign Co-Chair in 1997.

Harve A. Mogul

Thomas M. Rozek became President and Chief Executive Officer of Miami Children's Hospital in January 1999. With over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry, Mr. Rozek's expertise lies in the areas of ambulatory and hospital operations, managed care, medical staff and trustee development and public policy formation.

Before moving to South Florida, he served as senior vice president of The Detroit Medical Center overseeing children's, women's, orthopedics and surgical services. Prior to that, Mr. Rozek served for more than a decade at Children's Hospital of Michigan where he became president in 1990. From 1980 to 1984 he was the division director and interim chief operating officer at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. He also served with Children's Hospital of Buffalo in various capacities including administrator of the Children's Rehabilitation Center and associate administrator of ambulatory. A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Mr. Rozek went on to obtain a master's degree in hospital and health care administration from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mr. Rozek is a member of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions where he has served as treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees. He is also a diplomate of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Mr. Rozek was recently appointed Vice Chairman of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce's Health Industry Group for the Chamber Year of July 2001 to June 2002. No stranger to the world of the Junior League, Mr. Rozek also served on the Community Advisory Board for the Junior League of Detroit.

Laurence Olmstead became assistant vice president/news for Knight Ridder in February 2001. He oversees news operations of eight KR newspapers and helps set general news direction for the company. Mr. Olmstead rejoined Corporate after more than four years as managing editor of The Miami Herald. In addition to other writing and editing positions at the Baltimore Evening Sun, Detroit Free Press and The New York Times, he worked for Knight Ridder as an assistant vice president/human resources and was the company's diversity officer. During his tenure at The Herald, the newspaper won two Pulitzer prizes ­ in 1999, for uncovering voter fraud in Miami's mayoral election, and in 2001, for its coverage of the raid in which federal agents seized Elian Gonzalez. The paper also had four other Pulitzer finalists under Mr. Olmstead's watch. Mr. Olmstead was part of The Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning covering of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and was a Pulitzer finalist for coverage of South Africa when he was a foreign correspondent for the Free Press in 1987. He has also won journalism awards from the Overseas Press Club, the Associated Press and the National Association of Black Journalists.

In addition to serving on the JLM Community Advisory Board, Mr. Olmstead serves on the boards of the Dade Community Foundation, the International Women's Media Foundation and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, of which he is past president, and is a past board member of NABJ and the national Education Writers Association. He is an elder at Miami Shores Presbyterian Church.

Merrett R. Stierheim

Mr. Stierheim also managed a number of events with national repercussions: the Mariel Exodus and, in 1990, he and other officials restored law and order after severe civil disturbances and joined community leaders in the aftermath to rebuild affected neighborhoods and government programs to address the social inequities that sparked the disturbances. He also served as chief executive officer of the Women's International Tennis Association Board of Directors, President & CEO of the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, Clearwater City Manager, and Pinellas County Administrator. Mr. Stierheim has served on the board of directors of more than 30 local, state and national organizations including Barnett Bank, SunBank, Travel Industry of America, International Association of Convention & Visitors Bureaus, United States National Tourism Organization, and the United Way of Miami-Dade County. Currently, he is a member of the Orange Bowl Committee, Collins Center for Public Trust, National City and County Management Association, American Arbitration Association, and is Chairperson of the Florida International Academy for Strategic Management.

Mr. Tate's largest and primary civic involvement has been his efforts in sponsoring the Florida Prepaid College Program. Mr. Tate was instrumental in helping write the enabling legislation, and has served as Chairman of the Florida Prepaid College Program, and Board, for the past 14 years. The Florida Prepaid College Program is the largest of its kind in the Country, and has sold over 650,000 contracts to Florida residents, more than the combined total of all the Prepaid College contracts sold, throughout the entire Country. He has served or currently serves on many boards as an officer, director or trustee including United Way of Miami-Dade County Trustees, St. Thomas University Advisory Board, American Cancer Society, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Florida Council on Economic Education and Miami Jewish Home & Hospital for the Aged. Mr. Tate has received the United Way Dorothy Shula Award for Community Involvement and Volunteerism.