StoryCorps Board of Directors

Our current Board is an involved and committed group of foundation, corporate, and non-profit leaders that includes the Pulitzer Prize winning President of the New York Times Company Foundation, the President of the Public Welfare Foundation, a Senior Vice President of one of the fastest-growing private companies in New York City, and a former U.S. Senator.

Deborah Leff, Chair
President, The Public Welfare Foundation

David Isay, President
Founder & President, StoryCorps

Richard Hecht, Treasurer
Partner, Marks, Paneth and Shron

Jim Moore, Secretary
Senior Vice President for Business Affairs, FreshDirect

Senator William Bradley
Managing Director, Allen & Company LLC

Jane Phillips Donaldson
Co-Founder and Principal, Phillips Oppenheim

Kevin Klose
President Emeritus, National Public Radio
Dean, University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Tom Moore
Former Group Vice President, Proctor & Gamble Co.

Jack Rosenthal
President, New York Times Company Foundation

Michael Shuman
Founder and Principal, MASdesign

Nicki Newman Tanner
Trustee, WNYC Public Radio and oral historian

William H. Wright II
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley


In memory of Woody Wickham (1942-2009), founding board chair of StoryCorps.