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Staff

• Katherine Snider

• Executive Director

  Bio

  Katherine joined Baby Buggy as the Deputy Director in 2008 and assumed the role of ED in Feb of 2009, upon the departure of Claudia Fleming (who is now on the Board of Directors). Katherine came to Baby Buggy from the Rockefeller Foundation where she served as an Associate Director, working on portfolios such as the Opportunity NYC program, Climate Change Resilience, a Green Revolution in Africa and the Jane Jacobs Medal.

  Prior to that, Katherine served as the VP of Public Affairs for the Lower East Side Tenement Museum for almost nine years, helping to grow the Museum’s attendance by 100% and raising over $10 Million for the institution. Katherine has her BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia; she is the mother of two boys.

• Erin Berger

• Director of Corporate Product Outreach

• Stella Domenech

• Development Assistant

• Jeanne Martin

• Volunteer Program Assistant

• Rick Justiniano

• Office and Warehouse Manager

• Lisa Kussell

• Director, Strategic Partnerships & Marketing

• Belinda Loomis

• Program Coordinator

• Justin Murray

• Statistics and Corporate Donation Manager

  Bio

  Justin Murray is the Statistics and Corporate Donation Manager at Baby Buggy. He tracks the statistics on all of Baby Buggy’s incoming and outgoing donations, compiles data from our recipient sites, and liaises with BB’s corporate donors. Growing up in Iowa City, Iowa, Justin attended the University of Iowa and received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology. In 2003, he moved to New York City where he started working towards his Masters degree in Psychology at New York University, graduating in 2006. He has been working at Baby Buggy ever since. When not working at Baby Buggy, Justin is a mond-blowingly talented stand-up comedian.

• Aubree Oakes

• Events Manager

  Bio

  Aubree recently joined Baby Buggy as the Events Manager after working closely with them for a year and a half as their publicist at Sunshine Sachs. At Sunshine Sachs, Aubree focused primarily on press outreach for Baby Buggy and Microsoft, along with managing press for various nonprofit events. Aubree began her career working at an international trade show company, Messe Frankfurt, where she helped organize trade events worldwide. Following her experience with the organization, she moved over to become an associate at Montieth & Co., where she focused on financial and crisis communications with clients such as American Cancer Society and Art Capital Group. Aubree is a graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in International Business and German.

• Nura Poursharif

• Program Director

  Bio

  Nura Poursharif joined Baby Buggy as the Program Director in January 2007. Nura earned her BS in Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MS in Social Work from Columbia University. Nura oversees a staff of three full-time and one part-time program staff. Prior to joining Baby Buggy, Nura worked at the Middle Grades Initiative/GEAR UP overseeing initiatives at New York City public schools designed to increase the number of low-income students who graduate high school and are prepared to enter and succeed in post-secondary education.

  Nura previously worked at Intersystems, a research and development firm in New York City, developing curriculum and supervising the development of CD-ROM mediated intervention programs, as well as the clinical trial for Adolescent Risk Reduction Programs designed to reduce behaviors that increase health risks for HIV, cancer and obesity. Nura also has prior experience conducting psychosocial assessments and providing individual and group therapy to inner-city children and youth.

• Elizabeth Smith

• Volunteer Program Manager

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