Board of Directors

DORA LEWIN

Dora is currently a Private Client Advisor at U.S. Trust Private
Wealth Management at Bank of America. She is responsible for developing and managing key high and ultra high net worth relationships within the Private Bank.  Dora has worked in Banking for over two decades.

Dora has served as the Treasurer of the Friends of Brigham and Women's Hospital for 10 years, co-chair of various arts organization (Boston Camerata, Topf Dance Center, Boston Conservatory Chamber Players, Boston Public Library Foundation) and currently serves as a Director for the African Women Health Education Fund (AWHEF).

Dora and her husband Michael are dedicated to furthering the goal of finding a cure for Inflammatory Bowel disease. Their son Jeremy was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis at age 6.

SHARI MAE WYNER NARVA

Shari's academic history includes a B.S. from Cornell University in Human Development and Family Studies and an MSW from Smith College. Her professional life, which began as a child and family therapist in community mental health, has evolved over 30 years to child protective work in the legal system, to private practice, and over the last 15 years, to family business consulting as part of an interdisciplinary team.

Shari has both written for and presented at a number national psychological association meetings as well as many university based family business programs. For the last six months she has been trained and volunteers as "Sparkle," a pediatric hospital clown, at Boston Medical Center.

Thirteen years ago, Shari's youngest son, Zachary, was diagnosed with Pedi IBD and his very tumultuous and complicated journey changed the life of her family. Shari's skills as a case manager and advocate were never more critically utilized and she has an abiding concern and respect for how difficult such management can be and understands the need for effective communication and advocacy on behalf of IBD patients.

Shari and Zach have worked with medical students at Harvard Medical School for many years, based on Zach's inpatient experience, to sensitize the students to the emotional needs of patients.

JOEL SHAPIRO

Joel Shapiro is the Chief Executive Officer of Timbervest, LLC, and has direct responsibility for the overall leadership, strategy and marketing of Timbervest and its related entities. Under his leadership, Timbervest with $2 billion in assets under management, has grown into one of the premier investment managers in the timberland, environmental infrastructure and opportunistic real estate asset classes.

Joel has 25 years of experience in the investment industry, having previously founded Shapiro Capital Management, one of the nation's premier "small-cap value" money management firms. In addition, he was the founder and president of The Atlanta Growth Fund, a publicly traded mutual fund, deploying a regionally focused investment strategy.

Throughout his career, he has developed novel approaches to investments and investment theories, and his views and concepts have been published, noted and written about in books and journals, as well as various national publications.

RODNEY VAUGHN

Rodney is a producer for Turner Sports, producing some of the organization's award-winning sports programming on both the TBS and TNT networks.

Joining Turner in 1996, Rodney was Turner Sports' first full‐time African-American producer and since that time has served in a variety of roles in a number of top‐rated telecasts including TNT's multi-Emmy® award-winning Inside the NBA and the 2005 British Open which also was awarded an Emmy®.

In October 2007 Rodney served as the producer of the network's innovative broadband channel, TBS Hot Corner on MLB.com, where he coordinated and produced a live broadcast every night of the postseason. Rodney was also the producer of NBA All-Star Saturday Night since 2007 and the 2009 NBA All-Star Game encore. He has also produced the British Open encore broadcasts since 2006. In 2008, Rodney produced Atlanta Braves games on Peachtree TV.

BRIANNE WALKER

Brianne was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at age 7. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California and has worked as an RN in several pediatric facilities including Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, Driscoll Children's Hospital in Texas and Kaiser Permanente in San Diego.

Brianne brings a special empathy to her nursing practice as she has been prescribed nearly every treatment available for her IBD and has been hospitalized many times for severe flare-ups. Despite the challenges of living with a chronic disease like IBD, Brianne enjoys a very ‘normal' life. She and her husband enjoy traveling and living every day to the fullest.

ERIC ZUCKERMAN

Eric was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and received his BA in Psychobiology from SUNY at Buffalo and medical school in Des Moines, Iowa before coming to Detroit in 1981 for residency training in Ophthalmology. Eric became program director of the Ophthalmology Residency training program in Detroit through Michigan State University in 1987, training residents for over 10 years and is presently in private practice.

His daughter diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 2004 and has been in remission for 3 years. Eric has learned that a good day is when she is feeling well and is forever grateful to those who have participated in her medical care.

Eric has served as a specialist on the Advisory Board at Blue Cross and continues to be involved in graduate medical education.