Board of Trustees

February 2023 – February 2024

2023 Board Minutes

Mark Leeds, President

Mark Leeds and his wife Mary McKenna have been members of All Souls since 2004. Both of Mark and Mary’s children came of age at the All Souls Religious Education program. Mark has served at All Souls as secretary to the Board of Trustees, member of the Finance Committee, Usher captain, Religious Education teacher of the 4th Grade OWL (Our Whole Lives) program, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Heart & Soul. Mark is a former Chairman of the Board of Directors at Best Buddies (New York) and continues to serve as a Best Buddies Director. Mark is a tax partner in an international law firm whose New York office is located in midtown.

Gus Young, First Vice President

Gus has been a member of All Souls since 2001. A member of the All Souls Choir, Gus is a summer usher, a former teacher in the RE program, and a regular in the kitchen at Monday Night Hospitality. Gus is a retired school administrator who is also an active sports official.

Li Yu, Second Vice President

Li has practiced law since graduating from Columbia in 2002, first in private practice, next as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and more recently as an investigator for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Now he is an enforcement counsel at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Richard Esposito, Board Member

Richard Esposito has been a member of All Souls since 2019. He has been on the Board of Directors for Heart & Soul Charitable Fund, a member of the Laymen’s League and the Writer’s Group, and a volunteer in outreach programs. Before joining All Souls, he was a member of various Unitarian churches in which he served on committees for strategic planning, welcoming, and capital campaigns.

He has over 35 years of experience in senior executive and management positions in the information technology industry. Richard has a track record of building, growing, and transforming businesses in Americas, Europe, and Asia, and has held senior executive positions at IBM divisions as General Manager, COO, CIO and Vice President. He has been recognized with numerous awards including a Technology Invention Patent. Richard has a B.S. from Rider University in Decision Science and Computers followed by an M.B.A. in Corporate Finance from Drexel University.

Dixie Goss, Board Member

Dixie has been a member of All Souls since 1988. She is a Professor and Endowed Scholar in the Chemistry Department of Hunter College CUNY, as well as a member of the National Institute of Health Research Ethics Committee, grant review panel for NIH and NSF.

Dixie is a participant in Monday Night Hospitality, the Women’s Alliance, a reader for Stories with Soul, and works with the Heart & Soul Charitable Fund.

Judith Moldover, Board Member

Judith has been a member of All Souls since 2009. She recently retired as a Senior Staff Attorney at Lawyers Alliance New York, a nonprofit dedicated to providing pro bono business and transactional legal assistance to other nonprofits serving underserved communities in New York City.

Shivani Singh, Board Member

Shivani Singh MD PhD has been a member of All Souls since 2016. She has served in the Religious Education program, the Welcome Committee and more lately with the Lay Pastoral Associates. Shivani is a physician scientist at NYU Langone Medical Center and attends as a pulmonologist at Bellevue Hospital. She researches the lung microbiome in various lung infections such as tuberculosis and COVID-19 at the NYU Translational Lung Biology Laboratories.

Matt Singh, Board Member

Matt has been a member of All Souls since 2015. Matt is a mid-career finance professional specializing in affordable housing investment, lending, construction, and public policy.

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