Board

Nonprofit Executive

Sarah has over two decades of experience in both nonprofit management and fundraising, with a wealth of knowledge about the sector as well as significant operational and development expertise. She was most recently the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Brooklyn Community Foundation. As COO she was responsible for oversight of both the Foundation’s internal operations and strategic partnerships. In addition, she worked closely with the board and leadership to steward new philanthropic funds and grow the Foundation’s endowment. During her tenure, the Foundation nearly doubled its endowment from $65M to over $120M, increased its annual grantmaking from approximately $3M to over $12M, and doubled its full-time staff. Prior to the Foundation, Sarah was Deputy Director for the Heart of Brooklyn, a partnership of the borough’s leading cultural institutions. She was also National Program Director for Careers Through Culinary Arts Program (C-CAP), a school-to-career initiative for the culinary and hospitality industries. As a nonprofit fundraising and management consultant, Sarah’s clients have included National Child Labor Committee, The Jewish Museum, Lutheran Medical Center, and Art2Facts, Inc. Sarah graduated with honors from Barnard College. She is a proud Brooklynite since 1997 and currently lives in Clinton Hill with her husband and two sons.

Altermiese Bradley is an educational leader who retired from the New York City Department of Education as an Assistant Principal. She has over 40 years of experience in management, administration, and classroom teaching in racially and linguistically diverse communities across New York State. She was an Assistant Principal in District 75, which serves only special education students in multiple sites across New York City.

Her career in education began as a teacher of grades 6-12, teaching Language Arts, Reading, Math and other subjects when there was a need. She was also a Crisis Intervention Teacher and a Site Coordinator supervising teachers, paraprofessionals and support staff. Working with severely emotionally disturbed middle school students, she learned how to deal with all kinds of extreme behaviors and situations. She also taught Preschool and Adult Education. Prior to teaching, Altermiese was a computer programmer, an Assistant Team Supervisor for machine operators and a file clerk. Skills acquired in these positions were useful in her future as a leader.

As an Assistant Principal, Altermiese supervised special education teachers who taught severely emotionally disturbed and autistic students. She managed the redesign of a low performing school under NY State Review, supervised schools off site, and developed scripts and lesson designs to meet NYC instructional standards. She created a functional curriculum along with academic subjects for pregnant adolescents; conducted staff conferences on Literacy and Math, and conducted study cycles for teachers and administrators.

Altermiese wrote and received a Peer Mediation Grant and a NYS Grant for improved school services for Limited English Proficient Students. As an educator, she created Leadership Coaching and Mentoring of administrators, writing a specialized staff manual. After retiring from the New York City Board of Education, she worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor, teaching Graduate Certification courses to teachers.

Altermiese obtained a B.A. in English from Pace University, an M.Ed. in Elementary Education from Antioch College, an M.S. in Special Education from Adelphi University. She completed Certification Courses in Administration/Supervision from Iona College and the College of New Rochelle. She holds multiple New York City Licenses, and New York State Certification in the areas of School District Administration and School Administration and Supervision

Patrick Mulryan is a queer director, actor, teacher, and voice and dialect coach based in New York City. The focus of his work is on expanding one’s expressive palette and sense of self through freeing one’s authentic voice and through that process expanding our capacity for empathy.

Patrick recently joined the Voice and Speech faculty at the Juilliard School. He also serves as Dialect Associate for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway. 

Past coaching credits include Lost in Yonkers at Hartford Stage (co-directed by and starring Academy Award nominee Marsha Mason) and Sweat at the Huntington Theater Company for which the cast received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Ensemble.

Directing credits include a production of Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink in Brooklyn. Previously he served as director and adaptor for a production entitled Raison d’être: an Evening of Pirandello which ran at Theatre 71 on New York’s Upper West Side (JJewell Productions). An interview with him on the subject of adaptation was published in the Journal of the Pirandello Society of America. Other credits include Goblin Market (JJewell Productions) which he directed in New York at 59E59 and abroad at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. He also directed the MFA Acting Showcase at Brooklyn College from 2019 to 2023.

As an actor, he appeared in Fiasco Theater’s acclaimed production of Into the Woods in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory as well as in New York at The Roundabout Theatre (Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival) and on tour, for which he received an LA Drama Critics Award.  Other performance credits include: Relentlessly Gay Brunch (EST); Fiasco’s Cymbeline (Barrow Street, TFANA); Bum Phillips All-American Opera (La MaMa); As You Like It (Happy Few Theatre Company, NYIT Award Nomination); Fiasco’s Into the Woods (McCarter, Old Globe); Cabaret and Importance of Being Earnest (Trinity Rep); and Chain of Fools (Guthrie). 

Patrick has been a lecturer/guest artist in Voice and Speech at Brooklyn College, the New Group, NYU, Wesleyan, Pace, SUNY Purchase, Fordham, and the Tom Todoroff Studio.  He has developed work with Tectonic Theater Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Page 73, Ma-Yi, TFANA, Fiasco, Bay Street, Lark, New Georges, and at the O’Neill Center (NMTC).  

Patrick received his MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.  Other training includes: Moscow Art Theatre (NTI), Oberlin College (BA), and Guthrie Experience for Actors in Training (GEx 13).  

Patrick is a member of the Actors Center workshop company, the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, VASTA, the Dramatists Guild, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is a certified teacher of the Miller Voice Method (mVm) and is a student of Knight-Thompson Speechwork.