Nominees for the 2025- 2026
Three Parks Board of Directors

Daniele Gerard, President — is a lifelong New Yorker. Currently a senior staff attorney at Children’s Rights, where she works on cases involving immigrant children and mental health services for children on Medicaid, Daniele worked for NYC Council President Carol Bellamy, attended Columbia Law School, practiced at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, and worked at Food & Water Watch. A Three Parks member since 2004, she’s been a five-term president, a five-time campaign center veteran, and a critic of fracking/Indian Point, the “grand bargain,” charter schools, and all things Republican. 

Lorraine Zamora, First Vice President — upon retiring as a professional fundraiser, Lorraine joined Three Parks in 2011 to help with the Obama/Biden campaign storefront. A year later, she joined the board and has served in several capacities: corresponding secretary, newsletter editor, and events coordinator. She was elected president in 2019, at which time she had to learn how to lead club and board meetings on Zoom. She is grateful to have had the opportunity to serve as board president for five years and looks forward to remaining involved as VP. She is convinced that Three Parks is what keeps her sane during these brutal political times.

Lynn Max, Second Vice-President -– Member of the Leadership Team for the 2024 Presidential Campaign Center. Co-managed the Postcard Project for the 2024 Tom Suozzi campaign and the 2022 Keep the House and Senate Campaign. Campaigned for our endorsed candidates in the 2021 City Elections. A leader in the Presidential and Senate Campaigns of 2020. Co-managed Presidential Campaign Centers in 2004, 2008, and 2012 and in a leader in the 2016 Campaign Center. A lead organizer in the 2018 Take Back Congress campaign. Membership Director 2007-2012, served on the Steering Committee for Three Parks’ successful Rezoning Campaign as well as on its Health Care, Social Security and anti-fracking committees. Currently serves as Second Vice President.

Ellen Flax, Treasurer -- is a director of corporate and foundation relations for a local university, serves as the rabbi of several eldercare facilities, and is delighted to continue serving as Three Parks’ Treasurer. She has been an active participant in numerous Three Parks campaigns for President, Congress, and for state and city officials.

Michael Stearns, Recording Secretary – has belonged to Three Parks Independent Democrats since about 1990, soon after he moved back to the neighborhood where he grew up. TPID has had many achievements and continues to be a major voice on local, state and national issues and elections. Michael has been proud to support TPID in the following ways: tabling during the last three presidential campaigns, leafleting at the 96th Street subway station, working at the 2016 and 2024 storefronts, petitioning for club-endorsed candidates, consistently with his wife Roschel supporting the annual TPID fundraising benefit, writing postcards for the midterm election backing Rev. Raphael Warnock for U.S. Senate and the Feb. 13 special congressional election for Tom Suozzi, and serving on the NY Democratic County Committee. He also was a poll worker at both West Side High School and the Marseilles from 2016 to 2021. Michael looks forward to continuing to serve as the club board's recording secretary. He graduated from Pace University and the Columbia Journalism School, and has been a reporter, editor and publisher for daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines since 1970. He continues to work as a part-time editor/proofreader for Aviation Week. 

Chuck Wall, Corresponding Secretary -- enjoyed a long career as an editor and publisher for major New York book publishing firms. After retiring in 2016, he campaigned with Three Parks at the Clinton/Kaine storefront. In 2018 he joined the Board and since then has helped organize and coordinate numerous phone banks, postcard campaigns, sidewalk tables, and canvassing trips for Democratic candidates through the 2018 midterms, the 2020 Presidential election, and the 2022 midterms. In 2019 he became editor of the TPID newsletter, and he now creates and produces its monthly electronic issues as well as numerous e-blasts announcing Club events. In 2024 he was the co-manager of the Harris/Walz campaign storefront. He looks forward to working hard for Democratic candidates and supporting progressive issues in 2025 and beyond.

Josh Pepper, Membership Director -- is an attorney in private practice representing plaintiffs in civil-rights cases. Before moving to private practice, he spent many years in law practice for the state, including stints as an Assistant Attorney General and Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel to the NYS Office of Mental Health. Josh is also a longtime club member and was president in 2007.

Lois Safian, Special Events Director -- is retired from her longtime career as a producer of corporate events. She is a proud mother of three, and a grandmother of six. In 2012 she became an active volunteer with Three Parks at our Obama/Biden Campaign Center, and in 2016 was an integral part of our Clinton/Kaine Campaign Center.  Lois has continued working with Three Parks by tabling, petition signing, postcard writing, heading buses to Pennsylvania, etc.  She has been a board member since 2017, managing our Holiday Parties, our Annual Benefit Events, and is honored to be part of the Three Parks family.

Wendy Diller, Programs Director -- is a long-time resident of the Upper West Side and proud member of the board of Three Parks Dems, who views the club as a vital and effective force for carrying out civic responsibilities, educating the community about important political issues, and fostering Democratic values that we all care about. Professionally, she is a journalist and strategic communications consultant focused on the intersection of medicine, the life sciences and business. She has been actively involved in Three Parks' election activities at both the national and state levels. In 2025, as a leader of the club’s Trump Resistance Committee, she is focused on finding ways to combat the administration’s damaging economic initiatives, budget cuts, and anti-immigrant policies, and on pressuring our lawmakers to protect our City and state from Trump’s harmful actions. She is the mother of three grown children, who all live in the metro area - and she would like them to find New York a welcoming place to raise families and build lives.

Members-at-Large

Corinne Constantine has lived on the Upper West Side since 1976. Now retired, she held professional administrative positions at all the major institutions of higher education in NYC. Following her participation in the Clinton/Kaine Campaign Center as captain of the bus trips to Pennsylvania, she joined the board and focused on the 2018 midterm election and “taking back Congress.” She also coordinated the annual Fundraiser and the Winter Holiday Party. In 2020 she coordinated all phone banking for the Biden/Harris ticket and for the Georgia run-off election. She also participated almost every day in the tabling on Broadway. In 2024 she managed the finances and record-keeping for the Harris-Walz campaign center on Broadway, and she also coordinated weekly phone banks and arranged three bus trips for volunteers to Pennsylvania and the Hudson Valley.

  Liza Cooper – is a mother, writer, photographer, entrepreneur, social worker, dating coach, and Upper West Sider. As President of NEW Friends of Metro Theater, she has been working diligently for the past three years with an incredible group of citizens to turn the lights on at 2626 Broadway. Liza works full time at NYU Langone leading programs that improve the pediatric healthcare experience, and overseeing more than 70 volunteers. A lifelong Democrat, raised by liberal New Yorkers, she is delighted to be a member of the Three Parks Board and contribute to ensuring safety, vibrancy, and compassionate, effective leadership across our neighborhood, city and nation.

Timothy Eckersley -- came to New York City from London in the ‘70s and fell in love with the place on sight. For 39 years I have been lucky to live and raise a family on the UWS. As an immigrant I look at politics here with a mix of admiration and skepticism, but for me, TPID is a shining example of the importance of local organization. Retired as an architect with a specialty in the design of new churches, I first volunteered with TPID for the 2016 presidential campaign and joined the board in 2022. I am a County Committee member, have canvassed, petitioned and postcarded. I will be honored to serve for another term.

Paul Froehlich, MPH -- has been involved as a volunteer in politics since his college days in the 70’s - in Madison, Wisconsin. He has volunteered for Democratic Presidential campaigns from McGovern to the present. Since the 70’s he earned graduate degrees in public media and public health. For decades Paul worked in communications strategy and design in the New York agency world. He worked for government, corporate and nonprofit organizations – especially those focused on health promotion. His focus was on strategic communications and media design. Paul has been the producer of many communication programs, including the development of events, video programs and websites. Paul has consulted on communications, message design, and media delivery for various organizations. Over the past five years, Paul has been an active member of Three Parks, volunteering for various campaign outreach efforts, most recently at the Harris-Walz campaign center in 2024. He is currently an active member of the club’s Trump Resistance Committee. He has also consulted and helped with club AV support, including recording of meetings for the website. Paul is dedicated to helping Three Parks grow membership and involvement, as well as see the State Democratic Party efforts become more robust.

Barbara Futter -- grew up on the Upper West Side. Her parents were members of the Liberal Party, and as a little girl she and her sister put political flyers under the doors of neighbors. She is a semi-retired attorney who moved to Nashville in 1990 for a three-year job as an assistant public defender. The three years became 33 years as social justice mentors inspired her to get involved in many issues, including opposition to the death penalty, homeless advocacy, and strengthening public healthcare. She was the director of a nonprofit community living program for college students and people coming out of prison, was a legal aid lawyer in a rural area, and worked for a progressive lobbyist. She moved back to the Upper West Side in December 2023 and became a TPID member in summer 2024. She joined TPID with table campaigning at the storefront, canvassing, phone calling, registering voters, and very recently joined a protest march. She is honored to be considered for the TPID board, and if chosen, will work hard to serve the club.

Susan Maderer has lived on the Upper West Side for over 40 years. She was a manager in the garment industry before leaving to start her own business as a financial organizer. She has been a member of Three Parks, active in activities such as petitioning, postcard writing, and attending rallies and marches. She is also on the Democratic County Committee. Since retiring, she has been an active volunteer, such as a co-treasurer of the 102nd-103rd Streets Block Association, building rep for Bloomingdale Aging in Place (BAIP), and member of several committees supporting the New York City Ballet.

Mary Ann Marks—has been a resident of the Upper West Side for over 40 years, a club member for 21 years, and a board member for 20 years. In addition to actively participating in the Three Parks ’04, ’08, ‘12, ’16, and ‘24 storefront campaign centers, Mary Ann has worked on campaigns for rezoning, health care, anti-fracking, and closing Indian Point. She campaigned for Cynthia Doty for City Council and for Hilary Clinton for President, and in 2024 she campaigned at the club’s sidewalk tables for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Mary Ann coordinates the mailings of the club’s print-version monthly newsletters.

Steve Max -- was a manager of the '08 and '12 Obama Campaign Centers, helped staff the '16 Clinton Campaign Center and was a manager in the 2024 Campaign Center. A Bernie Sanders Socialist, he co-chaired TPID committees on Social Security, health care, and anti-fracking and worked to re-authorize rent regulation laws, and pass neighborhood downzoning. In 2018, 2020 he was a leader in TPID's Take Back the Presidency and Congress campaigns. He co-managed the Club's 2022 postcard campaign for Robert Zimmerman and Rev. Warnock and the 2024 postcard campaign for Tom Suozzi. Steve is a tech person for the Club's live and Zoom meetings, website and electronic endorsement voting. Steve is retired after fifty years at The Midwest Academy, a training school for progressive organizers.

Aaron Mendelsohn has lived in Manhattan Valley with his wife and three children since 2008.  He has been a Three Parks Club Member since 2018 and has served as a Three Parks Judicial Delegate since 2022.  Aaron is an attorney, life-long Democrat and government servant, and has been involved in politics and community organizing since working on the Clinton-Gore campaign in 1996.  Aaron served for more than 10 years as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, and has appeared before hundreds of federal, state, and local judges throughout his legal career.  He most recently served as the Director of the New York City Council's Oversight & Investigations Division.  Aaron is committed to, among other issues, equity in criminal justice, education, healthcare, and housing.  

Miriam Rabban – seeks your support for continuing to serve as a Three Parks Independent Democrats (TPID) Board member and for working to sustain its progressive activities. Miriam is part of the Trump Resistance Committee of TPID and is focusing on protecting immigrants.  In addition to working with the Board on countering the dangers posed by the Trump administration, she continues to be interested in voting rights, affordable housing and campaigning for progressive candidates. She has connected members of TPID to campaigns in the 19th Congressional district upstate for Democrats Antonio Delgado and Josh Riley. In addition, she helps with such TPID activities as tabling and petitioning.

Roger Schneier -- is a life-long New Yorker who has lived on the West Side since 1974. His first participation in the progressive movement was in high school when during the lunch counter sit-ins he and a few friends organized and ran CORE picket lines at several Woolworth stores in the Bronx. While in college at NYU University Heights he was one of the organizers of the campus branch of the Student Peace Union. College was followed by two years in the Peace Corps in West Cameroon, several years of assorted jobs, and then Fordham Law, during which he did a summer internship at the ACLU. For the next 50 years he served as an administrative law judge in the NYS Dept of State. He had his first exposure to West Side activism with the successful movement to stop Westway. Since then he has worked with Three Parks and Columbia County Dems on various congressional and presidential campaigns. Most recently he and his wife, Faye, volunteered at the club’s Harris/Walz campaign storefront full-time, six days a week. He would be honored to serve on the Three Parks board to help in the effort to protect our democracy and improve the lives of New Yorkers.

Irene Shrier — has been a West Sider since the late 1960s. Irene is a retired NYC high school math teacher who also taught GED in an alternative high school program for women living in shelters. Irene has been member of Three Parks since 2004 and was active in the club’s storefront campaigns for John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. In 2020 she campaigned for the Biden/Harris ticket and organized phone banks for Max Rose’s congressional campaign. In 2022 she organized campaign trips for Max Rose’s congressional campaign. In 2024 she was actively involved in the 2024 storefront activities for the Harris/Waltz ticket, including leading campaign bus trips to Pennsylvania. She is also a member of the Democratic County Committee. Irene believes we need to stay strong and remain actively engaged in local politics for the upcoming years.

Daniel Tsadok -- is a software developer and instructor, and he currently works as a Network and Web Administrator at New York University.  He first discovered Three Parks in 2016 though the Clinton/Kaine storefront. In 2024 he volunteered at the club's storefront as a phone bank co-captain for the Harris/Walz campaign.  He is particularly concerned about protecting human rights, the environment, and the free internet.

Doug Whelan -- grew up in western New York and has lived in the neighborhood since mid-2019, when he moved to the city shortly after college. He became involved in Three Parks not long after due to his strong interest in state and local politics. Doug has greatly enjoyed serving as a Board member the past two years, and he has also been an alternate judicial delegate several times and a judicial delegate this year. Outside of the club, he is finishing up his last year of law school at Fordham.