ROSALIND M. CHOW
Carnegie Mellon University
Rosalind M. Chow is an associate professor of organizational behavior and theory at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, where her research, teaching, and writing explore how people navigate and shape the social systems that configure power, status, and inequality. Drawing on social psychological and organizational scholarship, her work illuminates not just how hierarchies sustain inequities in workplaces and communities, but how individuals can thoughtfully use their social connections to elevate others and expand opportunities for those who have been historically marginalized. These lessons are distilled in her book, The Doors You Can Open (2025, PublicAffairs), which was shortlisted for The Non-Obvious Book Awards and highlighted as one of The Next Big Ideas Clubs 2025 must-reads.
Rosalind draws on her academic expertise in her work as faculty director to several executive leadership programs aimed at helping professionals advance in their careers. Her teaching has also been recognized by Poets & Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Beyond her academic pursuits, she has served or is currently serving on the boards of The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium, Jewish Family and Community Services and Winchester Thurston School.
LARRY D. HEASLEY
Land Management
Larry D. Heasley has spent much of his life working with land and real estate in Clarion County, where he was born and raised. Over the years, he developed a close friendship with Charles E. Kaufman and helped support his vision for preserving special places in the region. Larry played a quiet, behind-the-scenes role in identifying and caring for properties that are now part of the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation and its real estate trust.
He has always had a special connection to the woods along the Clarion River near Cook Forest, where he worked early on to help keep parts of the area intact and undeveloped. Those efforts reflect his steady approach to land stewardship, rooted in patience, care and a long view of the land’s future.
Heasley continues to look after a mix of family and trust properties while enjoying life in Leeper, Pennsylvania with his wife, Mary Ellen. They take great joy in spending time with their family and especially their eight grandchildren—Anna, Emily, Mary, Logan, Seth, Alice, Barrett and Tatum, sharing with them the same love of the outdoors that has guided Larry’s work over the years.
Heasley joined the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation board of directors in 2011.
WENDY DENTON HELEEN, ESQ.
Goehring, Rutter & Boehm
Wendy Denton Heleen is a member of the Estate Planning and Administration Group at Goehring, Rutter & Boehm. She specializes in all matters relating to planning and dealing with incapacity and death, including charitable planning and estate and trust documents. She advises her clients on probate and non-probate matters, beneficiary designations and planning to minimize income, gift, Federal estate and state inheritance tax. She also advises decedent’s family members on estate administration procedures, including the preparation of death tax returns and the establishment of trusts.
Prior to her work as an estate attorney, Heleen worked as a trust administration officer at Mellon Bank. This experience greatly enhanced her understanding of estate planning and administration, providing her with a broadened viewpoint to accompany her legal practice. She joined Goehring, Rutter & Boehm as a law student in 1992 and has continued her law career at the firm since that time.
Heleen joined the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation board of directors in 2011.
RICHARD KITAY, CPA
Kitay, Lawrence, Rauker & Associates LLC
Richard Kitay is a partner and founding member of the Kitay, Lawrence, Rauker & Associates LLC and has over 35 years of experience servicing medium and small businesses. He was born and has lived his entire life in the Pittsburgh area, graduating from Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science in accounting.
After fulfilling his U. S. Army Reserve active duty requirement, Kitay began his career with Bachrach, Sanderbeck & Co. which merged with Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte). After 10 years with Touche, he became a partner in a local firm and in 1986 started his own practice in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh.
Kitay has been an active member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) both locally and at the state level. He was a founding member of the newest PICPA chapter, the Southwestern chapter and served as its first president. Kitay was a board member for the Tree of Life Synagogue for 20 years, 10 years as its treasurer. Since 2006, he has been a board member of the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, serving as president from 2010-2015.
Kitay and his wife, Ellen, live in Churchill and have two adult daughters and five grandsons.
Kitay joined the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation board of directors in 2011.
DAVID A. LEWIS, M.D.
University of Pittsburgh
David A. Lewis serves as distinguished professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Thomas Detre Professor of Academic Psychiatry and chair, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. Lewis was named chair of the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry and medical director of the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC in September 2009. A national expert in schizophrenia, he serves as director of a National Institute of Mental Health Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, which is focused on understanding the role of prefrontal cortical dysfunction in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
Lewis received his Bachelor of Arts in psychology and his medical degree from The Ohio State University. After completing residencies in internal medicine and psychiatry at the University of Iowa, he received his research training at the Research Institute of the Scripps Clinic in California. He arrived in Pittsburgh in 1987 as associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience and has been the UPMC professor of translational neuroscience since 2006. He also serves on the Board of Directors for The Pittsburgh Foundation.
Lewis joined the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation board of directors in 2015.
KELLY URANKER
The Pittsburgh Foundation
As vice president of the Center for Philanthropy at The Pittsburgh Foundation, Kelly Uranker works closely with the Program and Development staff to develop and implement tailored educational programs for the Foundation’s donor community. She is certified as a Facilitator of Human-Centered Design through the LUMA Institute, which provides training in meeting facilitation to foster empathy, problem solving and innovation. She is a certified 21/64 philanthropic consultant. On staff at Foundation since 1998, Uranker has worked closely with donor families for nearly 20 years. Because she also oversees the planning and implementation of all online giving initiatives, including Day of Giving and the Critical Needs Alert, she understands deeply what motivates successful giving campaigns.
She is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in literature and political science. She lives with her husband, Bill, in the Point Breeze section of Pittsburgh.
Uranker joined the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation board of directors in 2011.