STOCKINGS WITH CARE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Rosalie Joseph co-founded Stockings With Care in 1992 and has served as Co-President for the past 25 years. In her professional life, Rosalie is an independent Casting Director for TV, film and theatre. She was formerly Vice President of Casting for ABC and Director of Casting for CBS. In other volunteer work, Rosalie has been active in her downtown community, Battery Park City, where she co-founded BPC Community Response Team, BPC Cares, and the BPC Neighbors Network. She has also been an organizer for numerous events and gatherings to support and nurture community in BPC. She serves as Board Member to the Casting Society of America and plays an active role in their diversity and inclusion projects.
Tom Fontana has written and produced such ground breaking television series as St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life On The Street, Oz and The Philanthropist. Currently, he is filming Borgia in Prague. He has received, among others, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers’ Guild Awards, four Television Critics Association Awards, the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize, a Special Edgar and the first prize at the Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in Geneva.
Fontana serves on the boards of Stockings with Care, The WGAE Foundation, The NYPD Police Museum, DEAL, The Creative Coalition, The Acting Company, The Williamstown Theatre Festival and Center for Creative Voices in Media.
Kate Fitzgerald has volunteered with Stockings With Care since its inception and has served as a board member since 2007 and as Vice President since 2014. In a professional capacity, she has worked with the Nathan Cummings Foundation, The For All Kids Foundation and the Wildlife Conservation Society. At WCS she spearheaded the One Percent for Culture campaign to support funding for culture and arts in New York City and the 96 Elephants campaign to save elephants from extinction. Kate has contributed to various volunteer efforts throughout the years, including Coney Recovers in regard to the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Kate currently enjoys work as a freelance writer, filmmaker and editor.
Kevin E. Manz joined our board in February 2017. He is a corporate attorney at Pepper Hamilton LLP, where is specializes in capital markets transactions. Prior to his time at Pepper Hamilton LLP, Kevin practiced corporate law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Kevin received his Juris Doctor from Fordham Law School in 2009 and his Bachelors in Business Administration from Georgetown University in 2003.
Since 2014, Kevin has coordinated SWC’s pickup schedule and driven our “toy truck”. Kevin lives in lower Manhattan with his wife Alanna and two sons, Teddy and Henry.
Liza Ng is currently a Global Controller at Undertone, where she manages the accounting operations. Prior to Undertone, she was a Managing Director at Blackstone, overseeing the Financial Reporting team of the Hedge Fund Solutions group and a former auditor at EisnerAmper. Ms. Ng received a BS in Accounting from Binghamton University and is a Certified Public Accountant. She has been actively involved with First Day and Stockings with Care since 2007 and joined the board of directors in 2013, currently serving as Secretary.
Nora Lyons is the Director of U.S. Small Merchant Marketing at American Express, Inc. She has worked in Marketing for over 15 years at NYC startups and served in the U.S. Peace Corps working with children and families.