On the Boards

Min S. Suh

, partner, has been appointed chair of the Philadelphia law firm

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel L.L.P.'s

diversity committee. The committee focuses on recruiting and retaining diverse lawyers and staff, as well as other diversity initiatives within the firm. Suh practices immigration law.

The Phoenixville Community Education Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the Phoenixville Area School District, has named the following trustees: Jena Dietrich, managing director and marketing practice leader at Custom Institutional Fund Solutions; John Grasso, institutional sales support at SEI Investments; artist and volunteer Michelle Schamis; and Neydary Zambrano, president of the Magic Memories Child Development Center.

Angela N. Velez has been elected to the board of directors of Neighborhood Bike Works, a nonprofit that provides educational, recreational, and career-building opportunities to underserved neighborhoods and urban youth while promoting the health, environmental, and economic advantages of bicycling. She is an associate in the investment management/mutual funds practice group at Stradley Ronon, Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Works, a workforce development organization, said Donald Guy Generals, president of Community College of Philadelphia, had been appointed by Mayor Nutter to its board.

Orthopaedic surgeon Gerald R. Williams has been elected vice president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He will serve as president of the organization in 2016-17. He specializes in the care and treatment of shoulders at Rothman Institute in Philadelphia.

The Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia, a nonprofit that helps families of murder victims through courtroom accompaniment and traumatic grief counseling, has named the following to its board: Juliet Curci, director of school and community partnerships for the College of Education at Temple University; Julie Currie, instructor in criminal justice at Chestnut Hill College and online at Post University; and Jeanine Glasgow, interim executive director of the Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Center.

Natural Lands Trust, a regional land conservation organization in Media, has appointed Susan Mucciarone and Doug Tallamy to its board. Mucciarone is managing director of Wealth Advisory at The Glenmede Trust Co. Tallamy is an author and professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark, Dela.

Pegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy, a Philadelphia nonprofit that provides therapeutic horseback-riding programs for children and adults with physical, developmental, and intellectual disabilities, has named Anthony R. Twardowski to its board. He is a shareholder in the commercial litigation department at Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy P.C., Philadelphia.

The Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia has elected Paul DiLorenzo president. He is a trustee at the Stoneleigh Foundation and senior director of strategic consulting at Casey Family Programs, Seattle.

Meredith Huffman, executive director of the Genuardi Family Foundation in Blue Bell, has been named vice president; and Ruth Clauser, president of the Sunoco Foundation, secretary.

New board members include: Nina Cohen, director of endowment and foundation advisory at the Glenmede Trust Co., Philadelphia; Aldustus Jordan, senior vice president and community affairs manager at the Wells Fargo Foundation, Philadelphia; Jennifer Pedroni, vice president of administration at North Penn Community Health Foundation, Colmar; Christine R. Miller, manager of foundation giving for Comcast Corp., Philadelphia; Daphne C. Rowe, president of Pembroke Philanthropy Advisors, Bryn Mawr; Douglas W. Scott, executive vice president and chief administrative officer of the John Templeton Foundation, Conshohocken; Brent Thompson, senior communications officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton; and Dwayne Wharton, a trustee at the Edna G. Kynett Memorial Foundation, Ardmore.

The ACE Mentor Program, eastern Pennsylvania affiliate chapter, has named former ACE student participant and current mentor team leader Kevin Brown Jr. to its board of directors. Brown is a construction manager with Urban Engineers. - Mike Zebe