Executive Board
President
Lisa Arlyn Lowe
Lisa Arlyn Lowe grew up in Miami, FL, but has lived in Northeast Ohio for ten years. She’s passionate about community and economic development, especially microlending to assist individuals and businesses. She finds inspiration in every loan that helps someone out of a difficult situation, be it a first year college student trying to pay off debt, or aiding someone in resisting predatory lending.
Vice Presidents
Bruce Fallick
Bruce Fallick, a Pennsylvanian economist, joined the HFLA Board in order to make a difference at the local level. He stayed with HFLA because he was inspired by the loan applicants and their determination to succeed, and remains inspired by every loan review meeting he attends.
Laura Kleinman
Roslyn Quarto
Born and raised in New York, Roslyn Quarto moved to Cleveland in the fall of 2012 and became the Executive Director of Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People (ESOP) in April of 2013. Roslyn brings a diverse perspective through her experience as a non-profit, government and corporate executive and lawyer. In the non-profit sector, Roslyn served as the Director of Operations for Gay Games IV, and later, as Associate Executive Director for the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board.
Secretary
Debra Shaw
Treasurer
Marla Petti
Marla Petti has lived in Northeast Ohio for 46 years. She joined HFLA because she’s passionate about giving people the chance to succeed, regardless of financial hurdles. As a financial advisor, her best moments with HFLA have been seeing loans open doors to opportunities that wouldn’t otherwise exist.
Immediate Past President
David Edelman
David Edelman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Diabetes Daily. He became involved with HFLA because microlending both solves current issues and aids generations to come, and remains passionate about being able to help people in need get back on their feet again.
Board Directors
Zeev Friedman
Zeev Friedman is a native of both Cleveland and Israel. He joined HFLA in order to give people a helping hand, and stayed because of the tremendous good that HFLA does in the community. He values the ability to constantly help others, and has found HFLA as one way to do so.
Lorie Gelb
Judge Francine Goldberg
Eric Kaston
Scott Lewis
Scott Lewis was born in Brooklyn, New York, but moved to Lyndhurst, Ohio when he was young. He uses analytical abilities and empathy in order to provide loans to those who need them. He serves on the HFLA board because his deliberations and decisions directly touch the lives of individuals.
Carrie Miller
Brian Rosenfelt
Debby Rosenthal
Dara Steinberg
Christine Weiss
Debby Rosenthal
Debby Rosenthal, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the English Department at John Carroll University. A native of Rochester, NY, Debby received her PhD from Princeton University, and has lived in Cleveland for 22 years. She specializes in 19th-century American literature and teaches courses about poverty, social justice, climate change fiction, feminist literary criticism, and many other subjects. She has written two books, edited three more, and has published many articles in scholarly journals.
Janet Shapiro
Janet Shapiro is the Senior Director for Donor Advised and Special Purpose Funds. She joined the HFLA Board with a strong background in banking and philanthropy, and stayed in order to help people who otherwise would not receive funds, as well as for the outstanding staff and board members.
Debra Shaw
Dara Weinerman Steinberg
Dara Weinerman Steinberg is Executive Director of Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation and Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah. A former consultant to Fortune 100 companies and to small and mid-sized nonprofits, she is passionate about helping organizations reach their potential. A native of New Jersey, Dara and her family have lived in northeast Ohio for nearly a decade. She holds and MBA from Fordham University and a BA from Smith College and is a proud former board member of the Smith College Club of Cleveland. She loves that HFLA genuinely cares about people’s financial challenges and partners with them to find solutions through microlending.
Ben Zlatin
Staff
Michal Marcus, Executive Director
Katy Fuerst, Program Director
Past Presidents
Ronald Abrams
Morris Arnold*
Anthony Babin
Valera Bendersky
Martin E. Blum*
Barnett Bookatz
Roger Carran
Martin J. Cohn
David Edelman
Albert E. Einstein*
Sidney Eisenberg*
Emil Elder*
Saul Feigenbaum*
Andrew Finger
Theodore Fishel*
Irwin M. Frank
Charles Frankel
Jerome Frankel*
Stanley Friedlander
Samuel Friedman*
Samuel Garber*
Harold Glickman*
Nathan Holstein*
Thomas Jacobs*
Samuel Jaffe*
Harold Klarreich*
Jack Lampl, Jr *
Arthur Lederer*
Michael A. Lewis
Leon Lindheim*
James Mellman*
Dr. Richard Pollack
Arthur Schaffer*
Adolph Schwimmer*
David Senkfor
Stuart J. Sharpe
Arthur Stern*
Cynthia Winters
Life Members
Naomi Adler*
Joseph Babin
Keith Belkin
Bert Chernin*
Lewis Frauenthal*
Phyllis Gary
Leonard Senkfor
Peggy Wasserstrom
* of blessed memory