Senior Staff

Elisabeth Mason, CEO and Co-Founder
Angela Dorn, COO and General Counsel
Julie Kashen, Senior Vice President

Beth Dunphe, Vice President of Development
Nate Falkner, Vice President of Strategy
Michael Lumpp, Chief Technology Officer
Cathryn McAleavey, Vice President of Finance and Administration

Program Staff

Janice Adelson, Development Associate
Michael Auerbach, Assistant General Counsel
Katie Beal, Junior Program Officer - Community Colleges
Tiffany Butters, Grants Administrator
Abigail Clarke-Sayer, Program Officer - Community Colleges
Stacey Cox, National Director of Site Management and Director of California Programs
Ashley Dallman, Program Manager – Policy and Evaluation
Vincent Del Signore, Program Officer – New York
Kanika Garraway, Receptionist
Denise Gomez, Program Manager - Community Colleges
Philip Gordon, Senior Program Officer - Strategy
Palak Joshi, Assistant Director of California Programs
Paul Kendrick, Director of Policy
Morgan Kennedy, Eligibility Support Specialist
Vanessa Marquez, Junior Development Officer
John Mei, Director of Software Development
Gene Morris, Special Assistant to the CEO
Stephen Mott, Chief of Staff to the CEO
Alfonso Orozco, Junior Program Officer for Technology and Eligibility
Franklyn Pintado, Director of Finance and Administration
Adela Prignal, Senior Accountant
Abby Raskin, Senior Program Associate
Lee Reagan, Senior Director of Training and State Director – New Mexico and New Jersey
Hector Sanchez, Application Developer
Eliano Sanchez, Junior Quality Assurance Analyst
Tushar Sheth, Senior Program Officer – Strategy
Diana Strumbos, Director of Evaluation
Grayce Wiggins, Director of New York Programs and Legal Services
Matt Winters, Program Officer – Tax
Priya Yendrembam, Application Developer

Elisabeth Mason
CEO and Co-Founder

Elisabeth Mason is the CEO and one of the founders of Single Stop USA, a major national poverty-fighting organization, which recently received funding through The White House Social Innovation Fund. Elisabeth is an expert on venture philanthropy, children's rights, start-up organizations and poverty-fighting programs. She has over 15 years of experience, including her work at Atlantic Philanthropies developing a $1 billion, 10-year spend-down plan to help disadvantaged children. Elisabeth was also a Managing Director at the Robin Hood Foundation, Senior Advisor at Innovative Philanthropy, and practiced Law at Cleary, Gottlieb, and Steen & Hamilton in New York City.   She worked with the artist Shakira to set up her Barefoot Foundation, an international education foundation.  In her early career, Elisabeth was the founder and Executive Director of Fundacion Kukula, an agency serving street and working youth and their families. During her tenure with Fundacion Kukula, she was one of the founding members of the Central American branch of the Latin American Street Kids Movement. Elisabeth has also served as an advisor to the United Nations and to local and international agencies on various human and children's rights, legislative reform, juvenile justice, and community and youth development programs throughout the Latin American region. Additionally, she has participated in projects in India and Africa and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Costa Rica, where she lived for six years. As CEO of Single Stop, she attended the first ever White House Summit on Community Colleges and the White House meeting on "Opportunity and Security for Vulnerable Communities: Building Partnerships to Fight Poverty" in 2010. She was also a co-presenter at the annual meeting of the Association of Community College Trustees and named a Huffington Post's "Greatest Person of the Day" in 2010.  A lifelong resident of East Harlem, Elisabeth holds a J.D. from Columbia University and an A.B. and a M.A. from Harvard.

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Angela Dorn
COO and General Counsel

Angela Dorn is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for Single Stop USA, where she oversees the organization's operations and manages all legal contracts and administrative issues.  Prior to joining Single Stop USA, Angela worked as General Counsel and Managing Director at Fletcher Asset Management, an investment management company in New York City, where she was responsible for overseeing the company's legal issues, as well as many operational issues. She also served as General Counsel to the Fletcher Foundation, and served in a legal and advisory capacity on a number of innovative philanthropic initiatives, including managing the Foundation's relationship with the New York Community Trust and several major universities, and advising on a $50 million pledge in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. the Board of Education.  Prior to that, Angela had a distinguished career practicing employment law with Mayer, Brown & Platt in Chicago, Illinois where her clients included individuals, Fortune 100 companies and nonprofit corporations. 

Angela's other prior experience includes serving as pro-bono counsel to the NAACP and as a law clerk for a federal judge in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois.  She is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges where she received a degree in Economics, and Harvard Law School, where she served as the Executive Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review.  Additionally, Angela has volunteered her time for numerous pro bono projects, including cases involving claims of employment discrimination and police brutality and has represented nonprofit organizations and numerous individuals in employment discrimination cases.  She has also served as a board member for several organizations, including the Harvard Alumni Association and the Apple Seed Foundation.

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Beth Dunphe
Vice President of Development

Beth Dunphe is the Vice President of Development at Single Stop USA, overseeing both fundraising and communications.  Prior to joining Single Stop, she was the Director of Development at Project Enterprise, a New York City based microfinance organization.  At Project Enterprise she expanded and diversified the funding base, created development systems for donor solicitation, stewardship and cultivation, and launched two signature fundraising events.  Beth also developed the Project Enterprise brand through website and communications materials. She was deeply involved in budget development and organizational management, as well as overseeing volunteer and staff recruitment.  Beth also has prior program management and development experience with the River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition in western Maine where she managed a community health program.  She holds a Masters in Public Administration in Finance from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and a BA in Economics and Environmental Policy from Colby College.  Beth also serves on the Board of the IMPACT Coalition, a New York City based organization that provides debate programs to local schools.

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Nate Falkner
Vice President of Strategy & Technologies

Nate Falkner is the Vice President of Strategy and Technologies at Single Stop USA.  In this capacity, Nate oversees the development, maintenance and integration of Single Stop's technology platform, the Benefits Enrollment Network, and directs Single Stop's increasing focus on non-traditional distribution channels, including the Single Stop Community College and Commercial Initiatives, that seek to overcome the barriers of distribution and financing. Nate’s professional background includes extensive experience working on issues of social and economic justice, non-profit development and strategic communications both domestically and abroad.  Nate holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin and has completed post-graduate coursework towards a MPA at Columbia’s School for International and Public Affairs.  Prior to joining Single Stop, Nate worked in Afghanistan, where he managed a study on community schools and child security in conflict zones for a professor at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education.

 

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Julie Kashen
Senior Vice President

Julie Kashen is the Senior Vice President at Single Stop USA.  Prior to joining Single Stop USA, Julie served as Deputy Director of Policy for Governor Jon S. Corzine (D-NJ) and Legislative Director for then-Senator Corzine.  In addition to helping to oversee the Governor's Policy Office in Trenton, Julie specialized in policy issues affecting children and families, human services, poverty, labor, women and homeland security.  She was instrumental in expanding New Jersey's Earned Income Tax Credit, enacting a new Family Leave Insurance law to help families afford to take leave to care for their newborns, newly adopted children and sick family members, and increasing the food assistance budget for food pantries and soup kitchens by 1000%.

Julie spent four years prior as a policy advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) serving on the Senate HELP Committee focusing on labor, poverty and welfare issues.  Julie developed Senator Kennedy's Healthy Families Act to guarantee workers access to paid sick days to care for themselves and their family members, as well as the End Child Poverty Act to set a goal for the United States of eliminating child poverty.  She was also a lead staff member on Senator Kennedy's efforts to enact a minimum wage increase, extend unemployment insurance benefits, and fight for the progressive agenda on welfare reauthorization.  Julie has also served as the Policy and Research Director for Susan Bass Levin for Congress and the Staff Director to the Congressional Arts Caucus for Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.  Julie holds a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. with Highest Honors in Political Science from the University of Michigan.

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Cathryn McAleavey
Vice President of Finance and Administration

As Vice President of Finance and Administration for Single Stop USA, Cathryn McAleavey maintains all of the organization's financial and accounting systems. Cathryn holds a Masters of Public Administration in Public Finance from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and Bachelor's in Finance and International Business from the Stern School of Business, also at New York University. Her graduate studies focused on the quantifying the social return on investment of human services in New York City. She previously served as an associate consultant at Fiscal Management Associates, LLC, working with a variety of nonprofit organizations to strengthen their financial systems and develop financial management trainings for several foundations. Cathryn has significant experience managing complex financial systems and sub-grant programs.

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Michael Lumpp
Chief Technology Officer

Michael Lumpp is the CTO of Single Stop USA and is responsible for managing the ongoing technology efforts of the organization. He is in charge of overseeing the Benefits Enrollment Network (BEN), managing the IT infrastructure demands of both SST and SSUSA, and establishing policies for technology procedures and best practices.

Michael has over 11 years of experience in the software development industry, where he had developed customized content managed solutions, product integrations, and intranet applications. He has also performed numerous vulnerability assessments and security audits for systems and solutions on various platforms.  Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and has a passion for software development, information security, and researching upcoming technology trends.

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