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Program Staff
David T. Abbott
David Abbott became executive director of The George Gund Foundation in 2003. Prior to joining the Foundation, he served as president of University Circle Incorporated, executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and executive director of the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission. Abbott was also the Cuyahoga County administrator and, early in his career, a reporter for The Plain Dealer.
He holds a B.A. in political science from Denison University, a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Marcia Egbert
Marcia Egbert is the Foundation’s senior program officer for human services. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1998, she was vice president of the National Urban Policy Institute, a social policy analysis and lobbying firm in Columbus, Ohio. She also served as government relations director for the Cuyahoga County Commissioners and worked for the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives.
Egbert is active in a number of local, state and national organizations of grantmakers including the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Grantmakers Income Security Task Force; Funders Network on Reproductive Health and Rights, and the Public Policy Committee of Ohio Grantmakers Forum. She is also a founding board member of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio. Egbert is a two-time alumna of The Ohio State University, having received both B.A. and J.D. degrees from that institution.
Deena M. Epstein
Deena Epstein is the Foundation’s senior program officer for arts. She also oversees philanthropic services grantmaking and the Foundation’s media relations and communications. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1990, she was a reporter and columnist at The Plain Dealer.
In addition to her work at the Foundation, Epstein is an advisor to the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture and a member of the Northeast Ohio Advisory Committee of Ohio Grantmakers Forum. She is a graduate of Leadership Cleveland and received her B.S. in journalism from Ohio University.
Jeff Grimes
Jeff Grimes is the 2009-2011 Fellow for The George Gund Foundation. He works across program areas. Before returning to Cleveland, he was the Assistant Director of Water Resources for the New Orleans-based Gulf Restoration Network, working to protect and restore waterways in the Gulf of Mexico region. He has also served as an environmental education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Chongqing, China and as an instructor at the Blue Ridge Outdoor Education Center in Georgia.
Grimes holds a B.S. from Allegheny College in Environmental Science and Political Science and a Master of Public Policy degree from the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University.
Mark Harris, Jr.
Mark Harris, Jr. is the 2010-2012 Gund Fellow. He works across program areas. Harris received his undergraduate degree in political science from Howard University and masters degrees in public administration and city and regional planning from The Ohio State University. He has worked in Columbus as an organizer for B.R.E.A.D. (Building Responsibility, Equality and Dignity), a site coordinator for the Columbus Housing Partnership and a graduate research associate at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. He also has been a legislative research assistant for Columbus City Council and a summer associate at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C. He is a native of East Chicago, Ind.
Robert B. Jaquay
Robert Jaquay is the Foundation’s associate director. He also is responsible for the Foundation’s program-related investments and grantmaking in economic development and community revitalization. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1996, he was executive director of the Citizens Committee for County Government Reform. His career of government service includes work for Cuyahoga County, the City of Cleveland, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency and the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also has been an adjunct faculty member at Cleveland State University’s College of Urban Affairs.
Jaquay has graduate degrees in public administration from Harvard and Cleveland State Universities, a J.D. from Cleveland State University and a B.S. in business administration from John Carroll University. Currently, he is Treasurer of Neighborhood Funders Group and a founding steering committee member of PRI Makers, national philanthropic affinity organizations. He also chairs the Advisory Board of the Foundation Center in Cleveland.
John Mitterholzer
John Mitterholzer is the Foundation’s senior program officer for the environment. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2008, he was a program officer at the Cleveland Foundation. He also has served as executive director of Great American Downtown, the downtown revitalization program in Nashua, N.H., and Historic Nashville, a nonprofit historic preservation organization and as a field representative for the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
He has a bachelor of arts degree from Baldwin-Wallace College and a master of arts in history from the University of Memphis.
Ann K. Mullin
Mullin is the Foundation’s senior program officer for education. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2005, she served as the education program officer for education and program associate for arts and culture at The Cleveland Foundation. Mullin also worked as operations director of Montessori Development Partnerships, a nonprofit organization serving the Cleveland and national Montessori community, and interim principal at Old Brooklyn Montessori School. She also was a client assistant for the International Management Group and for National City Corporation.
Mullin holds a bachelor of musical arts degree from the University of Michigan and a master of business administration from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. |
