Board of Trustees
Jane Clementi
Jane Clementi co-founded the Tyler Clementi Foundation she wants to make sure that our society learns the consequences of discrimination and bullying, as she learned all too personally through the loss of her son. A native of New Jersey and devoted mother of three sons, Jane speaks passionately to parents and community leaders about the need to not merely “accept” or “tolerate” children who come out as LGBTQ+, but to embrace them as wondrous creations of God. Jane speaks on the need for parents of LGBTQ+ children to come out and speak openly of the love they have for their children, and in doing so each one of us can impact the world around us and create accepting environments. Since losing Tyler, Jane’s spiritual journey has continued to carry and transform her in ways she never would have imagined. She left her church home of many years because she felt that while sitting in the pews of a church that condemned LGBTQ+ people she was herself a bystander to bullying. Jane leads an inspirational life through her unique experience which she shares with other parents, and speaks passionately about the need to divorce the concept of “sin” from homosexuality. She has made difficult choices in an impossible situation, and leads by example. She has spoken out in support of LGBTQ+ rights and the need for families and communities to embrace their LGBTQ+ populations. Jane has spoken before the U.S. Congressional HELP Committee, the National Cathedral, and numerous other faith communities, colleges, universities, high schools, and workplaces.
Joseph Clementi
As a co-founder of the Tyler Clementi Foundation, Joseph Clementi has worked tirelessly to share the story of his personal loss with public audiences at a variety of organizations. Joseph is the proud father of Tyler Clementi, and the loss of his son has put Joseph’s life on a course of activism for LGBTQ+ and vulnerable youth across the United States. Having come of age in an era where the capabilities of modern technology (social networking websites, webcams, cell phones, camera phones, etc.) didn’t exist, Joseph had his entire world changed when he learned of the ways in which technology intensifies and exacerbates the issues around youth bullying. Additionally, Joseph has been affected in a very personal manner by the ways in which targeting someone because of their sexual orientation can be especially harmful to the victim. Joseph is speaking out because he wants to use his experience as an educational tool and a way to help reach other people who struggle with feeling isolated, uncared for or misunderstood in schools and homes, the areas where they should feel most valued. The primary message that he wants to spread is his goal of turning “Bystanders into Upstanders.” His view is that there are three people involved in any type of bullying situation: the bully, the victim, and the bystander who sees it but does nothing to help. Joseph wants to share his message that bystanders to hostile behavior have an obligation to get involved and defend those who are targeted. Joseph has spoken out at a number of institutions, including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Long Island Child Abuse Protection Services, Rutgers University 2011 Symposium and CONTACT We Care Suicide Hotline’s 2012 Annual Gala.
Alan King
Alan King is the president and chief operating officer of Workplace Options, a global employee well-being company providing emotional, physical, and practical support to more than 46 million people worldwide. He is highly regarded as an innovator and visionary by the international business community for his professional accomplishments, and known as a champion of social and political progress by the LGBTQ+ community for his efforts to advance an equal rights agenda. Living in North Carolina, Alan is a founding member of both the LGBTQ+ Center of Raleigh, the largest community organization of its kind in the state, and Out! Raleigh, one of the Southeast’s largest celebrations of LGBTQ+ life. He is also currently on the board of Equality NC, a statewide organization dedicated to securing equality and justice for LGBT people.
Danielle Malloy
Danielle Malloy is Head of Program Management at Amalgam Rx, where she leads complex digital health programs and technology initiatives that help turn innovative healthcare solutions into scalable, high-impact products. With more than 20 years of experience across startups and established organizations, she has built a career around creating high-performing teams, launching digital products, and driving growth through strategic execution. As Chair of the Program Committee for the Tyler Clementi Foundation, Danielle is spearheading the development of the Upstander App, a new initiative designed to bring the Foundation’s mission of ending online and offline bullying, harassment, and humiliation directly into the hands of those who want to make a difference.
Bert Orlov
Bert Orlov is a Director in the Health Care Services Group with nearly 30 years of experience as a management consultant in the industry. He specializes in strategy, transactions, business planning, and operations for physician groups and hospital systems, as well as not-for-profits. He also has developed interests in evaluating investment opportunities for P-E firms and designing medical cost management (and value-based contracting).
Previously, Bert was a Partner in the boutique firm of Integrated Healthcare (IHC). His other work at IHC included valuations and deal structuring for acquisitions and Joint Ventures in radiation therapy, ambulatory surgery, and general imaging; turn-around efforts for physician groups, hospital-physician practices and nursing homes, as well as the creation of new physician groups in the community; and development of hospital employment models of physicians.
Bert began his career in health care with APM Management Consultants, focusing on strategy for hospitals and academic medical centers and physician-hospital linkages. Thereafter, he was Director of Operations for the Healthcare Business Process Outsourcing, a division of Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC). This division served managed care plans with a full-service back-office solution, based on proprietary software. Bert has been published in books and articles.
Chad Nico Hiu [@chadnico] is a Hawaii-born student of the world, aspiring anti-racist, and Senior Vice President for Strategy, Equity, and Impact with the YMCA of San Francisco (YSF). In this role, he serves as a catalyst, ensuring continuous strategic alignment and impact – grounded in community needs and input – across all areas of the Ys work from operations and people services to advancement. He leads a team facilitating YSF’s strategic planning process, driving global, diversity, equity, and inclusion (GDEI) efforts, and fostering sustainable organizational change focused on collaboration and impact. Chad facilitated the co-creation of YSF’s 2030 Vision; ‘where you can be, belong, and become’ – with over 1000 staff, members, youth, and volunteers providing input. This process also yielded YSF’s new mission, ‘to build healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities for all generations’, as well as strengthened organizational values and impact pillars that will guide YSF’s work for the next decade and beyond.
Previously, Chad served with the YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) Global, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (GDEI) team in Chicago for ten years, most recently as Senior Director of Diversity & Inclusion where he helped to build local, state-wide, national, and global capacity to engage diverse, vulnerable, underserved and marginalized communities, co-led Y-USA’s GDEI strategy and network, and integration of diversity, equity and inclusion policies, practices and programs towards community bridge building and social cohesion for all in the 10,000 communities the Y serves across the U.S. Prior to that, he served as Director of International Operations & Youth Exchanges for the YMCA of Greater New York, where he was part of an era of dynamic growth in cultural exchanges, collaborations, and global education/inclusion programming. Chad holds a Bachelor’s degree in Human Services Administration & Youth Development and a Master’s degree in Organizational Management and Leadership from Springfield College in Massachusetts and a Global Studies Certificate from the University of Pittsburgh.
Chad currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Tyler Clementi Foundation, dedicated to ending online and offline bullying, harassment, and humiliation, and on Y-USA’s Strategic Planning Advisory Committee. He has previously served on the Board of Directors for Howard Brown, one of the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ health care networks, and Chicago Fair Trade supporting workers rights and global social responsibility, has traveled to 40 countries on almost every continent of the world, participated in the globally recognized Semester at Sea study abroad program, volunteered with the CASA YMCA youth shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, represented Y-USA in global settings and the World YMCA at the United Nations. He helped launch the Ys inaugural partnership with the Biden Foundation advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion and equity across 19 states, and served as a policy volunteer with the Biden/Harris 2020 Campaign. He has lived in Hong Kong for two years, provided voter engagement support to various political campaigns, and served as Youth Director with the YMCA of Honolulu. Chad can be reached at CNHiu@ymcasf.org and lives in San Francisco, California with his husband of twelve years.
Scott Lowell
Scott Lowell is best known for his roles on television as Ted Schmidt in Showtime’s popular, critically acclaimed, and groundbreaking series Queer As Folk (for which he was twice nominated for a Prism Award) as well as his portrayal of Dr. Douglas Filmore on the long-running series Bones. Mr. Lowell was born in Denver and raised in the suburbs of New Haven, Connecticut. He majored in theater at Connecticut College and upon graduating he moved to Chicago, where over the course of a decade he immersed himself in the local theater scene, including performances at the famed Steppenwolf and Goodman theatres.
Scott moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and quickly found himself in guest roles on sitcoms, including a favorite turn on Frasier. In 2000 he landed the role of the luckless Ted on Queer As Folk and spent the next five years shuttling back and forth between LA and Toronto, where the series was filmed. Along with Queer as Folk and Bones, he has appeared in a number of independent films and television series including NCIS:NOLA, I’m Sorry,The Fosters, CSI, Castle, CSI:NY, NCIS, Heroes, Criminal Minds, Leverage and various voices in the animated series American Dad.
In 2014-15 Scott made his Broadway and West End (London) debuts in the hit revival of The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson.
Most recently Scott has written, produced and starred in the first season of the award-winning Adoptable!, a comic fake documentary loosely based on the actual search for his birth parents and his life as an adult adoptee.
Scott remains a passionate voice for equality and speaks for many causes relating to the LGBTQ+ and Adoption communities whenever he can. He currently resides in Brooklyn, NY
Hayley Berlent
Growing up in South Africa, Hayley saw the effects of social injustice firsthand — and the power that a fierce passion and shared purpose can have in bringing about positive social change. It was this discovery early in life that inspired her to pursue her passion for telling stories and driving action, ultimately founding the Additive Agency.
Under the banner of Additive, Hayley and team have led brand engagements for clients as diverse as Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), the City of Memphis, Child Mind Institute, Columbia Alumni Association, Harlem Children’s Zone, The Jed Foundation, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care, La Jolla Playhouse, Mouse, New 42, NYU School of Medicine, Mercy Corps, Syracuse University and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Prior to founding Additive, Hayley led large-scale brand transformation efforts at Siegel+Gale for clients such as the Y (YMCA), Aetna, Rotary International and Memorial Sloan Kettering, as well as launched new brands, such as Understood and Life Tuner (by AARP). She also developed corporate social responsibility programming benefitting social enterprises in Africa and Asia.
Previously, Hayley managed public affairs at Columbia University, where she was responsible for protecting and promoting the reputation of the Law School, its faculty and programs. Additionally, the first years of her career were spent working with advocacy and affinity groups to shape the conversation around infectious diseases and destigmatize issues like depression.
Hayley currently teaches a graduate class, “Purpose Driven Communications,” at Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her family.
Matthew Repking
Matt Repking leads the financial services and insurance vertical for LinkedIn Sales Solutions. Since its inception in 2021, coverage of the industry has nearly tripled with Matt’s organization managing LinkedIn’s relationships with most of the world’s largest financial institutions, including banks and asset and wealth managers. He has twenty-seven years of experience in sales and sales leadership. The bulk of his career has been spent attached to the financial services industry, including time leading global sales training for several businesses at JP Morgan, and leading the financial services practice for a boutique consulting firm. Matt has been with LinkedIn since 2018 and is passionate about helping clients grow their revenues and assets by leveraging the power of the LinkedIn platform. He has done business in dozens of countries around the world. Matt grew up in Missouri and has lived in Chicago, London, and San Francisco. Matt currently resides in New York where he splits time between the city, the Hudson Valley, and his beloved Cherry Grove. Matt came out professionally in the early 2000s and is passionate about LGBTQ+ inclusion in the workplace and bringing your whole self to work. Most recently, Matt led external partnerships for out@in, LinkedIn’s LGBTQ+ ERG, where he collaborated with organizations such as Lesbians Who Tech, Out Leadership, Open for Business, and the Ali Forney Center.
Tristan Kirk
Tristan is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn LLP. The Tyler Clementi Foundation has been a longstanding pro bono client of Tristan’s for many years. His representation of the Foundation and close work with Jane Clementi (and all others involved with the Foundation) inspired him to become a Board of Trustee member to further help support its laudable mission. Outside of his involvement with the Foundation, Tristan’s practice is premised on providing comprehensive representation to his clients in all aspects of employment law.
Kenya Simon
Kenya Simon is the Co-founder and CEO of ArcHaus, a full service professional agency for the post-corporate business leader. With nearly 20 years of experience across music, fashion, and corporate strategy, she specializes in building high-impact partnerships, cultivating elite networks, and designing human-centered experiences that spark growth, creativity, and strategic innovation.
Prior to launching ArcHaus, Kenya served as the Head of Global Partnerships at Open for Business, where she led a global coalition of major companies advancing LGBTQ+ inclusion through economic research, policy engagement, and strategic collaboration. Before that, she oversaw corporate partnerships at Out Leadership, advising Fortune 500 companies on global inclusion, culture transformation, and executive engagement. Kenya’s career began in the music industry, where she spent more than a decade in event production, A&R, and music licensing with MTV, Warner Music Group, Sony Music, and LA Reid Music Publishing. Her background in creative industries shapes ArcHaus’s signature approach: applying the record label model to business leaders, curating their expertise, amplifying their impact, and connecting them to transformative opportunities. Kenya serves on the board of the Tyler Clementi Foundation, supporting efforts to end bullying in schools and workplaces. She is a frequent speaker and moderator on leadership, innovation, cultural intelligence, and the intersection of business and art. Originally from New Jersey, Kenya holds a B.A. in Music Industry and Public Relations from Monmouth University and has called New York City home for nearly two decades.
Collin Martin
Collin Martin is a professional soccer player and LGBTQ+ advocate whose leadership has helped expand visibility and belonging in men’s professional sports. A native of Chevy Chase, Maryland, he played college soccer for one year at Wake Forest University before signing his first professional contract with DC United in the Major League Soccer. He continued his academic endeavors at George Washington University while pursuing a career in soccer Collin is a strong public voice committed to creating safer, more inclusive environments for LGBTQ+ people.
Melissa Elizabeth Driscol is a New York–based professional whose career blends the arts, community advocacy, and organizational impact. Born into a multigenerational musical family—her grandfather founded the Driscol Music Company in Lorain, Ohio in 1937, and her mother was a lifelong dancer, singer, actor, and teacher—Melissa grew up steeped in creativity. She moved to New York City in 2003 to continue that legacy, beginning a 20-year career as an Equity actor. Her performance work took her across the globe, from cruise ships and international stages to Off-Broadway theaters and some of the city’s most beloved cabaret spaces. In 2014, Melissa shifted her professional focus and joined The Estée Lauder Companies, where she works within the Inclusion & Diversity team. A dedicated champion for LGBTQIA+ professionals, she brings her artistic background, empathy, and community-centered leadership to drive connection and belonging across the organization. Melissa’s commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community extends far beyond the workplace. Since her best friend Kurt Kelly purchased The Stonewall Inn in 2006, Melissa has been instrumental in shaping its upstairs events space into one of New York City’s most accessible and celebrated rooms for emerging talent. She has produced countless innovative fundraisers and creative activations at Stonewall, helping amplify young voices while honoring the venue’s historic legacy. She proudly serves on the Board of I’m From Driftwood, a nonprofit dedicated to sharing true LGBTQIA+ stories worldwide. She is also a member of The Imperial Court, where she is affectionately known as Miss Lady Melcatsings. An artist at heart, Melissa still performs regularly bringing her cabaret shows to venues such as Green Room 42 and traveling with her music directors for her “Pop-Up Piano Bar” series, a joyful project devoted to keeping live music thriving.