Pam serves as Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary of Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative that brings together local changemakers and funders to make health, education, and economic systems stronger and more inclusive and advance gender equality and women’s leadership.
Prior to joining Co-Impact in 2017, Pam served in various roles over almost 20 years for The Rockefeller Foundation, including most recently serving as Managing Director, Program Operations, and Associate General Counsel. In between two stints at the Foundation, Pam was an associate with the Wall Street law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, where she specialized in ERISA, employment and executive compensation.
With a personal mission to improve the practice of philanthropy, she is proud to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, which provides data, feedback, programs, and insights to help individual and institutional donors improve their effectiveness. Before joining the Board, she served on CEP’s advisory board. She was active in the development of NGOsource, the centralized equivalency determination repository run by TechSoup Global, and serves on its advisory council. She previously served as Vice Chair of the board of Philanthropy New York, which enhances and increases the ability of organizational and individual philanthropists located in the New York region to serve the public good, and continues to serve on its Governance and Nominating Committee.
From 2015 to 2025, Pam served as Chair of the Board of Directors of Safe Passage Project, a NYC-based 501(c)(3) organization that addresses unmet needs of indigent immigrant youth living in New York by providing legal representation for unaccompanied minors in immigration court.
Pam received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a JD, summa cum laude, from New York Law School, where she currently serves as on the Board of Trustees and formerly served as President of the Alumni Association Board of Directors. She is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey. Pam lives in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters.
