New Board President Selected to Lead the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation
The Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Butler Plum as its new Board President. Susan Butler Plum is the founding director of the Skadden Foundation, which awards two-year grants to 28 public interest attorneys per year. Prior to joining Skadden, Ms. Butler Plum was the director of the Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation and program director of the Booth Ferris Foundation. She also was the associate director for the Environmental Defense Fund. She is a graduate of the University of Miami.
Among her board affiliations are trusteeships of the Deaf We Can, which was founded by a former Skadden fellow, and Justice Labs, a Hong Kong based public interest legal organization. She also is a member of the Selection Committee of the Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellowship; the Foundation Board of Stella and Charles Guttman Community College of CUNY; the International Advisory Council of the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative; and the Harvard Law School Venture Fund Advisory Group.
In 2015, Ms. Butler Plum was selected as one of 50 Inspiring Change Makers worldwide by the Harvard Law and International Development Society and the Harvard Women’s Law Association.