Leadership // Board Members

Chairman's Message:

As a lifelong New Yorker who was blessed with an exceptional education and has spent the last 30 years on many educational boards, I have been long concerned over the lack of first-rate educational options available to the very New York City students needing them most. A few years ago, I decided to do something tangible about this problem and began spearheading an effort to create a brand new charter school. It would be, I imagined, a "perfect little school in Harlem," where students can receive an extraordinary education. Already, Harlem Day is a wonderful little school where students are learning at an impressive rate and we are receiving positive feedback from the institutions charged with monitoring our progress. If you have been one of our supporters, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you again. If you have not supported the school and you are so inclined, please join us as we continue to make Harlem Day Charter School into a school we can all take pride in.


  • Benjamin V. Lambert
  • Founder & Chairman
  • Harlem Day Charter School

BOARD MEMBERS

Benjamin V. Lambert - Founder & Chairman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eastdil Realty Co. LLC


Henry A. Lambert (Vice Chairman/Exec.)
President & Chief Executive Officer
Lambert Development, LLC


Frank Mahoney - Treasurer
Managing Director, Public Finance Department,
Northeast Group, Lehman Brothers Inc.


Linda Jones-Easton - Secretary
Director of Operations and Human Resources
Democracy Prep Charter School

Larry Cohen
Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz LLP

Charmin Deloatch
President, Harlem Day Charter School Parent-Teacher Association


Mary Beth Harvey
Senior Consultant, Families and Work Institute


Nancy Heuston
Head of School
The Waterford School


Jerold D. Jacobson
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP

Keith Meacham
Former Acting Executive Director

Chauncey G. Parker
NY/NJ HIDTA


Mark Turner
Former HDCS Parent and NYPD Sergent