Milton is Vice President and Relationship Manager at JP Morgan Chase. He acquires, develops, and maintains a successful portfolio of relationships while offering unparalleled banking service at all levels. He prides himself in providing banking service along with value to businesses, private clients as well as non-profit verticals.

Milton received his B.A. in Industrial Psychology/Organizational Behavior from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Even though he calls Boston and the Metrowest his home, he does not forget his Hellenic roots and what it means to be an immigrant. This is one of the driving reasons he has joined Project Citizenship.

In addition to multiple networking groups, he is a member of USA500 Boston Seaport.

Nandini Karkare is co-founder at UnStrange, a startup focused on rekindling the art of spontaneous conversations. Nandini has 18+ years of experience driving operational efficiencies and building organizations to support consistent growth. For the last 15+ years, Nandini was with EDB, a global software company with employees in over 40 countries around the world and customers in more than 80 countries, where Nandini played various leadership roles, including most recently being nominated Chief-Of-Staff to the CEO. Her international team of Operations & Analytical professionals built a strong foundation of automated business practices and plans, resulting in 54+ quarters of recurring revenue growth for EDB. Nandini has a BA in Psychology from Pune University, India, and is a naturalized citizen of the United States. She has raised a child as a single mother across continents and has empathy for the challenges immigration can bring to an individual’s life.

Scott Posnick is a retired Director & Consulting CFO in AAFCPAs’ Outsourced Accounting and Fractional CFO practice. Prior to his time at AAFCPAs, he spent his career working in a variety of industries providing high-level CFO oversight and strategic planning, including financial forecasts & analysis and advising on growth strategies, business transactions, tax optimization, and strengthening internal controls. Scott took pride in providing trusted guidance, responsiveness, and clear communication to companies and their owners/shareholders at various stages of growth. He received his MBA from Suffolk University Sawyer School of Business and his BS from Babson College. As the grandson of immigrants, he is passionate about the importance of immigration, citizenship, and the mission of Project Citizenship.

Natalia is the Director of Global Accounting at Converse Inc., a subsidiary of Nike Inc. At Converse, Natalia oversees a team of accountants and is primarily responsible for external financial reporting, technical accounting, tax and treasury operations. She is a CPA and a graduate of Boston College with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and a minor in International Studies. Natalia was born in Lviv, Ukraine and emigrated to the United States with her parents in 1993. She studied abroad in Madrid, Spain and did a secondment to Melbourne, Australia with her previous employer, PwC, for three years. Natalia lives in Charlestown with her fiancé, Ryan, and their adopted dog Kali, who was rescued from a shelter in Little Rock, Arkansas. Natalia previously volunteered with the immigration department at the International Rescue Committee office in Boston, MA and has volunteered her time on various small consulting-type projects while at PwC with different not for profit organizations.

Heidy Abreu King-Jones is Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Spyre Therapeutics. From 2020-23 she held the same roles at Provention Bio, leading the legal support for the eventual sale of the company to Sanofi.  Before that she served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Axcella Health and managed the Corporate and Commercial Law Department at Sarepta Therapeutics. Heidy began her legal career at Ropes & Gray, where she represented public companies in corporate matters including mergers, acquisitions, corporate governance issues, and SEC filings. She also represented pro bono clients on asylum, immigration, medical and housing matters.  Heidy was raised in New York City and was a first-generation college student at Dartmouth and then received a law degree from Cornell. She helped her mother and many friends and family members naturalize while she was still in college, and is deeply committed to Project Citizenship’s work on behalf of immigrants, in particular those from marginalized backgrounds. Heidy also serves on the board of directors of the Greater Boston Food Bank. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and daughter.

Tref Borden is the former Executive Director of the Fish Family Foundation, a Boston-based private foundation focusing primarily on human services for low-income individuals and families in the Greater Boston area, with a particular interest in immigration and naturalization programs.  As Executive Director of the Foundation, Ms. Borden worked closely with its Investment Committee managing the foundation’s assets in addition to managing the Fish Family Office.

Prior to coming to the Fish Family Foundation, Ms. Borden had served as Executive Director of the Tiger Foundation in New York City. The Tiger Foundation supports educational, vocational, and social services organizations focusing on the lowest-income, highest-risk populations in the city.  Ms. Borden left the Investment Banking field to join Tiger as its founding Executive Director.

Ms. Borden has served 10 years on the Philanthropy Massachusetts Board, formerly as chair.

Chris Henry is a Partner in the Boston office of Latham & Watkins, representing clients in high-stakes trade secret and patent litigation before US district courts, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, and the US International Trade Commission. He represents high technology clients in intellectual property litigation involving a wide variety of technologies, including software, electromechanical devices, medical technologies, and semiconductors. He draws on trial experience and strong oral advocacy skills to help clients obtain multi-million-dollar settlements, summary judgment and trial victories, and other favorable resolutions. Christopher clerked for Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and served under Magistrate Judge Mary Pat Thynge in the US District Court for the District of Delaware. 

Benny Omid was born in Iran, immigrated to Boston in 1988 and became an American Citizen in 1996. Benny began his career with Dunkin’ Donuts 35 years ago, on the ground floor cleaning stores. Through determination and hard work, in 1996, Benny became a Dunkin’ Donuts franchisee and now owns restaurants in Allston, MA. Benny is a Director at the Massachusetts Region of the American Red Cross and the Chair of the Biomedical Committee. Benny was the Northeast Co-Chair and Treasurer of The Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins Community Foundation and a director at the American Red Cross Biomedical Services, where he had been an integral part of the “Dunkin’ Donors Make a Difference” campaign. He was also a member of the Dunkin’ Donuts Advertising Committee for the Northeast Region and the Vice Chair of the Allston Board of Trade. Benny lives in Belmont with his wife Margarite and his son Jacob. 

David Rangaviz is an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. He previously worked as an appellate staff attorney at the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS), and a trial attorney in the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. He currently serves as a member (and former co-chair) of the Boston Bar Association’s Criminal Law Section and as a participant in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Roundtable on Racial Disparities in Massachusetts Courts. Dave also teaches at Boston College School of Law, where he focuses on criminal law and procedure. His scholarship has appeared in the Boston College Law Review, American Criminal Law Review, and Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, among others. Following law school, Dave clerked for Kent Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Barbara Lenk of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and John Conroy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. He is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School. As the son of an Iranian immigrant who became a naturalized citizen, Dave cares deeply about the mission and work of Project Citizenship. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two boys (with a third on the way!).

Simon is an experienced financial services sales professional who became a US citizen in April 2017 and lives in Charlestown. Simon has worked for the UN World Food Programme in China and for Reuters in London, Nicosia, and Boston. Currently employed by Quant Insight, a UK-based financial data and analytics start-up, Simon worked previously at EPFR Global, a Cambridge-based financial data startup sold to Informa Plc. He has a deep interest in news, the investment process, and global markets.

Active in community affairs Simon volunteers weekly with St Marks US Citizenship classes and with East Boston’s Allies for Immigrants ESOL classes.  He is currently on the Vestry at St John’s Church, Charlestown and has taught children’s religious education classes there for 15 years. Married with three children, Simon studied at Tufts, Beijing Normal University, and the London School of Economics. In his free time he enjoys kayaking at Belle Isle and hiking in the New England outdoors.

Katherine Rivet works for Boston Consulting Group as their Global Director of Career Development, a role she has held since 2019.   She is passionate about talent development and support for diversity, with professional experience working in Mexico, Brazil, and the US.

In addition, Katherine has actively worked to support internal efforts to promote work-life sustainability (hosting a successful internal podcast focused on personal balance and sustainability) as well as diversity and inclusion (as a member of the Global Services Inclusion Accelerator team).  She is an active Dartmouth alum, serving on Tuck Business School’s Latin American Board from 2011-2013.

She received a BA in International Relations with a minor in Latin American Studies from Tufts University and an MBA from The Amos Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College.  She lives near Boston with her husband Cesar, their children Santiago and Sofia, and their beloved dog Francisco Lopez (aka Pancho).  She is fluent in Spanish and is conversant in Brazilian Portuguese.

Detlev Suderow is the retired Senior Vice President of Human Resource and Organization Effectiveness for FLIR Systems, Inc.  FLIR is an infrared technology company with global operations listed twice among Business Week’s 100 fastest growing companies.  Prior to joining FLIR Systems, Detlev served as Vice President of Human Resources for Inframetrics, a fast growth start up technology company.  His career includes his role as the Human Resource Manager for CLARiiON, the entrepreneurial business division of Data General Corporation, and a thirteen year career at Digital Equipment Corporation as H.R. Manager, Organizational Development Manager, and Training and Development Manager.

Detlev considers himself fortunate enough to have capped his decades-long business career with a pivot to academia: as Professor of the Practice and Senior Lecturer at the International Business School, Brandeis University.  Here he served as the career advisor for the undergraduate business program and counseled graduate students at the International Business School. He co continues to serve on numerous Brandeis University committees and boards.

For Detlev, an immigrant himself (Germany), US Citizenship is a gift that keeps on giving, and one that brings him enthusiastically into the Project Citizenship fold. He holds degrees from Brandeis University (BA), Tufts University (MA) and The University of Zurich. Together with his immigrant wife (Canada) he is the parent of two first generation sons.