Our Board of Directors

Nandini Karkare is Senior Vice President for Revenue Operations at Zywave and the co-founder of 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.

Katherine Rivet works for Boston Consulting Group in the People and Organization Practice Area. 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. 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.

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 Ivanytsky 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 husband, daughter and rescue dog. 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.

Anjali Arora is the Chief Technology Officer at Perforce Software, where she leads global R&D, product, security, and innovation across a portfolio of enterprise DevOps solutions. With over 30 years of executive experience, she has held senior leadership roles at prominent companies, including Rocket Software, Oracle, Allscripts, and CA Technologies, where she has developed deep expertise in AI, cloud computing, and infrastructure management.

She was an executive committee member of the India Society of Worcester (ISW). She led the Social Committee, helping to organize programs that celebrate, preserve Indian heritage, and build bridges across generations and cultures in New England. She has also led internal DEI initiatives and regularly speaks at forums advocating for equity and opportunity in tech.

Anjali holds a Master of Computer Applications and a Bachelor’s in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, along with a postgraduate diploma in Systems Management.

Her connection to Project Citizenship is personal and passionate. Originally from India and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, she understands the profound hope, struggle, and joy that come with building a new life in a new country. She is dedicated to expanding access to the life-changing opportunities that citizenship provides.

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 at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, 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. Chris 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’ 35 years ago, on the ground floor cleaning stores. Through determination and hard work, in 1996, Benny became a Dunkin’ 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’ 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’ 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 Senior Counsel at Masferrer & Riley, serving in the firm’s criminal defense and civil rights practice. Before entering private practice, Dave was an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office and worked as an appellate and trial-level public defender. In addition to his litigation practice, Dave has also taught Criminal Procedure as an Adjunct Professor at Boston College Law School, where he was named the school’s 2025 Adjunct Professor of the Year. He has also designed and delivered trainings for the Social Law Library, the Massachusetts Bar Association, and the Boston Bar Association, among other organizations. Dave also writes frequently on civil rights, constitutional law, and criminal-legal reform, with publications in the American Criminal Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Boston Bar Journal, Massachusetts Law Review, Inquest, and 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 three boys.

Simon Ringrose is an experienced financial services sales professional who became a US citizen in Faneuil Hall in April 2017. Simon has worked for the UN World Food Programme in China and for Reuters in London, Nicosia, and Boston. Currently employed by EventVestor, a corporate events data provider to financial institutions, he has a deep interest in news, financial markets, and the investment process.

Active in community affairs Simon volunteers with St Marks US Citizenship classes, with East Boston’s Allies for Immigrants ESOL classes, and with the US National Parks Service at Faneuil Hall. He is on the board of Citizenship Coalition and the Vestry at St Johns Church, Charlestown. Married with three children, Simon studied at Tufts, Beijing Normal, and the London School of Economics. In his free time he enjoys kayaking at Belle Isle, hiking or skiing in the New England outdoors, singing in the Cambridge Community Chorus, and leading Freedom Trail tours with Boston By Foot.

Peggy Shukur is an attorney who recently retired from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Her professional career has straddled the public and private sectors. She joined the ADL following a career as a corporate and securities lawyer, including 18 years as the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., a global translation services company. At ADL she led the New England regional office and was Vice President of ADL’s East Division, building strong teams in service of ADL’s mission. She recently completed service as a Commissioner on the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism.

Peggy first learned of Project Citizenship and its meaningful mission by participating in a workshop in 2018 and continued as a volunteer. She is the daughter of immigrants and an active volunteer in local immigrant support efforts. A native of Wisconsin, she is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and Boston College Law School. She has served as a Trustee of the Wisconsin Union Association where she chaired the Trustee Engagement Committee, as President of the New England Chapter of the Society of Corporate Governance, and is an active member of Temple Shir Tikvah. A resident of Lexington, where she raised her three children, Peggy enjoys cycling, swimming in Walden Pond, reading, and making good trouble.

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.

Ed Boyajian currently serves as a Harvard Business School Executive Fellow, teaching sales classes to second year MBA students, as Managing Director and CEO coach at 10X CEO, and as a member of the EDB board of directors. Ed served as CEO of EDB for 15 years in addition to serving as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. As CEO, he drove the development and execution of EDB’s strategic vision and growth in the database industry and steered the company through 54 consecutive quarters of growth, and three successful sales of the company to PE partners, most recently with majority investment in the company from Bain Capital in 2022.

As a veteran of the open source software movement, Ed is a seasoned enterprise software executive who emphasized a technology-first business approach coupled with a highly structured and disciplined sales and GTM model in order to lead the open source data movement. Prior to EDB, Ed served as Vice President and General Manager of North America at Red Hat, where he played a central leadership role in the development of the modern business model for bringing open source to enterprises.

Ed is known for his leadership, passion, relentless energy, and strategic vision. Prior to his business career, Ed honed his leadership skills as a Captain in the U.S. Army where he also trained as an airborne Ranger. Ed earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and BA from Boston University.