Westchester Parks Foundation, the only organization dedicated exclusively to promoting and supporting Westchester County Parks, has announced the election of Erica Child of Armonk and Shelby D. Green of Stamford to its Board of Directors. Both will serve three-year terms starting now.
Child is a director in the public finance department at Barclays Bank. She has nearly 10 years of experience working with public sector and not-for-profit clients to develop risk management and structured debt issuance solutions. Child’s client base spans not-for-profit health-care organizations, higher-education institutions, and state and local municipal agencies. She is passionate about the environment and early childhood development and served as a volunteer with the New York Junior League for several years to support such causes. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the University of Florida.
Green is a professor of law at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. She teaches and writes in the areas of property, real estate transactions, housing and historic preservation. She is the first chair of the New York State Bar Association Real Property Law
Section; chair of the Legal Education Group of the Real Property Trust and Estate Section of the American Bar Association; editor of the “Keeping Current-Property” column in Probate & Property magazine, and an organizer, occasional presenter and regular moderator for the monthly webinar, Professors’ Corner. A graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Green serves on the Board of Directors of the Jay Heritage Center, which manages the Historic Landmark in Rye.
Westchester Parks Foundation is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit, philanthropic organization, which provides private support to preserve the county’s park system and improve the quality of life in its communities.