The Stanley Greene Foundation Board

Perry Greene, Ph D

Perry Greene retired as Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion at Adelphi University, where he is also an associate professor. Prior to this present position, Dr. Greene served as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs & Institutional Diversity. As the chief diversity officer, Dr. Greene believed that promoting diversity and inclusion requires institutions of higher learning to be innovative and proactive in their effort, He received his Ph. D. in English Education from New York University. Dr. Greene’s research interests are in the areas of teacher preparation, social justice, diversity, and the education of urban youth. Recently published articles include “Embracing Urban Youth Culture in the Context of Education (Urban Review) and “Teaching Race: Making the Invisible Concrete” (Teaching Race in the 21 st Century). He has presented on these issues at professional conferences.

Scott Thode

Scott Thode is an independent curator, editor, teacher and photographer. He has served as President of the W. Eugene Smith Fund for the past three years. Previously, Scott was the Residency Program Director and curator at New York City SALT. He has co-curated numerous exhibitions with Kathy Ryan, including Look3 Festival of the Photograph, The School of Visual Arts and The Cortona On the Move Photo Festival; and independently, at the Photofest Querétaro in Mexico. As a visual editor, Scott has worked for E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth and was the editor of VII The Magazine. For years, he was the Deputy Picture Editor at Fortune Magazine. As a photographer, Scott was the recipient of numerous photography awards and his work has been exhibited at Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France, The Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia in Turin, Italy, The Colonnade Gallery in Washington, D.C. and Photographic Nights of Selma Festival in Selma, Alabama, and other group shows. Scott teaches at The International Center for Photography and has taught at The School for Visual Arts in New York City.

Jean-François Leroy

Journalist, passionated by photography, he collaborated at Photo-Reporter, Le Photographe, Photo-Revue and Photo Magazine. At the same time, he makes reportings for the agency Sipa-Press. In 1988, he becomes Dominique Issermann’s agent. In 1989, with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, he realises “ 3 days in France ”, an operation who paints the portrait of France in 1989, 150 years after the invention of photography. Since september 1989 he runs Visa pour l’image, international photojournalism festival in Perpignan.

Nina Alvarez

Nina Alvarez is a journalist, documentarian and video photographer. In her 25-year careers, she has reported breaking news and crafted feature stories from around the world, on broadcast and web segments, radio reports and documentaries. She is the CBS Assistant Professor of International Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Most recently, Nina directed her first independent documentary, Almost American, about the fight to keep families together despite cruel deportation efforts by the Trump administration. The feature-length film was broadcast on PBS in 2024 and is currently streaming on Amazon and PBS Passport. Nina’s collaborative journalism and documentary work has been recognized by multiple prestigious awards including Emmy, Peabody, Imagen, DuPont Columbia Journalism, the RF Kennedy Journalism and Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism. Nina is currently producing and directing, Singed: Stay Safe in the Life, an independent feature documentary about American war photographer, Stanley Greene.

Mike Kamber

Mike Kamber worked as a photojournalist for 25 years, covering a dozen conflicts around the world. He photographed the war in Iraq for The New York Times from 2003-2012 and has also worked as a writer and videographer for that newspaper, contributing dozens of articles from Haiti, Iraq, Afghanistan and West Africa. As one of the first journalists to routinely file photography, video and written articles from overseas, Kamber helped pioneer the use of multimedia. His photos have been published in nearly every major news magazine in the US and Europe. In 2011, Kamber founded the Bronx Documentary Center where he is currently the Creative Director.

Andrea Bruce

Andrea Bruce is a photographer, educator, artist and writer whose work focuses on ideas of democracy and the aftermath of war. She concentrates on the social issues that are sometimes ignored and often ignited in war's wake. Her work bridges art and journalism and welcomes a critical understanding and reimagining of both. 

Her clients include National Geographic and The New York Times as well as many publications around the globe. Andrea was a 2016 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University where she studied ideas of democracy. She is the publisher and creator of the hyper-local, visual-first publication Down in the County serving Pamlico County, NC. Andrea started working in Iraq in 2003 where she met Stanley. She was based in Iraq and Afghanistan for a decade and became a member/ owner of the photo agency NOOR with Stanley. 

Currently, she is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Georgia  and continues to freelance on a local and global scale.