Officers and Directors/Executive Staff

Diane Solomon Brown, M.D.

Diane Solomon Brown is a physician-scientist who has worked for more than 20 years at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health.* Diane specializes in early detection and prevention of cancer, particularly cervical cancer; she is also involved in a variety of other programs relating to improving healthcare for women.

Diane has had a number of notable accomplishments during her career: She was instrumental in developing the current standard methodology used by laboratories to report the results of Pap smear screening (The Bethesda System). She directed the large-scale clinical, known as “ALTS”, that established new protocols for laboratory screening and clinical management of women with equivocal Pap smear results. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles and has co-authored the standard medical reference work for cervical cytology screening. And, she is currently involved in the clinical trial of a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. In short, Diane’s work has significantly changed national and international practice to provide better health care for women. She has received awards and recognition from more than a dozen national and international organizations.

Diane is a graduate of Stanford University (AB 1976) and George Washington University Medical School (MD 1981). Before joining the NCI, she did her post-graduate training in pathology at Johns Hopkins University and a fellowship in cytopathology at George Washington University.

* Diane’s employment at NCI is noted for identification purposes only and does not imply any approval or endorsement of NNCF or any of its activities, grants, or grantees by the NCI. Diane serves as a Director of the NNCF because she is the granddaughter of its founders and this service is completely independent of her employment by the NCI.

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Daniel Solomon

Daniel Solomon is a founder and current board member of DC Vote, a non-profit organization dedicated to gaining voting representation in Congress for the District of Columbia. In addition, Daniel serves as a trustee of The Jewish Funds For Justice, and has been active in raising over $1 million for its Tzedec program, which pools Jewish investments for low-income communities in the DC area. Daniel is also a trustee of the United Jewish Endowment Fund and is a board member of the University of the District of Columbia School of Law Foundation and of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers. Prior to his work with DC Vote, Daniel was a political appointee at the U.S. Department of Labor, where he focused on international labor rights and child labor violations.

DC Appleseed recognized Daniel with its 2007 Community Service Award for his contribution to DC voting rights. In 2004, the Washington DC Jewish Community Center honored him with its Lee Rubenstein Outstanding Leadership Award for his work to enrich the quality of life in the community and for the benefit of humanity. Daniel was also honored with the 2001 Sidney Shapiro Tzedakah Award from the Jewish Funders Network. Daniel is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (1983) and Northeastern University School of Law (1991).

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Stuart Brown

Stuart is a retired tax attorney who is now engaged in a variety of philanthropic activities, primarily related to the Israel and Jewish aspects of NNCF programs. In addition to serving as Secretary-Treasurer of NNCF, Stuart is a member of the board of directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington (where he and Diane serve as co-chairs of the Federation’s Israel@60 celebration) and of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Stuart also chairs the board of American Friends of Hand in Hand.

Prior to his retirement, Stuart worked for 25 years as a tax lawyer in Washington, DC, where he ended his career by serving as Chief Counsel for the IRS (1994-2001). Before becoming IRS Chief Counsel, Stuart spent two years as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation and three years as IRS Associate Chief Counsel. He also spent 12 years in private law practice with the firm of Caplin and Drysdale after completing a clerkship on the United States Tax Court. Stuart is a graduate of Yale College (1972) and Harvard Law School (1975).

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Jane Mansour Solomon

Jane is a former conservation biologist at The Nature Conservancy where she worked in the Latin American Science Division. She continues to remain involved in environmental issues, particularly smart growth and the deconstruction of buildings to promote the reuse of embedded materials. In addition, she is an elected commissioner with Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3-F in Washington, DC where she participates in considering and recommending a wide range of policies and programs that affect her neighborhood. Jane is also busy raising her twin sons, Samuel and Moses.

Jane received her Bachelor of Arts from Colgate College (1981) and her Master of Science in Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland (1992).

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Alison McWilliams

Alison is the Executive Director of the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation. She is the co-chair of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers program committee and serves on the steering committees of the Community Development Support Collaborative and the Partnership for Equity.

Previously, Alison was the Director of Foundation Relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington where she created the Jewish Foundation Advisory Council, a network of second and third generation family foundation members, and coordinated the nation’s first Jewish Venture Philanthropy Fund, a collaborative venture capital approach to philanthropy. Alison has worked in the non-profit field for more than 20 years at organizations including Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington and the American Red Cross. She has also taught workshops in grantmaking, proposal writing, foundation fundraising, and prospect research. Alison is a graduate of Emory University (1987).