Lillian Rizzo - Co-President

Lillian joined the Newswomen’s Club in 2016 and in 2017 took on the VP of Membership role, which she held for six years. She now serves as co-president. Lillian has been a reporter at CNBC since August 2022, covering media, sports and other business news. She previously spent nearly nine years at the Wall Street Journal, covering various beats from private equity to bankruptcy to media. Lillian started covering the bankruptcy industry at Debtwire, and had various stints at the New York Daily News during college and after grad school. A lifelong New Yorker, she attended Baruch College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She grew up in Brooklyn and now lives on Staten Island.

Caitlin Nolan - Co-President

Caitlin has been a member of the Newswomen's Club since 2015, and in 2018, she became Co-vice President of Treasury and Fundraising. She was elected co-president in 2023. Caitlin is the digital managing editor of Inside Edition, the digital arm of television's longest-running, top-rated and most-honored syndicated newsmagazine. Before becoming managing editor, she served as a senior reporter on the team, writing and producing breaking news, long-form pieces and mini-documentaries. Her piece on the life of a man released from prison after spending 13 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit was nominated for an Emmy in 2019. She previously worked as a staff reporter at the New York Daily News. A native New Yorker, Caitlin was born and raised in Brooklyn and received her B.A. in communications from Marist College. She now resides in the Bronx.

Jennifer Streaks - Co-Vice President of Special Events

Jennifer is a senior personal finance reporter and spokesperson for the personal finance vertical at Business Insider.She started her career covering personal finance at Black Enterprise magazine. She went on to CNBC where she covered personal finance, women and money and tech and then Forbes, where she reported on personal finance, business, tech and money matters related to the economy, investing, credit and entrepreneurship. Jennifer is also the author of Thrive!... Affordably: Your Month to Month Guide to living your Best Life without breaking the bank. The book offers advice, tips and financial management lessons geared toward helping readers highlight strengths, identify missteps and take control of their finances. In addition, she has extensive experience as an on-air financial commentator and has been a featured expert discussing credit and savings, investing and retirement, mortgages and all things money and personal finance. She has an ability to discuss and simplify complex financial issues and make them easier to understand.

Ann Hermes - Co-Vice President of Special Events

Ann is an independent photographer, multimedia producer and photo editor based on the East Coast, working on commercial and editorial assignments from Boston to Brooklyn and in-between. She has covered a wide array of national and international stories, ranging from breaking visual news coverage of the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt during the Arab Spring to in-depth stories following Syrian migrants in Eastern Europe and labor trafficking stories in New York. For more than 12 years Ann worked as a photographer and photo editor at The Christian Science Monitor where she coordinated and directed assignments with freelancers and worked with reporting teams to cover major events on deadline. Commercial photo and video clients include Harvard Business School, MIT, Boston College, Good Jobs Institute, Greentown Labs and the legal firm of Holland & Knight.

Emily Farache - Vice President of Programming

Emily Farache is a freelance journalist with a focus on healthcare, lifestyle and wellness. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Insider, The Independent, The Paris Review, Barron’s Penta, HuffPost and other publications. She received her B.A. in English Literature from Brandeis University and an MFA from The American Film Institute with a concentration in screenwriting.

Shanelle Kaul - Deputy Vice President of Programming

Shanelle Kaul is a correspondent for CBS News, reporting to the CBS News Special Events and Newsgathering units. Prior to joining CBS News, Shanelle spent a decade reporting and anchoring across Canada -- most recently at CP24, Toronto's #1 Breaking News Channel. Born in Sri Lanka, Shanelle grew up in Toronto and is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism. She returned to campus in 2021 to teach news production to second-year students. As a child of immigrant parents who fled war-torn countries, Shanelle is passionate about human rights and social justice issues. You'll find Shanelle's work on CBS Mornings, the CBS Evening News, CBS Saturday Morning, the CBS News Streaming Network and Newspath.

Katherine Doherty - Co-Treasurer and President of Fundraising

Katherine is a finance reporter at Bloomberg News covering Wall Street, Bank of America, Citadel Securities and the exchanges including NYSE and Nasdaq. She previously covered the credit market with a focus on distressed debt and bankruptcy for Bloomberg and Reorg Research. In radio Katherine reported and produced stories for WBUR's Radio Boston and Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR), NPR. She conducted interviews for BBC News and WPRI Channel 12 CBS Television in Providence. Born in Massachusetts, Katherine is an avid Boston sports fan. She has sung the national anthem and “God Bless America” for the Celtics, New England Patriots and Red Sox. She's co-treasurer for the Newswomen's Club where she handles the organization's finances.

Sasha Padbidri - Co-Treasurer and Vice President of Fundraising

Sasha is a senior reporter at 9fin, a B2B financial services publication, where she covers the leveraged finance market. "All things credit" perfectly encapsulates her reporting career—she has previously written about distressed debt and structured finance at various news platforms, including Thomson Reuters LPC, Reorg Research and GlobalCapital. Although Sasha grew up in Singapore, she has called New York home for at least the last decade. She also holds a B.A. from New York University.

Chelsea Matiash - Recording Secretary

Chelsea Matiash is a deputy editor for strategy and operations at The New York Times. She is the Secretary for the Board of the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Previously, she was the senior photo editor at The Intercept, deputy editor for multimedia at TIME magazine, and a photo editor at The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. She has also been a lecturer in journalism at the undergraduate level. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami and holds certifications in editing, product management and video production.

Eve Edelheit - Deputy Recording Secretary

Eve is a photo editor on the metro desk at The New York Times. She also worked on the Times’ digital desk, focusing on breaking news coverage and home page presentation. Previously, she was a photojournalist based in St. Petersburg, Florida for nearly a decade. Her work has been recognized by the James Beard Foundation, National Press Photographers Association and the ACLU. She graduated with a bachelor’s of journalism from the University of Missouri with an emphasis in photojournalism.

Christina Santucci

Christina Santucci - Co-Vice President of Membership

Christina is currently an assignment editor with Spectrum NY1 News after making the jump from print/online journalism to TV. While in this role, she has also served as a field producer during major news events—like the arraignment of former President Donald Trump—and documented breaking news such as the severe flooding from Hurricane Ida in her own neighborhood of Astoria. She previously worked as a photo editor for the New York Post, managing editor and photo editor for TimesLedger Newspapers and a photographer/reporter for the Queens Courier. In 2020, Christina earned her master's degree in migration governance from the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College. For her thesis project, she assessed the potential future application of human rights treaties on climate-induced displacement. She is also an FAA-certified drone pilot. A native of the Bronx, Christina now resides in Queens.

Kristen Tauer - Co-Vice President of Membership

Kristen is the deputy eye editor for Women’s Wear Daily, where she writes arts and culture features and covers philanthropic events and parties. Her writing has also appeared in publications including First We Feast, Edible Finger Lakes magazine, Edible Indy, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue and others. Her creative work has appeared in NYU’s Dovetail, WomenArts Quarterly, The New York Times and The Coachella Review. In 2016, she helped launch the independent food publication Counter Service. In August 2023, she was a writer in residence at Craigardan in the Adirondack Mountains. She’s originally from Ithaca, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell University.

Clarisa Diaz - Co-Vice President of Communications

Clarisa is a writer and transdisciplinary designer. Her reporting work can be found on Quartz, Science Friday, WNYC, and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting among others. She was the 2020 Front Page Awards winner for local feature reporting on New York City’s polluting peaker power plants. She received an MFA focusing on communication and graphic design at Parsons in 2014. Following Parsons, Clarisa worked at Penguin Random House producing books for Signet Classics and the New American Library. She received a professional bachelor’s degree in architecture at the University of Kansas in 2006. Prior to her career in journalism, Clarisa lived abroad for several years working in architecture and urban design research; as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in Chile, then in Asia from Shanghai to Cambodia. Her travels, desire to design tools for sharing knowledge, and ability to do field research led her into unique positions within journalism. In newsrooms, Clarisa’s roles blend traditional reporting with graphic design, community engagement, and developing new ways to tell stories.

Anne Michaud - Co-Vice President of Communications

Anne is an assistant managing editor for Crain's New York Business where she edits politics, technology, climate and transportation coverage. She previously reported for The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times and wrote a nationally syndicated op-ed column for Newsday. Anne has won more than 25 writing and reporting awards and was named “Columnist of the Year” in 2013 and 2015 by statewide New York journalism associations. She covered politics as a reporter for Crain’s New York Business from 2003 to 2008 and is the author of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives (Ogunquit Press, 2021). Born and raised in the Boston suburbs, Anne was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa, earned a B.A. in economics from Trinity College in Connecticut, and graduated with an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.