Staff

Cathy M. Weiss
Executive Director

Cathy Weiss took the helm as Executive Director of Stoneleigh Foundation in August 2010. A recognized expert in philanthropy and public policy, Cathy has more than twenty years of leadership experience in family foundation management, strategic planning, organizational and resource development, philanthropic collaboration and research. Before joining Stoneleigh Foundation, she was senior consultant with The Burd Group, Executive Director for Claneil Foundation, and program officer for the Rockefeller Family Fund and The William Penn Foundation. Cathy was also finance director for Governor Edward Rendell’s first gubernatorial campaign, and served as Assistant to Mayor Ed Koch of New York and Mayor W. Wilson Goode of Philadelphia.  

Julia Boerth, M.P.A.
Program Officer

A former policy analyst for the State of Wisconsin, Julia has examined the effects of the W-2 welfare reform initiative in Wisconsin as well as gang violence in the state. As a non-partisan program evaluator, she also looked at issues of prison health care, emergency response teams, and nursing home inspections. She was drawn to Stoneleigh Foundation's mission to serve children and youth, which ties to her days as a preschool director. A midwest native, Julia relocated from Texas to Pennsylvania in 2006.

Susannah Cohan McQuillan, M.A.
Program Officer

Susannah brings over fifteen years experience in the field of philanthropy, having held grantmaking positions at the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Philadelphia Neighborhood Development Collaborative at The Philadelphia Foundation.  She has worked extensively with non-profit organizations throughout the Philadelphia area, both as a foundation program officer and as a director of real estate development for a local community development corporation.  Susannah's previous areas of professional focus include K-12 education reform, school-to-work transition and community development.

Rona Navera
Administrative Officer

Rona brings over four years of administrative experience supporting organizational leaders in the Philadelphia public and nonprofit sectors, including Penn Asian Senior Services and the Office of Philadelphia Councilman-At-Large Frank Rizzo.  Rona is a native of the Philippines where she worked in the Commission on Filipinos Overseas and the Department of Foreign Affairs to help implement that country's first absentee voting system before coming to the United States in 2005. Rona also serves on the Board of Directors of the Asian American Women's Coalition.

Bernardine ("Dine") Watson, M.A.
Social Policy Consultant

Dine is a social policy consultant who works primarily with foundations, think tanks and other non-profit organizations. She began working with the Stoneleigh Foundation as a senior program consultant in 2006. Dine has extensive experience developing, managing and writing about initiatives for vulnerable youth and communities. She was formerly an executive vice president at Public/Private Ventures where she directed field operations and has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Dine is now a resident of Washington, D.C.