The Open Society Foundations has announced the appointment of SAMANTHA STOKES-BAYDUR to the newly created position of chief human resources officer, effective March 30. Currently the deputy head of human resources at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Stokes-Baydur will lead OSF's people and culture strategy and operations, supporting the organization's mission and commitment to strengthening its people and talent development efforts and building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive global network.

The California Wellness Foundation has announced the appointment of KARREN LANE as program director. Lane will manage the Leading for Power and Change portfolio, which seeks to advance racial justice by making grants to amplify the leadership, voices, and power of communities of color historically excluded from full participation in American society. She previously was program director/officer at the Weingart Foundation, where she co-designed the Youth Organizing Capacity Building Initiative, and prior to that, served as vice president of policy at the Community Coalition in South Los Angeles.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has announced the election of URSULA BURNS, AMY GRIFFIN, and DAVID S. WINTER to its board. Burns has served as board chair and CEO of VEON Ltd. and as board chair and CEO of the Xerox Corporation and, during the Obama administration, she helped lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and chaired the President's Export Council. Griffin is founder and managing partner of G9 Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on supporting companies that empower consumers to live, look, and feel better; she began her career in marketing, working at Ms., Working Woman, and Sports Illustrated. Winter is co-CEO of Standard Industries, a global industrial company with operations in more than eighty countries, and a member of the museum's Chairman's Council.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced the appointment of an interim leadership team to oversee the institution during its search for a new president following the departure of Katy Clark, who is now the executive director of the Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation. JENNIFER ANGLADE, who serves as CFO and vice president of finance of BAM and as treasurer of BAM Endowment Trust; COCO KILLINGWORTH, vice president for creative social impact and interim head of virtual programming; and ELIZABETH MOREAU, associate vice president and senior producer, will each retain their current roles and responsibilities and oversee departments and divisions that coincide with or are an extension of their respective purviews.

Junior Achievement of New York has announced that its president and CEO, JOSEPH PERI, has announced plans to retire effective June 30. Appointed the the position in February 2011, Peri led the organization's post-financial crisis recovery and growth in a number of ways, including increasing annual student participation from sixty thousand in 2010 to more than a hundred thousand, increasing annual revenue, and generating cumulative operating surpluses of over $2 million. Prior to joining JA New York, he served as executive vice president and COO of the Council for Economic Education.

The Chicago-based National Center for Healthcare Leadership, a nonprofit committed to advancing evidence-based leadership practices to drive quality care and improved outcomes, has announced the election of four new board members: BOB CLARKE, LEON L. HALEY, JR., BEVERLY MALONE, and JESSICA T. MELTON. Clarke is CEO of Furst Group and NuBrick Partners; Haley is CEO of University of Florida Health Jacksonville, vice president for health affairs and dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine–Jacksonville, and a professor of emergency medicine; Malone is president and CEO of the National League for Nursing; and Melton is COO of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.