Financial executive Marjorie Kaufman is a partner at activist Barington Capital as well as a dedicated philanthropist who holds influential roles in several New York-based charitable and advocacy organizations. Since 2007, Marjorie Kaufman has been a Board Member of the Young Women’s Leadership Network, which manages two education-centered programs, The Young Women’s Leadership Schools and the CollegeBound Initiative. These programs help young people with economic challenges break the cycle of poverty through college readiness and college access programs.

Marjorie Kaufman also chairs the recently formed Hilltop Cares Foundation, which provides survivors of sexual abuse with financial support for therapy.

In the world of finance, Marjorie Kaufman supports two organizations geared toward women in hedge funds. For more than 15 years she has been an Angel contributor to 100 Women in Hedge Funds. From 2004 to 2010, she co-chaired its Strategic Leaders Peer Advisory Group. From 2005 to 2008, she served on the Board of Directors for High Water Women and chaired the group’s annual Back to School Backpacks campaign for five years. During her prolific tenure, High Water Women raised funds to obtain nearly 10,000 backpacks filled with school supplies for children who are homeless or living in poverty.

An accomplished photographer, Marjorie maintains a website of her work at marjoriekaufman.com. A video featuring her images from Cuba along with other photographers from Santa Fe Phtographic Expeditions can be found here.