Join Trinity Alumnae & Faculty for an evening of
community, conversation & celebration!
Thursday, February 20th
6:30 pm - 8:30 p.m.

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

7:30pm - 8:30pm

Suggested Donation: $25

Katy Brodsky Falco ‘98 has built and managed non-profit research organizations for leading academic institutions for the past decade. She was most recently the Executive Director of NYU School of Law's Criminal Justice Lab, which leverages data, analytics, and interdisciplinary expertise to build a safer and more equitable criminal justice system. Prior to this, she worked as Executive Director of Crime Lab New York, a criminal justice research organization based at University of Chicago that partners with civic and community leaders to identify, test, and help scale the programs and policies with the greatest potential to improve lives. She was a staff attorney at Legal Aid Society in the criminal defense division, and Director of Advocacy and Associate General Counsel for Grameen America, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus’ non-profit microfinance organization. Katy attended Harvard University for her BA and NYU School of Law for her JD.

After surviving both HELLP syndrome and breast cancer, Katy was shocked to learn about the inequities in rigorous research of women’s health. Seeing how clearly the level of funding for research of specific illnesses affected the subsequent health outcomes for patients, Katy created the Foundation for Women’s Health to apply her experience in managing research organizations, where she identified gaps in the academic literature to test and scale effective solutions, to this new field of study to achieve more equitable results for women.

Dr. Arielle Bayer ‘03 is a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at CCRM Fertility of New York. She is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology and board-eligible in reproductive endocrinology and infertility.

After completing her bachelor’s degree in the History of Science and History of Medicine from Yale University, she received her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Premedical Sciences from Columbia University. Next, she received her M.D. at the New York University School of Medicine, where she was awarded the Joseph E. Constantine Award for outstanding scholarly work in ob/gyn. During her residency training in ob/gyn at NYU Langone Medical Center, she was inducted into the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the Clarel Antoine Award for compassion in medicine. Her residency was followed by subspecialty training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility during her Fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 

Dr. Bayer has presented scientific research at numerous national conferences on topics varying from menopause to early b-hCG as a predictor of live birth for single thawed euploid embryo transfers. Additionally, she has published peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, such as Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology and the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics.

After graduating college and prior to going to med school, Dr. Bayer founded the Young Professionals’ Council for Choice, whose mission is to increase awareness of the ongoing challenges facing women, work to protect reproductive rights, and expand access to reproductive healthcare.

After graduating from Trinity School, Dr. Valerie Parkas ‘84 received her undergraduate degree in 1988 from Brown University where she majored in Public Health and was a Division 1 Varsity Gymnast. She stayed at Brown University for her medical degree and then completed her internal medicine residency training at New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College and her fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She joined the faculty of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases in 1997. In 2009, Dr. Parkas became the Senior Associate Dean of Admissions and Recruitment for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a position she currently holds. 

 

Clinically, Dr. Parkas has spent her career taking care of HIV-infected patients, practicing patient centered care for patients who have historically been both marginalized and medically complicated. 

 

Dr. Parkas has been married to a fellow physician, Dr. Jason Kendler, for thirty years and has two children, Stephanie Kendler ‘16 and Philip Kendler ‘18. She identifies deeply with the sacrifices and commitment needed to be a working mother, particularly an academic physician and she credits her mother, Judith Parkas, as a role model in how to juggle a career while prioritizing parenting. With this lens, Dr. Parkas has mentored generations of young women as the faculty advisor for the Women in Medicine student group and is currently a member of the Gender Equity Accelerator, a group advising on the gender equity programming at the institution. 

Brittany Stollar ‘13 is the Senior Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Specialist for the USAID-funded Global Health Supply Chain - Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project. In this role, Ms. Stollar provides technical assistance and guidance in the areas of MNCH commodity supply management, data analytics, budgeting, and collaboration at global and national levels. In 2024, she collaborated with Monash University to conduct a study testing the quality of medicines used to manage hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in three countries, and personally joined sample collection efforts in Malawi. This study, when published, will tie in with her ongoing webinar series on the proper storage, handling, and management of maternal health medicines. Prior to this role, Ms. Stollar was the project management backstop for the Cambodia and Indonesia GHSC-PSM country teams. She has seven years of experience in project management, supply chain management, and global health. She holds two degrees from Yale University: a BA in anthropology and an MPH in social and behavioral sciences. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and running, and she is currently training for her second triathlon.