Program Staff

David T. Abbott

David Abbott became executive director of The George Gund Foundation in 2003. Prior to joining the Foundation, he served as president of University Circle Incorporated, executive director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and executive director of the Cleveland Bicentennial Commission. Abbott was also the Cuyahoga County administrator and, early in his career, a reporter for The Plain Dealer.

He holds a B.A. in political science from Denison University, a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Emily Carrabine-Amato

Emily Carrabine-Amato is the 2006-2008 Gund Fellow.  She works across program areas.  Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as a New York City Teaching Fellow in Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood, teaching math and science to Special Education students grades five through eight.  She has also worked as a consultant to New York City’s Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services, authoring three major reports on the subject of welfare reform.

Carrabine-Amato holds bachelor of arts degrees in psychology and sociology from Cleveland State University.  She earned a master of public administration from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a master of science in education from Hunter College. 



Marcia Egbert

Marcia Egbert is the Foundation’s senior program officer for human services. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1998, she was vice president of the National Urban Policy Institute, a social policy analysis and lobbying firm in Columbus, Ohio.  She also served as government relations director for the Cuyahoga County Commissioners and worked for the speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives.

Egbert is active in a number of local, state and national organizations of grantmakers including, the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative; Grantmakers Income Security Task Force; Funders Network on Reproductive Health and Rights; and the Public Policy Committee of Ohio Grantmakers Forum; She is also a founding board member of the Health Policy Institute of Ohio.  Egbert is a two-time alumna of The Ohio State University, having received both B.A. and J.D. degrees from that institution.  

Robert B. Jaquay

Robert Jaquay is the Foundation’s associate director. He also is responsible for the Foundation’s program-related investments and grantmaking in economic development and community revitalization. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1996, he was executive director of the Citizens Committee for County Government Reform. His career of government service includes work for Cuyahoga County, the City of Cleveland, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency and the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also has been an adjunct faculty member at Cleveland State University’s College of Urban Affairs.

Jaquay has graduate degrees in public administration from Harvard and Cleveland State Universities, a J.D. from Cleveland State University and a B.S. in business administration from John Carroll University. Currently, he is Treasurer of Neighborhood Funders Group and a founding steering committee member of PRI Makers, national philanthropic affinity organizations. He also chairs the Advisory Board of the Foundation Center in Cleveland.

Ann K. Mullin

Ann Mullin is the Foundation’s senior program officer for education.  Prior to joining the Foundation in 2005, she served as the education program officer at The Cleveland Foundation; previously she was a program associate for arts and culture and education.  Mullin also worked as operations director of Montessori Development Partnerships and as a client assistant for the International Management Group and for National City Corporation’s Retirement Plan Services.

Mullin holds a bachelor of musical arts degree from the University of Michigan and a master of business administration from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.