Lecturer Bios
Hon. Barbara Jaffe
Justice Barbara Jaffe received her BA, cum laude, from Syracuse University, as well as an MA in Italian Renaissance Art on a graduate fellowship in Florence, Italy. After six years in the wholesale antiques business, she attended Brooklyn Law School and obtained her JD. Justice Jaffe then represented indigent criminal defendants on appeal for The Legal Aid Society, successively served as principal court attorney to two Supreme Court justices in the Criminal Term, was elected to the New York City Civil Court, sat in that court and in the New York City Civil Court, and was appointed to the New York State Supreme Court, Civil Term, where she presides in an Individual Assignment Part and is specially assigned to try asbestos cases.
Justice Jaffe serves on the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Section. She is a Founding Faculty member of New York County Lawyers Association’s (NYCLA) Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute, and is a member of that association’s Pro Bono Committee and Supreme Court Committee, and has served on its Committee on Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgendered Issues. She co-chaired NYCLA’s Civil Court Practice Section and has lectured at numerous continuing legal education programs there and elsewhere, including the New York City Bar Association, which she represented as a delegate to the State Bar’s House of Delegates. She also served on the City Bar’s Committee on Nominations, Committee on Civil Rights, Art Law Committee, Special Committee on Capital Punishment, Committee on Civil Court, Committee on Criminal Law, and Special Committee on Public Service and Education, and chaired a joint City Bar/NYCLA committee that produced, in six languages, the “New York State Criminal Justice Handbook.”
Michele Bogart
Michele H. Bogart has taught art history and American visual culture studies at Stony Brook University
since 1982. Bogart is author of Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New
York (2018)(Reaktion Books); Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-
1930 (1989/1997), recipient of the 1991 Charles C. Eldredge Prize; Artists, Advertising, and the Borders
of Art (1995); and The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission (2006). She was a
talking head in the documentary on movie poster artist Reynold Brown ("The Man Who Drew BugEyed
Monsters"), which aired on PBS television in July 1996; in the Norwegian television series “Cultural
Disorder”; in the 2007 DVD documentary on Norman Rockwell, produced by Lucasfilm as part of its 12-
volume “Young Indiana Jones” series; and in a November 2012 segment on public art for Kulturen på
News, TV2 News, Denmark. She has been widely quoted in the New York Times, New York Post, Wall
Street Journal, and Harper’s, and has published two invited op-eds about monuments in the New York
Daily News. Bogart was a 2017-2019 Fellow at the Rockwell Center for Visual Studies at the Norman
Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA. She has held a Guggenheim Fellowship (2001) and was a Fellow
of the Terra Foundation of American Art and Visiting Professor of American Art at the JFK Institut, Freie
Universität von Berlin. She has also had fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the
ACLS, the Winterthur Museum and Library, and the Smithsonian Institution’s Smithsonian American Art
Museum. From 1999 through 2003 she was Vice President of the Art Commission of the City of New York
(since renamed the Public Design Commission [PDC]), the City’s design review agency, and presently
serves on the PDC’s Conservation Advisory Group. In spring 2020 she will be Leon Levy Fellow at the
Center for the History of Collecting at the Frick, She received her MA and Ph.D. from the University of
Chicago.
Jennifer Franklin, Esq.
Jennifer Franklin is Senior Counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where she practices in the
Exempt Organizations Practice. She advises a variety of international and domestic exempt
organizations, including both private foundations and public charities, and has worked on
transactional and tax matters, including the merger or dissolution of non-profit corporations, for
private foundations and public charities. Jennifer has significant experience in the areas of
charitable gift-planning, where she works with donor-advised fund and supporting organization
structures and she also structures endowment fund gifts. Jennifer’s experience also includes art
law, where she advises artist and collector foundations on governance and tax issues and individual
and foundation donors on charitable gifts of works of art. Jennifer’s professional associations
include membership with the ABA Section of Taxation’s Exempt Organizations Committee, where she
currently serves as the Co-Chair of its Subcommittee on Small Tax-Exempt Organizations. Jennifer
was named a John S. Nolan Fellow of the ABA Section of Taxation for 2002-2003 and served as the
Secretary of the ABA Section of Taxation’s Exempt Organizations Committee from 2001-2003. Jennifer
has also been a speaker on several panels at meetings of the ABA Section of Taxation’s Exempt
Organizations Committee, discussing topics such as revisions to IRS Form 1023, Application for
Recognition of Tax Exemption, the applicability of Circular 230 to exempt-organization
practitioners, practical charitable-giving solutions involving the use of donor advised funds and
the structuring of art gifts. Jennifer has spoken on a variety of exempt-organization topics at the
New York City Bar Association, the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, the
AICPA’s National Not-for-Profit Industry Conference, the Western Conference on Tax-Exempt
Organizations, the Georgetown Law Conference on Representing and Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations,
the University of Texas School of Law Nonprofit Organizations Compliance and Internal Review
Workshop and at programs sponsored by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Legal Aid
Society of New York. Jennifer co-authored an article with David Shevlin entitled “Heading Into the
Year- End: Issues for Donors and Charities to Consider When Making and Accepting Gifts of
Restricted Stock,” published in the February 2002 edition of The Exempt Organization Tax Review.
Jennifer also published an article entitled “Final Regulations Provide Guidance on the Treatment of
Corporate Sponsorship Payments" in the July/August 2002 edition of Taxation of Exempts and wrote
the “Letter Ruling Alert” in the July 2002 edition of The Exempt Organization Tax Review. More
recently, Jennifer published an article entitled “Using a Donor Advised Fund for Charitable Giving”
in the April 2012 edition of the Orange County Lawyer. Jennifer currently serves on the Board of
Directors and as the Secretary of Good+ Foundation (formerly Baby Buggy), a charity dedicated to
dismantling multi-generational poverty by pairing tangible goods with innovative services for
low-income fathers, mothers and caregivers, and on the Advisory Council of the New York Landmarks
Conservancy. She served on the Board of Directors of the Law Alumni Association of Duke University
School of Law from July 2013 until June 2019.
Jennifer earned her J.D. at Duke University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and earned her
B.S. degree from Georgetown University, where she also graduated magna cum laude.
Dr. Sally Yerkovich
Sally Yerkovich is Director of Educational Exchange and Special Projects at The American-
Scandinavian Foundation and Professor of Museum Anthropology at Columbia University. She holds an
M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Yerkovich serves as the Chair of the
International Council of Museums (ICOM) Ethics Committee as well as the Professional Standards and
Ethics Committee of the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH). Author of A
Practical Guide to Museum Ethics, her work, which draws upon more than thirty years of leadership
experience, is increasingly engaged with how museums will face the ethical challenges of the
future. A cultural anthropologist with experience in museums and cultural institutions in New York
and Washington, DC, she held leadership positions at the National Endowment for the Humanities,
National Endowment for the Arts, South Street Seaport Museum, and Museum of the City of New York.
She was president and CEO of The New Jersey Historical Society, Executive Director at the Museum
for African Art, and first president of the Tribute NYC Museum. She also worked with cultural
organizations in Central and Eastern Europe leading interactive workshops on best practices for the
Fund for Arts and Culture. She currently sits on
the Board of Trustees of the Merchant’s House Museum in New York City.
