Our board is comprised of a well-rounded group of individuals with a special interest in this area, including mental health professionals, family members of the affected, and dedicated volunteers from our groups who have contributed priceless time to building and maintaining our organization. Click on a board member name to read their bio.

Tory Masters
Chair

David Brody, MD
Medical Advisor

Michael McKay, MBA
Treasurer

Adina Taubman
Board Member

Nathan Maratas
Board Member

Suzanne Gannon
Board Member

Jasmine Winkler Stobbe
Board Member

Board Member Bios

Tory Masters, CPS, CPRP spent years as a senior producer and programmer for ABC News and Good Morning America. She then co-founded The Intrepid New Yorker, a corporate relocation consulting firm for expatriates. Currently, she is a certified peer-specialist (CPS) and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP) who works with individuals and families struggling to find a path toward recovery from a mental health disorder. Tory worked for 5 years as a peer specialist at Hands Across Long Island (HALI) a mental health agency that utilizes Personal Recovery-Oriented Services (PROS) to assist individuals with severe psychiatric and substance abuse disorders return to productive lives in their communities. Throughout, she has facilitated and run facilitator trainings and continuing education workshops for MDSG-NY.

David Brody, MD a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City, joined the MDSG-NY board in 2018. His association with MDSG-NY goes back many years when as the chief of the outpatient psychiatry service at Beth Israel, he worked closely with Howard Smith, one of the founders of MDSG-NY, to facilitate access to meeting space and to deliver public lectures on psychiatric medication. Dr. Brody is appointed to the clinical faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai and to the voluntary medical staff of Mt. Sinai Beth Israel and Lenox Hill hospitals. The focus of his practice is medication treatment of psychiatric disorders in adults.

Michael McKay, MBA came to MDSG-NY through the Friends and Family group and has been the Treasurer for the last 20 years. He also assumed some duties of an unpaid administrator and assembles the newsletter. After 40 years as Director of Finance and Administration for several libraries and visual arts organizations, Michael retired. Michael earned master’s degrees in Library Science and Business Administration.

Adina Taubman is an actress, a playwright, a teacher, and an activist. She has been a member of MDSG-NY since 2010. She became a facilitator in 2011 and a coordinator for the West Side location in 2014. She received her B.A. in Humanities from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.F.A. in Acting from American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She is the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre Company. Adina lives with her husband and two daughters in Morningside Heights.

Nathan Maratas arrived at MDSG-NY in 2007 and began facilitating in 2010. A California native who received his B.S. in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, he is an event planner who prides himself on the chic happenings he produces for clients in the fashion and luxury goods industries. In addition to facilitating, Nathan contributes his professional expertise to MDSG-NY by coordinating its end-of-year party as well as the training and continuing education of the organization’s facilitators. He is also an active recruiter of new volunteers.

My name is Jasmine (Jazz) Winkler Stobbe. I am an artist, writer, educator, and mother. I live with bipolar disorder. At the moment I am living in a floating home on the Fraser River in Richmond, British Columbia Canada. I have been an active member, facilitator, and board member of MDSG since 2001. I graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a BFA and Columbia University’s Teachers College with a MA and EdM in Special Education on a full ride. I worked for the Department of Education as a Related Service Provider for 13 years and trained as a Peer Support Worker with Vancouver Coastal Health. I have been designing and teaching groups at THRIVE Open Door Group in West Vancouver. I have written and illustrated a book, “From Darkness to Life.” about my experience with postpartum depression and I am looking to publish soon.