Board of Directors
Christopher Costello - President
Christopher came to New Orleans to study Organic Chemistry at Tulane University and taught for many years before leveraging the skills learned in research and teaching to move into organizational operations. He worked for over 20 years in the PR and Marketing industry, and in 2018 started NeuralProcess, a company that focuses on helping organizations evaluate and streamline their operations by applying Neural Network Theory and incorporating artificial intelligence. Christopher enjoys giving back to the community which has led him to volunteer for his neighborhood association for many years and now for Krewe de Pink allowing him to share what he has learned to further the organizations’ missions.
Ed Moise - Vice President
Ed Moise is a New Orleans native. He is a Chef, Bed and Breakfast Owner and Entrepreneur and has been in the food and service industry for over 40 years. Along with his wife he has owned restaurants, managed restaurants and consulted for other restaurateurs. He trained at the NFT Academy as Chef. Over his career has served presidents and statesmen and celebrities and business luminaries. His experience is broad and covers many styles of cooking as well as event planning from a wedding with one day notice to a banquet fund raiser for 750 guests. Through the years many have helped and supported Ed and Hillery in their business and personal ventures. This is their way of saying thank you and giving back.
Hazel Pomfret - Recording Secretary
Hazel grew up in the UK and came, with her husband and two young children, to live in Ohio 30 years ago. After retirement they moved to New Orleans in 2018, to be closer to their daughter and Hazel became involved with Krewe de Pink in 2019. Hazel has known far too many breast cancer sufferers, including close friends, her sister, and her sister-in-law who lost her fight in 2002. She is motivated to help find the ultimate cure for breast cancer through Krewe de Pink’s support of the Tulane Cancer Research Center.
Bryn LEARD - Treasurer
Bryn is a native New Orleanian who returned to live in Algiers Point in 2009. Bryn is retired from the Oil and Gas industry spending over 35 years as a Drilling Engineer and Operations Superintendent. She is fortunate to have participated and led many energy producing projects across the US and Canada including mentoring young engineers and encouraging young girls to study math and science in school. Bryn is now working as a real estate investor and Realtor with Keller Williams helping others with properties in the New Orleans metropolitan area. Bryn is married and enjoys her time with her beautiful family and dear friends. Bryn joined Krewe de Pink in 2018 volunteering her skills to help with fundraising events for this worthy cause.
Ann Donahue - Corresponding Secretary
Ann Donahue grew up in New Orleans and makes her home on the Westbank. She is a registered nurse and an advanced practice nurse with a focus on adult health. Currently, she works in the senior living communities. Ann serves as volunteer for several nonprofit organizations and has done so for many years. As a recent breast cancer conqueror, Ann is dedicated to raising awareness and funds for breast cancer research; with a goal to find a cure!
Hillery Moise - Historian
Hillery Moise is a founding member of the unincorporated nonprofit association - New Orleans Friends of the BCRF - and has been with Krewe de Pink since its incorporation in 2015. She has served in the hospitality industry for over 35 years as Restaurateur, Restaurant Consultant, Event Planner and Wedding Coordinator. She has lost family and friends to this dreaded disease and is fully committed in her efforts to help find a cure.
DAWN AREVALO
Dawn Arevalo is the Secretary-Treasurer for IATSE Local 478, a Louisiana Notary Public, and a registered tax preparer. Local 478 has over 1500 members covering crew in Film, Television, and Commercials. With over 25 years in theater and film as a stage manager and costumer, she coordinates the working of the local, administering contracts, and fighting for the rights of workers. Volunteering with Krewe de Pink is her happy place.
Julie B. Sanford - Public RElATIONS
Julie was born and raised in New Orleans with a large close-knit family and is passionate about celebrating the Crescent City’s unique culture. She became involved with Krewe de Pink as the Sales & Marketing Manager for Hard Rock Cafe where she has worked for over thirty years. Julie enjoys creating and hosting events, building partnerships and business relationships and is active in several hospitality associations including Meeting Professionals International, Mid South Women in Tourism and the French Quarter Business Association. In her personal time, she enjoys “all things New Orleans” and volunteers for several charities including New Orleans Mission, The Sunshine Kids, Louisiana Heroes Project but most of all, she loves seeing her event ideas being brought to life by Krewe de Pink!
Carol Osborne - Past President
Carol Schwartz Osborne is a New Orleans native who works with the psychologists of Jefferson NeuroBehavioral Group and its other companies, Family Behavioral Health Centers, Boost Rehab, and GulfSouth Autism Center. As a Breast Cancer Survivor, she has been active in a number of local and statewide civic and nonprofit organizations; she is currently serving proudly as President Emerita aka “Queen Mum” of Krewe de Pink.
Fay Faron
Fay Faron is president of Friends of the Ferry, founded 2006 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In honor of leading the charge to save the Canal Street/Algiers Ferry, the city council issued a resolution in 2016, officially naming Fay "Ferry God Mother of New Orleans.” Fay is on the advisory board of the Algiers Point Association, and was on the Algiers Economic Development Foundation for nearly a decade. She organized Stepfest, which provided the funding for maintaining the beautiful mural at the old 5th district ferry landing steps across from the Old Point Bar, and is co-founder of Treasures From the Point, the neighborhood-wide porch sale extravaganza held each spring since 2003.
Chris Lightfoot
Chris Lightfoot was born in Louisiana and has family stretching from Bossier City to New Orleans. He started helping with Krewe de Pink in 2019 and as a Cancer Survivor himself knows the struggles of Chemo Therapy first hand. “We all know that Cancer Sucks!” but Chris has made it a mission to help reduce the pain and suffering that patients and their families have to endure. If he is not putting the Fun in Fundraising Chris is working as Director of Operations at Celtic Media Centre in Baton Rouge. Building relationships and running event logistics is his daily practice.
Adriane Bennett
Adriane Bennett, is new as a Board Member, but not to Krewe de Pink. She has been volunteering and participating in Krewe de Pink events since 2018. When not raising funds to find a cure, she works for the IATSE - the union behind the Entertainment Industry, and has been working in theatre film since 1995. A Baton Rouge native, she has worked all over the United States, finally returning home in 2009.
