Dart Westphal has worked for the community development of the Bronx for over 35 years. Most of that time as President/Chief Executive Officer of Mosholu Preservation Corporation (MPC), a support corporation of Montefiore Medical Center. In all of that time he has been committed to better connecting local communities with the larger institutions around them. He has served organizations such as the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, the Jerome Park Conservancy, the Bronx River Alliance and the Friends of Van Cortlandt Park. At MPC He developed new funding methods for supportive housing, created a Business Improvement District and started a nonprofit newspaper.
Dart also served in positions with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and the South Bronx Open Space Task Force. Dart is currently a consultant with the Support Center for Nonprofit Management where he has collaborated on the Trajectory Leadership Project, works to increase the capacity of organizations and their boards and works as an Interim Executive Director. He has served as an Interim ED at Added Value (the Red Hook Farm) in Brooklyn, New York Harm Reduction Educators, Seamens' Society for Children and Families (a foster care agency) and Washington Heights and Inwood Development Corporation.
Dart holds an M.A. in Anthropology from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a BSFS in Diplomatic History from Georgetown University. He has taught as an adjuct insructor at Lehman College and as a Task Supervisor was an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the Columbia School of Social Work.
He is married to the fabulous Ellen Pollan, the proud father of Andrew and Gregory and the effusively happy grandfather of Riley, Harper and Samuel.