IRS Advisory Council names 18 new members

Eighteen new members have been named to the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council. 

The IRS strives to appoint members who represent the public, tax pros, businesses, tax-exempt and government entities and information reporting interests. 

Tax pros appointed to serve three-year terms on the council beginning this month include:

• Selvan Boominathan, vice president and global head of tax at Hackman Capital Partners LLP, in Washington, D.C.; 
• David Gannaway, principal at Bederson Accountants & Advisors, in Fairfield, New Jersey; 
• Jared Goldberger, partner at Mayer Brown LLP, in New York; 
• Charles Markham,  principal at Markham & Co. LLC, in Gainesville, Virginia; 
• Kristofer Thiessen, senior small business partner at Block Advisors, in New York; 
• Manuela Markarian, senior tax advisor at Bank of America in Charlotte, North Carolina; 
• Rolanda Watson, owner of Empower 2 Impact (d.b.a. Rolanda’s Tax & Professional Service), in Houston; and,
• Adam Robbins, U.S. tax vice president at FanDuel Group Inc., in New York. 

Also appointed were:

• Grace Allison, staff attorney and former director at New Mexico Legal Aid LITC, in Albuquerque, New Mexico;
• Pablo Blank, director of immigration integration at CASA Inc., in Rockville, Maryland; 
• Caroline Bruckner, senior professional lecturer and managing director of the Kogod Tax Policy Center at American University Kogod School of Business, Washington, D.C.; and, 
• Kendra Cooks, CFO and treasurer at Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

The remaining appointees were:

• Omeed Firouzi, practice professor and director of the LITC at Temple University Beasley School of Law, in Philadelphia; 
• David Heywood, an attorney in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; 
• Mark Matkovich, an attorney in Charleston, West Virginia; 
• Sarah Narkiewicz, LITC director at Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis; 
• Samuel Cohen, chief legal officer at Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, in Santa Ynez, California; and,
• Tralynna Scott, chief economist at Cherokee Nation Businesses LLC, in Catoosa, Oklahoma.

The 2025 IRSAC chair is Christine Freeland, president of Christine Z. Freeland CPA PC, in Chandler, Arizona. She has volunteered tax services at both the local and state levels and has been president of the National Society of Accountants. She works with the Arizona Association of Accounting and Tax Professionals and has developed continuing education events for IRS Tax Security Awareness Week. Freeland also teaches Circular 230 ethics.

The IRSAC, established in 1953, is a forum for IRS officials and representatives of the public to discuss a broad range of issues in tax administration. The council will submit its annual report to the agency at a public meeting in November.