Executive Officers

Board Chair

Robert Ripp

Vice Chairs

• Hon. Bruce Kennedy
  Sea Cliff Village Administrator
• Eric Sherman
  BLC Textiles

Secretary

Candace Dellacona, Esq.
Offit Kurman, Attorneys at Law

Treasurer

Michael J. Danzi

Immediate Past Board Chair

Caryn M. Hirshleifer, Esq.
Hirshleifers

Founder

R. Brinkley Smithers

Director Emerita

Adele C. Smithers
(1960-2017)

Executive Director

Steve Chassman, LCSW, CASAC

Board of Directors

• Laura Ahern, Esq.
  New York City Board of Corrections

• William Baum
  Baum-Essex Mfg., Inc.
• Maureen Brennan
• Michael J. Brennan
• Jeffery Capazzi
  The Jobin Organization, Inc.
• Michael Cardello III, Esq.
  Moritt Hock & Hamroff, LLP
• Brother Thomas Cleary, S.M.
  Chaminade High School
• Francis C. Galluccio
  SFP Music, Inc.
• Legislator Joshua Lafazan
  Nassau County Legislator
• Kevin J. Lyons
  Opportunity Media
• Michael Martino
• John McCutcheon
  Kellenberg Memorial High School 
• Barbara Posillico, LCSW
  Life Center Counseling & Health Services
• Michael A. Quinland, Ph.D.
  Friends Academy
• John P. Sheehy, MD, FAAP
  Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, P.C.
• Joel Sikowitz, Esq.
• Rev. Michael F. Smith
  Shinnecock Presbyterian Church
  S.A.M.P.