OCC Board Members

Ossining Children’s Center
Board of Directors
2025-2026 

Elizabeth Block

Retired Teacher-Curriculum Coordinator, Rye Country Day School

Alexander Campbell, Chair, Investment Committee

Head of Corporate Strategy-Americas, Millennium Management

Noreen Celente, Treasurer

Retired; Ossining Union Free School District Business Office

John Chow

Assistant Superintendent for Business, Pleasantville Union Free School District

Amelia Falco

OCC Parent; Licensed Architect; Creative Director and Project Manager for Local Projects NYC

Sandy Galef

Retired NYS Assemblywoman, 95th District

Natalie Gorlin, President

Self-employed contract Occupational Therapist

Mary Hurowitz

Community Volunteer

Debra Kittay

Retired; Social Worker at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital-Westchester Division, Four Winds Hospital, Katonah, NY

Howard Milbert, Executive Director (Ex Officio)

Ossining Children’s Center CEO

Vanessa Pairis, Immediate Past President

OCC Parent, Ossining Town Justice

Howard Permut

Management Consultant; former President of MTA Metro North Railroad

Madelyn Ricciardi

Real Estate Broker, Houlihan-Lawrence

Lisa Rosenbloom

Retired Director of Development, ProBono Partnership, White Plains, NY

Carol Roye

Former Associate Dean for Research, Pace Lienhard School of Nursing

Rebecca Samberg

Former Trustee, the Samberg Family Foundation and the Rebecca & Arthur Samberg Foundation

Jackie Shaw

Former Executive Director IFCA Housing Network

Maria Simkins, Chair, Nominating Committee

Registered Nurse, Director of Clinical Operations, White Plains Physicians Associates

Samara Solan Weinberg MD, MPH, Vice President

Public Health Researcher and Physician

Celines Veras, Chair, Finance Committee

Business Owner, Community Volunteer

Abby Wallace

Business Owner, Community Volunteer

Stephen Wardwell

Retired VP for Web Content at Equitable; past Board VP, Ossining School District

Meri Wax

Retired Human Resources Professional, Loews Hotels & Co, MasterCard

Marilyn Wishnie, Chair, Development Committee

Retired Principal, Hillside Elementary School, Hastings-on-Hudson

Patrick Yost

Principal, HRLM Consulting