OCC Board Members

Meet the Board Members of the Ossining Children’s Center

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

  • 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

Associate Directors

Ann E. Dealy - Principal, Brookside Elementary School, Ossining Union Free School District

Irwin Kavy - Attorney at Law, Briarcliff Manor

Honorary Directors

Elisabeth Baker

Jane Dixon

Mark Levine

Brian D. McVeigh

Mirla Morrison

Darryl Moy