Board of Directors

 ​Erika Duncan   

Founder, Executive & Artistic Director, Herstory Writers Workshop

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Laurel Janssen Breen, RN, PhD, CNE, Board Chair

Former Assistant Chair, Department of Nursing, St. Joseph's College

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Ana M. Figueroa,Treasurer   

Policy Council & Volunteers Supervisor at LI Head Start

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Liena Gurevich, PhD

Associate Professor of Sociology & Criminology Program Director at Hofstra University

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Stephen Marks

Professor of Health and Human Rights at Harvard University

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Joseph Page

Constituent Liason for Council Member Karen Koslowitz

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Adrián Pérez-Melgosa
Director of Graduate Studies & Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University

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Eileen Ryan, Esq. 

Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy & Fenchel, PC

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Jacqueline Thomas

School Transformation Facilitator at Hempstead High School

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Devin Thornburg 

Professor of Education at Adelphi University

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Cherice Vanderhall, Esq.     

Law Offices of Cherice P. Vanderhall, P.C., Executive Director, Amistad LI Black Bar Association

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