Who We Are
Board of Directors:
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President: Clarissa S. Beyah-Taylor
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Vice President: Govind K. Menon
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Secretary: Alissa Mebus (acting)
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Treasurer: Christopher Fortson
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Assistant Treasurer: Christine Haase
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Programming Director: Attallah Sheppard
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Assistant Programming Director: Matthew Whitmore
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Social Services Director: Susan Hostnik
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Student Care Director: Jessica Hill
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Grants Director: Syeeda Briddel
Directors-At-Large & Strategic Advisors:
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Jackie Bagwell
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Shelley Ann des Etages
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Serinol Lowman
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Theresa Broach
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Dianne Kent
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Nicholas Fortson
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Richard Hews
Legal Counsel:
President & Vice President Biography:
Clarissa S. Beyah-Taylor received a B.A. in English from Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ and an MBA from the University of New Haven.
Clarissa has worked in healthcare corporate communications for more than 15 years. Her experience includes helping health care organizations build communications departments and systems while directing, improving, or creating new initiatives and strategies to improve communications as well as focusing on and leading diversity efforts in the corporate environment.
A performance poet, Clarissa is active in numerous community and youth focused initiatives. She served on the Board of Directors for Young Audiences of Connecticut, Collective Consciousness Theater, worked with the Garde Arts Theater as a contributing playwright and guest faculty member for "Warriors Don't Cry", and instructed writing and performance poetry workshops for youth (ages 9-20) in correctional/detention facilities, urban schools, and community centers throughout Connecticut.
Dr. Govind K. Menon has a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from Temple University, Philadelphia and was a post-doctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
Govind has worked for Pfizer (a leading pharmaceutical company) for 15 years, and is currently Vice President, Intellectual Property, in the Legal Division of Pfizer Inc. Before working at Pfizer, he was Executive Director in Research at SmithKline Beecham, based in Pennsylvania.
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