DVS Board of Directors

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  • Josiah H. Brown (President), Associate Director, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
  • Kate C. Evans (Vice President)
  • Erika Tindill, Esq. (Secretary), Deputy Director, New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc.
  • Eileen Cavanaugh (Treasurer), Vice President, The Milford Bank
  • Edna Aklin, Director of Social Work, Connecticut Mental Health Center
  • Sharon Bender
  • Merrie Cavanaugh, Vice President and General Counsel, AT&T East
  • Alice Hummel
  • Ilona Leffingwell, Loan Officer, Discount Mortgage America, LLC
  • Andrew R. Lubin, Esq., Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, LLC
  • Luigi Nuzzolillo, Owner, Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop
  • Betsey Parlato
  • Viviana Santana
  • Cyvia Scharmett
  • Lisa Stern Slifka, APRN, New England Fertility Institute
  • Michael H. Sulkis, Vice President, Patriot National Bank
  • Marie DiZazzo Wilson, Assistant Director, Annual Giving, Yale University
  • Sandra Koorejian (Executive Director)



"I can be changed by what
happens to me. But I refuse
to be reduced by it."

Maya Angelou, 1928-
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Orange, Woodbridge, Branford, North Branford, Guilford, and Madison.