
Executive Director: Joanne C. Kelleher
Rachel Wardwell, Chair
Real Estate Agent
Lisa Chaplinsky
Assistant Director, Town and Country Early Learning Center
Shannon Fitzsimons
Director, Family Resource Center of Southington
Amanda Gilbert-Largent
Partner at Legacy Law Partners, PLLC
Tony Mastroianni
Owner, The Party Rental Place
Patricia Johnson
Retired Realtor, Former Southington Board of Education member
Shaun Slight
Assistant Vice President, Mortgage Originator, Ion Bank
Molly Virello
Head of the Children’s Department at the Southington Public Library
Brian Williams
Financial Advisor & Founder of Northshire Consulting
Meredith Bandish
Communication Foundations, LLC
Michelle Beauregard
NAEYC, former Director of Village Green Nursery School, former Preschool teacher at Pre-K Magnet school in Hartford; former National Association of Family Child Care Regional Representative for MA CT RI and CTAEYC Family Child Care Representative
Samantha Drotar
Psychotherapist at The Alliance: Psychology, Advocacy, & Support, a private practice in Cheshire
Ryan Howe
Owner of Bright Beginnings Childcare Center
Erika LaBearde
Occupational Therapist, Hospital for Special Care
Krista Pisano, Co-Chair
Former Director Family Resource Center of Southington and Former director of Margaret Griffin Child Development Center
Adrienne Ricciardi
Former President of the Hartford Association of Education for Young Children, on the New Britain Early Childhood Collaborative and School Readiness Council, Director of The Goddard School of Newington
Nan Sheridan
Former Director of Village Green Nursery School
Kanwaljit Singh
Connecticut Sikh Association
Cindy Wall
Former Head of the Children’s Department at the Southington Library