"Tackling Workforce Development Challenges: Strategies Around Recruitment, Retention and Harnessing Talent."

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Queens College, City University of New York

64-36 Kissena Boulevard
queens, New York

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Organizer: Queens Chamber of Commerce

Phone: +1 7188988500

Contact Person: Shahriar Hossain

Email: shossain@queenschamber.org

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Join the Queens Chamber of Commerce Nonprofit Committee for a timely event on Friday, April 21 from 9:30 - 11:30am: "Tackling Workforce Development Challenges: Strategies Around Recruitment, Retention and Harnessing Talent." This panel discussion will be moderated by Michelle DeMott, member of the Nonprofit Committee and Vice President of External Affairs at Samaritan Daytop Village.

Hear from key career leaders at Queens College and St. John's University how to tap into the student pipeline and how to leverage those relationships and resources
Get tips from an HR expert on creative approaches to recruitment, onboarding and retaining talent
Hear from nonprofit leaders on the top challenges facing the sector

We're all in this together -- join us to tackle workforce challenges as a united front, grow your network, and forge the right relationships to strategically grow and engage your most precious resource -- your human capital.

Light refreshments will be provided. This event is generously sponsored by Paycor.

Agenda

9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Networking
Networking
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Opening Remarks
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Q&A
Q&A
11:25 AM - 11:30 AM
Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks

Speakers

Michelle DeMott

Vice President, External Affairs at Samaritan Daytop Village

Michelle DeMott

Vice President, External Affairs at Samaritan Daytop Village

As Vice President of External Affairs, Michelle DeMott directs the agency's strategic relationships and communications with Federal, State, and City entities and community partners. Through her work, Ms. DeMott develops plans to further enhance the agency's existing network of partnerships and alliances. On behalf of the agency, she promotes advocacy campaigns and provides testimony on key social policy issues for the substance use, homeless, mental health, and human services fields.

Ms. DeMott has more than 25 years of experience in the behavioral and primary health care, substance use treatment, harm reduction, and criminal justice fields. She served as the Regional Director of Operations for Brightpoint Health’s Brooklyn/Queens Adult Day Health Care Programs. While there, she facilitated programmatic redesign, initiated and implemented the transition of services into Medicaid Managed Care, and directed operations in the planning and delivery of client services.

Ms. DeMott also worked in community corrections as the Program Director for Brooklyn TASC (Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities) and Probation Officer with the NYC Department of Probation. While in the field, she led numerous other initiatives for individuals involved with the justice system.

Ms. DeMott holds an M.A. in Social Policy with a concentration in Drug Policy from SUNY Empire State College, and a B.A. in Criminal Justice from Long Island University/C.W. Post where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Kelsey Brow

Executive Director of King Manor Museum

Kelsey Brow

Executive Director of King Manor Museum

Kelsey Brow is a co-President of the National Emerging Museum Professionals Network, a nonprofit dedicated to resource-sharing and museum labor advocacy. She has given talks at the AAM Historic House Summit, NEMA, The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, The New School, and Rutgers University, among others. She is most proud to have spoken at ICOM Kyoto on the importance of investment in staff and pay equity in small museums in September 2019. Trained in the study of decorative arts and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center, Brow's academic work focuses on the intersection of consumption, gender, and ethics with material culture and the decorative arts. Currently, she is curating historic house museum experiences focused on environmental justice within her role as Executive Director at the King Manor Museum, which interprets the life and times of anti-slavery founding father Rufus King to foster critical thinking.

Ellen Burti

Director, Career and Internship Advising of St. John's University

Zavi Gunn

Career Center Director of Queens College CUNY

Sponsors and Partners

"Tackling Workforce Development Challenges: Strategies Around Recruitment, Retention and Harnessing Talent."

Queens Chamber Not for Profit Committee

Networking

Networking

Opening Remarks

Opening Remarks

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Q&A

Q&A

Closing Remarks

Closing Remarks

Michelle DeMott

Vice President, External Affairs at Samaritan Daytop Village

Kelsey Brow

Executive Director of King Manor Museum

Ellen Burti

Director, Career and Internship Advising of St. John's University

Zavi Gunn

Career Center Director of Queens College CUNY

Organizer

Sponsors