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

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Queens College, City University of New York

65-30 Kissena Boulevard
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

Kelsey Brow

Executive Director

Kelsey Brow

Executive Director

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.

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.

Zavi Gunn

Career Center Director of Queens College CUNY

Reinalda Medina

Associate Vice President of Human Resources at New York Hall of Science

Reinalda Medina

Associate Vice President of Human Resources at New York Hall of Science

Reinalda Medina is a native Brooklyn girl from Parkside Avenue, Flatbush.

After graduation from St. Edmund’s, a girls’ only Brooklyn high school, Reinalda went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Politics and a Master’s of Arts degree in Government and Politics with a certificate in Public Administration from St. John’s University- Queens Campus.

While attending college full time she worked full time. She held positions such as home attendant, nanny, carnival game attendant on the Midway at Rockaway Playland, assistant department manager at Macy’s, recruiter for a temp agency, reservation agent at TWA, gate agent and flight attendant for Frontier Horizon Airline.

And, of course she held a few internships. Her two favorite internships were with the VERA Institute where she was assigned as a liaison with central booking and the court house and the second with the Department of Transportation where she researched supervisory span of control within the Traffic Agent rank.

These internships shaped her interest in public service, (and torpedoed her plans for law school). She went on to hold progressively more responsible roles with the New York City Department of Personnel, the New York City Department of Investigation, the Human Resources Administration, the New York City Department of Health and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication (DOITT). She left her position of Associate Commissioner for Human Resources with DOITT to pursue career expansion with the City University of New York at Queens College.

Upon her retirement as Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Human Resources at Queens College, she traveled for two months, got bored and is currently the AVP for Human Resources at the New York Hall of Science.

Reinalda and her husband live in Flushing, Queens. They are parents to two daughters, and one Jack Russell Terrier and one Ratchi

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

Kelsey Brow

Executive Director

Michelle DeMott

Vice President, External Affairs at Samaritan Daytop Village

Zavi Gunn

Career Center Director of Queens College CUNY

Reinalda Medina

Associate Vice President of Human Resources at New York Hall of Science

Organizer

Sponsors