Team & Board

OUR TEAM

Carlos Gutierrez, Outreach Director
Jorge Defendini, Program Director
Dakota Brooks, Youth Outreach/Trainer
Elizabeth Burns, Bookkeeper

TEAM BIOS

Get to know the people who make up the team and board. Read about their journeys and what brought them to MCOSH.

OUR SUPPORTERS

Thanks to grant funding from OSHA’ s Targeted Training program, NYS’s Department of Labor Hazard Abatement Board and Workplace Health and Safety programs, the Park Foundation and the Community Foundation of Tompkins County. We have also regularly received donations from Painters’ District Council #4, the Tompkins-Cortland Building Trades Council, Teamsters Local 317 and the Ithaca Teachers’ Association.

OUR BOARD

Leonardo Vargas Mendez, Board Member

Tom Joyce, Chair
Painters and Allied Trades Union, District Council 4

Carl Feuer, Treasurer
Tompkins County Workers’ Center and
United Auto Workers 2300 staff retired

Ron Powell, Board Member
United Auto Workers retired,
Service Employees International Union staff retired

Leonardo Vargas Mendez, Board Member
Director of Cornell Public Service Center retired,
Town of Dryden’s Board of Supervisors

Beth Huang, Board Member
Tides Foundation and Movement Youth Project,
Organizer/advocate for Workers democratic reform