Team & Board

OUR TEAM

Carlos Gutierrez, Outreach Director
Jorge Defendini, Program Director
Luz (Lucy) Williams, Bilingual Outreach/Trainer
Samara Clare, Youth Outreach/Trainer
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

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

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

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

Antonio Triana, Board Member
Former MCOSH Youth Program Manager,
Current Graduate Student at Syracuse University

Keane Leitch, Board Member
Health, Environment and Safety Manager, Cornell University,

Dr. Michael Lax, MD, Board Member
Medical Director of the Central NY Occupational Health Clinical Center