Advisory Board

Dr. Katrina Anger PH.D.
Dr. Anger has serves as the senior supervisor for YAI's Center for Specialty Therapy. She is the Clinical Head of the Brief Therapy and Group Therapy unit.

Lenora Brennan
For more than twenty years, Ms. Brennan has worked as a member of a development team, raising funds and friends for nonprofit organizations. She is has served as Director of Development and as a consultant. She is now a volunteer for Dreamstreet. Prior to 1985, Ms. Brennan was a caseworker, working with children in placement in NYC.

Barbara Coccodrilli Carlson
Barbara Coccodrilli Carlson is a teacher and an attorney working for the past 30 years to facilitate positive change for children and families, often focusing on individuals with disabilities. Barbara's work is informed by the powerful experience of parenting two children with special needs - one with epilepsy and related health issues, one with Asperger's syndrome.

Marlene Clary
Marlene Clary has taught at the Berkeley Carroll School since 1973. She is now an upper school English, humanities, and theatre teacher and creator and director of Berkeley Carroll's Creative Arts Program, which has been running for over 25 years.

Ruth Ford, M.A. R.N., C.N.A
Ruth Ford R.N. has over 30 years of experience as a nurse. She currently works as a healthcare consultant and project leader at Stuart Levine and Associates. Previously she has worked as a staff nurse, educator, nurse manager, administrator, and assistant vice president for nursing.

Cara Grider
Cara adores people -- brilliant, differently-abled, beautiful or funny -- and she believes that all people are interesting She is currently a Communications Manager at the YAI/National Institute for People with Disabilities Network, where she uses stories to bring the organization's mission of hope and opportunity for people of all ability levels to life. She is a long time Dreamstreet volunteer.

Jamie Haas
Jamie Haas is a Special Education Itinerant Teacher working for TheraCare with students between the ages of three and five with special needs. Jamie is currently pursuing a master's degree in special education, specializing in learning disabilities and emotional disorders. In her spare time Jamie enjoys teaching piano lessons and donating her time to Dreamstreet.

Cheryl King M.S., OTR
Cheryl King is the Director of Mental Hygiene Quality Improvement at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She has a background in clinical and administrative occupational therapy.

Dalienne Majors
Dalienne Majors is currently the Chairperson of Dance at the Berkeley Carroll school where she teaches choreography and dance to the middle and upper schools. She has extensive experience as a dancer and choreographer.