SYRACUSE — LiteracyCNY announced that its board of directors recently appointed five new board members from area organizations. They are: • Mary Katherine Buckley, audit manager, Fust Charles Chambers • John Maas, regional director, Office of the New York State Attorney General • Caitlin Moriarty, director of membership, CenterStateCEO, Tech Garden • Crystal Rhode, marketing coordinator, C&S Companies • Mike […]
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SYRACUSE — LiteracyCNY announced that its board of directors recently appointed five new board members from area organizations. They are:
• Mary Katherine Buckley, audit manager, Fust Charles Chambers
• John Maas, regional director, Office of the New York State Attorney General
• Caitlin Moriarty, director of membership, CenterStateCEO, Tech Garden
• Crystal Rhode, marketing coordinator, C&S Companies
• Mike O’Shea, CPA and tax principal, Firley Moran
LiteracyCNY also announced that its newly elected board president is Bill Kriesel, managing member of Diversified Capital Management LLC.
Bill Kriesel expressed enthusiasm for the new class of board members. “The energy and backgrounds of the new board members will be a great addition to our organization. We have spent the last few years focusing on adding board members from all sectors, including business, government and academia,” he said in a news release. “I think with these new members, our board now has a broad mix of expertise and experience, which will help us accomplish our mission.”
Other newly elected officers for the LiteracyCNY board are: Jon Mathews, Syracuse Marriott Downtown hotel manager, as VP; Marlena Daher-Rahman, Syracuse Educational Opportunity Center director of community engagement, as secretary; and Richard Sargent, an attorney, as treasurer.
LiteracyCNY’s mission is to provide adults in Central New York with the literacy tools and skills that they need to be contributing, productive, and engaged members of the community. It advocates for adult education, providing instruction, and partnering with other community-based agencies. LiteracyCNY says it enrolled more than 350 adult students last year and consistently exceeds its New York Department of Education mandates.