Meet Our Team
Learn about our team members and discover how their expertise can build your trust.
Melissa Carr Rowe, MSc, CPH
Executive Director mrowe@cnylymealliance.org
Elizabeth Balfour
Educator, K-12 Program Manager ebalfour@cnylymealliance.org
Jonah Cummings
Educator, Community Outreach Program Manager jcummings@cnylymealliance.org
Board of Directors
Danielle Cummings
Board Chair
Chair, Communications Committee - Chancellor/Director of Communications, Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse
Simone Seward, DrPH, MPH
Board Vice-Chair Assistant Professor, Public Health and Preventive Medicine SUNY Upstate Medical University
Joseph Hardick, CPA, CCIF
Board Treasurer & Chair, Finance Committee - Tax Partner
Emilija Postolovska, MPH
Board Secretary, Director of Workforce Innovation, CenterState CEO
Anne Messenger
Chapter Chair, Women Presidents’ Organization, Syracuse I & II and Platinum V Chapter
Brian Leydet, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Disease Ecology, SUNY-ESF
Douglas E. Wojcik, DVM
Chair, Development Committee - Owner, Liverpool Animal Hospital
Elizabeth Ruscitto
Business Consultant
Jay M. Brenner, MD, FACEP, FACHE
Professor & Vice Chair of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, SUNY-Upstate Medical University
Julie Colvin, MD
Family Medicine, St. Joseph’s Physicians
Kristopher Paolino, MD, MTM&H, FACP
Chief Medical Officer, Director, Center for Clinical Research, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Lauren Eadline FNP-C, APHN-BC, RH (AHG)
Integrative Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Herbalist, Community Educator, SUNY Upstate
Michael Jennings II
Wealth Consultant, Financial Planning
Michelle Saya, RN, BSN, MSM
Senior IRB Analyst, Weill Cornell
Shantina Hines Kyles MS, BSN, RN
Spinal Cord Injury Program Manager
Saravanan Thangamani, PhD
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor Director, SUNY Center for Environmental Health and Medicine Director, Vector Biocontainment Laboratories
Wesley D. Kufel, PharmD, BCIDP, BCPS, AAHIVP
Chair, Governance Committee