Board of Directors

Raised in Lakeview, Long Island, Fred Brewington is a respected lawyer and community advocate with a distinguished legal career. After working at a number of prestigious firms and law offices, including a clerkship at the office of the Legal Counsel of the United States Senate, Fred Brewington began a private practice on Long Island. With his expertise in civil rights litigation, Fred has successfully challenged the 'at large' voting system in the Town of Hempstead and worked on preventing future unconstitutional and discriminatory purging of voters from the voting roll.

Professor Howard A. Glickstein started his legal career as an Associate with the New York law firm of Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, specializing in labor law. He served as a Staff Attorney with the Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Appeals and Research Section, where he helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He was General Counsel, and later Staff Director, of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Ms. Gross has extensive experience in research, program development and evaluation at public and private agencies in Boston and New York. She earned her MSW from Boston University, with a focus on policy, planning and non-profit management. Throughout her career, Ms. Gross has focused on exploring the systemic causes of social, political, and economic inequities and finding ways to counteract those inequities.

S. Elizabeth A. Hill, CSJ, JD has been President of St. Joseph's College since 1997.

A magna cum laude alumna of St. Joseph's, S. Elizabeth is a native of Brooklyn. She received her M.A. in History from Columbia University and studied theology and scripture in Rome under the auspices of Gregorian University. S. Elizabeth also received her J.D. from St. John's University School of Law where she was a Thomas More Scholarship student and president of the Criminal Law Institute. After receiving her J.D., S. Elizabeth spent time as a staff attorney in the Catholic Migration Office in Brooklyn. Prior to being named President, S. Elizabeth served as Executive Assistant to St. Joseph's previous President, S. George Aquin O'Connor from 1980-1997.

Bill Jennings is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of Haven Bancorp and CFS Bank. Bill had a twenty-five plus year career in the financial services industry including a recent role as the founding Chief Operating Officer of a hedge fund advisory firm and its' related funds.

Christina Vargas Law is the Director of Diversity and Affirmative Action at Stony Brook University and for the last 11 years, has held progressively responsible positions in the Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action and Human Resources. The Office is responsible for Equal Employment Opportunity policies and practices, Affirmative Action compliance, discrimination complaint resolution, and diversity related strategies and educational programs for Stony Brook's faculty, staff and students in its academic and administrative areas, Health Sciences Center, University Hospital and Long Island State Veteran's Home. Throughout her career, she has displayed a passion for social justice, multiculturalism and diversity and has worked to bring various communities together in partnership with Stony Brook.

Deborah Post is Professor of Law at Touro College, Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law.  Professor Post was recently appointed to Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development.  She graduated cum laude from Hofstra University with a major in Anthropology and took a job first as an editorial assistant and then as a teaching assistant to Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist, before attending Harvard Law School.

Marge Rogatz has been President and full-time unpaid CEO of Community Advocates, Inc. (CA) since 1986. A nonprofit organization founded in 1972, CA has concentrated on addressing homelessness and the lack of affordable housing. CA identifies gaps, inequities and injustices and mobilizes coordinated efforts to initiate and/or strengthen needed resources, programs and services.

Low-keyed and reserved, Martin “Marty” Schwartz’s manner veils his business acumen and strong management skills. His 25-year career at United Parcel Service (UPS) prepared him to take the challenge to transform a small foundation focusing on foster care into a change-agent of systems that affect at-risk youth. 

Suzy Dalton Sonenberg served as Executive Director of the Long Island Community Foundation from March 1988 to December 2009. Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Sonenberg was Program Officer at the New York Foundation, a mid-sized private foundation that makes grants in New York City to its most disadvantaged neighborhoods. After receiving a master's degree in Social Work from Adelphi University in 1976, Ms. Sonenberg spent eight years as a nonprofit administrator in Manhattan before joining the funding community in 1984. She has taught social policy on both the graduate and undergraduate levels at the Adelphi University School of Social Work, and in 2009 was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University.

Scott Williams is responsible for designing and implementing a strategic vision for the Office of Alumni Relations, working to engage alumni in a lifelong relationship with St. John’s University.  He oversees the Office as it organizes reunions, chapters, events and affinity gatherings. Through unique programming, Scott hopes to engage a broad range of alumni, as well as to generate excitement throughout the alumni community in anticipation of St. John’s upcoming 150th anniversary celebration in 2020.