The policy, planning, research and advocacy nonprofit Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress has three new members on its board of directors.
The new directors are David Cooper, a partner in the White Plains law firm Zarin & Steinmetz; Joan Cusack-McGuirk, president and CEO of St. Luke”™s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh; and Aimee J. Vargas, director of state affairs in the Northeast for Anheuser-Busch Cos.
“The expertise and contributions of these energetic, public-service-oriented leaders will help Pattern continue its important work enhancing quality of life in the Hudson Valley,” said Jonathan Drapkin, president and CEO of the organization.
Cooper is a 2015 graduate of Pattern”™s Fellows Program, which sharpens skills used to advocate regionalism to improve the quality of life in the Hudson Valley. He will serve a one-year term representing that program. At Zarin and Steinmetz, Cooper handles land use, environmental compliance and civil litigation.
Cusack-McGuirk, who will serve a three-year term, has 40 years of experience in health care. She was instrumental in finalizing the partnership between St. Luke”™s Cornwall and the Montefiore Health System.
Vargas, also to serve for three years, has been chief government and community affairs officer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She was the state”™s director of downstate intergovernmental affairs, and regional director and executive director of the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council for Empire State Development.
