CHILD CARE BOARD STRENGTHENED WITH NEW MEMBERS

The Child Care Council of Westchester, a nonprofit resource organization that increases access to early education, recently announced that Frida Matute has joined its Board of Directors, and that five officers were elected to the executive board. They include Dr. Emily Koelsch as president; Diann Cameron Kelly, Ph.D. as vice president; Wayne Gosnell as treasurer; and Nicole Rebori and Julianna Flanagan Thurau as co-secretaries. Christie Noelle Krase joins Craig Ruoff as presidents emeriti.

“I am proud to lead this board of professionals who are dedicated to the Child Care Council’s mission and the early education community,” said Board President Dr. Emily Koelsch. “

New board member Matute is the Founder of The Indy Lab, a preschool and parenting center with two locations in Westchester as well as a private speech-language pathology practice called Indy Speech Services serving Westchester and New York City. Matute is a long-time advocate for the Science of Reading (SOR) and is certified in several programs that teach children literacy skills through SOR methods. She started her career at New York University Language Medical Center’s Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine before moving to Hospital for Joint Diseases. From there, she ran the pediatric outpatient speech and language clinic at Bellevue Hospital while starting her private practice called Indy Speech Services in 2014, a private speech practice offering a unique therapeutic experience.

Koelsch has been a pediatrician with Pediatrics of Sleepy Hollow, a division of BCHP, since July 2009, and she also provides patient services at Green Chimneys School in Patterson, New York, a residential treatment center for children with disabilities where they engage in animal therapy, attend school and live on campus.

Thurau is an economist and data practitioner passionate about supporting families. Her dedication to inclusive economic growth has driven her career across the nonprofit, financial and international development sectors. She holds a Master of Science degree in Geographical Information Systems from the University of Leeds in England and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from American University in Washington, D.C.