YES SHE CAN

Robin L. Davies Small, M.Ed., executive director of Yes She Can has announced the appointment of new board members for the organization. They include:

Robin L. Davies Small, M.Ed. Executive Director

Cynthia Saxman Margulies, board secretary

is the director of business development, since 2008, at GuardHill Financial Corp., a privately held mortgage banking company in New York City. She has been in the residential mortgage business since 1994 previously owning her own firm for 15 years. As a step-parent of a son who is on the spectrum, she became involved with many different programs that helped guide him in transitioning him from graduating college to finishing a culinary arts program.  He is now successfully working in this field. 

Janine B. Napierkowski, BFA and MA, board member

is currently the project coordinator of Cultural Assets for Girl Scouts of the USA where she manages the archives. She has a BFA degree in art education and an MA degree in Leadership in Museum Education from Bank Street College, and is a 2014 graduate of Leadership Westchester. (2014). She has recently served on the board of Hudson River Clearwater Sloop and the Rockland County Youth Bureau.

Gwen Lopez-Cohen, board member

 trained at the NYU School of Medicine and graduated with honors in physiology and neuroscience. She completed her psychiatry and child psychiatry residencies at NYU/Bellevue Hospital Center, an advanced residency in community psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center and the Connecticut Mental Health Center. She is trained in all aspects of the practice of psychiatry including psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, parent-child interaction training, and psychopharmacology.