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Regina Moore
Marketing Manager
phone: (914) 428-8330,
ext. 3117
fax: (914) 997-2985
or (914) 428-0322
rmoore@westchesterarc.org

Westchester Arc
Herbert Katzenberg Center
121 Westmoreland Avenue
White Plains, NY 10606
(914) 949-9300
info@westchesterarc.org

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Executive Bios

 

Anne M. Majsak
President, Westchester Arc

Elected president in June 2006, Anne Majsak has been a Westchester Arc board member since 1991. She was second vice president from 2003-2005 and treasurer from 2005-2006.

She is also co-chair of the Parent Assistance Committee on Down Syndrome (PACDS), a support network that helps new parents of children with Down syndrome to understand their babies and develop their full potential.

Majsak received a B.S. in mathematics from Bates College and an M.B.A. in finance from New York University. She worked for Mobil’s corporation/ treasurers department for 12 years before devoting herself full-time to family and community life. She lives with her husband Joe and three children—one of whom has Down syndrome—in White Plains.

Richard P. Swierat
Executive Director, Westchester Arc

Since 1975, Richard P. Swierat has worked with people having developmental disabilities. He has been executive director of Westchester Arc for over 20 years. He frequently speaks at state and national meetings on such topics as guardianship, quality metrics, corporate compliance, person-centered planning in residential and vocational services, board training, family advocacy, public marketing and the development and management of direct service worker career systems.

Swierat is an adjunct professor at Western Connecticut State University's Ancell School of Business in Danbury, Connecticut. He is on the staff of the graduate school of health care management, with specialties in strategic and financial management. On behalf of the university, he has taught in the Bahamas as a member of the systems change team for health care organizations. Swierat periodically works on these issues with other community organizations as a private consultant.

He has a master's degree in special education from the State University College at Buffalo and is currently pursuing a Ph.D in administration and decision management sciences at Walden University. His dissertation focuses on the recruitment and retention of direct service workers in the field of developmental disabilities.

 

Katharine Wilson Conroy, Esq.
President, The Westchester Arc Foundation

Katharine Wilson Conroy, Esq., president of The Westchester Arc Foundation, is managing partner of the law firm of Kent, Hazzard, Wilson, Conroy, Verni & Freeman, LLP, in White Plains. Over the years, she has served Westchester Arc as treasurer, board member and guardianship committee chair.

She is a member of NYSARC's board of governors and heads the organization's legal committee; is board chair for Westchester Care at Home; has held leadership roles with the Visiting Nurse Association for over two decades, and was a founding member of the Hospice of Westchester. She has served as chairman of the zoning board of appeals of New Rochelle and as a member of New Rochelle's city council. She recently completed her second term as a member of the board of trustees of Regis High School in New York City.

Earlier, Conroy taught English at White Plains High School. She holds a J.D from Fordham University School of Law and an M.A. in English from Teachers' College of Columbia University.

 

Anne Sweazey
Executive Director, The Westchester Arc Foundation

Anne Sweazey, executive director of the Westchester Arc Foundation, directs and coordinates fundraising and development in support of Westchester Arc programs that require private charitable giving to supplement public support. She has extensive experience in fundraising campaigns, including annual, planned and capital giving.

She was previously vice president of development for The Lighthouse, where she was responsible for annual contributions totaling $10 million, as well as the leadership phase of a $60 million capital campaign. Her 25-year career includes work with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Florida International Museum and the Pinellas Association for Retarded Children (PARC), where she received a NSFRE (National Society of Fundraising Executives) 1995 Suncoast Signature Award.

Sweazey has also worked with Chase Manhattan Bank and as an English teacher. She is a certified fundraising executive and holds a B.A. from Hunter College.