Board Staff

The Board has two offices – a downtown Manhattan office at 2 Lafayette, FL 12 Suite 1221, and a Rikers Island office.

Executive Director/General Counsel

Melissa Cintron Hernandez, Interim Executive Director and General Counsel (Contact the Interim Executive Director)
Rahzeem Gray, Director of Special Investigations
Joshua Acquaye, Director of Standards Restrictions and Compliance
Gabriel Torres, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Communications 
I. Jeffries, Special Investigations Coordinator
Ayanna Sutherland, Special Investigations Coordinator
Alicia Prainito, Senior Policy and Legal Associate
David Topel, Research and Compliance Associate

Administration and Operations

Tiana Betancourt, Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer
Shern Varghese, Director of Information Technology
Regina Gumerova, Senior Administrative Manager
Tonya Glover, Administrative Coordinator

Monitoring

K. Blackman, Assistant Executive Director of Monitoring
S. Augustin, Director of Programming and Community Support
B. Melendez, Director of Public Accountability and Oversight
S. Pearson, Director of Physical and Mental Well Being
V. Ezeji, Director of Violence Prevention
D. Acosta, Standards Specialist
A. Garcia, Standards Specialist
C. Jones, Standards Specialist
S. Porter, Standards Specialist
J. Ramon, Standards Specialist
T. Scott, Standards Specialist
J. Taylor, Standards Specialist

Research

Navena Chaitoo, Assistant Executive Director of Research
Alexander Hoffman, Research and Compliance Associate
Claire Loredan, Research and Compliance Associate