This event is free for NYAVA members and our GNYADVS partners. Non-members and guests are also invited ($10)

Panel Discussion Workshop -

“Diversity Among Our Onboarding Practices”

Thursday, March 26th

9:30 am - 10:45 am

Virtual

Join us to learn how your colleagues are onboarding volunteers. Panelists include:

Barrie Madasu, CVA. is the Volunteer Services Manager at the Guide Dog Foundation, where she has worked for 24 years. Barrie and her staff supervise 750 volunteers in ten different volunteer roles, including individual, family and group volunteer roles, as well as corporate, dog caring, office and off campus opportunities. Barrie also oversees programming for the Guide Dog Foundation and America’s VetDogs. She has been in non-profit administration since 2015. Previously Barrie was a guest host for a Brown Bag Breakfast on the topic of Volunteer Recognition. She is a new Member-at-Large on NYAVA’s Board of Directors and she sits on the Membership Committee.

Nick Lockyer is the Volunteer and Development Manager at the South Street Seaport Museum, where he has worked for 4 years and he oversees 240 volunteers in archival, sailing and ship maintenance roles. Nick has also worked with volunteers at the Prospect Park Alliance and has been a volunteer at a handful of museums in Pittsburgh (his hometown), the first being when he was 13. He sits on the NYAVA Membership Committee. Nick is a recipient of the NYAVA Presidents’ Circle Scholarship.

Gail Morse is recently retired from her role as the Director of Programs and Volunteers at Big Apple Greeter, where she spent 17 years working with about 235 volunteers in greeter and administrative roles. Before Big Apple Greeter she worked at the Tenement Museum as Director of Community Relations. Gail has been on the NYAVA Board of Directors for the past five years, is a past Vice President and Officer Liaison to the Communications Committee, and she is now a Member-at-Large.

Kameil Grant-Knight, CVA, CAVS, is the Corporate Manager of Volunteer and Interpreter Services at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Kameil supports 7 of the ten campuses. She has held this role for the past three years but has worked in volunteer resource management for the past five years. In her initial career as a Recreation Therapist and Recreation Manager, Kameil held comprehensive responsibility for supervising, training, and coordinating volunteers who supported a wide range of therapeutic and recreational programs. Kameil oversees 2,800 volunteers annually across multiple sites. She is a former member of NYAVA’s Membership Committee and a past recipient of NYAVA’s Presidents’ Circle Scholarship.