18 LONGISLANDPRESS.COM • FEBRUARY 2019
THE CHANGE MAKERS
THE ADVOCATES FIGHTING TO MAKE LI A BETTER PLACE
Fred Brewington, civil rights
attorney
The attorney whose lawsuit
forced the Town of Hempstead
to use council districts two
decades ago last year picked
the same fi ght with the Town of
Islip, where minority residents
have similar complaints about
disenfranchisement under the
current system that regularly
elects an all-white town board.
John Durso, President, Local
338 RWDSU/UFCW & LI Federation
of Labor
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Representing more than a quarter
of a million union members
affi liated with the Long Island
Federation of Labor, Dorso is
the leading voice of labor for
the region and as a strong voice
for morality and fairness for all
workers, not just union workers.
That’s in addition to his various
work with local nonprofi ts.
Neela Lockel, CEO, The American
Red Cross of Long Island
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This champion of those who
need a helping hand aft er surviving
a natural or manmade
disaster brings more than 20
years of nonprofi t experience
to overseeing Red Cross eff orts
across Nassau and Suff olk counties.
She also sits on the Senior
Leadership Team of Greater
New York.
Kevin Law, President and CEO,
Long Island Association
As president of New York
State’s largest business organization,
Law lobbies lawmakers
to make life better more than
5,000 businesses, labor unions,
colleges, universities, nonprofits,
government agencies, and
civic groups, which employ
two-thirds of Long Island’s
workforce. And he’s also known
to get some big-name speakers to
LIA’s luncheons.
Theresa Regnante, President and
CEO, United Way of Long Island
Expanding from the nonprofi t’s
mission of leveraging its many
strategic partnerships to improve
communities in need,
this local chapter of a national
organization built a certifi ed Zero
Energy Ready Home featuring
advanced energy savings that it
hopes will become a model for
local home builders.
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Theresa Regnante is President and CEO
of the United Way of Long Island.
Mitchell Pally, CEO, Long Island Builders
Institute As leader of the largest home building
trade association in New York State, Pally
represents all parts of the home construction
industry. He’s also got clout as the Suff olk
County representative on the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, among many
other local government advisory board
positions he juggles.
Theresa Sanders, President and CEO,
Urban League of Long Island
In addition to being a professor at SUNY
Old Westbury College, Sanders also
leads the local chapter of the National
Urban League, which has more than 100
affi liates that enable African-Americans
and other disenfranchised individuals
to secure economic self reliance, parity,
power, and civil rights.
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