Board of Directors

Lev BenEzra is the Executive Director of Community Action Pioneer Valley. A fifteen-member Board of Directors governs the organization.

The community we serve elects five of these individuals. They represent the lower income communities of Franklin and Hampshire Counties. Our other Board members represent public officials and local private businesses and organizations.

The elected members of our Board fulfill an important CAPV value: people who have experienced poverty should get to decide how to address it. We can only end poverty if our whole community works to do so. Our Board of Directors works to represent the whole community.

Barbara Black (At Large)
Public Representative, Office of U.S. Representative Jim McGovern

Elizabeth Bridgewater
Community Representative, Windham & Windsor Housing Trust

Deana Currie (HSELP Policy Council Chair)
Community Representative

Charity Day (President)
Community Representative, Life Path

Lizbeth Del Toro-Mejias (Vice President)
Private Representative, Baystate Health

Chelsea Depault (Treasurer, Board Representative to HSELP Policy Council)
Private Representative, Greenfield Co-operative Bank

Koby Gardener-Levine
Private Representative, Office of U.S. Representative Jim McGovern

John Hird
Public Representative, Office of Senator Joanne Comerford

Lewis Metaxas
Community Representative

Luke Ryan
Public Representative, Office of Representative Lindsay Sabadosa

Alison Sokolosky
Community Representative

Bianca Walker
Community Representative