Executive Board Members
Cliff Brenner – President
Cliff’s passion is to help raise the consciousness of humanity towards inner peace. He has been working to bring awareness to healing racial, cultural, and religious prejudices which have plagued mankind. He is a minister, teacher, counselor and adviser and has helped many in recovery from alcohol and drug addictions. He is also certified as a facilitator in Attitudinal Healing. Cliff has studied in Ghana, West Africa and India. Recently Cliff has been lecturing on human consciousness and is currently writing a book about the power of acceptance, humility and forgiveness.
Juanita Galvis – Vice President
Juanita Galvis is the Head of Social Impact Advocacy and Impact Travel for The Assemblage, a community providing co-working, co-living and social spaces for individuals seeking development, transformation and interconnection. She has 5 years of experience in the stock market, 4 in real-estate development and 6 years, as an entrepreneur, in the fashion industry.
After working as a volunteer in a refugee camp in Greece, she was empowered to dedicate her life to raising awareness of our individual and collective potential to be of service to others. Her vision is to create meaningful opportunities for people to connect through compassion.
Richard Bennett – Treasurer
Richard has over twenty-five years of experience working with affluent individuals, families and their closely held entities and serves as Strategic Planning Partner of Durbin Bennett.
Prior to co-founding Durbin Bennett in 1987, Rick was a manager in the tax section of the Austin office of Price Waterhouse Coopers, serving as Director of Financial Planning Services.
Richard is a Certified Public Accountant with a Personal Financial Specialist credential. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Texas Society of Public Accountants, the Estate Planning Council of Central Texas and the International Board of Certified Financial Planners. Richard serves in a variety of community and professional activities and is currently serving on the boards of the Austin Ballet and the Austin Ballet Foundation. Richard graduated with a BBA in Accounting from The University of Texas at Austin.
Barbara Vouris – Secretary
Barbara Vouris has been an active community member and school leader throughout her career and lifetime. Barbara has 34 years of education experience K-12, special education experience included many teaching assignments: resource room, self-contained, home instruction and consultant/inclusion teacher.
Earlier in her career, Barbara was a fifth grade elementary teacher in Deer Park School District. As a Special Educator in West Islip High School, Barbara was one of the first four special education teachers hired and a member of the Committee on the Handicapped. Since 1997, she has worked on Islip Community Health and Wellness Initiatives as one of the founding members of the Islip Drug Education Awareness Coalition. IDEA Coalition is a Drug Free Community Grant recipient where Barbara completes bi-annual reports for the Coalition’s day to day prevention work, fiscal and data management in her role as co-program director. Her dedicated committee work includes Standards of Excellence at Islip Middle School and Islip High School, Community Council and local environmental groups such as Keep Islip Clean and Seatuck.
Since 1980, she has been an active civic member, Executive Board Member, and President of the Old South Islip Civic Association. For five years she was the Program Director of Islip School Age Childcare Corporation, a not-for-profit organization housed at Wing Elementary School in Islip. Barbara is a newly inducted Rotarian in Islip and Program Coordinator with The Great South Bay Coalition in West Sayville, Sayville, Bayport, and Blue Point communities.