Staff

Young, Josh

College-Wide Director

Contact Information:
305-237-7477
jyoung@mdc.edu

Josh Young has helped lead service-learning, civic engagement and community-campus partnerships with Miami Dade College since 1994. He has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Virginia and master’s degrees in Social Work and Public Administration from Florida State University. He served two tours with the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa and Paraguay, South America, and he ran summer community service programs for youth for four summers in the Dominican Republic with Visions International. Josh has been a national service-learning mentor with the American Association of Community Colleges and has extensive experience leading workshops for faculty, students, community partners, and administrators around the nation.

Berzofsky, Linda

Campus Coordinator of Homestead Campus

Contact Information:
305-237-5205
lberzofs@mdc.edu

Linda Berzofsky has served as the Campus Coordinator for the Homestead office for the past three years, working with Service-Learning, America Reads, Strong Women Strong Girls, and AmeriCorps programs. Prior to her position with MDC, Linda worked in the insurance industry and practiced law in both private and governmental capacities. Linda is inspired each day by the positive changes she sees in the students and the community which are a result of both service and civic engagement.

Dilernia, Anna

Campus Coordinator of Wolfson Campus

Contact Information:
305-237-3163
adilerni@mdc.edu

Anna Dilernia has served as the Wolfson Campus Coordinator for the Institute for Civic Engagement & Democracy since fall of 2012. Previously, she worked as a reading teacher at Allapatah Middle School and at City Year Miami where she worked in civic engagement and development as an AmeriCorps member. Currently, Anna is still involved with City Year Miami as board chair for the City Year Miami Alumni Association. In 2009, Anna earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida with a degree in Economics. She is currently working towards a Master’s degree in Business Administration and Strategic Management with Western Governor’s University.

Duque, Ana

Campus Coordinator of Hialeah Campus | AmeriCorps *VISTA

Contact Information:
305-237-8858
aduque@mdc.edu

Ana Maria Duque is an AmeriCorps’ VISTA serving as the Service Learning Coordinator for Hialeah Campus. Ana Maria is an alumna from The Honors College at Miami Dade College ‘Dual-language Program’, and recently graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in African Studies. Because of her passion for serving local and international communities, she joined AmeriCorps. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to be back at MDC. During her time at MDC she participated in Service-Learning and was an active member in different clubs and organizations on campus. She is an enthusiastic individual who strongly believes in the importance and in the privilege of assisting others.

Hanauer, Ossie

Campus Director of Kendall Campus

Contact Information:
305-237-0631
ohanauer@mdc.edu

Ossie Hanauer has been the director for the service-learning and America Reads programs at the Kendall Campus of Miami Dade College (MDC) since 2000. Her service-learning program serves more than 1,200 students and 45 faculty members per semester. She has trained faculty, students, administrators, and community partners in this pedagogy. Ossie frequently serves as a consultant, facilitating several service-learning workshops. She has worked with college and university administrators and faculty throughout the country helping them incorporate service-learning and civic responsibility into their institutions.

Ossie is a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming with more than 35 years experience in the business world and is involved extensively in several community service projects underscoring her passion to make a difference. She graduated from the University of Miami, with a Bachelor of Education degree.

Lockamy, Corrinne

Campus Director of Hialeah and InterAmerican Campuses

Contact Information:
305-237-6734
clockamy@mdc.edu

Corrinne Lockamy joined the MDC Community in 2008 as an AmeriCorps *VISTA at the Hialeah Campus. After completing a year and a half of service, she then worked for a Title-V STEM grant called Project V-Coach, where she was an career adviser, she then also became a Student Life Skills (SLS) adjunct instructor. Prior to MDC Corrinne has worked at both Barry University and Nova Southeastern University. She has a bachelor degree in Business with a concentration in Marketing from Barry University and a master degree in College Student Affairs with a concentration in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University. Now as Director of iCED at the InterAmerican and Hialeah Campuses, she has brought her experience to help students take advantage of all the resources iCED has to offer, using a lens of career exploration through service-learning and civic engagement. Corrinne believes in M. Gandhi's quote:"You must be the change you wish to see in the world". She hopes to inspire others to live by this as well. She is currently working towards a Doctorate in Education with a concentration in Higher Education Leadership from Nova Southeastern University.

Moreno, Chris

Public Engagement Coordinator | Public Allies: Miami

Contact Information:
305-237-3833
cmoreno1@mdc.edu

Chris’ passion for leadership development began in college as an active undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Having been heavily involved in a number of areas in student life, he moved on to receive his Masters of Education at the University of South Florida in College Student Affairs. Chris most recently comes to Public Allies from USF where he served as the Coordinator for Fraternity & Sorority Life. In considering a transition in his career, he saw Public Allies as an opportunity to act upon his love for leadership through service to the greater Miami area. Chris is placed at the Institute for Civic Engagement & Democracy at Miami Dade College serving as the Coordinator for Public Engagement. He will spend a majority of his time focused on curriculum development to assist both students and faculty learn the importance of civic leadership through the lens of an informed citizen. Chris believes that social change can only come about through collective action based on a set of core values that engage diverse people working together for a common good.

Pahl-Belitsky, Tess

Campus Coordinator of Kendall Campus

Contact Information:
305-237-2692
tpahl@mdc.edu

Tess Pahl-Belitsky has been serving as Campus Coordinator for the Institute of Civic Engagement and Democracy at the Kendall Campus since 2011.  With a background in management and leadership, Tess has more than 30 years in the business world.  Prior to coming to MDC, she served as Assistant Director for the Alper Jewish Community Center’s Glen Greenstein Early Childhood Center.  Tess supports the work of the Center for Community Involvement by identifying new opportunities that help students meet academic, social and civic learning goals. She is an alumnus of MDC and is presently working on her Bachelor of Science in Business Management.  Tess has always enjoyed dedicating personal time to meeting community needs and is an advocate for issues close to her heart.  Her family includes her husband, Robert, and two children, Frankie and Lily.

Ramos, Tamica

Campus Director of Wolfson Campus

Contact Information:
305-237-7470
tramos@mdc.edu

Tamica Ramos has served as a Campus Director for the Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy since 2005. Previously, she worked as the Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs at Barry University. Tamica is originally from Providence, R.I., where she worked as the Assistant Executive Director of Youth In Action, a nonprofit organization that develops at-risk youth into community leaders. In 2000, Tamica earned her BA from Brown University where she studied African American Studies and Development Studies.

Silva, Harold

Campus Director of North and West Campuses

Contact Information:
305-237-8358
hsilva@mdc.edu

Harold Alexander Silva has been at Miami Dade College since 2007 with iCED. He originally served as the part-time North Campus Coordinator until becoming the Campus Director in July 2011. He serves as a consultant to Service for Peace, and is a member of the board of directors for Break Away, the national organization that promotes and trains on alternative breaks programs. He is also a member of other organizations, such as Partners of the Americas, the Casimiro Foundation, Urban Paradise Guild, Boy Scout Troop #712 and others.

Thomas, Tonya

Campus Coordinator of North Campus

Contact Information:
305-237-8380
tthomas2@mdc.edu

Tonya Thomas first began working with the Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy as an AmeriCorps VISTA. She served as a VISTA for three years at InterAmerican Campus from 2007-2010. Now, she currently is Campus Coordinator at North Campus. Tonya earned her Master’s degree in School Psychology from Barry University and has recently started her own non-profit organization called Daughters2Mothers which is a co-parenting initiative designed to empower teenage parents from low income families.

Webb, Carlene

Campus Coordinator of Medical Campus | AmeriCorps *VISTA

Contact Information:
305-237-4291
carlene.webb@mdc.edu

As a Jamaican born, Miami raised, graduate of Miami Central Senior High School. Carlene started her academic career at MDC North. With both a BS in Community Health Education and a Masters in Public Health from Eastern Kentucky University, Carlene served as a health educator with The Lexington- Fayette County Health Department for over four years, where she led a myriad of projects and taught several classes dedicated to the prevention focus of Public Health. She’s taught abstinence education classes in the middle schools, comprehensive health education in the high schools and Teen Outreach Health Programs. Her programs dealt with topics such as HIV/STD prevention, self-esteem, drug and alcohol abuse, date rape, domestic/sexual violence, abstinence education, etc. Carlene is thrilled to be the new Service-Learning Coordinator, AmeriCorps Vista for the Miami Dade College Medical Campus this year. She looks forward to assist in fulfilling iCED’s mission “Transforming learning, strengthening democracy and contributing meaningfully to the common good by awakening and empowering students for lifelong civic engagement”

Zarowny, Jo Anne

Program Manager of Connect to Complete (C2C)

Contact Information:
305-237-3530
jzarowny@mdc.edu

Jo Anne Zarowny’s passion for students’ academic success and developing their disposition, knowledge and skills for effective democratic engagement merge in her current work establishing the Connect2Complete program which links College Prep and Leadership students, expanding the capacities of both.

Since joining Miami Dade College in 2006 Jo Anne has found many ways to share her experience with the department such as fostering renewal of its mission and vision and introducing dialogue and deliberation to classes of American Dream Scholars.  Prior higher ed experience instructing ESOL and running post-professional education programs for attorneys alone never compared to her satisfaction working with service-learning beginning in 1995 at Florida International University using  the pedagogy as an integral part of a new teacher preparation program she was directing. In her subsequent work running a Student Affairs department at Barry University Jo Anne worked to unify an enhanced student experience by promoting and creating service-learning partnerships with faculty. Jo Anne also has worked in non-profits and in the public sector, most notably running court alternative dispute resolution programs including the launch of a juvenile restorative justice initiative.  Jo Anne holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the  University of Houston and is a candidate (pending comprehensive exam) for an  MA, Higher Education Administration from Barry University.  Additionally, at Florida International University Jo Anne has completed  nine hours toward graduate certificate in Environmental Sustainability, Urban Education and Social Justice, Florida International University.  Several years ago Jo Anne was named by Florida Campus Compact as a Certified Service-Learning Scholar.

Jo Anne was one of 140 participants in the national roundtable discussions on the role of education in preparing engaged and responsible democratic citizens resulting in the national call to action published by AAC&U as A Crucible Moment, released at the U.S. Department of Education in January 2012.  Jo Anne currently serves on the national steering committee of The Democracy Commitment and she is Advisor to Students Aiding International Development (SAID) at Wolfson Campus and Miami Dade College Rotaract.