Meet the Board
Robert Wingate, President
Rob Wingate has served in community-based programs for older adults beginning at Seniors' Resource Center in Denver, Colorado, after which he became policy advocate for the Age-Friendly New York City Project at the New York Academy of Medicine. He was executive director of the Catskill Hudson Area Health Education Center, and works with various agencies on disaster preparedness for older adults and people with disabilities. Rob was a founding board member of It Takes A Village 10591 in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow. His other key affiliations are with Volunteer New York!; the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; the New York State Association for Rural Health; the Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns/Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow; the Town of Greenburgh Human Rights Advisory Committee; and the River Towns Civil Rights Forum. Rob holds a B.A. from Haverford College, Pa., and has studied at the graduate level at New York Medical College, Fordham University and State University of New York-Purchase College.
Lynn Reichgott, Immediate Past President
Lynn Reichgott is a founding member and past president of At Home on the Sound, the aging-in-place organization in Larchmont and Mamaroneck. She represents the Center for Aging in Place on the Westchester Public Private Partnership and is on the Westchester County Council for Seniors. Lynn is a part member of the Board of Trustees of Larchmont Temple, past chair of the temple’s Social Action Committee and an active member of the Social Justice Committee. She serves on the North American Joint Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, a national assembly that advocates on issues of social justice in Washington. Before retiring, she worked as a pediatric physical therapy consultant, practicing in educational environments.
Jonathan Childerley, Treasurer
Jon is an English Chartered Accountant. Initially he worked in London for a Non-Governmental Organization supporting community based initiatives around the UK. There then followed 8 years in Papua New Guinea, firstly at a World Bank sponsored rural development project, and then in a project sponsored by the World Bank, United Nations and AusAid aimed at computerizing and enhancing government financial systems.
He then worked for 20 years at the United Nations, New York in various roles including supervising and implementing financial information systems both at peacekeeping missions and UN headquarters, management improvement, coordination of response to audit and oversight reports, and serving as Chief, Administration Services at the UN peacekeeping mission at Timor-Leste.
After retiring from the UN he worked as a distinguished lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. There he taught accounting, international public administration and economics. He also coordinated the Fraud Examination and Financial Forensics major until his retirement in 2019.
Irene Faith Purdie, Board Secretary
Faith, as she prefers to be called, previously worked at New York Life Insurance (NYL) for over 20 years. At NYL her expertise was in writing customer focused content, performing end user testing and leading project teams. She also participated in a myriad of volunteer programs supported by NYL throughout her career.
Currently she is a free-lance writer concentrating on health, fitness and lifestyle topics. Faith is interested in supporting the aging in place concept and believes it’s vital to have supporting services in every community.
Faith is also the Board Secretary for the Organ Transplant Support (OTS) organization. OTS is a nonprofit that supports patients, families and caregivers through the organ transplant journey.
In her spare time, she enjoys walking trails, scenic drives, and day trips in the NY, NJ and PA areas.
Deepankar Mukerji, JD
Deepankar Mukerji is a White Plains attorney who conducts a general law practice in the areas of elder law, Medicaid planning, estate administration and planning, guardianships, real estate and trusts. Prior to establishing his own practice, he was a partner at the New York City law firm of Goldfarb Abrandt Salzman and Kutzin. Previously, he served as Counsel to the firm of Keane & Beane PC, which he joined in 2007 after 12 years with the Westchester County Department of Social Services, where his responsibilities included administration of the Medicaid home care, institutional assistance, and liens and recoveries programs.
Deepankar is former Chair of the Elder Law and Special Needs Section of the New York State Bar Association and is a Fellow of the New York State Bar Foundation. He is also a former Chair of the Elder Law Committee of the Westchester County Bar Association. He is also active in the Long-Term Care Council of Westchester and the Senior Law Day and Caregiver Collaboratives of the Westchester County Public-Private Partnership for Aging Services, serving as a co-author of the “Elder Law Q&A”.
Joan Deitrick
Founders
Lois Steinberg, PHD*
*Deceased