Press Release
CSS Announces New Trustees
The Community Service Society (CSS) is pleased to announce that five new Trustees were elected in June to serve on its Board of Trustees.
Melinda Dutton
Melinda currently serves as Partner at Manatt Health. Bringing deep knowledge and experience in publicly financed health care—including Medicaid, CHIP and Affordable Care Act marketplaces; coverage expansion, delivery system transformation, and payment reform—Melinda guides federal and state regulators, local governments, providers, payers, life sciences companies and foundations in navigating the legal, regulatory and market challenges of today’s dynamic health care landscape. Prior to joining Manatt, Melinda worked at the Children’s Defense Fund in New York. Her career in legal advocacy started in Brooklyn, where she helped establish a health law practice serving the borough’s low‐income population.
Florence Frucher
Florence was an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College School of Public Affairs. Prior to Baruch she was the COO at Ryan Community Health Network, Centracare Health Plan, a non-profit Medicaid HMO serving the five boroughs. Prior to that, she established and managed the Office of Medicaid Managed Care for the City of New York, a division of the Mayor’s Office under Mayor David N. Dinkins, which had the responsibility of implementing and overseeing the Medicaid Managed Care program throughout New York City. She had also directed the NYC Regional Office of Health Systems Management, a Division of the New York State Department of Health. From 1976-1979, Florence served as an Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services. She is the former president of the Healthcare Executive Forum and a current board member of Public Health Solutions. She previously served on the CSS Board of Trustees from 2007-2019.
Gayle Horwitz
Gayle Horwitz, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York since 2016, is a highly accomplished C-suite leader driving growth and innovation at public, private and not-for-profit entities. Leveraging nearly 30 years of strategy, operations and finance experience at organizations including Federation Employment and Guidance Services (FEGS), Nardello & Co., the Hugh L. Carey Battery Park City Authority, the New York City Comptroller’s Office, and the New York City Board of Education, Gayle improves operational performance and long term viability with strategic planning, transparent fiscal practices and sound internal controls, policy development and internal/external communications. She has also served as a Board Director and Advisory Board Member for multiple entities focused on improving life for New Yorkers. Gayle holds an A.B. in Politics from Mount Holyoke College and an MPA from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Michal Rosenn
Michal is General Counsel at Noom, Inc. Prior to Noom, she served as General Counsel at startup companies Expa and Kickstarter, and as a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She currently serves on the boards of Public Knowledge and Engine Advocacy, on Center for Cultural Innovation’s Advisory Council, and is a member of the NYC Steering Committee of Tech GC. Michal is a graduate of NYU and Harvard Law School.
Aimee Scillieri
Aimee is Vice President, Associate General Counsel at Sotheby's. Prior to that Aimee was an associate at Stern and Montana in New York. Aimee is a graduate of The University of Maryland and New York Law School.
For more than 175 years, the Community Service Society of New York has been the leading voice on behalf of low-income New Yorkers and continues to advocate for the economic security of the working poor in the nation’s largest city. We respond to urgent, contemporary challenges with applied research, advocacy, litigation and innovative program models that help the working poor achieve a better quality of life and promote a more prosperous city. Visit us at www.cssny.org.