Julia Zeuner, LMSW, is a licensed geriatric social worker with years of experience working with older adults at community based agencies, nursing homes and senior centers.
David ML Knapp, LMSW, is a licensed community social worker with over twenty years of experience working with a variety of populations including older adults, children and women and families.
Dafna Gorfinkle joined the Himan Brown Senior Program’s staff in November 2017.
Erica Shein holds a JD from Brooklyn Law School and a BA in French and Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania.
Arielle Silverman, LMSW, is a Licensed Social Worker whose passion is working with older adults.
Deborah Gross, LMSW, is thrilled to join the PCSA team as its new Director of Community Care and Outreach and brings over 30 years of experience in the field of aging to the position.
Deborah Gross, LMSW, is thrilled to join the PCSA team as its new Director of Community Care and Outreach and brings over 30 years of experience in the field of aging to the position. As a graduate of Barnard College with a BA in Sociology, Deborah then received her MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University in 1993. She has devoted the entirety of her professional career to community-based programs for older adults, with the focus on providing comprehensive supports which enable people to age with grace and dignity.
For the last six years, she served as the Director of the Center for Aging in Place at the YM and YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood, ensuring that frail older adults, including Holocaust survivors in the community, had access to a wide range of services they needed to remain safely in their homes. However, she spent almost 20 years of her career specializing in providing support to clients with varying stages of dementia and their caregiving family members through strength-based programming and support groups.
Deborah is the proud mother to two wonderful young adults. Her favorite pastime is singing — whether it is through community theater productions, performing with her band at various venues throughout the tri-state area, and especially singing old classic standards with her clients!
Maureen Robinson-Frimpong, BS, Operations Coordinator, is the friendly face who greets members when they walk into the Himan Brown office.
Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival.
The Croatian pianist Javor Bracic is the first prize winner of international piano competitions in Italy, Croatia, and Belgium.
Dr. Carole Brafman has facilitated support groups for family issues, medical issues and bereavement in addition to private practice of individual …
Doug Brin is an historical raconteur, writer, artist, journalist and popular lecturer and discussion group facilitator.
Diane Cocoros (Dee) is a Holistic Wellness and Fitness Consultant in NYC for over 20 years.
Kareem Collins is an experienced senior fitness instructor. He facilitates the Parkinson’s Exercise Program (PEP) in the May Center and the Platinum Sneakers Program at Long Island University.
Mary Copeland is a former professional dancer and has been teaching dance and fitness in New York City for more than 30 years.
Marguerite Day received a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta) and an MFA from Penn State’s School of Visual Arts.
Matthew H. Ellis is a historian specializing in the social, intellectual, and cultural history of the modern Middle East and North Africa.
Donelle Estey joined the faculty in August 2015. She holds an MFA from California State University and has had her art work exhibited at galleries throughout the world.
Elizabeth Flamm, LCSW is an experienced licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist with a demonstrated history of working with individuals, couples, families, and groups
During his 30 years at Rutgers University, Seth Gopin was a gifted professor and lecturer in Art History and a popular dean of academic affairs.
Ken Gray has been teaching Qigong exercises and T’ai Chi Chih for 25 years, helping people to overcome discomfort and pain and achieve greater flexibility.
r. Randy Kamen is a psychologist, educator and author who pioneered new territory in mind-body medicine at Boston University’s Schools of Medicine …
Steve King has been deeply passionate about baseball since early childhood. In his teaching, King combines his U.S. History background with his incredible knowledge of the sport, its statistics and its players.
Lucy Kirk had a 33-year career in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations.
Richard Larschan is an English Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley with a dissertation on Jonathan Swift.
Gordon Levin is the Dwight Morrow Professor of History and American Studies, emeritus, at Amherst College where he focused on American diplomatic history and Israeli history.
Ellen Love earned her Master’s degree in social work from Fordham University and later studied at Hunter School of Social Work: Brookdale Center on Aging and Training Institute for Mental Health earning a certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Sara Lukinson is a three-time Emmy award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker best known for her biographical films of artists and creators.
Sandy Magesis has been an avid knitter for over 30 years. She has worked in a knitting store and has taught privately and in a group setting.
Danny Pollock has been teaching folk dance for more than 30 years at JCCs, synagogues, dance camps, dance weekends, festivals and special events.
Frances Richey is the author of two poetry collections: The Burning Point (White Pine Press, 2004) and The Warrior (Viking Penguin, 2008), and the creator and editor of Voices of the Guard, published in 2010 in honor of the Oregon National Guard.
Lucia Russett, MSW, is a social worker and group facilitator for PCSA, who has been with the program since it began in 2022.
Simón Saad was born in Colombia and was educated in Italy and the USA.
Leo Schaff studied speech and theater at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is a member of The Shakespeare Society of New York.
Susan Scheuer has degrees in Modern European History, Music Education and Conservation Biology.
Zach Seeger is a painter and sculptor working in Brooklyn and upstate New York.
Pianist, trumpeter and composer Bob Silverman has been a fixture on the New York Jazz scene since 1985.
Susan Stein is an actor, playwright, and teaching artist in NYC. Stein has spent the past eight years touring her original play, Etty, directed by Austin Pendleton, to theaters, universities, schools and prisons.
Mark York, originally from Oklahoma, has worked in the Broadway-New York theater scene as a director and composer for the past 25 years.
Thank you to the generous supporters of the Himan Brown Program.
92NY Himan Brown Program is endowed by a generous grant from the Himan Brown Charitable Trust.
Major support for the Himan Brown Program is provided by the Lorraine Buch Music Appreciation Fund; Charina Endowment Fund; The Derfner Foundation; Richard P. Fishman and Marny Cherkasky; The Goatie Foundation; the Estate of Florence C. Golly; Madaleine and Arnold z”l Penner in memory of Rosalind Cohen Joelson; Richard H. Rubinstein; Lilian Sicular in memory of David R. Sicular; The Kathryn W. Stein Endowment; and an anonymous donor.
Additional support is provided by the Ginette Becker French Education Fund; Kate Arleen Bressler; Bonnie and Kenneth Davis; The Margot and Adolph Friedlander Endowment; Judith Fryer and Daniel Biggs; The Mildred and Emanuel Goldberg Endowment; Shirley M. Henschel; Joan M. Leiman; and The Dorothy and Sol Smolen Endowment.
For registration information, please contact the Himan Brown Program office: 212.699.7261 / email
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