CURRENT MENTORS
Our mentors are extremely knowledgeable. Many are teachers and almost all have raised their own children and/or mentored others in the past. These mentors are matched with a student in their 3rd grade year and act as a support network until graduation in high school.
Sarah Arnold
Lynne Burgess, Summer Camp Coordinator
Susan Conner
Fran D’Agostino, Team Leader, Middle School
Jackie Dixon
Jean Gray
Margaret Gray, Co-Team Leader, Lower High School
Diane Green
Richard Hahndorf, Jr.
Deb Hirsch
Kathleen Heslin
Dee Hoo
Susan Horstmann
Kathy Joyce
Isabel Katz
Karen M. Kelly
Kathy King
Alice Knapp
Peter Lasalandra
Peter Lilienthal
Jami Lo, Co-Team Leader, Upper High School
Paola Mallozzi
Bette Mocarski
Tammi Montier
Meg Moor
Mary Smith, Team Leader, Elementary School
Betsy Nagurney
Midge Pappas
Arisleyda Riehl
Ralf Riehl
Timothy Rogers
Caroline Romans
Liz Rosano
Fred Rosetti
Sarah Santasiero
Marilyn Schlosser
Nancy Schulkind
Daina Schuman
Diana Shattuck
Mara Siladi
Mary Smith
Maria Sosa
Susan Tolliver
Tracy Vodola
Alma Weinberg
Cliff Wells
Lori Wentworth
Ken Wentworth
Walter Young
Donna Wolff, PhD Executive Director
Our Volunteers
Donna Hughes
Administration, After School Activities
Marc Schneider
Music Program Educator
Gail G. Trell
Music Program Coordinator
Bernie Weiss
Photographer
The mission of Starfish Connection is to address Stamford’s opportunity gap by providing long-term mentoring, after-school and summer enrichment programs, and educational support to promising students from the city’s underserved families. We pair a mentor with a student, one-on-one to provide these resources.
The Starfish Connection is a 501c3 corporation. We rely on generous contributions like yours to fulfill our mission. Your donation will be used to support after school and summer enrichment activities for these academically talented Stamford youth. If you would like to make a tax-deductible
donation to the Starfish Connection, please do so on our donation page!
Our Founder and Inspiration
The Starfish Connection website is dedicated to the memory of our cofounder, Judith Martin. Judy and her husband David had a dream of enriching and changing the lives of promising Stamford young people.