Executive Director

Amy Engel is responsible for overseeing and managing the organization’s staff and day-to-day operations, including programs, finance, public relations, and fundraising.

Engel most recently worked at the Suffolk County Executive Office as a Senior Management Analyst for the Executive Budget Office and as the County Executive Assistant to the Chief Deputy County Executive.

As Senior Management Analyst, Engel’s responsibilities included researching policy directives and preparing cost benefit analyses for new initiatives, writing, monitoring, and approving requisitions, contracts, conferences, transfers, grant appropriations, and collaborating on development of the Operating and Capital budgets.

As County Executive Assistant to the Chief Deputy County Executive, Engel successfully advanced community development projects and facilitated municipal interaction, land use and development initiatives, and streamlined grant administration processes. She also has experience in advocacy; developing state and federal legislative agendas for the County, as well as special event planning and fundraising.

Prior to her employment at the County, Engel held additional important and responsible positions including being Consultant of Community Development for the KeySpan Corporation, the Executive Director of the Greater Long Island Clean Cities Coalition, and the Deputy Director of Government Affairs with the Long Island Association. Engel holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Dowling College and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.