FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BUCHANAN, NEW YORK, RESIDENT ROSS POLLACK APPOINTED TO ADVISORY BOARD OF PATCHWORX

RIVERDALE, N.Y.  ---  Buchanan, New York, resident Ross Pollack has been appointed to the advisory board of Patchworx, an online community for young people facing illness and disability. 

As a board member, Dr. Pollack will be an advocate to the goals of Patchworx and its mission as well as provide feedback and guidance to the organization and its board of directors.

Dr. Pollack said, “I am excited to join this online community, knowing that Patchworx quilt comforts individuals with the belief that no student should feel his or her academic aspiration of attaining a post secondary education is diminished by living with a serious illness or disability.”

The director of specialized resource center/director of learning disabilities program at Manhattan College, Dr. Pollack received his B.A. from SUNY Purchase and his Ed.M. and Ed.D. from Columbia Teachers College.

Located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational college in the Lasallian tradition that offers more than 40 major fields of study in the programs of arts, business, education, engineering and science.

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