Turning Point

Raymond Figueroa
Executive Director
718-360-8169
rfiguero@tpdomi.org

Ray Figueroa, a one-time teenage gang member, heard about the good work being done by an agency then known as Discipleship. In 1989, he became an employee, working as assistant to the Executive Director. He created and implemented programs providing permanent housing opportunities, special needs housing for youth and people living with HIV, outreach and education programs, and the expanded services for Red Hook. He served as Deputy Executive Director, and was appointed Executive Director in March, 2002. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Brooklyn Outreach Workers and the Supportive Housing Network of New York. In 2004, Mr. Figueroa received the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Program Award.

Lenore Hildebrand
Deputy Executive Director of Clinical Services
718-360-8167
lhildebra@tpdomi.org

Geddes Gibbs
Deputy Executive Director of Housing
718-360-8147
ggibbs@tpdomi.org

Bruce Carmel
Deputy Executive Director of Educational Services
718-360-8166
bcarmel@tpdomi.org

Bruce Carmel has a doctorate in Education from New York University. He has taught for more than twenty years in public schools, colleges and universities, libraries and community-based organizations. Just prior to coming to Turning Point, he led the Queens Library's Adult Learner Program, the largest library literacy program in the county. Dr. Carmel serves on the Steering Committees for the Mayor's Office of Adult Education's Revisioning Retreat and the Coalition for Adult Literacy. He is a recipient of the Literacy Assistance Center's 2005 Literacy Recognition Award. Dr. Carmel joined Turning Point in 2003.

Eve Ammons-Johnson
Program Director, The Outreach Center
718-360-8119
eveammons@tpdomi.org

Candace Date
Program Director, Turning Point Red Hook Housing
718-233-3993
cdate@tpdomi.org

Steve James
Facilities Management Coordinator
718-360-8145
sjames@tpdomi.org

Ingrid Layne
MIS Director
718-360-8135
ilayne@tpdomi.org

Nellie Liciaga
Program Director, Scattered Site, MICA
718-473-3881
nliciaga@tpdomi.org

Maritza Peralta
Director of Administrative Services
718-360-8162
mperalta@tpdomi.org

Iesha Moore
Program Director, Program Manager
718-233-3991
imoore@tpdomi.org

Margaret Pemberton
Program Director, Career Development
718-360-8159
mpemberton@tpdomi.org
Margaret Pemberton has twenty years experience working in adult and youth education. She has worked as a teacher, job developer and a program coordinator. Before coming to Turning Point, she worked for Community of Unity, Inc and HANAC, Inc., where she had great success moving public assistance recipients to independence. She has a Masters Degree in Human Services from Lincoln University.

David Perez
Program Director, Sunset Terrace
718-360-8112
dperez@tpdomi.org

Ernest Priester
Program Director, Scattered Site Housing
718-360-8109
eprieste@tpdomi.org

Susan Thompson
Program Director, Educational Center
718-360-8171
sthompson@tpdomi.org
Susan Thompson joined Turning Point Educational Center in September, 2003, as a teacher, and became the Center's Program Director in 2006. Before that, Ms. Thompson was an adult literacy teacher and supervised a parenting program at the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center. She also worked with children and parents through programs at the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service. Prior to teaching adult literacy and parenting skills, Ms. Thompson was employed in the private sector. She has a B.A. in English literature and received a Certificate in Adult Literacy from The New School.

Robert Yancey
Program Director, Exodus
718-360-8146
ryancey@tpdomi.org