Our Executive Staff
Little Flower’s leadership takes on the responsibility and challenges of protecting and caring for those it serves every day. Each member of the team puts the needs of the children, families, and individuals with developmental disabilities above all else. The senior executive team’s extensive collective background in the health and human services fields allows for strategic planning and adaptability in a changing landscape.
Corinne Hammons, MPA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Corinne Hammons, MPA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Corinne Hammons is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York. She is responsible for implementing the strategic vision and mission for Little Flower’s services for children, families, and developmentally disabled adults in New York City and Long Island, including its affiliate St. John’s Residence for Boys. She is responsible for the sustainability, effectiveness, and stewardship of the affiliated organization. Corinne has a longstanding interest in the strategic design and implementation of effective programs to help families reach their full potential while ensuring the organization’s s long-term success and growth. She has deep expertise in strategic thinking and risk management, as well as crisis response and management. She is particularly interested in designing career pathways for emerging leaders in our field and serving as a mentor both formally and informally.
She values the opportunity to collaborate with peer organizations to pursue her passion for innovation and leadership development to benefit all New Yorkers. Corinne sits on the Board of St. John’s Residence for Boys. She serves as the Board Secretary of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island. She is the Audit Committee Chair & Board member of the Human Services Council and sits on the HSC JustPay Steering Committee. She is the Vice President of the Board of Education of the Little Flower Union Free School District. She also sits on the boards of the Catholic Federation of Social Services Agencies in Brooklyn and Queens, the IDD/CW Collaborative, AsOne Healthcare IPA, and SCO Family of Services. She is a mentor to emerging leaders for the Strell Executive Leadership Program at Hunter College.
Corinne holds an AB in Economics from Harvard University and a master’s degree in public administration from the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. She is a graduate of the Energeia Partnership, a regional stewardship program on Long Island. Corinne was the recipient of the Long Island Business News 40 Under 40 in Business award, and the 2019 Notable Women in Human Services Hall of Fame award. She was named one of City & State’s 2020 Responsible 100 as well as one of their 2023 Above and Beyond: Gen X award recipients.
Kerri Smith, JD, LMSW
Chief Operating Officer
Kerri Smith, JD, LMSW
Chief Operating Officer
Kerri Smith is the Chief Operating Officer for Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York. She is responsible for supporting the operational growth and stability of the organization, managing strategic initiatives, and overseeing risk and legal matters.
With almost 20 years of human services experience, Kerri is dedicated to improving services for children and families. She is passionate about supporting teams to deliver the highest quality services and implement innovative strategies by optimizing organizational functioning and managing with data. Prior to joining Little Flower, as a Senior Associate with the Annie E Casey Foundation, Kerri worked with state and local child welfare leaders across the country to improve policies and practices focused on child safety and well-being. In addition, Kerri served as an Associate Commissioner with New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services for six years. There she oversaw performance monitoring and led the development of strategic plans and new initiatives to improve system-wide performance.
Kerri holds a law degree from South Texas College of Law and is admitted to the New York Bar. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in social work from the University of Texas, where she was awarded the Dean’s Award for the Promotion of Social Justice for her organizing and advocacy work on social justice issues.
Matthew Bredes, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Matthew Bredes, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Matthew Bredes, CPA, is Little Flower’s Chief Financial Officer. In his role, Bredes leads the fiscal operations of Little Flower and St. John’s Residence for Boys, where he is recognized for both his technical expertise and his collaborative approach to leadership. He also oversees the Information Technology and Services and Facilities teams and serves as a key financial advisor to the president and CEO and the boards of directors of the affiliated organizations. Bredes is accountable for all financial functions, including financial monitoring and oversight and budget preparation and monitoring.
Before joining Little Flower, Bredes served as an audit director and quality assurance director for the international accounting firm BDO USA, LLP. In this role, he directed and managed local audit teams and provided guidance to regional nonprofit and healthcare engagement teams. Bredes had been a loyal employee of BDO USA, LLP for 16+ years before joining the Little Flower team.
Bredes is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University, where he received his Bachelor of Science in accounting and fraud examination. He is a certified public accountant.
Madna Aubry, LMSW
Vice President, Foster Care, Homefinding and Adoption
Madna Aubry, LMSW
Vice President, Foster Care, Homefinding and Adoption
Madna Aubry started her career at Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York as a Caseworker in 1989, responsible for the well-being of 25 children, and over the past 33 years, Madna has served the organization and thousands of children and families of New York City with professionalism and passion. During her time at Little Flower, Madna has been promoted to Foster Care Supervisor, Director of Foster Care, and most recently, Vice President in the Family Foster Care Services Unit at the Flagship Office in Brooklyn.
Her long tenure at the agency has offered her a broad and unique perspective of the entire foster care ecosystem, including the needs and lived realities of the children and families we serve. In 2020, Madna was awarded the ACS “Excellence in Practice” award for initiating daily, virtual community meetings that enabled her team to remain cohesive and supportive of each other while continuing to help families and children during a challenging pandemic.
Madna believes Social Work is not a job but a calling and has lived that philosophy by equipping herself with the tools she needed to offer the best of herself to the children and families of NY. Toward that end, Madna earned a BA from Fordham University before starting at Little Flower and later earned an MSW, also from Fordham where she was elected to Phi Kappa Phi. She also earned an MSED from Hunter College with a Certification in Rehabilitation Counseling and another in Trauma Systems Therapy.
Jennifer Horsley, MSW
Senior Vice President, NYC Programs and Executive Director of St. John’s Residence for Boys
Jennifer Horsley, MSW
Senior Vice President, NYC Programs and Executive Director of St. John’s Residence for Boys
Jennifer Horsley brings more than 20 years of child welfare and non-profit experience. Since starting her career, she has worked in multiple roles within the child welfare continuum – a case planner, supervisor, director, and Executive Director. She began her career in 1995 as a case planner in the adoption and therapeutic foster boarding home programs at Little Flower. She is known for steadily taking on more responsibility and greater challenges, landing her the leadership role of director of Foster Care and the Preparing Youth for Adulthood (PYA) program at Little Flower. She previously co-chaired the strategic plan implementation process.
In December 2018, Jennifer stepped up to fill the role of interim Executive Director of St. John's Residence for Boys, a residential child welfare and juvenile justice program in Queens, New York. Jennifer was appointed the permanent position of Executive Director in July 2019. She also serves as Vice President on Little Flower's Senior Executive Council. Her experience with teens in the foster care system has been a great asset to St. John's and continues to have a positive impact.
Jennifer earned a Bachelor's and Master's of Social Work from Adelphi University and is the recipient of the first Little Flower Board President's Award in 2017. She also serves on the board of directors for the Council of Family and Child Care Agencies ( COFCCA) and Community Action for Human Services (CAHS). Jennifer co-chairs the COFCCA Residential Care Committee. She is a long-time resident of Queens and continues to reside there with her family.
Melinda Konigsberg, Psy.D.
Senior Vice President, Mental Health and Medical Services
Melinda Konigsberg, Psy.D.
Senior Vice President, Mental Health and Medical Services
Dr. Konigsberg is a licensed psychologist and Senior Vice President of Mental Health and Medical Services of Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York. She is committed to health equity and ensuring the children and youth in Little Flower’s care receive the highest quality trauma-informed, evidence-based mental health, and medical care, as well as support services and care coordination to improve access to services for children and their families, which has resulted in better health outcomes and improved quality of life.
Dr. Konigsberg has supported the children and families in Little Flower’s care since 2003. She was promoted to Clinical Director of Foster Care in 2013, where she successfully created an internship program with NYU, built and strengthened collaborations with prestigious grant-funded therapy providers, and implemented evidence-based treatment models. She and her team collaborated with IT/IS to build an Electronic Health Record for tracking quality improvement and compliance to best practice and received recognition from ACS for exemplary effort in systems development. She was promoted to Vice President in July 2016 to integrate and oversee the mental health and medical departments. After being promoted again in April 2019 to Senior Vice President of MH and Medical Services to additionally oversee Health Homes, Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), and Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS) and oversee CFTSS at St. John’s, she and her team strengthened the program and increased census.
Dr. Konigsberg helped establish Little Flower as a leader in the field with the successful launch of CFTSS, HCBS and telehealth services that improved the lives of the children and families we support, as evidenced in decreased hospitalization rates. In July 2020, all child welfare mental health, and medical departments at Little Flower were streamlined through Dr. Konigsberg’s leadership with an additional promotion for her to oversee MH and Medical Services for our RTC and continue to spearhead 29-I licensure, implementation, and growth.
She is CEO and President of Access Consultation and Psychology, P.C., certified as a M/WBE, and provides and oversees corporate crisis debriefings, executive coaching, diversity training, and private practice psychological services. Dr. Konigsberg holds a Doctor of Psychology from the University of Denver and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University. Her commitment to multicultural psychology includes attachment theory research in South Africa and aboriginal studies in Australia.
Dr. Konigsberg’s invitations included webinars and in-person conference presentations on telehealth, dissemination of evidence-based therapy models, improved outcomes of Medicaid services. She was the keynote speaker on interdisciplinary communications and has presented at national conferences and published on diversity in professional journals and encyclopedias. She is co-chair of the State-level Clinical Subcommittee, as well as Clinicians in Child Welfare (CCW), has held leadership roles in professional organizations and Executive Boards, and has won numerous awards, such as for her role as President of New York State Psychological Association’s Division of Culture, Race and Ethnicity and international recognition as “Most Inspiring Female in Psychology.”
Adnan Mahmood
Vice President, Information Technology and Services
Adnan Mahmood
Vice President, Information Technology and Services
Adnan Mahmood serves as the VP of Information Technology and Services for Little Flower Children and Family Services of NY. As VP IT/IS, Adnan is charged with the creation of strategic IT initiatives that align with Little Flower’s mission and long-term goals.
Prior to joining Little Flower, Adnan spent 15 years in information technology roles both in the private and non-profit sector, providing delivery of IT infrastructure and services, information security systems and compliance, administrative systems, and client support services.
Adnan earned a B.S degree in Information Systems from Pace University and M.S degree in Information Network and Computer Security from NYIT.
Jennifer Maurici, MSW
Senior Vice President, Long Island Programs
Jennifer Maurici, MSW
Senior Vice President, Long Island Programs
Jennifer Maurici has an extensive accomplished career in the non-profit and social services sectors grounded in an unwavering commitment to improving the lives of children, youth, families and vulnerable adults. Most recently, she held several positions at the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) including Associate Director, Public Information Office (PIO); Special Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner, Division of Child Welfare and Community Services (CWCS); Director, Bureau of Innovative Practices and Strategic Collaborations, CWCS; and Empire State Fellow, CWCS. Prior to joining OCFS in 2017, Jennifer worked as a child protective services specialist, then held supervisory positions in foster care and post-adoption programs at Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York, and later as a staff social worker at the Center for Family Representation, where she provided direct social work support and advocacy to parents involved with the child welfare system.
Jennifer’s commitment to public service spans over two decades and began in 1997 as a reporter for the Queens Tribune, where she wrote stories communicating quality of life issues faced by Queens’ residents and advocated for change on their behalf to government agencies and elected officials. Jennifer then began a career in the non-profit sector. As Senior Director of Education at Junior Achievement of New York, Inc., she fostered partnerships between public and private schools and Fortune 500 companies throughout New York City. She then worked as Program Supervisor of Best Buddies, International, where she oversaw the general operations of three California regional offices and ensured the quality of high school and adult volunteer programs that advocate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Jennifer has been published in Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping and in the April 2022 edition of APHSA Policy & Practice Magazine. Additionally, Jennifer presented, Narrating the Real Story: Partnering with the Media to Improve Child Welfare at the November 2018 Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) 64th Annual Program Meeting (APM). Jennifer holds a BA in Journalism from SUNY New Paltz and an MSW from Arizona State University with a Specialization in Child Welfare. Jennifer is currently a PhD candidate, pursuing her doctoral degree in Social Work at Fordham University, specializing in Children and Families Policy. She was awarded Student of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Arizona Chapter in 2007.
Jessica Rothkuo, MS
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Growth
Jessica Rothkuo, MS
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Growth
Jessica (Jessie) Rothkuo is a child welfare strategist dedicated to public sector systems improvement. Prior to joining the Little Flower team, she served as a senior policy analyst at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, where she delivered strategy and operations consultation to federal, state and local child welfare agencies to build their capacity for successful system transformation. Jessie is known for a collaborative co-design approach that builds trust, strengthens systems, and enhances organizations’ ability to serve communities. Her expertise includes strategic planning, service design, business process improvement, systems thinking, cross-system collaboration, and evidence-based model implementation.
Jessie formerly served as the Senior Program Manager at the Redlich Horwitz Foundation, where she led the Foundation’s support of the Family First Prevention Services Act implementation. In that role, she oversaw a team delivering capacity building and technical assistance to 18 local jurisdictions in New York State. She previously worked as a Senior Consultant with Deloitte and as the Executive Director of Strategy, Innovation and Planning at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, where she supervised a team responsible for guiding implementation of strategic initiatives. While there, she managed the system-level implementation of Strong Families NYC—New York’s Title IV-E waiver and the agency’s largest foster care initiative.
Jessie is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ethiopia 2010-2012). She earned a Master of Science in Urban Policy Analysis and Management from the New School and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Mass Communications from Kent State University. She is currently an MBA candidate at Baruch College.
