Andrea Booker

Andrea Booker, a CMS '01 graduate, later attended Notre Dame High School before earning a Bachelor's degree from New York University's Stern School of Business. A native of New York City, she was born and raised on the Lower East Side, just a block from Cornelia Connelly Center. Andrea deeply appreciates her connection to CCC as a foundational part of her educational journey.

Andrea recently embarked on the path of entrepreneurship by launching her own small business, Poiema Creative Lab. Through this business, she envisions supporting nonprofits in their dedicated efforts to advance human flourishing. Her business focuses on providing consulting services that help organizations tell their stories, address business challenges affecting their culture, and enhance their engagement with the communities they serve.

Previously, Andrea served as the Associate Director of NYC Marketing at Redeemer City to City. During her tenure, she also contributed to the programmatic side of the organization, eventually building out the NYC team's marketing function. She played a key role in implementing and growing flagship programs such as the Incubator and Fellows programs, which equip NYC church planters, bivocational leaders, and practitioners to engage their communities with intentionality and cultural awareness.

Before joining Redeemer City to City, Andrea worked at Mastercard, where she held several roles in B2B Marketing, including marketing research and supporting the Mastercard Advisors team across various client industry verticals in the merchant, issuer, and real estate sectors.

Andrea is also an integral part of a flourishing church plant in Harlem, which she helped launch in 2017. She has held several leadership roles, including sharing preaching and teaching responsibilities with the pastoral team. Over the past few years, she has spearheaded discipleship formation initiatives, leading a team of lay leaders dedicated to teaching and fostering community within the church. She is deeply passionate about the intersection of faith and daily life-mainly how vocation and calling can reflect the incarnational life of Jesus, caring for the oppressed and marginalized.

Andrea is completing a Master of Divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, concentrating in Leadership in Times of Change. She envisions her calling in God's mission as one that challenges the status quo and complacency, advocating for deep-rooted transformation. She is especially committed to amplifying the voices of women and people of color, using her experiences to catalyze meaningful and lasting change.

Joyce & Diego Visceglia

Joyce and Diego Visceglia have championed Cornelia Connelly Center students and their dreams for 20 years. The generosity of the Joyce P. and Diego R. Visceglia Foundation has been pivotal in CCC's expansion and success; these include the addition of the fourth grade, the extension of the Graduate Support Program until college graduation, the renovation of the science lab, and the provision of emergency COVID funds for CCC families.  

Joyce holds a Master of Social Work degree from Fordham University. Her career involved working with people with chronic mental illnesses and then with elementary and middle school students. After retiring, Joyce connected with our beloved late founder, Connie Bush, and began volunteering as a school counselor at CCC. In addition to serving on CCC's Board of Trustees, one of Joyce's priorities was ensuring the social-emotional wellbeing of our girls. Her steadfast presence has had a long-lasting impact on everyone she crossed paths with during her tenure.

Diego credits his love of learning and support of education as beliefs instilled by his father. In 1986, Diego became a foundational supporter of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, which enabled public school students to attend parochial programs. The Inner-City Scholarship Fund has raised millions of dollars and provided quality education to tens of thousands of students, including students at CCC. Diego believes teachers are the key to student success and finds inspiration in teacher-astronaut Christie McAuiliffe's words, "I touch the future, I teach." Diego shares as committed patrons to CCC, "Joyce's and my support for Cornelia Connelly Center allows us to assist education on this side of the Hudson, and that is why we have been and will continue to be proud and meaningful participants in its mission."