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HIA-LI’S HEARD AROUND THE ISLAND
HEARD AROUND THE ISLAND
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Colleen Merlo, LMSW, has been elected to the board of directors of the Mental Health Association in New York State. Ms. Merlo is CEO of the Association for Mental Health and Wellness in Ronkonkoma. She has worked for more than twenty years on issues of domestic violence, mental health, gender equity, and poverty.
Nandini Chowdhury joined the Banking and Commercial Lending Group at Certilman Balin as an Associate. Prior to joining the firm, she was an Associate at the Manhattanbased law firm, Ingram Yuzek Gainen Carroll & Bertolotti, LLP, where she represented multi-family residential landlords and commercial landlords in landlord/tenant disputes. Prior to this position, she was a Litigation Associate at a Long Island law firm where she represented institutional lenders and mortgage servicers in a wide variety of matters pertaining to foreclosure and title litigation. Ms. Chowdhury earned her Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law in 2018 where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the N.Y. Real Property Law Journal and as Managing Editor of the Commercial Division Online Law Report. During law school, she also completed an internship at the Consumer Justice for the Elderly: Litigation Clinic. From Stony Brook University, she earned her Master of Arts in Public Policy and a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in Psychology and Political Science and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She is admitted to practice in the states of New York and New Jersey. For further information, contact Director of Marketing Debra Scala Giokas, dscala@ certilmanbalin.com or 516.296.7087.
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