Marianne Nicolosi

Marianne Nicolosi is Executive Director of Bay Ridge Center. For more than 40 years, she has been delivering compassionate, community-based services for the elderly.

Ms. Nicolosi has worked in management and administration of Home Care, Case Management, Social Adult Day Services, Senior Centers and Dementia Specialty Services. She is a respected leader and innovator in the aging field, and a fearless advocate for expanding communitybased elderly services in New York State.

She has served for more than two decades in a leadership capacity for the New York State Adult Day Services Association - serving as Conference Chair, Public Policy Chair and President. She served as Director of Dementia Care Professionals at the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, where she was responsible for program development and expansion of a national training program for direct care workers in dementia care services.

Ms. Nicolosi created a curriculum for a Certificate Program for Administrating Adult Day Centers as an Adjunct Professor at the Brookdale Center for Aging. In recent years, she has served in the role of consultant for several start up centers for Adult Day Services.

She is SIFI Certified from the Hunter College School of Social Work, where she received her MSW in 1989. She earned another graduate degree in Corporate and Political Communication from Fairfield University in 1979. She received her BA from Hunter College in 1976, and graduated Summa Cum Laude.