About Gina

I have lived in Clarkstown for thirty years and raised seven children here. In the schools, on the fields, at the recitals and the fundraisers.

I graduated summa cum laude from Purchase College and spent my career in hospitality and service. That’s not the résumé people expect, and it’s more useful than most of the ones they do. Service work teaches you how to fix problems that actually affect people’s lives.

The arts

I serve on the Board of Governors for the Rockland Youth Dance Ensemble and have volunteered in arts education across Rockland County for decades. I’ve met countless people through these programs, and learned what a great way it is to bring our community together.

Strong Towns

I’m a member of Strong Towns , a national movement built on one idea: a town should get more out of what it has already built, instead of spending on new development it cannot afford to maintain.

Most American suburbs can’t answer that, We built enormous amounts of infrastructure in one generation, largely with money from somewhere else, and the maintenance bills arrive slowly enough that no single board has to explain them. Then one year the bill is bigger than the budget.

The fix is to make small bets instead of enormous irreversible ones. Fix the cheap dangerous thing before the expensive glamorous one. Build so the next generation can afford to live here.

Why again, after 2025

I lost this seat by 429 votes in November 2025. It is on the ballot again this November.

Then I looked at what got decided in that year, and at what it cost the people who live here. 429 votes is not a verdict. It is a margin.

I’ve spent the time since showing up. When the town put its Director of Engineering on leave after he flagged a $594,469 gap between what a contractor billed and what its payroll supported, I stood up at the July 2026 board meeting and said the simplest thing to do would be to explain the discrepancy. Nobody has.