Board of Directors

Read to Succeed Buffalo, Inc. is a partnership of foundations, businesses, educators, and the community at large committed to developing innovative ideas and practices that improve student achievement.

The Board of Directors includes:

  • Hon. Betty Calvo-Torres, Chair
    Judge, Buffalo City Court
  • Vincent Clark, Vice Chair
    Director of Community Relations
    University at Buffalo
  • Thomas Lunt, 
    Retired Sr. VP, Smith Barney
    Trustee, Margaret L. Wendt Foundation
  • Marcia O'Neil-White,  
    Executive Director, Buffalo Prep
  • Vito Borrello, President & CEO, EPIC
  • Jerry Castiglia, Treasurer
    Retired President & CEO
    Pratt & Lambert
  • Rev. Richard Stenhouse, Secretary
    Pastor
    Bethel AME Church
  • Hal D. Payne
    Vice President, Student Affairs
    Buffalo State College
  • Hon. Jack Quinn, Sr.
    President, Erie Community College
  • Gordon Gross
    Founder, Gross Shuman Brizdle & Gilfillan P.C
Western New York Literacy, Buffalo Literacy, Buffalo Poverty, Western New York Volunteers, Buffalo Volunteers, Buffalo Reading

 Follow the Right to Literacy Declaration!



Last June, Read to Succeed Buffalo hosted the Right to Literacy Convention in Buffalo where a declaration proclaiming the Right to Literacy was drafted and signed. The Declaration has since traveled the country, gaining support and momentum for the literacy movement in America.

Click on the video above from Literacy Powerline to learn more!