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Marcia K. Spector, Executive Director - mkspector@snapinc.org
Marcia Spector has served as the Executive Director of SNAP Long Island since 1985,
when the agency was created as the Suffolk Network on Adolescent Pregnancy, Inc.
Prior to its incorporation, SNAP was a blue ribbon task force created by the County
Executive in 1979 and Mrs. Spector served as its Chairperson.
Mrs. Spector served on both Governor Cuomo’s and Governor Pataki’s Task Forces on
Adolescent Pregnancy and Out of Wedlock Pregnancies and Poverty. Currently, she is
the past President of the New York State Council on Adolescent Pregnancy (NYSCAP).
Mrs. Spector is a Past President of the Long Island United Way’s Agency Executive
Council and has served on the Board of Directors of the United Way of New York State,
Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, Girl Scouts of Suffolk County, and the
Southside Hospital Advisory Board. She is a recipient of the United Way’s David
Schector and Hank Pearson awards for outstanding leadership.
She holds a baccalaureate degree in Sociology from Hunter College, a Master of
Science degree from Long Island University in Community Health and Health
Administration, and holds a certificate in Human Resources Management from St.
Joseph’s College. She served as an instructor in Clinical Family Medicine at Stony
Brook and is a frequent guest lecturer and speaker.
Mrs. Spector and her husband Allan live in Bay Shore. Their daughter, Chiara, is an
attorney with Baach, Robinson and Lewis in Washington, D. C.

Kim Mansueto, MS Ed., Director of Services- kmansueto@snapinc.org
Kim Mansueto, MS Ed., is a permanently certified New York State Guidance Counselor
who has worked in the field of education for over a decade. Her career began as a Sr.
Employment Specialist for YAI /The National Institute for People with Disabilities
providing transitioning services to high school students entering either the workforce or
college. From there she transitioned into a Guidance K-8/Teaching position with the
Diocese of Brooklyn where she also taught Pre-K, K,1st and 4th grade. In her current
position with SNAP, Mrs. Mansueto oversees all funded consortium projects. She is also
a certified Trainer of Trainers for several curricula including the National Health
Promotion Associates, Inc. Life Skills Training, ETR’s Reducing the Risk, Friends First
Quinceanara Program, and HealthSmart. In addition to her provision of training she
presents at local and national conferences such as the annual Child Welfare League of
America, the annual Healthy Teen Network Conference and the NYS Annual Youth
Bureau Conference on a variety on adolescent sexuality issues pertinent to working with
youth to prevent teen pregnancy.

Fara Biamonte, Project Coordinator - fbiamonte@snapinc.org
Fara Biamonte, BA, Doula, is passionate about her work as SNAP’s Project Coordinator
for the teen parenting education program, S.T.E.P.S. (Successfully Teaching Effective
Parenting Skills). Ms. Biamonte has been involved in the art of parenting through the
role of childbirth educator, doula, breastfeeding/peer support and parenting classes for
over 15 years. She has implemented school-based teen parent education, health center-
based parenting classes, youth in-classroom lessons, and presentations to parents and
professionals.
As an entrepreneur, Ms. Biamonte has successfully run her own childbirth education,
labor assistant and postpartum doula business, Birth Sisters Doula Services since 1991.
She has been employed as a childbirth educator and doula trainer for New Concepts in
Childbirth and sat on the steering committee for the creation of the Long Island Doula
Association, formerly known as the Long Island Association of Labor and Postpartum
Doulas. She has attended many birth and early parenting trainings and utilizes self-
motivated study to incorporate new and up to date, research based information into her
program dynamics. She is particularly interested in using research to develop
interventions and public policy changes that will benefit the childbearing family,
especially the incorporation of the utilization of doula services as the norm.

Sabrina Fearon, Project Coordinator - sfearon@snapinc.org
Sabrina Fearon, MS Ed., LMHC, is a certified School Counselor, and has been the
Wyandanch Community Based Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project Coordinator,
since 2006, which is based at Wyandanch Memorial High School. She is responsible for
planning and implementing diverse academic enrichment programs for the high school
and middle school including in-class presentations, mentoring, after school peer
leadership programs, and HerStory journaling program. Ms. Fearon has worked a number
of years in the human services and education fields. Prior to joining SNAP’s team, Ms.
Fearon worked for Nassau BOCES and Education Assistance Corporation (EAC) as a
vocational rehabilitation counselor. She speaks Spanish and was recently nominated to
the Board of HerStory Writer’s Workshop in Stony Brook.

Charles Fox Jr., Project Coordinator - cfox@snapinc.org
Charles Fox Jr. is a SNAP Project Coordinator for the Brentwood Community Based
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project. Prior to his recent promotion in October
2007, he worked in the Wyandanch School District as a Prevention Specialist for nearly
two years under a similar project. In Brentwood, he currently develops and implements
after-school programs at the both the Middle and High School level. Mr. Fox studied at
Suffolk Community College where in 2003 he completed his Associate’s Degree in
International Business. He then transferred to Stony Brook University where he received
a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science & Africana Studies in 2005. Mr. Fox has spent
his entire adult life in the youth development field. It was at the age of fourteen after
being a participant in a workshop for “at-risk” eighth graders that Mr. Fox realized that it
was to be his life’s work to invest all of his energy and effort to making positive impacts
on the lives of others. When considering his career path, Mr. Fox often recalls the words
of Franklin D. Roosevelt: “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can
build our youth for the future.”

Shawn Hirst, Project Coordinator - shirst@snapinc.org
Shawn Hirst, MSW, is has been in the human service field for the past six years. She
received her BSW from Syracuse University in 2002 and was accepted into an advanced
standing Masters Program at Adelphi University, receiving her degree in 2003. Her
career began working at F E G S as a Case Manager working with families in need of
financial assistance. From there she transitioned into a Youth Education Prevention
Specialist working with children, adolescents, parents, and professionals on a variety of
topics, such as eating disorders, body image, and school violence providing workshops
and professional trainings. Currently, she is the Project Coordinator for an Adolescent
Pregnancy Prevention Services Project funded by the New York State Office of Children
and Family Services at SNAP where she supervises the development and
implementation of educational programs for at risk, pregnant and parenting
adolescents. She also provides weekly pregnancy and parenting classes and counseling
sessions to adolescents in various school districts and community centers across Suffolk
County.

Maria McCue, Project Coordinator/ Player Coordinator - mmccue@snapinc.org
Maria McCue has been with SNAP Long Island since February of 2005. She is currently
the Player Coordinator for the Byron T. Miller Players, an intergenerational group of
volunteers trained to use improvisational role-play as an educational tool. As
Community Educator Ms. McCue helps develop and facilitate in-classroom
presentations and professional/parenting workshops at SNAP. She holds a B.S. in
Community and Human Services, a Certification in Addiction Studies, and is currently
enrolled in the Graduate Management Studies Program at St. Joseph’s College in
Patchogue.

SNAP Long Island Program Staff