Mosholu Montefiore Community Center
Agnes Vendiola is the Director of the Child Development Center of MMCC. She has a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and a NYS Teacher Certification. Prior to joining MMCC as Director in July 2014, Agnes was an elementary teacher for ten years teaching Mathematics and Science and in the evening, Agnes worked as a Part-time College Instructor teaching Developmental Reading; Early Childhood Development; Teaching Strategies 1-3, Mathematics and Communication Art in English. In 2004, she was promoted to Education Director. In 2012, she became the Educational Alignment Coordinator and was responsible for the educational component of a multi-center early childhood program. She is a proud mother of two beautiful children; Aisa and Christian who she consider to be her priceless jewels.
As a teacher, she believed in the saying…“if children did not learn, then the teacher did not teach”. As a leader, she believed that “good leaders practice what they preach,” and as a person, she believed that “tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength, resolutions and confidence”.
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Mosholu Montefiore Community Center
Mosholu Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) is the largest not-for-profit provider of quality education, employment, and health and recreation programs in the impoverished neighborhoods of the North Bronx, serving the needs of more than 28,000 residents each year. Their mission is to build vibrant and healthy communities, one resident, at a time by providing each one with the tools they need to construct a viable pathway around poverty.