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Board of Directors

Amity Arscott, President

Amity is an attorney in private practice, representing injured workers. She was born and raised in Groton. Amity was drawn to serve on the board of Noank Community Support Services after having represented children whose families were involved with DCF.

Mary Fitzgerald. Treasurer

Mary is the President of Acme Wire Products, a second-generation fabricator of custom industrial metal components. She is active in several manufacturing and business organizations and boards, including Connecticut Business & Industry Association, Eastern Advanced Manufacturing Alliance, Precision Metalforming Association, Women in Manufacturing, and the Wire Fabricators Association. Mary created and runs a video competition for high school students. She was a Girl Scout leader for nine years and participates in her local church as a catechist, teen group leader, and Eucharistic minister. Mary and her husband Tom are the parents of four children.

Mari Kodama

Mari Kodama works as part of JTK Management Restaurant group, and is the General Manager of their BREAKWATER location, which is located in Stonington Borough.

Born, and raised, in North Stonington, Mari graduated from Norwich Free Academy and went on to pursue a degree in Business Economics and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She returned to the area in 2010 and since then, has been actively engaged in the local community.

Mari joined the board of Noank Community Support Services in 2011 and is currently the Vice President and an active member of the development committee. She is also the Treasurer of the Regional Multicultural Magnet School Foundation – her elementary school alma mater; and on the board of directors for the Mystic Museum of Art.

Seth Panucci, Vice President

Seth is a Financial Advisor with Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in Mystic, CT, where he manages the investments and financial affairs for families across the country. After graduating from the University of Connecticut in 2009, he moved back to Mystic, CT where he lives with his wife, Amy. Seth became a member of the Noank Community Support Services Board of Directors in 2016. He enjoys being a part of the local community, and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Mystic Lions Club.

James L. Pratt

Pratt’s involvement with Noank Baptist Group Homes, now Noank Community Support Services, began when Robert P. (“Chip”) Anderson, Jr. purchased the former “Legion House” in Noank and gave it to the Noank Baptist Church to be a place of refuge for homeless, often senior, adults. Pratt, was, at that time, the Minister of the Noank Church and became immediately involved in the future of the house. When the state would not allow the desired use of the house, it was eventually decided to make it a group home for adolescent girls who had been removed from their families.

To make this possible, a corporation called “Noank Baptist Group Homes” was founded and the “Legion House” became “Main Street House.” Pratt served on the board of Noank Baptist Group Homes for the next 30 years until his retirement and move to London in 2001. In 2017, after returning to reside in Noank, Pratt became a board member of NCSS with particular concern for the future of “Main Street House.” Pratt fully supported the effort to retain the house (when its use as a group home for adolescent girls was no longer possible), and strongly advocated its use as a shelter for homeless young adults. That dream has now been fulfilled at the house.

Kelly E. Reardon, Secretary

Attorney Kelly E. Reardon, Vice President of The Reardon Law Firm, P.C. in New London, Connecticut, has been representing plaintiffs in personal injury and wrongful death cases since 2009. She earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School, where she was elected President of the student government for the entire student body. Prior to that, Attorney Reardon worked as a television reporter for five years, in Burlington, Vermont, and Hartford, Connecticut. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree cum laude from Princeton University and Master’s degrees from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the London school of Economics and Political Sciences.

Attorney Reardon is admitted to practice both in Connecticut and Rhode Island, and is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association, sits on the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and is a State Delegate to the American Association for Justice.

She has been chosen by her peers to be a Connecticut Superlawyers Rising Star since 2012. She has been rated AV Pre-eminent by Martindale-Hubbell, their highest rating. She was selected as a Connecticut New Leader in the Law in 2014.

In 2010 she was appointed to serve on the Connecticut Young Lawyers Section Executive Committed as co-chair of the Litigation Group.

She has been an active member of the Noank Community Support Services, including serving as their Board President, since 2009.

Portia Bordelon

Stacia Miner

Ed Langellier

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