KINGSTON – Mayor Steven Noble has filled two new positions at Kingston City Hall with the naming of Kristen Wilson as the new grants manager and Megan Weiss-Rowe as the city’s director of communications and community engagement.
The grants manager position was created following the consolidation of the Economic and Community Development departments earlier this year.
The communications and community engagement post was created with funding saved with the elimination of a full-time parks and recreation position at the end of last year, combined with other funds previously used for outside consultants.
Wilson, who holds a master’s degree from the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, is currently senior resource educator in the Healthy Communities Program at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County. She has been involved in city projects in the past including the Live Well Kingston coalition and has grant writing and project management expertise, the mayor said.
Weiss-Rowe is currently program director at Family of Woodstock, Inc. For the past 10 years, she has been involved in the Everette Hodge Community Center, providing support services to Midtown youth and families and oversight of after-school and summer programming, in partnership with the Kingston Parks and Recreation Department.
Weiss-Rowe has worked as a coordinator of the Student Success Center at Kingston High School and as the lead facilitator of the Kingston Cares substance abuse prevention coalition.
Both women live with their families in Kingston.
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