The Center for Family Justice
Leadership + Board
Mark is Interim Chief Executive Officer and President of The Center for Family Justice. Having joined CFJ’s leadership team in 2013 as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, Mark has more than 40 years of experience with finance, accounting and operations. Prior to joining CFJ he spent 20 years with Pitney Bowes Management Services in Stamford. He is an Emeritus Board member of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation’s Connecticut Westchester Chapter, where he has served as past President and Treasurer. He is also on the Board of the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce. Mark received a B.S. degree in Accounting and Business/Management from Sacred Heart University.
Billy Barrett
Director of Education, Engagement and Youth Empowerment Services
bbarrett@centerforfamilyjustice.org
Billy joined CFJ in July 2025, working as the Director of Education, Engagement and Youth Empowerment Services. In this role Billy provides leadership, management, and supervision to Pathways to HOPE, prevention education and community engagement activities.
Billy has 10 years of experience working as a Youth and Teen Director where he has guided and mentored youth and teens in Fairfield County. Experience includes managing after school programs, summer camps, sports programs, basketball leagues and youth committees. His passion is to provide the youth with new opportunities while teaching valuable lessons about helping the community.
He received a B.S degree in Marketing from Roger Williams University.
Kayte began her career at CFJ in 2007, working at Bridgeport’s Golden Hill Courthouse as a Family Violence Victim Advocate supporting family violence victims engaged with the criminal justice system. Kayte then supervised the criminal and civil court Family Violence Victim Advocates for four years before being chosen to lead CFJ’s Multidisciplinary Team.
In her current role, Kayte provides leadership to our Civil Legal, Court Advocacy, Crisis and Housing, and Domestic Violence, Sexual Violence, and Latine Community Services units. Kayte is the Director of CFJ’s Child Advocacy Center and coordinates the Greater Bridgeport Multidisciplinary Team.
She also teaches law enforcement professionals about the dynamics of domestic violence and frequently teaches cadets in the Bridgeport Police Academy. Kayte co-chairs the Executive Committee of the Greater Bridgeport Multidisciplinary Team.Kayte is also CFJ’s Lethality Assessment Program coordinator and has sat on the Task Force to Study the State’s Response to Minors Exposed to Domestic Violence. Kayte earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven. She has presented to a diverse array of audiences on topics such as domestic violence, sexual violence, the court system’s response to domestic violence, strangulation, and child abuse.
In 2017, Kayte was chosen as one of Westfair Communication’s “40 Under 40” honors recipients in Fairfield County. In 2023, she received the Connecticut Children’s Alliance MDT Hero Award.
James Masullo provides overall leadership for managing financial resources, tracking, and monitoring financial expenditures, and ensuring that financial spending is in line with agency budgets.
In conjunction with the President/CEO and management team, he is responsible for implementing short- and long-term strategies for managing and improving the overall financial health and systems of The Center. Mr. Masullo is accountable for all aspects of P & L and all analysis, forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting. He has over 30 years of experience with finance, accounting, and operations. His career began with public accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche. That was followed by 16 years at Reed Elsevier/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt culminating with 9 years as CFO of Greenwood Publishing Group/Heinemann Publishing.
For the past 7 years, he has been Director of Finance & Operations at the Devereux Glenholme School. He joined The Center for Family Justice in February 2025. He holds a BBA in Accounting from Eastern Michigan University along with a Master of Public Health from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Paul Santos serves as the Chief Information and Operations Officer at The Center for Family Justice, where he has been a key member of the organization since 2003. Throughout his tenure, Paul has led the development and implementation of innovative technology and operational systems that enhance CFJ’s ability to deliver critical services and support its long‑term mission.
With more than 22 years of experience in information technology and project management, as well as over 19 years in operations management, Paul provides strategic oversight across CFJ’s infrastructure, data security, and organizational operations.
Under Paul’s leadership, CFJ successfully transformed its main headquarters into Connecticut’s first Family Justice Center, creating a unified and collaborative space for multidisciplinary services. He also oversaw the recent renovation and launch of Patti’s Place, a state‑of‑the‑art domestic violence safe house designed to provide a secure and healing environment for survivors. Paul is currently guiding CFJ’s next phase of growth, including the expansion of its programs and services into an additional 5,000 square feet of operational space.
A strong advocate for workplace safety, Paul launched CFJ’s first Health and Safety Committee in 2012, establishing an ongoing forum for employees to raise concerns, develop safety strategies, and implement proactive solutions. His leadership and contributions were recognized in 2015 when he was honored by Westfair Communication’s Fairfield County Business Journal as one of its “40 Under 40” award recipients.
Board of Directors
CHAIRPERSON: Kristin Okesson
Connoisseur Media
Stacy Cascante
Monroe Police Department
Pamela J. Dale, Esq.
Law Office of Pamela Dale, L.L.C.
Matthew Devito
Yale New Haven Health
Suzanne Gorab
Community Leader
Andrea Kawakami
M&T Bank
TREASURER: Michael E. Lyngaas
Community Leader
Gary MacNamara
Sacred Heart University
VICE CHAIR: Adriana Mazza
Ion Bank
SECRETARY: Stephanie Moura
Hartford Healthcare
Lauren Renzulli
Community Leader
