New Board Members

Jocelyn Gavitt is a licensed landscape architect with a specialty in community planning.  She has worked with numerous communities on projects and programs that build on and promote their natural assets in the public sphere.  Locally, during her role as president of  the Cazenovia Area Community Development Association (CACDA), she worked to implement the GoCaz program which included GIS mapping, trail and park signage, and a website to connect people to local recreational activities.  Jocelyn teaches design studios in landscape architecture and community planning at SUNY ESF.  Currently, she is also acting as executive director of the Partnership for Community Development, a nonprofit organization in the Hamilton area.  Jocelyn moved to Cazenovia in 2001 with her husband Jim and together they raised their three daughters in the community.  

McKenzie Houseman got her undergraduate degree at SUNY Oswego and her Masters in Elementary & Special Education at LeMoyne College. McKenzie states, “I am deeply rooted in Cazenovia.  Both sets of my grandparents raised their families here.”  McKenzie and several of her family members started their businesses here, including one of her grandfathers who opened the Brae Loch Inn in 1946.  McKenzie has served on the Cazenovia Chamber of Commerce and Madison County Tourism boards. “I love everything about Cazenovia, and I want to serve on this board to join in the effort to maintain the history and beauty of our area.  I feel I can bring my joy of collaboration and brainstorming new ideas to my work with CPF. I am looking forward to joining this great team!”