Maureen Ledden Rossi is an award-winning journalist who lives in Kings Park. She describes herself as a very young fifty year old. She has written for countless weeklies, dailies and magazines in the New York Metropolitan Area over the last twenty years. She is married for twenty-eight years to her high school prom date who is Vice President of a Long Island Engineering firm.  She is also the mother of two young adult children who she describes as out navigating the social jungles of the ever-changing digital and global world.

Maureen is the Chairwoman and a founding member of the small non-profit Kings Park in the kNOw; she and her team work to shine a light on and eradicate Long Island’s youth opiate and heroin epidemic since 2006. KPITK has lobbied for a myriad of critical bills to address the region’s epidemic and worked closely with local and state legislators over the years.  KPITK keeps law enforcement, their school district and parents and children of Kings Park in the know with the latest prevention and addiction information from the best and brightest minds in the Industry on Long Island.

Maureen is a trained Reiki therapist for fourteen years and has a very small practice in her community at Path of Wellness (ancient Japanese laying of the hands).

She hosts a weekly radio show, the Non Profit Voice on Long Island News Radio 103.9 where she highlights Long Island’s non-profits every Saturday morning at eight a.m.

Awards:

St. Agnes Academy High School – Maureen was just put in the Hall of Fame, representing her graduating class of 1982 for making positive changes in the world.

Woman of Distinction for the Suffolk County Legislature  The award was for the year 2012 and presented in the spring of 2013 for making positive changes for the county and the people who reside there, particularly with regard to the opiate/heroin epidemic.

Press Club of LI —   2nd place in Editorial/Commentary: Online, 2011

Woman of the Year in Smithtown 2010 for Civics, the Times of Smithtown

Volunteer of the Year – Suffolk County Legislature 2009  (for shining a light on the opiate/heroin epidemic on LI and working to eradicate it).