Former Malverne mayor, Anthony Panzarella, joins ACIM board

Anthony Panzarella, former mayor of  the Incorporated Village of Malverne, was recently appointed to the National Board of Directors of the American Committee on Italian Migration. He was was selected to fill the seat left vacant after former Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph M. Margiotta died in late November 2008.

For the last year, Panzarella, ex-president of the Nassau County Village Officials Association, has served as co-chairman of ACIM’s Nassau County Chapter, along with Nassau County Elections Commissioner John DeGrace, of Valley Stream, and Legislator Richard Nicolello, of New Hyde Park. A fourth co-chairwoman, Nancy DiFiore Quinn, of Lynbrook, was named as the liaison to the Order Sons of Italy in America.

Panzarella will serve a two-year term on the national ACIM board as the representative of the Nassau County Chapter. Panzarella is also an executive board member of the Dante Foundation, which has awarded more than $1.5 million in college scholarships to graduating high school seniors of Italian descent.

The ACIM, a nonprofit founded under the auspices of the Catholic Church in 1952, aims to advocate immigration legislation to correct inequities in the law to better reflect the American values of equality and justice for all.