As President and founder of The Parisky Group, Flora has developed many of our clients’ most successful projects.  She has designed three major public/private ventures:  the Hartford Action Plan on Infant Health, the Greater Hartford HIV/AIDS Initiative and Drugs Don’t Work!, the state’s nationally replicated school and workplace prevention program. 

Flora’s professional expertise is in program management, applied research, strategic planning, program evaluation and fund development.  She has been lead principal on government projects in planning and program evaluations for New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport, Connecticut and Chicopee, Massachusetts.  She has worked for the New York State Government and Connecticut Departments of Public Health, Judiciary and OPM.  Her municipal experience also includes director of the City of Hartford’s multi-million dollar community development block grant program.

Flora’s work for community-based programs is well-known.  She has particular skills in building inter-organizational partnerships, and has won praise from clients for the strength of the public/private sector collaborations she has fostered.  She has a strong ability to lead divergent viewpoints toward consensus and action.

Flora received her Masters in Public Administration from the University of Hartford as a Woodruff Fellow.  She has served as a director of the CHILD Council,  president of the Charter Oak Cultural Center, and as a member and chair of Connecticut’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.  In 1995, she was named by the Hartford Advocate as one of the city’s dozen “Good Eggs.”

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