Building Families First Staff
Mayukwa Kashiwa
President / CEO
King Musabandesu
Instructor
Tiffiney Taylor
PhD, MSW.
Maurisbel Castilla
Web Design
With over ten years of experience working in social services in America and overseas, Mayukwa Kashiwa has assisted the public in several capacities including setting up public schools in Zambia, advocating for people with developmental disabilities to have access to public transportation in South Africa, and providing financial assistance to low income families start up small businesses in Botswana. He has also supervised residential homes, provided case management for individuals with developmental disabilities, served as a Qualified Intellectual Disabilities Professional, drug and alcohol addiction counselor and contracts with the Rochester City School District providing an after school program which includes; African drums, anger management classes, social skills classes, and a home work assistance program. Educationally, Mayukwa has a BA in Social Work from Keuka College, an AS in Human Services from MCC and has a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, Certified Nutritional. Mayukwa's education, experience and having a daughter has been a driving force in the expansion of developmental disabilities BFF's mission.
King Musabandesu has over 5 years experience working in the Human Services Industry Via ARC of Monroe and internationally. King enjoys working with people of all abilities and ages. He specializes in African drums classes, music engineering/ recording, fitness instruction, adaptive hand over hand therapy, intelligent social skills, individual support and so on. King believes in touching and changing our community for the best one student at a time. His driving force and motivation align with Building Families First values: Exceptional, compassion and care.
Dr. Taylor is a self-motivated, concept to execution strategist with a proven record of supervising multi-million-dollar growth initiatives. She designs executive strategies to increase employee retention and revitalizes underperforming infrastructures by providing scalable, sustainable solutions. Significant experience in fundamental change and improvement to interdepartmental processes and productivity while increasing profitability. She is leveraging more than 20 years of leadership and administrative acumen of human services to implement client focused directives across disparate, local, and regional communities. In addition, Dr. Taylor has served as Masters level social worker in the Rochester Community for more than 20 years.
Dr. Taylor is a world traveler, an epicurean, and enjoys spending time with her family, reading, writing, and shopping. Dr. Taylor holds a Ph.D. from The John Wesley School of Leadership at Carolina University. Her Dissertation Topic: It’s Revival Time: An Examination of Servant Leadership in the African American Church. She received her M.Div. from Northeastern Seminary, her MSW from Roberts Wesleyan College, and her BS from St. John Fisher College.
Maurisbel has been working with people with developmental disabilities for over five years providing digital web design and financial services support. Their goal has always been to help people of all abilities learn and understand technology. Working in the area of Social Services in New York we are able to help each person develop different skills to apply them in daily life.