Vikki Collazo is a Binghamton area native, having attended Chenango Forks school district. After attending and graduating from Baypath University, she spent nearly 20 years in New York City working in the hospitality industry at the Lexington Hotel, Madison Towers and The Milford Plaza hotel. She returned to Binghamton to raise her son in 1997, where she then shifted her focus and pursued a career in non-profit work, starting with the Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce, Binghamton Rescue Mission and to her current position at the Children’s Home (of Wyoming Conference).  She is, and continues to be, dedicated to helping others with her “Service Above Self” mantra, belonging to the Rotary Club of Binghamton, acting as President of the Binghamton Rotary Charities Fund, acting as Treasurer of Volunteer Administrators of the Southern Tier (VAST), Advisory Board of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Catholic Charities, Board of Trustees of the Broome County Public Library and a member of the American Business Women’s Association. Working in and serving the community for 26 years, led her to the BAACF to better serve our youth and community.