Kica Matos is the Executive Vice President of Programs and Strategy at the National Immigration Law Center. She is also a Distinguished Practitioner at Yale University’s Brady Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. Prior to this, Matos was Vice President of Initiatives at the Vera Institute of Justice. She also served as the Director of Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice at the Center for Community Change. She has extensive experience as an advocate, community organizer, and lawyer.

Kica has also headed up the U.S. Reconciliation and Human Rights Program at Atlantic Philanthropies. Before joining Atlantic Philanthropies, she was deputy mayor in the city of New Haven, where she oversaw the city’s community programs and launched new initiatives including prisoner re-entry, youth and immigrant integration. Kica was previously the executive director of JUNTA, New Haven’s oldest Latino advocacy organization. She also worked as an assistant federal defender for death sentenced inmates and with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Amnesty International on death penalty and criminal justice issues.

She has a B.A. from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, an M.A. from the New School and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Albertus Magnus College in 2017 and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of New Haven in 2019. She is a recipient of the John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award and in 2021, she was inducted into the CT Women’s Hall of Fame.

Mary Antonetti is a partner in the Firm’s New Haven office, specializing in tax compliance and consulting services to not-for-profit and healthcare organizations. She has more than 30 years of public accounting experience with national and international firms. Her extensive experience includes for healthcare and other tax-exempt organizations and their for-profit affiliates, including higher education institutions, NGOs, hospital systems, title holding companies, Official Catholic Directory entities, and private foundations.

Ms. Antonetti’s expertise includes consultation on the implications of tax reform, unrelated business income, alternative investments, foreign reporting, joint venture transactions, Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code, restructuring, application for exempt status, IRS audit support, and private inurement issues.

She has also has experience providing middle-market companies with general tax compliance and planning services focused on corporate acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations of entity structure, including consolidated groups, S-Corporations, and multi-tiered partnerships with domestic and foreign operations.

Prior to joining Marcum, Ms. Antonetti served as a director with a Big Four firm located in Hartford.

Katy Daiell is a partner in the Firm’s Boston office, a member of the Firm’s Corporate Tax Services group, and the tax leader for the New England High Tech and Life Science Industry Group. She has more than 15 years of experience working with public and private clients of varying size and complexity. Ms. Daiell has a diverse background in corporate tax, including tax compliance and planning for multi-national and multi-state corporate enterprises both publically owned and closely held as well as pass-through entity taxation and ASC 740 tax provision preparation and review. Her industry experience includes technology and life sciences, manufacturing, distribution, alternative investment and professional service firms. She has worked for regional, national and international public accounting firms in the past.

Ms. Daiell also serves as the Women’s Initiative Leader for the Firm’s Boston and Portland offices. She received her Master’s in the Science of Taxation in 2010 from Bryant University of Rhode Island.