CARIBBEAN LIFE IMPACT AWARDS
Lifetime Achievement
Awardee Announced
Renee Hastick-Motes, Vice President of External Affairs at
Episcopal Health Services/St. John’s Episcopal Hospital
Renee Hastick-Motes. Courtesy of St John’s Episcopal Hospital
Caribbean Life Impact Awards, February 12-18, 2021 7A
Renee Hastick-Motes has been serving as
the Vice President of External Affairs at
Episcopal Health Services/St. John’s Episcopal
Hospital (SJEH) – the only hospital
located on the Rockaway peninsula. As a member
of the executive team at Episcopal Health Services,
Hastick-Motes has been responsible for creating and
implementing the hospital’s legislative agenda, and
external relations strategy. She has overseen marketing
and communications, public affairs, pastoral
care, philanthropic and grant acquisition efforts.
At the age of seven, Hastick-Motes learned the
importance of community engagement, relationship
building, and marketing. These lifelong lessons have
carried her throughout her career.
She was pivotal in securing a $4.2M City grant for
the renovation of SJEH’s Labor and Delivery Unit,
and was instrumental in the creation of SJEH’s
mobile health van program, which brought medical
screening services across the rockaway peninsula.
Recently, she led a team to complete the hospital’s
community health needs assessment after the height
of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has been leading an
interdisciplinary team to develop and implement a
marketing strategy for obstetric services.
Hastick-Motes has also been serving as an Adjunct
Professor at Hofstra University, teaching in the Lawrence
Herbert School of Communications in the
department of Journalism, Media Studies and Public
Relations. Throughout her career, Hastick Motes has
held various leadership positions including Associate
Vice President of Community and Government
Affairs for one of New York City’s largest human
service agencies. In this capacity, she led an advisory
committee that was pivotal in changing the NYC
Health Penal Law, worked with local community
groups to advocate and resolve issues regarding the
stigma of mental health, and created programming
to heighten the agency’s profile.
Hastick-Motes served as the Special Assistant &
Policy Analyst to the Deputy Borough President at
the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President. In
this role, she led and developed initiatives such as
Brooklyn’s Women in Leadership Forum, the Civic
Engagement Symposium Series specifically for College
level Student Government Associations, and
various community initiatives.
Hastick-Motes also served as a member of Community
Board 13 in Coney Island where she lived
for many years. Currently, she has been serving on
the Levittown Community Council (LCC) in Long
Island where she resides with her family. Hastick-
Motes earned a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from
Notre Dame College and a Master (with distinction)
in Public Administration from Long Island University.
She has been a member of the International
Association of Business Communicators (IABC) and
The Healthcare Association of New York State Community
Health Task Force (HANYS).
Hastick-Motes’ career life is a full circle. As a child,
she walked the halls with her Dad attending meetings
with business and public officials, and today she has
had the privilege to work in those same places. She
has continued to carry the legacy of her father, the
late Dr. Roy A. Hastick, Sr. Like him, she is a mentor,
government strategist, and community leader.
She has been married to her husband Davond for
14 years, and together they have three beautiful children
– Denise, Nevaeh and Davond Jr.