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Maura O. Banta is IBM's East Coast Regional Manager for Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs. She joined IBM in 1973 as a marketing representative and held positions in Sales, Insurance Industry Consulting and Marketing Management before joining the External Programs Department in 1989. Maura was promoted to manager of the department in 1993, and became corporate community relations manager in 1996. In 2006, Maura was named Eastern Regional Manager, for IBM's corporate philanthropy, government relations and community relations. Ms. Banta is a board member of United Ways of New England, Mass Taxpayers Foundation, and Boston Plan for Excellence, Ronnie Center for Education Research and Policy, and the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Maura is the immediate past chair of the board of the Mass Business Alliance for Education. She served for six years on The Massachusetts Educational Management and Audit Council a position she first held under Governor Jane Swift. Ms. Banta Also served on former Governor Cellucci's Economic Development Task Force. She earned a B.A. in economics from Marymount College.
Vanessa Calderón-Rosado, Ph.D., is the Chief Executive Officer of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA), a Boston-based community building nonprofit organization founded in 1968 to develop low- and moderate-income housing, provide support services to families, and promote and preserve Latino artistic expression. During her tenure, IBA has completed a dramatic financial, operational and programmatic turnaround, which has resulted in increased funding that has brought the organization out of deficit and into budget increases for the past three years. Dr. Calderón-Rosado has implemented a non-profit business strategy that has resulted in solid fundraising and a stronger organization that is now poised to take a more active role in public policy issues affecting Latino children in Massachusetts. Under her leadership, IBA has expanded the Pathway Technology Campus, a joint venture with Bunker Hill Community College that created a technology-infused satellite campus in Villa Victoria (IBA's affordable housing community); and has increased IBA's arts and culture programs to anchor it as New England's prime Latino arts hub. She has served as advisor to various high-profile searches, including Boston Police Commissioner, Edward Davis. In 2009, Dr. Calderón-Rosado was selected for the prestigious Barr Foundation Fellowship granted to 12 of the most gifted non-profit leaders in Greater Boston. She is a Puerto Rican-born community leader who dedicated her past efforts to academic teaching and policy research in areas affecting Latinos and other populations of color. She received her doctorate in Public Policy on Aging at the Gerontology Center, University of Massachusetts at Boston. Dr. Calderón-Rosado lives in Milton, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons, where she is actively engaged in the schools and affordable housing issues. She enjoys reading, dancing, pilates and Zumba, cooking, traveling and the company of family and friends.
Harneen Chernow directs the Massachusetts Division of the 1199SEIU Training and Upgrading Fund. A partnership between 1199SEIU and healthcare employers, this fund provides incumbent healthcare workers with a wide range of training and career ladder opportunities. Previously, Ms. Chernow served as the Director of Education and Training for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and engaged in public policy and advocacy efforts to promote a workforce development system focused on low-wage and lesser-skilled workers. Ms. Chernow has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing labor/management workforce partnerships that create career ladders and opportunities leading to worker advancement. She also participates in numerous advocacy efforts to build a strong workforce system accountable to multiple stakeholders. She serves on a number of boards and commissions overseeing workforce development initiatives, including the Massachusetts Workforce Board Association, Boston PIC Workforce Development Committee, the Robert Woods Johnson Jobs to Career Initiative, and the Extended Care Career Ladder Initiative. Harneen is the recipient of the AFT-Massachusetts Hero in Education Award, Massachusetts AFL-CIO Outstanding Service Award, the UMass Dartmouth Labor Education Center Fontera Memorial Award and the UMass Boston Labor Resource Center Foster-Kenney Award. Ms. Chernow received her B.A. from Wellesley College and M.A. from University of California, Berkeley.
Gerald Chertavian is founder and CEO of Year Up, a one-year, intensive training program that provides urban young adults 18-24 with a unique combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate apprenticeship. Gerald began his career on Wall Street as an officer of the Chemical Baking Corporation and then became the head of marketing at Transnational Financial Services in London. He co-founded Conduit Communications in 1993. Between 1993-1998, Conduit ranked as one of England's fastest growing companies. Gerald earned a B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He currently serves as a Trustee of Cambridge College, Bowdoin College and The Boston Foundation and is on the Board of Advisors for the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Club and New Sector Alliance.
Michael D'Ortenzio Jr. is the 2010-2011 Chair of the State Student Advisory Council, elected by his fellow students in June 2010. He is serving his second term as a member of the Board. Michael has been a delegate to both the Greater Boston Regional Student Advisory Council and the State Student Advisory Council (SSAC) for three years, where he was on the Executive Committee and served as Recorder of SSAC. Michael is active in his town and school, where he is a senior at Wellesley High School. Michael is a member of the Student Congress, serving as President this year. He represents students on the School Council as the Student Moderator, where he spearheaded a major revision of the Council's bylaws. He also served as class President during his freshman and sophomore years. Michael is currently an elected member of Wellesley's Representative Town Meeting. At age 17, he received the highest number of votes from his precinct in the 2010 annual town election. Michael has also worked as an intern in the Boston offices of U.S. Senator John F. Kerry and State Representative Alice H. Peisch. He volunteers as a permanent anchor f0r the local community television station, WCAC-TV, on it weekly news program, Wellesley This Week. He received the station's Community Service Award for his service. Michael referees middle and high school soccer and loves to bike, hike, and boat. He ran varsity cross-country his freshman year. Currently, he serves as manager for the cross-country and track and field teams. Michael enjoys singing, both at his church and in the select choir at his school, Keynotes. Michael holds a strong passion for volunteering and civic engagement, and is a fervent advocate of special education and 21st century skills. He resides in Wellesley with his mother, father, and sister.
Beverly Holmes is a business leader, strategist, author and activist. She recently completed 25 years of service with MassMutual Financial Group, a fortune 100 financial services company. She was honored with her company's prestigious President's Leadership Award in 2000 after she successfully created, developed and grew a business designed to provide 401(k) retirement plans to small and medium size businesses. Under her leadership the new retirement business produced and added new distribution channels and grew to $4 billion of assets under management. Over 2600 new customers were added to the company's customer base. Today the business continues as a profitable, growth business for the company. Beverly is the first African American woman to reach the position of Senior Vice President, Executive Officer at MassMutual Financial Group. Beverly is focused on providing 21st century education skills for the children of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She also has a passion for and interest in advancing the financial security, economic growth and leadership opportunities for women and has traveled nationally and internationally speaking and advising on the positive impact of access to capital for business growth and expansion. She is Chair of the Board for the Center for Women's Business Research, a board member of WISER (Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement), a member of Office Depot Women's Advisory Board and one of the first inductees into Bay Path College' Twenty First Century Women Business Leaders Hall of Fame by. In 2008 she was appointed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She is the founder and president of B.A. Holmes & Associates, a business and leadership development consulting firm. Beverly holds a Bachelors degree in Human Services and a Masters degree in Education from Cambridge College and Southern New Hampshire University respectively.
Jeff Howard is founder and president of The Efficacy Institute, Inc., a national, not-for-profit agency of education reform. The Efficacy Institute is committed to the mission of developing all young people to high standards, particularly children of color and the economically disadvantaged. The work of The Efficacy Institute is based on a model of learning developed by Dr. Howard based on the idea that intelligence can be built through Effective Effort. The Efficacy Institute aims to help adults operate from a simple belief: all young people can learn at very high levels if the process of education is effectively organized. For five years, Jeff Howard served as a Governor's appointee to the Education Management Audit Council, the agency that evaluated the operations of districts across the state. Dr. Howard holds an A.B. from Harvard College and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University. He is also the founder of J. Howard and Associates, a corporate training and consulting firm that is now part of the Novations Group, Inc.
Ruth Kaplan is currently employed by the Combined Jewish Philanthropies as the Director of the Boston-Haifa Connection, a multi-faceted partnership between the sister cities of Boston and Haifa. Prior to her appointment to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Ruth Kaplan served for four years as an elected member of the Brookline School Committee, chairing the subcommittees on Policy Review and Government Relations. She was also a board member of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees and a member of its Advocacy and Resolutions committees. Prior to her school committee service, Ms. Kaplan co-chaired the Brookline Special Education Parent Advisory Council. Ms. Kaplan is a member of the Massachusetts Parent Teacher Association and is the first parent representative appointed to the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education Members. She is a founder of the Alliance for the Education of the Whole Child, a coalition of more than 45 education and civil rights organizations which organized to critique the over–reliance on standardized testing in the public schools and advocate for an assessment system consisting of multiple measures. Ms. Kaplan is a member of the Massachusetts bar and was associated with the firms of Widett, Slater & Goldman and Peabody & Brown. She practiced in the areas of Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization as well as Labor and Employment law. Her state service consisted of a position as Senior Researcher to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and work with the Department of Youth Services as a caseworker and program evaluator. She also assisted in the establishment of the Adolescent Day Treatment Program at Danvers State Hospital. A resident of Brookline, Ms. Kaplan is a graduate of Brookline High School and has two daughters one of whom attends the high school, and the other of whom is a 2007 graduate. Ms. Kaplan holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School, as well as an M.ED. from Boston University and an M.A. from Brandeis University. She holds a B.A. degree in history from Barnard College and a Bachelor of Hebrew Letters degree from the Seminary College of the Jewish Theological Seminary. Ms. Kaplan also attended Wellesley College and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
James E. McDermott is a former Massachusetts State Teacher of the Year who has taught English, Writing, and Drama, and has coached championship teams in baseball. He has worked exclusively with urban students in grades 7-12 over the course of his thirty-four year career. He is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Central Massachusetts Writing Project, and for seven years served as the English Language Arts Liaison for the City of Worcester during which time he led the task force for developing an articulated K-12, portfolio-driven curriculum. He served as a leading member of the Massachusetts State Curriculum Framework and Assessment Development Committees. Professor McDermott's clinical work focuses on schools in the Hiatt - Main South Secondary School Collaborative: University Park Campus School (where he taught for six years, creating the secondary English program), South High Community School (where he taught & coached for twenty-five years), and the new secondary Claremont Academy. Professor McDermott works with M.A. and M.A.T. students, supervising and facilitating on-site seminars for students and for teachers. He encourages student teachers to develop classrooms that engage all urban students in rigorous content in a warm and inviting environment. Reading, writing and thinking are at the center of Professor McDermott's pedagogy. Professor McDermott has presented numerous workshops locally and nationally. His focus is on creating classrooms that engage all students as thinking and feeling human beings through using low stakes writing to help even the most at-risk students to think deeply and to understand rigorous content. He is past Co-Chairperson of staff development for the Foundation of California Community Colleges. Professor McDermott earned his Ed.D. at Clark University, M.A. in English Literature at Clark University, and his B.A. in English Literature at the College of the Holy Cross.
Dana Mohler-Faria is the president of Bridgewater State College and was the first member of his family to go to college. President Mohler-Faria is the first person of color to lead Bridgewater State College and, at the time of his inauguration in 2002, was only the second Cape Verdean in the United States to be elected the president of a higher education institution. Shortly after becoming president, Dr. Mohler-Faria undertook an aggressive plan to expand the number of full-time, tenure-track faculty at the college. He also founded Connect, a Southeastern Massachusetts partnership dedicated to advancing the regional mission of public higher education. He also presided over an extensive review of the undergraduate curriculum, modernized the college's general education requirements, initiated an institution-wide assessment of diversity opportunities and programming, established the highly-prestigious Presidential Fellowship to promote faculty scholarly and creative work, and channeled significant college resources into faculty and student scholarship endeavors. Under his leadership, the college endowment has grown to more than $17 million - the largest for any state college in the Commonwealth. Prior to becoming president, Dr. Mohler-Faria served for 11 years as the college's vice president for administration and finance, during which time he oversaw the largest construction and renovation program in college history. He has also held numerous senior administrative positions at Mount Wachusett Community College, Bristol Community College and Cape Cod Community College. Dr. Mohler-Faria holds a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, master's and bachelor's degrees in history from Boston University, and an associate's degree from Cape Cod Community College. He has participated in the Oxford Roundtable, the Millennium Leadership Institute, the New England Resource Center for Higher Education and Harvard University's Institute for Education Management and Senior Executives Program. In addition to his work as president, Dr. Mohler-Faria served as Governor Deval Patrick's special advisor for education and was instrumental in leading the Commonwealth's Readiness Project and establishing the Executive Office of Education.
In March 2008, Governor Deval Patrick announced his appointment of Paul Reville as the Commonwealth's new Secretary of Education, effective July 1, 2008, to oversee the recently created Executive Office of Education. Paul Reville is the former president of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, and formerly served as the Director of the Education Policy and Management Program and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Paul is the former executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform, and was the founding executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. He also served on the Massachusetts State Board of Education from 1991-96 and chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning, as well as the Massachusetts Education Reform Review Commission. He recently served on Governor Patrick's Transition Team and as chair of the Governor's Pre-K - 12 Task Force on Governance. He is a former teacher and principal in urban, alternative schools. Paul is a trustee of Wheelock College and the Nativity School of Worcester, and serves on numerous other boards and advisory committees. Last year, he edited the book, "A Decade of Urban School Reform: Persistence and Progress in the Boston Public Schools." He is a graduate of Colorado College and holds a Master's degree from Stanford University.
Mitchell Chester began serving as Commissioner of the Massachusetts public schools in May 2008 after being unanimously selected by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in January. Dr. Chester began his career as an elementary school teacher in Connecticut, and later served as a middle school assistant principal and district curriculum coordinator. From there he moved to the Connecticut State Department of Education where he oversaw curriculum and instructional programs. In 1997 he was named the Executive Director for Accountability and Assessment for Philadelphia, where he headed the offices of Assessment, Research and Evaluation, Student and School Progress, and Pupil Information Services. In 2001 he moved to Ohio, where he served as the Senior Associate Superintendent for Policy and Accountability for the Ohio Department of Education, where he oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning. Dr. Chester has presented nationally on accountability, assessment and teacher induction and retention. He has served as a consultant to states and school districts regarding curriculum and instruction, teacher evaluation, student achievement, and assessment and accountability. Dr. Chester holds a doctorate in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University, as well as advanced degrees from the University of Connecticut and the University of Hartford. He and his wife Angela live with their son Nicholas in Winchester. |
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