Brandeis University

Dr. Lawrence Neil Bailis, a political scientist, is an associate research professor and senior research associate at the Center for Youth and Communities, where he has specialized in the administration of welfare, child care, social service, employment and training, and education programs. His current and recently completed research includes an effort to work with community groups to assess the impact of welfare reform in Massachusetts and more than a dozen studies that address service learning, school-to-work, school-to-college, and efforts to prevent dropouts as strategies to reform elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education. He also has conducted numerous research projects that address the effectiveness of strategies to increase the utility of service delivery systems, to promote collaboration among related programs, and to ensure that so-called community-based programs truly reflect the interests of the community. In recent years, he has provided training and strategic planning and management assistance to a state social services department, several dozen not-for-profit youth-serving and child care organizations, two foundations and an urban Pennsylvania school district. For the past 13 years, Professor Bailis has served as the public (neutral) member of a tripartite labor-management panel that determines the workload for frontline workers in all Massachusetts welfare offices. His publications include an analysis of grass roots organizing techniques, Bread or Justice: Grassroots Organizing in the Welfare Rights Movements. Professor Bailis received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Western New England University

Barbara Campanella is Vice President for Marketing & External Affairs at Western New England University in Springfield. She handles internal and external communications for the college, and also promotes its current and future educational programs. She has over 35 years of experience in higher education administration and serves on the boards of several community and civic associations within the Commonwealth.

Boston Red Sox

Curran Raclin graduated from Boston College with a degree in theology.  In the year after graduation, Curran served at City Year, working in Boston Public schools and serving in after school programs.  Curran also ran two City Year For Kids school vacation camps.  Curran is currently working as a marketing analyst and CRM project manager for the Boston Red Sox.

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Kristen McKinnon currently serves as the Community Service-Learning Specialist at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. She holds masters degrees in public administration and mental health counseling from Suffolk University, and a bachelors degree in psychology from Providence College. Ms. McKinnon has spent the last 15 years developing and implementing youth programs that support academic achievement, promote healthy behaviors, and improve social behavior and civic engagement. She volunteers in various community organizations as a member of Boston Cares and is a volunteer Wish Grantor for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Service Alliance

Emily Haber is the CEO of the Massachusetts Service Alliance, a private, nonprofit organization that serves as the state commission on community service and volunteerism. MSA invests public and private funds in community-based organizations and builds capacity of volunteer programs and nonprofit agencies across the Commonwealth. Before joining MSA in March 2008, Emily served as program director of Boston Main Streets, a public-private initiative of the City of Boston established to revitalize Boston's many neighborhood commercial districts. Ms. Haber holds a B.A. from Vassar College and a Masters in City Planning from M.I.T.

Emmaus, Inc.

Gretchen Arntz has spent more than 25 years seeking social justice for disenfranchised families and adults in Massachusetts. Gretchen received her Bachelors degree in psychology from Wellesley College and her Masters degree in social work from Boston College. Early in her career, Gretchen served as Executive Director of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Lawrence and Girls Incorporated of Greater Haverhill. A founding Board member of Emmaus Inc., she joined the staff in 1994 and serves as its Chief Development Officer today. Gretchen serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Service Alliance and the Wellesley Students' Aid Society. Gretchen is an experienced public speaker, grant writer, and journalist. She shares her vision for a just and peaceful world passionately with all who will listen.

Massachusetts Campus Compact

Barbara Canyes has been Executive Director of the Massachusetts Campus Compact since September 1999. In this capacity, she has provided executive leadership and strategic directions to this higher education membership organization of over 60 colleges and university presidents in the state of Mass. She also serves on the National Campus Compact's Executive Board and Mass. Service Alliance. Ms. Canyes has degrees from American University and University of Maryland. She brings to her MACC position, over 20 years in higher education administration and community service from state, private and two year college institutions. She resides in Haverhill, Mass. with her husband and 10 year old daughter.

Corrigan Communications

Ernie Corrigan has over 25 years of experience in communications, including 12 years as a journalist and as the Massachusetts Statehouse correspondent for Dow Jones Inc. in Boston for Ottaway News Service. He served in senior roles in numerous political campaigns in Massachusetts before being named Assistant Secretary of Transportation and Construction under former Governor William F. Weld. Ernie served as Director of External Affairs and Vice President at Citizens Bank of Massachusetts before starting Corrigan Communications in 1995, where he specializes in long-term health care communications and crisis communications.

Devonshire Investors

Mr. Coughlin works for Devonshire Investors, the private equity unit of Fidelity Investments. Prior to joining Devonshire, Mr. Coughlin worked on the turn-around of OneBeacon Insurance, a portfolio company of White Mountains Insurance Group. Prior to OneBeacon, he was a management consultant at Mainspring, Inc. Mr. Coughlin holds a Bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Yale University. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Service Alliance for six years and is currently Board Chair.

Irene E. and George A. Davis Foundation

Ms. Fuller has spent her career in marketing and advertising and her non-working hours as a volunteer for nonprofits doing fundraising, marketing, capacity-building, and generally, whatever has needed to be done! The organizations she has worked with in the Greater Springfield area range from WGBY, Public Television for Western Massachusetts to Girl Scouts to Springfield School Volunteers to the Springfield Day Nursery (now Square One) to the Greater Springfield Mentoring Partnership to local colleges. She heads the Cherish Every Child (CHECH) initiative for the Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation in Springfield, a family foundation serving Hampden County. The overall strategy of the CHECH is to facilitate and advocate for investment in high quality, integrated services to young children and their families which will result in children arriving at kindergarten thriving and ready to succeed. She has been involved for 12 years in the promotion of and funding administration for volunteer programs on a state-wide level as a director of the Massachusetts Service Alliance. She continues to enjoy her weekly lunches with a "lunch buddy" from the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampden County.

The Boston Foundation

Jill Lacey Griffin is Director of Programs at The Boston Foundation with a special focus on issues related to workforce, education and economic development. Earlier, she served as Assistant Director for Economic Initiatives at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. A former special assistant to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, Griffin developed and managed sectoral strategies for business retention and attraction for the City including the Back Streets initiative, focusing on retaining industrial and commercial businesses.  Prior to joining the City, she spent several years at City Year Boston directing the Life After City Year department which provided college, career, and personal counseling services as well as GED and ESOL classes to AmeriCorps members.

Ms. Jelin's most recent work has been as been as President of Alice Jelin Associates, a Boston based consulting firm specializing in philanthropy, education and public policy. She managed this firm from 1993-2006. From 1985-1992, Ms. Jelin was senior public affairs consultant for New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. There she managed school-business partnerships, local community relations projects and participated on education committees throughout Boston. Ms. Jelin also served as appointments secretary to former Governor Michael Dukakis.

Active in community affairs, Ms. Jelin was a member of the Board of Directors of the Nellie Mae Corporation since 1984, and a founding member and Vice-Chair of the Board for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation from 1999 through 2005. She is currently a Director Emeritus. She is currently a board member and vice-president of the Ford Hall Forum and a board member of the Massachusetts Service Alliance. She also was a board member and president of the Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps for Children, and remains a member of the Advisory Committee to the Board. She was also a director of Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts, Old North Foundation and The Boston Club. Ms. Jelin has an MPA from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a BA from Smith College.

Athena Legal Strategies Group

Ms. Jones is the founder of Athena Legal Strategies Group in Boston, where her practice focuses on providing counsel and advice to employers, management and senior executives on labor and employment matters. She represents clients in state and federal court, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, American Arbitration Association, Department of Unemployment Assistance and in Alternative Dispute Resolution proceedings. To assist business clients in providing a professional work environment compliant with state and federal laws, Ms. Jones provides counsel on preventative employment practices and litigation avoidance strategies, including pre-employment screening; personnel policy development; drafting employment, noncompetition and severance agreements; wage and hour compliance; electronic communications and computer usage policies; employee misconduct and discipline; workplace violence; internal investigations; crisis communication management; and employee discharge.

As a Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) Certified Trainer, Ms. Jones also conducts internal investigations and provides discrimination and harassment prevention training. In recent years, Ms. Jones has developed an additional practice area focus advising and representing companies with international operations and offshore workforces on strategic human resources and personnel management matters, particularly in Asia, Africa and South America.

Ms. Jones is an author and frequent lecturer on employment-related topics and is actively involved in the legal community. In 2008, she was appointed to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Advisory Board by Governor Deval Patrick. She is also on the Board of Trustees for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, is on the Boston Bar Journal Board of Editors and is a co-chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association Civil Litigation Section Council. In 2006, Ms. Jones was recognized by her peers as a ÒRising StarÓ in Labor and Employment Law and subsequently selected as a ÒSuper LawyerÓ in Labor and Employment Law by Boston Magazine in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Dr. Carol Kinsley is a service-learning and education consultant who has held teaching and administrative positions in education for over forty years. Since the early seventies, Dr. Kinsley has worked to examine and implement ways to integrate community experiences into the educational process, beginning with the local community and moving to state and national efforts. In 2000, Dr. Kinsley became a consultant and a recognized national leader in service-learning. She has authored and edited numerous publications includingEnriching Curriculum through Service, which exemplifies her focus on the integration of service experiences into the educational process. In 1994, President William J. Clinton named her to the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National Service where she served until October 2006. In 2001, she was named to the newly formed Board of Directors of the National Service-Learning Partnership and recently completed her term as board chair. 

760 Associates

In 1970 Nancy Korman established 760 Associates, a marketing communications and graphic design firm. After 35 years, retirement became an option and the firm closed its doors. Ms. Korman wrote a weekly column for the Boston Herald from 1983 until 1990. Her focus was on social issues and the role of women in contemporary society. She was a member of the faculty of the Radcliffe Seminars having taught " Developing Materials for Public Relations and Fund Raising " for more than a decade. Ms. Korman also led workshops for the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. Ms Korman has served on the boards of the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the American Association of State Service Commissions. She founded the first professional women's network in Boston . The Women's Lunch Group served as a meeting place for women in search of connections, referrals and advancement. She has received an annual award from the Cambridge YWCA , the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, the Crohns and Colitis Foundation and the Big Sister Association . She served as the Chair of the Massachusetts Service Alliance for 10 years. After a brief interlude she has returned to the Board.

Corporation for National & Community Service

Sherry McClintock is the Massachusetts State Director for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). She has been with CNCS for 8 years. Prior to that she was the Associate Director of Athletes in Service - Sport in Society (an AmeriCorps Program) at Northeastern University. She has both her bachelors and masters degrees from Northeastern University.

Sturdy Memorial Hospital

Anne Messier is Director of Volunteer and Student Services at Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, MA. She is responsible for overseeing the activities of over 500 volunteers and over 200 students who come to the hospital each year to fulfill internships and explore medical careers through shadowing opportunities. Anne knows first hand just how much one person can make a difference for others as she began her career at Sturdy Memorial as a volunteer. She is the chair person for the Annual ÒVolunteer DayÓ Celebration for the Greater Attleboro Area and serves on the boards of the Attleboro Arts Museum and the Area Community Council. She is also a member of the advisory board for the Career & Technical Education at Attleboro High School and a member of the advisory board for the Cooperative Education at Tri County Regional Vocational Technical High School. Anne graduated with honors with a BA in Psychology from Stonehill College and she is a Certified Administrator of Volunteer Services (CAVS).

David Roach has been involved in education for forty years He has been an English teacher, a counselor in a treatment center for behaviorally disordered adolescents, an assistant principal, principal, and, for seventeen years, a Superintendent of Schools in Massachusetts.  Both districts he led were recognized by the Corporation of National Service as Service Learning Leader Districts. 

 Most recently, he served as the Principal of the Nativity School of Worcester.  He currently teaches an education policy seminar at the College of Holy Cross and supervises graduate students in school leadership at Worcester State University In addition; he served as co chair of the Commonwealth Corps Commission. Since its inception in 2007, the Commonwealth Corps in partnership with local non profits  and the Massachusetts Service Alliance has sponsored over 500 Massachusetts residents in a year of service to their communities. In November, David was appointed by Governor Patrick to the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

Mr. Rollins' most recent work has been serving as Director of Management and Fiscal Affairs of the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education, leading financial and administrative support for over 700 continuing education courses each year.  Prior to Harvard Medical School, he served as an Assistant Dean and Director of Finance and Administration for the Stanford University School of Medicine, managing the financial and administrative functions for the school's education programs and the office of student affairs.  He also served as an officer in the United States Air Force and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2005.

Mr. Rollins has served as a board member and hands-on volunteer for several community service organizations in California and Massachusetts. While serving in the military, he founded a volunteer tutoring program that received a Daily Point of Light Award and was subsequently honored in a 1993 White House ceremony with President and Mrs. Bush.  He was a Massachusetts Service Alliance board member from 1997 to 1999 and left the board when the Air Force assigned him to the Pentagon.

Student at Northeastern University

Katie is a senior at Northeastern University majoring in Human Services with a concentration in Public Policy. In college, Katie has spent the majority of her time working with national direct service programs such as City Year and Jumpstart, and she has been involved in service programs on campus such as AmeriCorps' Student Leaders in Service, Alternative Spring Break, and the Service-Learning Program at Northeastern, where she coordinates service placements for students in courses utilizing service-learning. Katie was an intern at Be the Change, Inc, established by City Year co-founder Alan Khazei, and spent time studying social entrepreneurship and international development in India and Morocco. She is particularly interested in how to engage more AmeriCorps alumni in legislative advocacy and how cross-sector collaboration can be strengthened for increased impact. Currently, she is the Communications and Knowledge Management Fellow at Root Cause, a social impact research and consulting firm in Cambridge. 

Brockton Public Schools

Ms. Karen Watkins-Watts is a nonprofit management executive, accomplished in grant writing, program development, and agency management. Following a career in the banking and corporate sectors in the Midwest, she was founder/chief executive of a successful nonprofit workforce development agency, specializing in financial services training and employment. The organization was recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor's Exemplary Public Interest Contribution (EPIC) award as a model public-private initiative, meeting bank/financial service employer demands and attracting significant corporate philanthropic support. Upon relocating to Massachusetts, Ms. Watts became Development Manager for a Boston community-based health center for which she received public and private grant awards for programs and services for a diverse, underserved patient population.

She is now Grant Writer/Administrator for the Brockton Public Schools where she manages (and writes) state, federal and private grants of over twenty million dollars, supporting education and enrichment programs for 15,600 K-12 students. Ms. Watts' credentials include an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Washington University in St. Louis, an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and certification by the Grants Professional Certification Institute. Ms. Watts is a board member of the MA Chapter of the American Association of Grant Professionals. She actively volunteers with a number of community organizations, including the American Red Cross Council of Southeastern MA, Brockton Lion's Club, Brockton Public Schools Adult Learning Center Advisory Board, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. public service projects. She is also a member of the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton.