Lesley University Leadership Council Membership
Honorary Chairs
The Honorable Michael Dukakis and Katharine “Kitty” Dukakis*
Members
Leslie Aitken* — Community Volunteer
Barbara Aschheim* — Educational Consultant (retired)
Elizabeth Ball* — President/Creative Director, TFI Envision Inc.; Director, Pierce Ball Gallery
Maura Banta — East Coast Regional Manager for Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM; Chair, Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
Tina Brodsky Bellet* — Retired; Trustee Emerita at Horace Mann School
Lorri Berenberg* — Museum Educator and Gallery Owner
Judith Bernon* — Founder and CEO of JB Enterprises (retired)
Jim Bildner* — Managing Director, Center for Applied Philanthropy & Fund for Sustainability
Ellen Bloch* — Community Volunteer
Katey Branch* — Co-Founder, Project AWARE; Co-Founder, Alan Day Community Garden
Rhona Brand* — Educator
James T. Brett — President and CEO, The New England Council; Chairman, President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disability; Chairman, Governor's Commission on Intellectual Disability
Dr. Sadie Burton-Goss* — Principal, Goss Associates
Elizabeth Cabot* — Community Volunteer; Small Business Owner
Dr. Nancy Carlsson-Paige* — Professor Emerita, Lesley University
David Chilinski — Founding Principal, Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates, Inc.
Dr. Anne Collins — Director, Center for Mathematics, Lesley University
Jody Collins-Skinner* — Community Volunteer
Jan Coppersmith — Community Volunteer
David Cox — Entrepreneur (retired)
Fredrika V. Cox* — Professional Volunteer
Dr. Thomas Crow — Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Associate Provost for the Arts, Institute of Fine Art, New York University
Dr. Mary Beth Curtis — Director, Center for Special Education, Lesley University
Dr. William L. Dandridge — Program Officer & Director, Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Fellowship Program for Aspiring Teachers of Color
Dr. Frank E. Davis — President, TERC, Inc.
Dr. Regis de Silva — Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Charles Desmond — Chairman, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education
Nicholas C. Donohue — President and CEO, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Richard Doucette — President, Shoppers Marketing, Retail Sales Accelerator
Michael H. Douvadjian — Sr. Vice President, Investments, UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Ronald M. Druker — President, The Druker Company, Ltd.
Diane Feinzig* — Community Volunteer
Shawna Ferguson* — Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Wellington Management Company, LLP
Peter A. Finnegan — President, Barnside Capital, LLC
Deborah Flaschen — Founder and President, 3LPlace , Inc.
Dr. Irene Fountas — Director, Center for Reading Recovery, Lesley University
Chris Gabrieli — Co-Founder and Chairman, Massachusetts 2020 Foundation
Robert E. Gallery — President, Bank of America Massachusetts
Christine Gerber — Principal, Kennedy-Longfellow School, Cambridge
Edes Gilbert* — Educational Consultant
Jackie Glenn* — Chief Diversity Officer, EMC
Jae Goodwin* — Teacher, Charlote A. Dunning School, Framingham, MA
Dale Gordon* — Educational Consultant
Lucas Guerra* — Principal and Creative Director, ARGUS
Elizabeth Guydan* — Teacher, Walsh Middle School, Framingham, MA
Paul H. Guzzi — President and CEO, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Bernard Harleston — Senior Associate, New England Resource Center for Higher Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Rosalind Hill* — Educator; Community Volunteer
Ross S. Hoyle — Lesley Parent; Syford Commercial Properties; Board Member, Community Non-Profit Organizations
Christopher James — University Professor, Lesley University
Mark Jendzejec — Lesley Parent; Senior Vice President of Civil Agencies Sector, STG Inc.
Peggy Jendzejec — Lesley Parent
Kathleen Knight — Owner/Proprietor, Gallery at Four India Street, Nantucket
Dr. Florence Ladd — Author and psychologist; Former Director of the Bunting Institute at Harvard University
John Langeler — Lesley Parent; Managing Director, Optima Fund Management LLC
The Honorable Antoinette E. McLean Leoney* — Associate Justice, Massachusetts District Court
Diana Lewinstein* — Interior Designer
Marjorie Lipkin, PhD* — Entrepreneur
Charles L. Longfield — Senior Vice President/Chief Scientist, Blackbaud Inc.
Lauren Manafort* — Secretary/Treasurer, Manafort Brothers, Inc.
Gail Mazur — Poet; Distinguished Writer in Residence, Emerson College
Dr. Martha McKenna— University Professor, Lesley University
Dr. Shaun McNiff — University Professor, Lesley University
Dr. Ioannis Miaoulis — President, Museum of Science
Linda Moody — Lesley Parent; Community Volunteer; Board member, Reach Out and Read (NY)
Dr. Ann Moritz* — Principal, Moritz Advisory Group
Camille Musser — Painter and Textile Artist, Youlou Arts Founder
Suzanne Nagler*– Nursery School Admissions Director (retired); Artist
Dr. Linda Nathan — Founding Headmaster and Executive Director, Center for the Arts in Education, Boston Arts Academy
Winifred White Neisser* — Senior Vice President of Movies for Television and Mini-Series, Sony Pictures Television
Merle Nelson* — Former Maine State Representative
Pell Osborn* — Principal, MotionArt
Olivia Parker — Photographer
Kevin Phelan — Co-chairman, Colliers International, Boston
Wendy Prellwitz — Founding Principal, Prellwitz/Chilinski Associates, Inc.
Rev. Dr. Katherine Ragsdale — President & Dean, Episcopal Divinity School
Franklin A. Reece — Executive Director, Urban Ecology Institute
Dr. Paul Reville — Lesley Parent; Professor of Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Former Secretary of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lois Roach* — Playwright Director
Dr. Nancy Roberts — Professor of Education, Lesley University
Susan Rodgerson* — Executive/Artistic Director, Artists for Humanity
Joseph Roller II — President and CEO, Cambridge Trust Company
Eileen Rudden — Chief of College and Career Preparation, Chicago Public Schools
Laurie Schoen* — Founder, United States4Kids
Eric Schwarz — Co-Founder & CEO, Citizens Schools
Klare Shaw — Consultant/Senior Arts Advisor, EdVestors
Lynda-Lee Sheridan* — Teacher, George H. Conley Elementary School, Roslindale, MA
Eliot Snider — President and Chairman, Massachusetts Lumber Company
Josiah A. Spaulding, Jr. — President and CEO, Citi Performing Arts Center
Catherine N. Stratton — Founder and Member, MIT Council for the Arts; Community Volunteer
Hope Suttin* — Educator, Happy Hollow Elementary School, Wayland, MA; Community Volunteer
Dr. Rebecca Upham — Head of School, Buckingham Browne & Nichols
Paula Starensier VanDernoot* — Designer, Homeworks
Randel Vataha — Lesley Parent; President, Game Plan LLC
Armando Vilaseca* — Secretary of Education, State of Vermont
Robin Welch* — Principal, Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, Framingham, MA
Dudley N. Williams, Jr. — Lesley Parent; Director of Corporate Citizenship & Diversity, GE Asset Management Group; Chair, Nellie Mae Education Foundation Board of Directors; Member, Connecticut State Commission on Educational Achievement
Dr. Selase W. Williams — Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Lesley University
Christopher Wilson — Former Financial Services Executive
Dr. Jeffrey Young — Superintendent of Schools, Cambridge, MA
*Lesley University Alumni