Board of Trustees

Thaddeus Beal
Former Prosecutor
Suffolk County District Attorney's Office;
Former Partner
Nixon Peabody;
Painter

Deborah Birnbach
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP

Nonnie S. Burnes
Senior University Fellow
Northeastern University

John H. Chu
Co-Founding and Managing Partner
Chu, Ring & Hazel LLP

Michael Contompasis
Chief, Intergovernmental Relations
City of Boston;
Former Superintendent
Boston Public Schools

Mo Cowan
Chief Legal Counsel
Office of the Governor

Anthony Doniger
Partner
Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak, & Cohen, P.C.

Joshua Levy
Partner
Ropes & Gray

Cynthia B. Malm
Architectural & Cultural Historian
Discovering Justice Docent

John May
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Richard G. Mintz
Member
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

Cecily Morse
Paintings Conservator

Joseph Mueller
Partner
WilmerHale

Peter de Roetth
Account Management, LLC

Gary A. Spiess, Board Chair
Former Executive Vice President, General Counsel
FleetBoston Financial

Wai-Yan Sun
Vice President, Controller & Treasurer
Rakuten USA, Inc.
CFO
FreeCause, Inc.

Benjamin Taylor
Former Publisher
Boston Globe

John J. Wallace
Former Chief Operating Officer
Nova Biomedical Corporation

Lee Woolley
President
Northern Trust Bank of Massachusetts

Shelbey Wright
Assistant U.S. Attorney
United States Attorney's Office

Nicholas Ypsilantis
President and CEO
AccuFile

Board of Visitors

William B. Asher
Partner
Choate, Hall & Stewart

Joseph S. Ayoub
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig

Christopher C. Barry
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Honorable Margot Botsford
Associate Justice
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Honorable Marianne Bowler
Magistrate Judge
United States District Court

Roberto M. Braceras
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP

Robert Brink
Executive Director
Massachusetts Social Law Library

Laurie Burt
Commissioner
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

Kenneth Elmore
Dean of Students
Boston University

Donna Evans
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig

Michael Fay
Partner
WilmerHale

George Field
Partner in Charge
Verrill Dana LLP

Robert P. Gittens
Vice President Public Affairs
Northeastern University

Jane Grossman
Author

Mary Gormley
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum
Milton Public Schools

Honorable Martha P. Grace

Linda L. Greyser, Ed.D
Education Consultant

Ernest Haddad
Associate Dean
Boston University School of Law

John Hamilton
Carpenter & Company

Carolyn Hebsgaard
Boston Lawyers Group

Linda Higgins
Zxibix, Inc.

Honorable Merita Hopkins
Associate Justice
Massachusetts Superior Court

Barbara Chasen Joskow, Ed.D
Educational Consultant

Georgia Katsoulomitis

Honorable Gary Katzmann
Associate Justice
Massachusetts Appeals Court

Michael Keating
Partner
Foley Hoag LLP

Pat Kreger

Sherry Leventhal, Esq.
Chair of the Board of Trustees
Neighborhood House Charter School

Dickens Mathieu
Senior Counsel for Labor and Employment
Tufts University

John May
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Wm. Shaw McDermott
Partner
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Ellis Gates LLP

David Nersessian
Executive Director
Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession

Mary Grassa O’Neill, Ed.D.
Secretary of Education
Archdiocese of Boston

Robert Orchard
Executive Director
American Repertory Theatre
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University

Dr. Christos Papatheodorou
Interactive Health Management Solutions

Jane Pappalardo

John Reidy
E3 Strategic Policies

Helen Russell
Interim Executive Director
The Karuna School

Evangeline Harris Stefanakis, Ph.d
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership Development
Boston University

Fredericka Stevenson
Founder
Summer Search

Lauren Stiller Rikleen
Partner
Bowditch & Dewey LLP

David Tebaldi, Ph.D
Executive Director
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities;
Adjunct Professor
Amherst College

Betsy Van Dorn
Writer and Founding Editor
The Family Education Network

Orlando Watkins
Senior Director of Foundations Relations
City Year

Gary Wente
Circuit Executive
First Circuit Court of Appeals

Stephen Whetstone
Vice President, Client Development and Strategy
Stratify, Inc.