Mone Anathan currently serves on the board of directors for Brookstone, Boston Advisors and the Leventhal Funds. He retired from the corporate world in 1998 after serving as president of Filenes Basement for eighteen years. Mr. Anathan attended Harvard Divinity School and received his Divinity Degree in 2003. He has previously served on numerous philanthropic and for-profit boards.
Thaddeus Beal passed the Massachusetts bar in 1973, was a criminal prosecutor for several years, then a corporate lawyer at what is now Nixon, Peabody. He withdrew as a senior partner in 1985 and has been an artist since 1990 with galleries in Boston and New York. The law is still central to his life, and his involvement with Discovering Justice allows him to stay engaged in those parts which matter most to him. He has been an active member of the Board of Visitors since it was first formed and is currently a member of the Development Committee.
Jessie Bourneuf is a graduate of Simmons College and Harvard Business School. She began her career at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, educational publishers. From there she worked in direct marketing for The Talbots, WearGuard Corporation and was President of the KingSize Company. After 25 years in retailing, she became Senior Vice President for the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit organization dedicated to making America's inner cities more economically successful. She is currently helping to launch an educational software company, AskOnline, which provides web based tutoring platforms for colleges and universities.
Nonnie S. Burnes was appointed Commissioner of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance in February of 2007 by Governor Deval Patrick. Prior to taking the helm at the Division, Commissioner Burnes was a Justice of the Superior Court for more than a decade. She is a fellow of the Boston Bar Foundation and was a commissioner on the State Ethics Commission. She has served on the Boston Bar Association's Council and Executive Committee, the Hearing Committee Panel for the Board of Bar Overseers, the New England Committee of the United States Civil Rights Commission, the Boards of Directors of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute and the Center for Law and Education. Judge Burnes was an early supporter of Discovering Justice, where she helped launch the Children Discovering Justice program.
Michael Contompasis is currently working part-time at City Hall as head of InterGovernmental Relations for the City of Boston. He recently retired as the Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools after being appointed to that position in October 2006; he had served as the district's first chief operating officer since 1998. Previously, for more than 20 years, Mr. Contompasis served as headmaster of Boston Latin School in Boston, the nation's first public school, whose alumni include Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams and Ralph Waldo Emerson. An alumnus himself, Mr. Contompasis maintained Boston Latin's long-standing tradition of excellence in education, while at the same time developing new resources through computer technology, a summer orientation program for incoming students and Saturday tutoring sessions. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Contompasis also served as a cluster leader for Boston Public Schools, which included overseeing and mentoring the principals and headmasters of ten K-12 schools in the district. Mr. Contompasis began his career in education in 1966 as a biology teacher at East Boston High School, and later taught at Hyde Park High School and Boston Latin School. In 2006 he was presented with a Distinguished Service Award by he Council of the Great City Schools.
Alexander J. Cortez joined The Bridgespan Group in the spring of 2004. Mr. Cortez has primarily worked on developing program and growth strategies for clients in workforce development, youth services and high school education. Prior to joining Bridgespan, Mr. Cortez was a manager at Silver Oak Solutions, a Boston-based consulting firm, serving clients in state government, telecommunications, private equity and life sciences. Mr. Cortez's experience in the nonprofit sector includes three years leading pro-bono consulting engagements for Boston area nonprofits, and sitting on the board of a civics-education nonprofit. Mr. Cortez is a graduate of Columbia University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Master in Public Administration Degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Catherine M. Curtin is the Director of Partner Development and Community Affairs at Bingham McCutchen LLP. Ms. Curtin is responsible for partner training and development, charitable giving and community affairs firm-wide. She has been on many dinner committees including the John and Abigail Adams Ball and The Ireland Fund Dinner. She also serves on the Board of Arts Boston and the Italian Home for Children. She has been involved with Citizen Schools Eighth Grade Academy from its inception and was on the planning and development team for the program.
Jane Grossman's career has been divided between the for-profit and nonprofit worlds. She founded and owned the Traveller's Bookstore in NYC and later consulted for nonprofit institutions seeking to establish or improve their retail operations. She has served on the boards of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation where she was chair of the distribution committee, Outward Bound USA where she was co-chair of the benefit and board relations committees and New York City Outward Bound where she was chair of the board relations committee. Now on the Advisory Board of New York City Outward Bound, she participates as a long-standing member of the benefit committee. She is currently writing a walking guide to Boston and Cambridge.
Barbara Healy Smith is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney's office in June 1999, she was a partner in the trial department at Goodwin Procter LLP. She has been a volunteer citizen teacher in the Court Education Project's Legal Apprenticeship Program since the fall of 1999. She currently serves as President of the Board of the Boston Adult Literacy Fund.
Richard G. Mintz is a member of the law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC and practices in the Business Law, Trusts and Estates and Real Estate Sections. He is an Honorary Trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a Director of Boston Center for Jewish Heritage, Inc., and a Trustee (and Chairman) of the Prince Condominium Trust in Boston.
Cecily Morse is a visiting scientist at the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE) in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is recently retired as the executive director of the A.C. Ratshesky Foundation, a private foundation in Boston that supports community based human services, arts, education and advocacy programs. Morse received the Cambridge YWCA 1995 Tribute to Women Award and the 1997 Radcliffe College distinguished service Award. She serves on the Boards of Berklee College of Music, Rogerson Communities, The Brookline Foundation, the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, and on the Ethics Committee at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Committee on Women's Issues.
Kim Noltemy is the Director of Sales, Marketing and Communication for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood. Ms. Noltemy is responsible for approximately 35 million dollars in ticket sales in addition to the BSO's marketing strategy, corporate communications, customer service, press strategy, merchandise sales, corporate sponsorship, and web site management. Prior to joining the BSO, she directed the international marketing program for the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism where she led the first tourism missions to Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea. Ms. Noltemy is on the Board of the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, and has served as President of the Boston Arts Marketing Alliance and as the Co-chair of the Cultural Tourism Committee of the Greater Boston Convention and Visitor's Bureau. She has done consulting work for several arts organizations including the London Philharmonic, a consortium of Russian music organizations, and the Brevard Music Festival. In addition, she does consulting projects for Global Marketing, an international communications firm.
John Regan is a partner in WilmerHale LLP's Litigation and Intellectual Property Departments. At Hale and Dorr, Mr. Regan chaired the task force that created the firm's innovative Youth and Education partnership with five organizations that offer educational opportunities to preschool, middle school, and teenage children in Boston's inner city. He is also the past vice president of the Inner City Scholarship Fund of the Catholic Schools Foundation, a former director of Young Audiences of Massachusetts, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that promotes arts in schools, and a former trustee of the Roxbury Latin School. He is currently Chair of the Board of Directors at LaSalle Academy, a 1400-student middle and high school in Providence, Rhode Island.
Peter de Roetth, who was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at Princeton, followed by a law degree from Harvard. After two years in the Army, he worked at Arthur Andersen and the Colonial group of mutual funds, before embarking on his present career as an investment advisor under the name of Account Management Corp. Mr. de Roetth is married to the former Elisabeth (Lisa) Young, of Brookline and Barnstable, Mass. They have one son, two daughters, and six grandchildren. Outside activities include board memberships at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Maxim Integrated Products - with time off as amateur farmer of timber, hay and maple syrup in the town of New Boston, NH.
Gary A. Spiess (President of the Board) is the former Executive Vice President and General Counsel of FleetBoston Financial Company. He is currently a Trustee of Partners Healthcare System, Inc., where he is chair of the Audit Committee. He is also Board Chair of the North Shore Medical Center and a board member of Partners Continuing Care, Inc. He is a board member and Vice Chairman of the Board of the Chewonki Foundation (an environmental foundation in Maine). He is a former Board Chairman of the New England Legal Foundation, former President of the Boston Bar Foundation and a member of the Council of the Boston Bar Association. He is former Board Chair of the Holderness School (Plymouth, New Hampshire) and a former member of the Board of Advisors of the Graduate Program in financial services law studies at the Boston University School of Law, as well as having been a board member of Greater Boston Legal Services.
Ben Taylor is a class of '69 graduate of Harvard College, where he majored in American History. He has worked in the newspaper business, primarily at the Boston Globe, where he was from 1972 until mid-1999. He worked as a reporter, including a four-year-plus stint in the Globe Washington bureau, as well as in various editing positions including Executive Director (the "Number Two" position in the news room). He was the fifth and final member of his family to serve as publisher of the Boston Globe and is now currently doing non-profit and volunteer work, including tutoring writing at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester, serving as Vice Chair of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, and working on a homeless project with the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance aimed at solving the chronic homeless problem in the Boston area.
John Wallace is Treasurer of the Board of the Discovering Justice. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer at Nova Biomedical Corporation in Waltham, MA. The company is a world leader in the development, marketing and manufacturing of proprietary blood diagnostic products and medical devices. Mr. Wallace currently serves on the Board of Directors and Audit Committee of Vision-Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq), the Development Board of the Massachusetts Hospital and School, and as Chairman of the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry (MassMedic).
Sam Weisman worked for ten years as an actor before making the transition to directing. He has earned directorial credits in film, television, and theatre. They include the feature films George of the Jungle, The Out-of-Towners, Bye-Bye Love, and D2: The Mighty Ducks. Mr. Weisman has directed over 150 television episodes, for such shows as Family Ties, Moonlighting and L.A. Law, receiving three Emmy Nominations and a Golden Globe Award. Mr. Weisman is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at Brandeis University's Department of Theatre Arts. In recent years he has returned there to teach acting, and has directed productions of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Lee J. Woolley is the President of Northern Trust Bank of Massachusetts. Mr. Woolley joined Northern Trust in 1985. Prior to joining Northern Trust Bank in Boston as President, Mr. Woolley served as the Midwest Director of the Wealth Strategies Group. Prior to joining the Wealth Strategies Group, he served as a consultant in the Bank's Financial Consulting Center where he advised clients on such topics as estate planning, investments, retirement planning, tax planning, life insurance and education funding. Mr. Woolley received a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and an M.M. degree with honors with concentrations in Finance and Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa national honor society. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the American Bankers Association's National Graduate Trust School and he speaks and writes frequently on retirement and financial planning topics.
Shelbey Dana Wright grew up in Canton, Massachusetts. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and American Literature, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 1989, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1992. While at the Law School, Ms Wright served as the President of the Harvard Voluntary Defenders, a student-run criminal defense organization. From 1992 until 1995, Ms Wright was a litigation associate at Bingham, Dana & Gould (now Bingham McCutchen LLP). Since 1995 she has been an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, where she served as Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Unit, among other positions. She is currently a prosecutor in the Health Care Fraud Unit.
