City Year Greater Boston board

Before assuming that role, Joe served in a number of other operational and human resources roles including: the head of human resources for asset management; the Chief Operating Officer for Pyramis Global Advisors, a Fidelity Investments company focused on servicing the needs of the institutional marketplace; the head of talent management for asset management; and as an in-house performance consultant, supporting multiple business units within Fidelity. Before joining Fidelity, Joe was the Chief Executive Officer at SofCheck, president and Chief Operating Officer at Availant, and a director at Cambridge Technology Partners. Joe began his career as a member of the Edison Management program at General Electric, where he held a variety of positions. Joe is a graduate of Dartmouth College. He is also a lecturer for Babson College and remains active with the boards of several local charitable and educational institutions.

In addition to her client work, Shweta actively participates in people development at Bain — global and local training programs, mentorship activities and promotion evaluations — in addition to consultant recruiting. Further, she is the former General Manager of our Global Consumer Watch group, a team dedicated to observing and reporting how consumers are feeling, how they are spending time, and how they are spending money, on a global scale – particularly critical amidst the current pandemic. She has also led pro bono engagements on behalf of the firm, most recently partnering with former Superintendent Tom Boasberg in the assessment and acceleration of the Teacher Leadership Program across Denver Public Schools. Shweta has partnered with clients across the Americas and APAC, having formerly worked in Bain's Atlanta and New Delhi offices. At Bain, she partners closely with FRWD, Bain’s Digital Marketing and Marketing Technology expert team, and I&D, Bain’s team of product managers, researchers, designers and engineers driving innovation and design work with clients. Shweta holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science, with honors, from the University of Virginia. She currently resides in West Newton with her husband, Jason, and two children, Karsin (seven) and Simi (four).

Chris is also responsible for identifying, hiring and mentoring new advisors for the region. He relishes the opportunity to help advisors broaden their skills and improve their client outreach. Team oriented, Chris defines success relative to the advisors in his region. Pointing to the extensive offerings of the Private Bank, Chris notes that advisors are able to address both sides of a client’s balance sheet through an extensive complement of services and strategies: investment management, concentrated and restricted stock guidance, specialty asset management, liquidity event planning, credit structuring, wealth transfer strategies and charitable giving. Chris actively participates in diversity networks at Bank of America and is the executive co-sponsor of the Massachusetts Pride LGBTQ affinity group. Chris also strongly believes in education equality for all children, and currently serves on the Board of City Year Greater Boston. Chris began his financial services career in 1997. He previously was a branch manager and wealth advisor at Neuberger Berman in Boston. His tenures also include regional director for Lehman Brothers/Neuberger Berman in San Francisco and private banker for Deutsche Bank National Trust Company. Chris is a native of Newton, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Belmont Hill School and Harvard University. Chris was drafted in the first round of the 1985 NHL Draft by the Calgary Flames after which he played professional ice hockey for six years.

Latoyia is celebrating 14 years with the company. She has covered a variety of impactful stories including Superbowl Victory Celebrations, World series titles to presidential campaigns, celebrity interviews, to high profile trials. Latoyia has worn many hats, including Health Reporter covering the latest medical breakthroughs, highlighting research at hospitals across New England and producing in-depth stories about health disparities. Latoyia’s medical reporting earned her the coveted Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Coverage Fellowship in Boston, which focuses on public and mental health. Over her 20-year career in broadcasting, she has flown beyond the clouds covering the Navy's Blue Angel and he even traveled as far away as Paraguay profiling a partnership between that country and the United States Military. She joined the NECN family as a morning live reporter in 2005 arriving from WWLP-22 NBC in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she had been a weekday anchor. Latoyia's connection with the community was immediate and she soon worked her way up to the top positions at her station. She began her career as a news writer for WBZ-1030AM radio, and later reported for the Fox affiliate WICZ-TV 40 in Binghamton, New York.

Lisa serves as a board member for Reach Out and Read, where she was recognized as a Literacy Champion in 2013, Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, and City Year Greater Boston. Lisa is a gallery instructor and patron at the Museum of Fine Arts and co-founded Cube Art Boston to raise the visibility of artists working in and around Boston. She is a trustee emeritus at the Meadowbrook School and is a founding board member of Youth Villages Massachusetts. Lisa is a Red Jacket Society member and has been on City Year Greater Boston’s Seven Generations since 2014. Lisa and her husband, Stephen, have four children.

Eran is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and received a Master of Business Administration from Boston University. Eran has served on City Year Greater Boston’s Seven Generations Board since 2015 and joined the City Year Greater Boston Board's Media and Government Relations Committee in 2016, where he has been an active and valuable member. Eran’s wife, Lisa Lobel, is the co-founder/casting director for Boston Casting. She currently focuses her efforts on growing and managing Boston Casting’s 60,000-person online database and is a leader in innovative technologies for the casting industry. She’s also a former early childhood educator in Boston and former elementary school teacher in New York City. Eran and Lisa have three children.

Kate is actively involved in her community.  She is a firm believer that educational experiences can meaningfully change people’s lives. She has been a member of Villanova’s School of Business (VSB) Finance Department Advisory Council for the last eight years working closely with the chairman of the Finance Department and the dean of the business school advising on curriculum, engaging with their women’s network to help attract more female students into finance, providing strategic input to help shape the long-term vision for VSB and the University, focusing on student preparedness for jobs and working to provide career opportunities for Villanova graduates in the Boston area.  Kate has also been actively involved with City Year Greater Boston working as a vice chair and most recently co-chair for the Women’s Leadership Breakfast.  As a member of City Year’s Women’s Leadership Network and the Red Jacket Society, Kate and her husband Warren have enjoyed sponsoring regular lunches for the unsponsored schools and Civic Engagement teams.  Kate believes that City Year, its passion for service and all of its inspiring corps members are making a real difference for thousands of Boston Public School students every year.  She has also been engaged with Horizon’s for Homeless Children, sponsoring a number of play spaces throughout Massachusetts. Kate received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1997) and a Bachelor of Science in finance from Villanova University (1993), graduating magna cum laude.  She is a CFA charter holder and a member of the Boston Society of Security Analysts.  She lives with her husband, two teenaged children and golden retriever in Medfield, Massachusetts.  She grew up in Colorado and is an avid skier and hiker.

Previously, Cynthia served in Governor Deval Patrick’s two term administration as the assistant commissioner for Access and Success Strategies at the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education (DHE) where she led strategic policy projects and regional partnership initiatives in support of advancing the Department’s goals for achieving national leadership in college participation, particularly for students of color, first-generation to college-goers, and low-income students. She also served as director of the Commonwealth Corps in the Office of Governor Deval Patrick, where she promoted civic engagement through grassroots governance projects as well as managed the Governor’s cornerstone civic engagement initiative - The Commonwealth Corps. During her tenure, she was awarded a Commonwealth of Massachusetts Performance Recognition Program citation for “Exceptional Managerial, Organizational, and/or Communications Achievements.” Cynthia’s professional experiences also include community organizing and advocacy, community development, politics and campaigns, governance, social policy and development of startup initiatives. Cynthia’s leadership has been recognized by national and local organizations including by the Campus Compact with the Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award in 2020, Get Konnected’s 25 Influential Millennial Leaders of Color and Amplify Latinx’s list of 30 Amplifiers for the Latino community in Massachusetts in 2018; and among 100 most influential people in Massachusetts to the Latino community in El Planeta Newspaper’s 2017 Powermeter. Cynthia is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the youngest of four children. She is the first generation born in the United States and first in her family to attend college. She holds a Master of Arts in urban and environmental policy and planning from Tufts University and a Bachelor of Science in political science from Northeastern University. She is a doctoral candidate in the higher education program at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Merrill holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Maryland. She served as a council member for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (2012-2016). Merrill also served as chairman of the board of directors of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (2013-2014), where she was also founder and former co-chair of the Women in Accounting Committee, and past vice chair of finance. Merrill holds a license as a Chartered Global Management Accountant. Merrill's civic engagement includes serving as a board member and executive committee member, Wellesley Community Children’s Center, and past vice president of finance at the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association. Merrill has been recognized in Boston Business Journal's Who’s Who in Accounting.

Prior to joining the Patrick Administration, Paul had chaired the Massachusetts State Board of Education, founded the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, co-founded the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), chaired the Massachusetts Reform Review Commission, chaired the Massachusetts Commission on Time and Learning and served as executive director of the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform, a national think tank which convened the United States' leading researchers, practitioners and policymakers to set the national standards agenda. Paul played a central role in MBAE's development of and advocacy for Massachusetts historic Education Reform Act of 1993. Paul has been a member of the HGSE faculty since 1997 and has served as director of the Education Policy and Management Program. Paul's career, which combines research, policy and practice, began with service as a VISTA/youth worker. He served as a teacher and principal of two systemically under-resourced, alternative high schools. Some years later, he founded a local education foundation that was part of the Public Education Network. He is a board member and adviser to a host of organizations and a frequent writer and speaker on education reform and policy issues. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College, a master's degree from Stanford University and five honorary doctorate degrees. He is the father of four children.

Before joining Wellington Management in 2003, Molly held a senior position in consultant relations at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (2002 – 2003) and spent six years at DuPont Capital Management in positions as director of institutional sales and director of world wide pensions (1996 – 2002). She began her career in 1988 as a strategy consultant in the financial markets division of Accenture, formerly Andersen Consulting. Outside of work, Molly is an active leader in the nonprofit community, where she sits on the board of the MassArt Foundation and serves on the Investment Committee. Molly is also a member of the Overseers Board of Boston Children’s Hospital and is actively involved and supports the work of City Year Greater Boston, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Compass Working Capital and St. Cecilia’s Church. Molly received her Juris Doctorate from Villanova University School of Law.

Sam facilitates "Strong Men Strong Leaders", an organization at the Henderson Schools that supports boys of color through leadership training, community service, healthy physical competition, combating negative narratives about men of color, and engaging in conversations about successes and challenges in our neighborhoods and lives. Additionally, Sam is the high school teacher representative on the Henderson's Governing Board and the History Department facilitator. Previously Sam has served as a senior advisor, student council sponsor and a former Boston Debate League coach. Sam has also supported the district as a mentor in the Boston Public Schools High School to Teacher program and curriculum writing initiatives. Sam is a winner of the 2019 Boston Public Schools Educator of the Year Award. Currently, Sam is a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Boston in the urban education, leadership and policy studies program. He is a proud resident of Dorchester.

Janelle is originally from Dallas, Texas, and currently resides in Dorchester with her husband and boy-girl twins. She is passionate about education, young girls of color and combating human and sex trafficking. Janelle has a Master of Business Administration from Simmons School of Management (2014), a Master of Arts in higher education from Boston College (2006) and a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing and international business from Texas A&M University (2004).