Deborah Brooks and her family have lived in Brookline for 31 years. A long-time Town Meeting Member she served on many local boards including the Brookline Music School, and is a past president of the Heath School PTO. Deborah was Executive Director of the Brookline Education Foundation for ten years.

Lloyd C. Dahmen is a managing member of Alphametrics Capital Fund, a mathematically guided commodities investment fund, and serves on the boards of the Brookline Music School and Rogerson Communities.

Hsiu-Lan Chang is the owner of FastFrame, a Brookline small business, since 2004. She is a Member of the Board of Overseers of the Brookline High School 21st Century Fund, Senior Vice President of the Brookline Chamber of Commerce, Board Member of the Jennifer Lynch Fund Committee, a Member of the Rotary Club of Brookline and Past President of the Driscoll School Extended Day Program. During 2007, she was active in the Brookline Teen Center Initiative, working on fundraising for the 1st Annual Brookline Community Basketball Tournament.

William J. Coughlin is the Chief Operating Officer for Community Resources for Justice in Boston.  He has been a Town Meeting Member, representing Precinct 10, for over 10 years. Bill is the past president of the Pierce School Extended Day Program and served on the Executive Board of the Brookline High School PTO for 4 years. He also serves as the Chair of the Board of Outreach at United Parish in Brookline. He worked as a management and organizational consultant for over 20 years, working for many not-for-profits and governmental agencies.


John Gallagher (Treasurer), who grew up in Brookline, is co-founder of a telecommunications technology business, a mentor with Tenacity, a tennis and academic support program for inner-city youth, and a long-time board member, and former President of the Longwood Cricket Club.


Judith Kidd (Vice Chair) is an Associate Dean of Harvard College for Student Life and Activities, serves on the boards of Project HEALTH and Phillips Brooks House Association among other organizations. She is also the former Director of Donor Relations for The Boston Foundation.


Dick Klein is a retired President of the Retail Division of Stride Rite Corporation and retired Chairman of the Stride Rite Day Care Center. He is a consultant and an emeritus member of the Board of the Executive Service Corps of New England, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, and a consultant and member of the executive committee of SCORE.




Molly Lanzarotta is Senior Communications Officer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has served as a communications and media relations consultant for numerous nonprofits.  She is a published fiction writer and has performed with the choral groups of the New England Conservatory Camarata and Revels. She is an active volunteer at Brookline High School and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
 
Susan Manaras has been a social worker with the Brookline Public Schools Early Education Program since 1987. Susan is chair of the Special Education Team, and is a member of the multidisciplinary team for ongoing program development in response to the needs of the school and general community.

Ashley Mason (Clerk), now at home with young children, was previously the Renewable Energy Market Development Manager with the Conservation Services Group, working with legislative groups and renewable energy businesses to strengthen public policy and markets for renewable energy and regional energy credit markets. Before this, she was with APX and Xenergy, working to develop green energy policy and markets for renewable energy. 

Michael Maynard spent the first fifteen years of his career in film production, advertising and entertainment (Warner Communications). He has been self-employed as a real estate developer and investor since 1986. Michael has been a Town Meeting Member since 1997, served on the Board of the Park School for eight years including four years as Board Chair. He is currently Vice Chair of the Board of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation and involved in fundraising for a number of educational institutions.

Pat Meaney held a number of executive positions over a 23-year career with the Federal Environmental Protection Agency in New England. Prior to that, she was assistant director and researcher in the Center for Careers at Wellesley College. A former Town Meeting Member Pat is currently an active participant in the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement.


Tom Mendelsohn (Chair) is a co-owner and Principal of Mendelsohn, Gittleman & Associates, a management consulting firm that helps nonprofit organizations leverage information to make sound decisions and better serve communities. Tom served on the board and as Treasurer and President of of Pierce School Extended Day Program and was a founding board member of the Brookline Extended Day Advisory Council.


Jim Notman was a banker with Bank of Boston, and is currently an independent financial consultant. He is a past member of the Brookline Education Foundation, and a member of Longwood Cricket Club, The Country Club, and the Church of the Redeemer.


Emily Novick was a partner in the law firm of Kehoe, Doyle, Playter & Novick for many years and is now is practicing attorney in Brookline. She is a Town Meeting Member, and has been a co-chair of the Pierce School Council, vice-president of the Pierce School Extended Day and a co-chair of the Pierce School METCO Partnership Committee.




Paul Saner is a retired BankBoston Vice President and Director in the bank’s Corporate Structured Real Estate Department. Paul currently serves on the boards of the Carroll Center for the Blind and Metropolitan Waterworks Museum and Reservoir Conservancy, and is Chair of the Perkins Braille and Talking Book Library Consumer Advisory Group. He is a Town Meeting Member, a member of the Town’s Economic Development Advisory Board, and an Overseer for the Brookline High School 21st Century Fund.


Robert Sperber was Superintendent of Brookline Public Schools from 1964 until 1982. He implemented many new programs, including Facing History and Ourselves, and the Brookline Early Education Program.

Frank Steinfield is an independent consultant to the private and nonprofit sectors, working in the areas of communications and integrated research, writing and editing.  Much of Frank’s recent work has been with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, working on projects to promote system reform in public agencies. He previously worked for Ross Rudnick and Philip Johnson of Cambridge, and for WBGH.  Frank is currently co-president of BEDAC, the Brookline Extended Day Advisory Council.

Cheryl Whitfield is a longtime resident of Brookline who has served on the boards of the Pierce School Extended Day Program and the Brookline Arts Center. She has worked as a HR professional for many years in both profit and not-for organizations. Cheryl is currently the Director of HR Programs and Employee Relations at Northeastern University.

Brookline Community Foundation Friends:

Caroline Hoppin, Chair
Sandy Batchelder
Barry Berger
Holly Burnes
John Christian
Mary Dewart
Mary Dunlap
Nat Gardiner
Cecily Morse

Lynn Osborn
Phillip Page
Ted Patton
Susan Porter
Michael Robbins
Michael Sandman
Annie Short
Judith Alper Smith
Lionel Spiro
Barton H. Tayer
Karen Tucker

Anne Turner 

Rosamond Vaule