Ellen Parker, Chair
Ellen Parker, a social worker in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts, specializes in psychotherapy with individuals and couples. She is a former president and founding board member of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition. She is also a founding board member of Silent Spring Institute. Parker has served as director of social work services for the Tufts–New England Medical Center. In 2008 the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women named her an Unsung Heroine. She has also been recognized with the American Hospital Association’s Eleanor Clark Award for Innovative Programs in Patient Care and with the National Association of Social Workers’ Social Worker of the Year Award.

Bev Baccelli
Bev Baccelli has spent her social work career helping children and their families. In 1982 she co-founded Southeastern Adoption Services. As director of that agency, she has helped hundreds of individuals and couples, nationally and internationally, become parents through adoption. In 2009 the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women named her an Unsung Heroine. She is a past president of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition.

Lawrence N. Bailis, PhD, Director Emeritus
Lawrence Bailis is a senior research associate at the Center for Youth and Communities and an associate professor at the Heller School of Brandeis University. In recent years, he has served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator of more than a dozen evaluations in a range of youth development, education, and workforce-development–related fields. In 2005, Bailis was selected as the John Glenn Scholar in Service-Learning at Ohio State University.

Cynthia Barakatt
Cynthia Barakatt currently works for Boston University as the Director of Content Development for the Encyclopedia of Earth and as a communications specialist for the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. A former journalist, she has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of communications and the environment. She is interested in developing effective methods and strategies for making complex environmental science information accessible to non-scientific audiences. From 2003 through 2007, she served as the Director of Training for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program. She is an active member of the League of Women Voters of Andover/North Andover and a past co-chair of its Sustainability Committee.

Sarah Colao, Esq
Sarah is an attorney in the tax department of the Boston office of Proskauer Rose LLP. Her practice focuses on the tax and economic issues associated with the formation of, and investments in, U.S. and non-U.S. private equity funds and other investment partnerships, as well as tax planning for corporate and other transactions.

John K. Erban, MD
John Erban is director of the Clinical Breast Program at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Gillette Center for Breast Cancer and is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. Erban has been active in the clinical investigation of breast cancer for more than 15 years and has a large national and international referral practice.

Jeanne L. Mockard, CFA
Jeanne Mockard is a Private Investment Manager. Previously she was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Putnam Investments where she was the Lead Manager for The George Putnam Fund of Boston, a $4.2B balanced fund. She is a CFA charterholder and has 23 years of investment experience. She was also the Chair of the Women’s Leadership Forum at Putnam.

Amy Present, Treasurer
Amy Present is a psychotherapist in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. She is a former board officer and founding board member of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition, and she is a founding board member of Silent Spring Institute.

Cathie Ragovin, MD, Secretary
Cathie Ragovin is a psychiatrist in private practice in Weston, Massachusetts. She is a former board member of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and a former steering committee member of the National Action Plan on Breast Cancer. She serves on the California Breast Cancer Research Program Special Research Initiative Strategy Team.

Anne Speakman
Anne Speakman is the director of marketing at Children’s Hospital Boston. She has more than 20 years of experience in health care marketing and communications. She previously has held positions as director of marketing and public affairs at New England Medical Center (now Tufts Medical Center) and as director of national promotion at WGBH.

Catherine Farrell, Esq.
Catherine Farrell is an assistant city solicitor with the city of Newton’s law department. She has more than 30 years of experience in managing legal matters for corporations and government agencies, with a particular focus on environmental issues. She previously held positions as vice president and general counsel at Fluor Daniel GTI, Inc., an environmental consulting company, and she has served as general counsel for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.

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