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Meet the leaders who have become Barr Fellows since 2005.

Fellowship Alumni

Jenny Amory Retired
- Jenny Amory’s Bio
- Jenny Amory’s Website
Beth Anderson CEO & Founder, Phoenix Charter Academy Network
Kevin Andrews Founding Headmaster, Neighborhood House Charter School
- Kevin Andrews’ Bio
- Kevin Andrews’ Website
John Barros Managing Principal, Cushman & Wakefield
Valerie Burns Consultant
- Valerie Burns’ Bio
Sandra Lopez Burke CEO, Delivering on Community Impact
- Sandra Lopez Burke’s Bio
- Sandra Lopez Burke’s Website
Vanessa Calderón-Rosado Chief Executive Officer Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA)
- Vanessa Calderón-Rosado’s Bio
Meg Campbell Founder and Chief of Innovation & Strategy, Codman Academy Charter Public School
- Meg Campbell’s Bio
- Meg Campbell’s Website
Louis Casagrande A long standing advocate for children and previous head of the Children’s Museum
- Louis Casagrande’s Bio
Carole Charnow President & CEO, Boston Children’s Museum
Sister Lena Deevy Executive Director Emerita, Irish International Immigrant Center
- Sister Lena Deevy’s Bio
- Sister Lena Deevy’s Website
Chaplain Clementina M. Chéry Co-Founder, President and CEO, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute
- Chaplain Clementina M. Chéry’s Bio
- Chaplain Clementina M. Chéry’s Website
Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga Founding Artistic & Executive Director, OrigiNation
- Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga’s Bio
- Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga’s Website
Lyndia Downie President & Executive Director, Pine Street Inn
- Lyndia Downie’s Bio
- Lyndia Downie’s Website
Reverend John Finley Co-Founder and Head of School, Epiphany School
- Reverend John Finley’s Bio
- Reverend John Finley’s Website
Emmett Folgert Executive Director, Safe City Dorchester at MissionSAFE: A New Beginning, Inc. (formerly Dorchester Youth Collaborative)
- Emmett Folgert’s Bio
- Emmett Folgert’s Website
Elmer Freeman Executive Director, Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc.
- Elmer Freeman’s Bio
- Elmer Freeman’s Website
Jesús Gerena Managing Partner, Family Independence Initiative
Bob Giannino President and Chief Executive Officer, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez President Emeritus, North Bennet Street School
Aaron Gornstein President & CEO, Preservation of Affordable Housing
- Aaron Gornstein’s Bio
- Aaron Gornstein’s Website
Pat Gray Consultant
- Pat Gray’s Bio
Tiffany Cooper Gueye, Ph.D. Managing Director, Blue Meridian Partners
Jean Marc Jean-Baptiste Executive Director, Haitian American Public Health Initiatives
- Jean Marc Jean-Baptiste’s Bio
- Jean Marc Jean-Baptiste’s Website
Mossik Hacobian Executive Director, Boston's Higher Ground
- Mossik Hacobian’s Bio
- Mossik Hacobian’s Website
Pierre Jonas Imbert CEO & Co-Founder, Ayiti Community Trust
Deborah Jackson President, Cambridge College
Andy Kendall Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation
- Andy Kendall’s Bio
- Andy Kendall’s Website
Diana Lam Founder & Board Chair, Margarita Muñiz Academy
- Diana Lam’s Bio
- Diana Lam’s Website
Sister Margaret Leonard Strategic Advisor, Project Hope
- Sister Margaret Leonard’s Bio
- Sister Margaret Leonard’s Website
Elena Letona, Ph.D. Director of Philanthropy, Learning, and Evaluation Episcopal City Mission
Juan Leyton Director of Organizing, National Community Reinvestment Coalition
- Juan Leyton’s Bio
- Juan Leyton’s Website
Giles Li Senior Program Officer, Arts & Creativity
Vivien Li Waterfront Expert
- Vivien Li’s Bio
- Vivien Li’s Tweets
Jeremy Liu Managing Partner, Creative Ecology Partners
- Jeremy Liu’s Bio
- Jeremy Liu’s Website
Penn Loh Associate Chair, Senior Lecturer Tufts University, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
- Penn Loh’s Bio
- Penn Loh’s Website
Darlene Lombos Executive Secretary-Treasurer, Greater Boston Labor Council
Charles Lord Managing Principal, Renew Energy Partners
Lydia Lowe Director, Chinatown Community Land Trust
Meizhu Lui Retired
- Meizhu Lui’s Bio
Marvin Martin Executive Director, Action for Regional Equity
- Marvin Martin’s Bio
- Marvin Martin’s Website
Claudio Martinez Executive Director, La Vida Scholars
Jorge Martinez Consultant, Martinez & Associates
- Jorge Martinez’s Bio
- Jorge Martinez’s Website
Michael Maso Managing Director, Huntington Theatre Company
José Mateo Founder & Artistic Director, José Mateo Ballet Theatre
- José Mateo’s Bio
- José Mateo’s Website
Omowale Moses CEO & Founder, MathTalk
- Omowale Moses’ Bio
- Omowale Moses’ Website
Margarita Muñiz The first dual-language high school in the Boston Public Schools is named in her honor.
- Margarita Muñiz’s Bio
Linda Nathan Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Professor, Cambridge College
Elaine Ng Chief Executive Officer, TSNE MissionWorks
- Elaine Ng’s Bio
- Elaine Ng’s Website
Alexandra Oliver-Dávila Executive Director, Sociedad Latina
- Alexandra Oliver-Dávila’s Bio
- Alexandra Oliver-Dávila’s Website
Arthur Pearson President & CEO, Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center
- Arthur Pearson’s Bio
- Arthur Pearson’s Website
Jeanne Pinado Executive Vice President, Colliers International
- Jeanne Pinado’s Bio
- Jeanne Pinado’s Website
Christine Poff Director of Government Relations and Political Action National Association of Social Workers, Mass. Chapter
Randal Rucker Retired
- Randal Rucker’s Bio
Ayele Shakur Chief Executive Officer, BUILD
David Shapiro President & CEO MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership
Jesse Solomon Executive Director, Boston Plan for Excellence (BPE)
Madeleine Steczynski Co-founder & Executive Director, ZUMIX
- Madeleine Steczynski’s Bio
- Madeleine Steczynski’s Website
Colby Swettberg Chief Executive Officer, Silver Lining Mentoring
- Colby Swettberg’s Bio
- Colby Swettberg’s Website
Yusufi Vali Director of the Mayor's Office for Immigrant Advancement, City of Boston
Dania Vázquez Headmaster, Margarita Muñiz Academy
- Dania Vázquez’s Bio
- Dania Vázquez’s Website
Gladys Vega Executive Director, La Colaborativa
- Gladys Vega’s Bio
- Gladys Vega’s Website
Juan Vega Assistant Secretary, Communities and Programs, Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development
Bill Walczak Founding President, Codman Academy Charter School
- Bill Walczak’s Bio
- Bill Walczak’s Website
Valora Washington President & CEO, The CAYL Institute
- Valora Washington’s Bio
- Valora Washington’s Website
David Waters Chief Executive Officer, Community Servings
Reverend Mariama White-Hammond Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space, City of Boston and Founding Pastor, New Roots AME Church
Wayne Ysaguirre Principal, Ysaguirre Consulting