Trustees

Stephanie Perrin, (Chair) was the Head of Walnut Hill School for the Arts from 1984 to 2008 and is now a consultant to schools on arts, arts programming and organizational design. She serves on the Board of the Arts/Learning, Inc. an organization committed to arts for all students in the pubic schools. She is past president of the NETWORK of Schools of Visual and Performing Arts and is a member of the New England Conservatory Board of Overseers. She is a graduate of Boston University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She holds an honorary Doctorate from the New England Conservatory and lives in Orleans, MA.

Gary F. Gut (Vice Chairman) is currently President and CEO of the Boston Foundation for Sight, a 501(c)3 nonprofit with a mission to restore the vision and quality of life to individuals and families worldwide who are suffering with severe corneal disease or damage.  He is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Buckingham Browne & Nichols School, a PK-12 independent school in Cambridge, MA and a member of the Advisory Board (and former Trustee) of The Advent School, a K-6 independent school in Boston, MA.  He is an investor and entrepreneur. He co-founded John Harvard's Brew House and developed it into a chain of 13 microbreweries.  He also started a national chain of ophthalmic ambulatory surgery centers, a medical management business and was a strategic management consultant at Bain & Company. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School and attended MIT and SUNY Buffalo. He and his wife, Patricia Casale, Vice Chairman of Berklee College of Music Board of Trustees and jazz piano student, reside in Boston and are passionate listeners of jazz, classical and opera music.

Robert Grinberg (Treasurer) was educated at the Wharton School and received a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Currently retired, he founded and ran three national travel companies. He is a partner in Bluestone Company, a real estate investment management firm, and is on the boards of several other companies.  He lives in Chestnut Hill.

Betty Allen (Clerk) received her master’s degree in education from Lesley College, and is currently a Lecturer in the Child Development Department at Tufts University.  She also consults to preschools and teachers regarding anti-bias issues, inclusion, behavior management and parent groups.  Her music interests range from blues to opera.  She is learning to play the guitar and she lives in Brookline.

Charles Bradley is a Senior Architect at Stull & Lee.  He holds degrees from Rensselaer and MIT and has worked on numerous projects involving the new construction of public housing, renovations, historic restoration and transportation design during his 23 years as an architect.  For the past eight years, Charles has been a member of the South Central Mass Choir at his church and sings tenor. He enjoys all types of music and lives in Milton.

Cheryl Render Brown is currently an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education at Wheelock College.  Ms. Brown is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Education and Tufts University’s Eliot-Pearson Child Study Department, and focuses her research on early childhood play, multi-culturalism and teacher preparation.  She lives in Framingham.  Cheryl is married to an ethnomusicologist and jazz saxophonist, Leonard Brown.   Jazz is one of her great loves, along with other music genres, including r & b, Latin, Caribbean, folk and especially lullabies.

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Mark Churchill is Dean of the Preparatory School and Continuing Education at the New England Conservatory of Music.  He is music director and conductor of Symphony Pro Musica, music director of the Salisbury Lyric Opera, associate conductor of the Boston Ballet, and resident conductor of the Asian Youth Orchestra.  He resides in Newton.

Ronald E. Gwiazda spent twenty-seven years as a teacher and administrator in the Boston public schools, the last twelve developing interdisciplinary and arts-based programs at Boston Latin School in collaboration with local museums and universities. After leaving the school system in 1999 and consulting for several years, Ron founded TRintuition LLC, an educational software company.

Toni Jackson is the mother of CLCS students Ezekiel and Beatrice.  She taught English as a Second Language at Brighton and Jeremiah Burke High Schools.  She has a particular interest in the use of technology in education.  She received a degree in French Language & Literature from Boston University, and she lives in Brighton.  Toni and her family love children’s music.  Their favorites include current artists, such as Dan Zanes and Justin Roberts, and some older ones, like Woody Guthrie and the Babysitters.

Adam Krauss is a Corporate attorney for Covidien, a Massachusetts-based healthcare company.  Prior to joining Covidien, Adam was in private practice in Boston where he represented a wide variety of life sciences and other high technology companies, as well as individual artists and musicians. Adam is passionate about music in all its forms and is a member of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, a non-profit organization established to meet the legal needs of the Massachusetts artistic community.  He received a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.  Adam serves on the Development and Governance Committees and lives in Boston.

Danna Mauch is a private consultant providing professional services and strategic advice to corporate officers and government executives in health and technology enterprises.  She is also a principal scientist with Abt Associates, conducting health economics research.  Dr. Mauch holds a Ph.D. in social policy, health planning & administration from Brandeis and has worked in the public and private sectors as CEO, consultant and Director of many health care management organizations for over 35 years.  She lives in Wayland.

Pamela Seigle is Executive Director of Courage & Renewal Northeast and is the founder and former Executive Director of the nationally recognized Open Circle Program, a social and emotional learning program based

at the Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College. She is co-author of the Open Circle Curriculum. Pamela has also served on the boards of several non-profit organizations including the Boston Public Library. Pamela has over a decade of experience as a facilitator of Courage & Renewal retreats.  She is also a jazz singer.

Andy Snider is President of Snider Associates, a consulting firm working with major corporations to develop e-learning and knowledge management strategies.  He is a graduate of Lehigh University and the Harvard Business School.  He serves on the Executive, Research, and Development committees and lives in Newton.

Anne Snyder worked at the Shady Hill School for twenty-six years, serving as Director of the school’s Teacher Training Course for ten of those years.  Ms. Snyder is a graduate of Lesley University and Earlham College and currently works with Berwick Academy in Berwick, Maine and The New City School in St Louis, Missouri to establish DOE approved site-based teacher training programs.  She lives in Cambridge with a piano player and a drummer, and has eclectic taste in music.