NALC’s Board of Trustees

Officers

Martha Barry McKenna (President), Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

Roger Shoemaker (Vice-President), Dean for the Arts and Associate Head of School, Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA

Eric Oddleifson (Treasurer and NALC Co-Founder), Private Consultant, Sustainable Forestry Investments, Hingham, MA

Patricia Mitchell (Secretary), Founder and Chief Operating Officer,  ALTA: Academy for Learning Through the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Directors

Fred Adair, Partner in Leadership Consulting, Heidrick & Struggles, Boston, MA

Joseph M. Cronin, is President, EDVISORS, Milton, MA

Julie Faulstich, Academic Dean, Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA

Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA

Gary Marple, CEO, Lessac Technologies, Inc., and Founder, Commonwealth Strategies, Boxborough, MA

Betsy Paine McClendon, Fidelity Investments (Ret.), Wayland, MA

Stephanie B. Perrin, NALC Co-Founder, and Head, Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA

Lourdes Santiago, Principal, Charles Sumner Elementary School, Roslindale, MA

Kathy Tosolini, Unified Arts Director, Plymouth Public Schools, Plymouth, MA

Bob Wheeler, Educator (Ret.), Northford, CT

NALC’s National Advisory Board

Arnold Aprill, Executive Director, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Chicago, IL

Schuyler Chapin, Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs (Ret.), New York, NY

Alan Brody, Associate Provost for the Arts/Professor of Theater, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Katherine Damkohler, Executive Director, Education Through Music, Inc., New York, NY

Deborah Dluhy, Dean, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Deputy Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

William Lowman, Head of School, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA

Jill Medvedow, James Sachs Plaut Director, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Ellen Winner, Professor of Psychology; Boston College; Senior Research Associate, Harvard Project Zero, Cambridge, MA

William Zimmerman, Senior Associate, New England School Development Council, and Superintendent, Wayland Public Schools (Ret.), Grantham, NH

NALC Staff

Meredith Eppel Jylkka, Executive Director

Catherine McCulloch, Assistant Director

Ruth Bodian, NALC Program Coordinator, and Director of the Community Learning Center, Charles Sumner Elementary School, Roslindale, MA

Chuck Day and Marcella Elliot, NALC Program Coordinators, and 4th Grade Teacher and 5th Grade Teacher, respectively, Mather Elementary School, Dorchester, MA

Lisa Donovan, NALC-Sumner Professional Development Coordinator, and Director and Assistant Professor, Creative Arts in Learning Division, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

Steve Durning, NALC Program Coordinator, and English Faculty, Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA

Tom Evans, NALC Program Coordinator, and Director of the Visual Arts Department, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA

Bill Jacob, NALC Program Coordinator, and Fine Arts Chair, Brimmer and May School, Chestnut Hill, MA

Maureen O’Keefe, NALC Program Coordinator, and 2nd Grade Teacher, Marshall Elementary School, Dorchester, MA