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Mike Ciolino - Mr. Ciolino, a Newton resident, is the founder and President of Verve Creative Inc., a graphic design and advertising firm, joined the Board of CAN-DO in 2005. Since its opening in 1999 the firm with a staff of four has worked with high profile brands such as Legal Sea Foods, Ocean Spray Cranberries and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is member of several local civic organizations including the Newton Kiwanis Club, the Newton-Needham Chamber of Commerce and teaches graphic design to students at Newton North High School as a volunteer. |
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Jane Eisenstark - Ms. Eisenstark, one of the organization's founding members, lived in Newton for twenty-one years in a subsidized mixed-income housing development where she raised her son. She currently resides in Cambridge at the Cornerstone Co-Housing Development. She is a social work administrator and the Director of Special Projects at Eliot Community Human Services a private non-profit human service agency. |
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Andrea Karis - Ms. Karis moved to Newton in 1992 as a single mother living in low-income housing and joined CAN-DO's board in 2006. She currently works at the Harvard School of Public Health as a research and administrative assistant. She has been actively involved in issues effecting low-income mothers including testifying before the Massachusetts' legislature about welfare reform, and the availability of day care for low-income mothers. Andrea engages in numerous volunteer activities in the Newton Public Schools including speaking to young people about parenting and sharing her story with them. Andrea has two daughters in the Newton public schools. Ms. Karis serves as the Clerk of the Board. |
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Aprel McCabe - Ms. McCabe is an employee relations' specialist and mediator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Environmental Protection. She located to the Boston area from West Virginia in 1990 and has resided in Newton since 1994 where she lives with her husband and son. Ms. McCabe was elected to the Board in 2001.
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Kevin T. McCormick - Mr. McCormick has lived in the Boston area all his life and moved to Newtonville in 1994. After many years as a project manager in application development for a number of financial services companies, he has changed careers into housing. He is currently the project coordinator for Newton's Accessory Apartment Incentive Program. He was elected to the Board in 2006. |
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Deanna Reid - Ms. Reid joined the Board in 2005 and is a relative newcomer to Newton and a former resident of Dorchester. She is the owner and Director of Ummi's House, a family childcare center in the Auburndale neighborhood of Newton. She has three children in the Newton public schools and is the Co-President of the Burr School PTO. She has worked as a childcare advocate for more than twenty-five years. |
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Kenneth H. Sinclair - Mr. Sinclair is a self-employed computer engineer who has lived in Newton with his wife and two children for approximately ten years. He joined the Board in 2002 and is the current Treasurer. |
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Lesley Sneddon - Ms. Sneddon joined the Board in October of 2000 and has lived in Newton with her husband since 1983. She is a mother of two children both of whom attend Newton Public Schools. She is employed as the Senior Regional Ecologist for Nature Serve, a Boston-based nonprofit organization. |
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CAN-DO, affordable housing, transitional housing, congregate living, Newton, Massachusetts, Josephine McNeil, YIMBY, Louis H. Garfield House, Christina Street, Kayla's House, Kayla A. Rosenberg, Highlands Glen Condominiums, Webster Street, U-CHAN, Uniting Citizens for Housing Affordability in Newton, Ted Hess-Mahan, federal HOME program, CDBG, Young Parent Program, NWW, NCSC, Newton Community Service Centers, DMH, DMR, SRO, Community Preservation Act, Newton Community Preservation Committee, zoning, non-profit, moderate income, Bob Swett Excellence in Housing Award, Newton Womens' Commission, Newton2000
