Trustees

Andy Snider (Chairman) 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.

Gary F. Gut (Vice Chairman) 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 is co-chair of the Development Committee and chairman of the CLCS capital campaign.  He and his wife, Patricia Casale, a Berklee College of Music Trustee 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.

Molly Booth is an active volunteer in the Boston area, and has assisted many
organizations including Park, Brooks and Middlesex Schools and the Boston
Public Library, among others. She is co-chair of the Development Committee
at CLCS. She is a graduate of Wheaton College and lives in Chestnut Hill.
Her musical interests include the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and Ben Zander's
pre-concert talks.

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.

Andrew Cabot

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.

Kim Marshall has been involved with educational reform for over thirty-five years.  He has taught in the Boston Public Schools, conducted research on effective urban schools and classroom innovation, served as Director of Curriculum and Planning in the Boston Public Schools, and served as an elementary school principal.  Mr. Marshall now works for New Leaders for New Schools, a non-profit that recruits, trains, and supports new urban principals across the country.  Music is one of the greatest sources of beauty and enjoyment in his life, and he listens to classical, some opera, classic jazz, R&B, and sixties rock and roll. Favorites include Aretha Franklin, Pavorati, Mozart, and Eric Clapton.  He lives in Brookline.

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.

Stephanie Perrin has been Head of School at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick since 1984.  She also serves on the board of the National Arts and Learning Collaborative and is past president of the Network of Schools of Visual and Performing Arts.  She is on the New England Conservatory Board of Overseers. She is a graduate of Boston University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education and lives in Natick.

Adilene Santos Nunes

Pamela Seigle

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.