ONE Massachusetts Leadership Team
Jo Blum has been Director of Government Relations for the Mass. Teachers Association since 1998. MTA represents over 106,000 educators and staff who work in the Commonwealth’s public schools and public higher education system. Prior to moving to Boston, Jo lobbied in Washington, D.C. on women’s reproductive health issues for 20 years.
Steven Bradley is Vice President of Government and Community Relations at Baystate Health, managing the day-to-day contact with local, state and federal legislators, regulators, lobbyists and City officials. Prior to serving at Baystate, he was the Chief of Staff/Director of Redistricting for the Senate Assistant Majority Leader’s Office and the Chief of Staff for the Massachusetts Senate Committee on Ways and Means. His affiliations include Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Healthcare Management Association of Massachusetts, Affiliated Chambers of Commerce of Greater Springfield, and the Massachusetts Hospital Association.
Colleen Corona was elected to the Easton Board of Selectmen in December 2003. She is currently in her second term and has served as board chair for the last four years. Colleen serves on the Board of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, the Local Goverment Advisory Council, and is Second Vice President of the Massachusetts Selectmen Association. Colleen is an instructor at Massasoit Community College, where she teaches l ocal goverment classes. In 2006, Colleen helped lead a successful campaign for a $3.4 million Proposition 2 ½ override to supplement the Easton operating budget.
Craig J. Dutra is President of the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts, an organization that he was actively involved in creating. He has held leadership positions in the field of community development and human services for the past 28 years, primarily in organizations serving Southeastern Massachusetts. Craig previously served as Vice President of Marketing and Development and Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Administrator for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Boston.
Lew Finfer is the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Community Action Network.
Michael Forbes Wilcox is the founder and CEO of Alford Associates, a research and consultancy firm specializing in foreign exchange analysis. Michael has been in the investment business for more than 25 years. He serves as Town Moderator in Alford Mass, and is on the Executive Committee of Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts. Michael also serves on the Berkshire Brigades Steering Committee, the MassDems Field Services Committee and was Berkshire County Coordinator for the Deval Patrick Committee.
Debra Fastino is Director of the Coalition for Social Justice, an organization which advocates for public policies that can improve the lives of ordinary people in Southeastern Massachusetts. CSJ organizes at the grassroots to support rational, comprehensive solutions to our state budget issues as well as economic and environmental policies that affect low and moderate income individuals and working families. She also serves as Chair of the Ward Seven Democratic Committee, a member of the Coalition for Responsible Siting of LNG Facilities, a founding member and former co-chair of the Lower Highlands/ Historic Downtown Neighborhood Association and a Community Development Transition Team Member for Mayor Flanagan of Fall River. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Bridgewater State College.
Jorge Martinez is Executive Director and Community Organizer of Project R.I.G.H.T., a violence prevention/intervention, grassroots organizing and economic development coalition. He coordinates the efforts of over 40 organizations to focus more efficiently around the issues of violence and quality of life in the Greater Grove Hall – Roxbury/Dorchester neighborhood. Jorge supervises staff on projects that have included youth projects, grassroots organizing efforts, economic development projects, and organizers and volunteers in coordinated efforts.
Denise M. Moorehead is the director of communications at Third Sector New England, a nonprofit organization that provides support, training and management resources to build the capacity of individual nonprofits and the sector to work for social change. Denise has served on numerous boards of trustees and advisory committees and is currently a member of the Greeley Foundation and Jericho Road boards. She founded the Saratoga County Chapter of the NAACP, was elected to the city’s Board of Education and co-founded Saratogians for Equality and Acceptance of Diversity.
Gloribell Mota is director of education and training for the Democratic Party of Massachusetts. She graduated from Emerson College with a Visual and Media Arts degree. For two years she worked as an Education Coordinator for United for a Fair Economy conducting and developing workshops for the Tax Education Program. She serves on the Board of the East Boston Community Health Center, Neighborhood of Affordable Housing and ABCD Board. She is involved in several coalitions and initiatives in the Greater Boston area such as the New Majority, Whose Boston and The Salvadoran Initiative of Education and Culture (ISEDUC).
Myriam Ortiz is the Executive Director of the Boston Parents Organizing Network.
Frank Robinson oversees a broad public-private partnership which operates under the umbrella of Partners for a Healthier Community, Inc., a broad-based multi-sector initiative aimed at improving school health services, immunization status for pre-school-age children, health insurance enrollment for children, and capacity and services of youth development organizations. Frank is a public health professional with 20-plus years of Community Health Education experiences in a variety of public and private agencies.
Caprice Taylor Mendez is the Executive Director of Emerge Massachusetts, a new organization seeking to increase the number of progressive Democrat women elected leaders at the local and state-wide levels. Caprice brings 12 years of policy advocacy, coalition building, and grassroots organizing experience around issues such as education, public health, affordable housing, economic development, and the environment. She has worked as a policy advocate at a national, statewide and local levels.
Dolores Thibault-Munoz is Executive Director of the Cleghorn Neighborhood Center in Fitchburg and was born in Chicago, IL to Mexican and Guatemalan parents. She holds a bachelor’s in Women’s and Gender Studies from DePaul University in Chicago . Before coming to CNC she was the housing organizer for Blocks Together in Chicago. She also started a small arts organization for youth in Chicago.