Kimberly Collins Jermain, Artist and Color Designer

A landscape painter and educator by training, Kim has worked as an architectural color designer for commercial and residential properties for over twenty years.  Her creative approach to using the science of color to shape interior and exterior space comes from a desire to practice the visual language of the artist in the built environment. Through lectures and workshops, Kim shares her work with art school and university students and professionals in the field of design. At ArtCorps, Kim participates in interviewing artists who will be placed with nongovernmental organizations. Her work as a painter takes her to locations around the world, expanding her view of the role that art and creative expression can play in solving challenges to the human condition.

Carol Seitchik, Director of Art Focus

Carol has a thirty-year background in the visual arts. Her work is featured in many collections, and she recently received awards for her poetry. In Philadelphia, her home town, she started one of the first artist-run women's cooperative art galleries in the country. In Boston, her present home, she completed a term on the policy board of the Boston Visual Artists Union and became a member of the artist-run Bromfield Gallery. Presently, Carol is a visual arts curator for corporations presenting art programs and on-going rotating art exhibitions.

G. Brett Robb, Senior Scientist at New England Biolabs

Brett is a staff scientist with the RNA Biology Division at New England Biolabs. Prior to joining New England Biolabs, Brett held various teaching and academic advisory positions in the US, Canada and France. In addition to his scientific and teaching work, Brett has volunteered at the AIDS Action Committee in Boston and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Brett brings his knowledge of science and technology and passion for developing critical thinkers worldwide to ArtCorps. Brett has PhD from the University of Toronto and a BS in Genetics from the University of Western Ontario.

Courtney Scott-Howard, Marketing Professional

Courtney has 15 years of experience in all aspects of marketing communications, as well as extensive senior management experience, including leading small to mid-sized organizations through periods of ambitious growth. She served as the Director of Marketing at both FirstGiving, a leading online fundraising platform, and Gentle Giant Moving Company, the largest residential moving company in New England. Previously, she filled several professional service and client-facing roles at MediaMap, a PR software and media consulting agency. She holds an MBA from the FW Olin School of Business at Babson College and a BA in French and Spanish language from Bates College. She previously served on the board of Everybody Wins! Metro Boston and actively volunteers with several local animal shelters, urban farms, disaster recovery agencies, and her local business community in Roslindale, MA.

Paul Guggenheim, Executive Director for Health Horizons International

With extensive experience in Latin America, Paul led efforts of the Riecken Foundation in Guatemala to strengthen and expand a network of modern community libraries which provide access to information and leadership development for multiethnic communities. Riecken has partnered with ArtCorps in Guatemala and Honduras. Paul has also worked at The Field Museum in Chicago, as a street educator at Casa Alianza in Managua, Nicaragua, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras and as a field supervisor and project director for the volunteer organization Amigos de las Americas in Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, Honduras and Nicaragua. He also worked at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. He holds a MA in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University and a BA in Anthropology from Ithaca College.

Martha Collette, Clinical Neuropsychologist

Martha is a clinical neuropsychologist with a practice in Beverly, Massachusetts, on staff at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and Newton Wellesley Hospital where she teaches, supervises and does program development.  Special interests include children’s learning, women’s empowerment and broad-based development of self esteem.

With a strong interest and connectedness to Guatemala, she has been involved with the indigenous communities, women’s groups, preservation of tribal weaving patterns and local environments, such as working with Amigos del Lago Atitlan, and the Textile Museum at the University of San Carlo de Guatemala.

Undergraduate studies in psychology were at Clark University, and graduate studies were at Tufts University and the University of Hawaii where she did research on culturally based learning patterns with the East West Center and the Kamehameha Schools as well as Head Start.

Davis Bradford, Senior Manager at KPMG

Davis is a senior manager in KPMG’s Boston Advisory Services practice with over 14 years of management consulting and business experience. His focus is on the delivery of advisory services to the office of the CFO, with an emphasis on increasing value in the finance function and helping finance organizations move along the value preservation/value creation continuum based on their maturity and industry challenges.  Davis has served as a member of his alma mater’s Alumni Board and as the Chair of Young Alumni Giving.  In his spare time, Davis enjoys tending to he and his wife’s postage stamp of a yard in Roslindale, MA, skiing and playing with his two year old son.

Liz Gibbons

Elizabeth D. Gibbons is a leader, strategist and advocate with international record of building significant partnerships and achieving social change for children's rights and well-being in diverse cultural, linguistic and political settings. An experienced manager of multi-cultural teams, she has inspired change at local and global levels, and led transformative action for social justice and the realization of human rights.

Currently, Elizabeth is a Visiting Scientist at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights in the Harvard School of Public Health and a distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Kozmetsky Center of Excellence in Global Finance at St. Edwards University. Prior to these 2011 academic appointments, Elizabeth enjoyed a lengthy career at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Her career in social development and humanitarian affairs spanned more than three decades, during which she lived and worked in Togo, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, and served as head of UNICEF's offices in Haiti and in Guatemala. She also served as strategic regional advisor to UNICEF's Haiti operations, following the devastating earthquake of 2012, and held several positions in UNICEF's New York headquarters, including Acting Director, Emergency Operations Chief, Global Policy Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Practice. A graduate of Smith College and Columbia University, Elizabeth is the author of Sanctions in Haiti: Human Rights and Democracy under Assault, and a contributing author to several other books.

Catherine Crockett, Managing Partner at Grove Street Advisors

Catherine co-founded GSA in 1998 and is a Managing Partner of the firm and member of its Investment Committee. Catherine leads investments across buyouts, growth equity and venture capital, including early development of GSA's IT and healthcare venture portfolio and in 2004, the firm's India portfolio. She was the lead investor for a number of new private equity teams that are now well established as leaders within their areas of investment focus, and is active on numerous advisory boards.

Prior to GSA, Catherine built a successful 14-year career in the design and implementation of private equity investment programs where there was both a financial and business development objective. In total, she led the formation of private equity investment programs with nearly $400 million under management for major corporate and state pension fund investors.

Catherine earned her BA from the University of Notre Dame in Business Admin & Government, and her MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Martine Kellett, ArtCorps Founder

John B. Denniston, Retired Partner, Covington & Burling LLP

Now retired, John practiced law for 38 years with the Washington DC law firm of Covington & Burling. Since retiring in 2000, John has maintained his office and now works part time in a non-legal capacity on pro-bono projects for organizations that are involved in addressing science, public policy, environmental or cultural issues, and international development.