Board of Directors

Juan H. Gonzalez, Chair
Director of Community Organizing, Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation

Juan has been involved in community development since he was a college student, and later a professor, at the Agronomy School of San Carlos University in his native Guatemala. He has also worked as a consultant and project director for the United Nations Development Program and other nonprofit organizations. As a professor, he headed the Supervised Professional Practice Department and the Natural Research Program. During that time, he collaborated with nongovernmental organizations carrying out development projects in rural communities to develop leaders, conduct trainings and organize presentations. In 1992, he came to the United States where he has worked with urban communities, especially Latino immigrants, as a community organizer, popular educator and tenant's rights campaigner. Juan holds a BA in Agriculture from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and an MS in Forestry from the University of Minnesota.

Kimberly Collins Jermain, Treasurer
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.

Paul Guggenheim, Guatemala Country Director for the Riecken Foundation 

With extensive experience in Latin America, Paul leads 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.

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.

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.

BOARD FELLOWS

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.

Advisory Board

Martine Kellett, ArtCorps Founder

Martine has worked in the foundation world for nearly 30 years. She served as the Executive Director at the New England Biolabs Foundation since its establishment in 1983 until her retirement in 2009. Convinced that art and culture provide the means to effect meaningful and sustainable social change, she conceived ArtCorps as a pilot project in 2000 to respond to the challenges of many nongovernmental organizations. ArtCorps is the meeting of her nonprofit management skills with her global and environmental interests. She is fluent in several languages and holds a French MBA.

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.