Governance

Board of Directors

HONORARY DIRECTOR - Angela Menino, First Lady, City of Boston

Chairperson - Benjamin Taylor
Vice Chairperson and Clerk - Kathryn Cochrane Murphy, Esq., Krokidas & Bluestein
Vice Chairperson - Otile McManus, Director of Special Projects, Corcoran Jennison
Treasurer - Leo Swift, CEO, Energy New England

• Lee Albright, Co-Owner, Allandale Farm
• Janet Atkins, Principal, Ridgeway Advisors
• Marjorie Bakken, President Emerita, Wheelock College
• Peter Barber, President, NDC Development Associates
• Anne Connolly, Fox Hill Village
• Michael Dukakis, Professor, Northeastern University
• Sarah Freeman, Arborway Coalition & Vice-Chair, Park Overseers
• Carol Gladstone, GLC Development Resources
• William Gutfarb, Trustee, The Yawkey Foundations
• Roger Harris, Superintendent, Renaissance Charter School
• Sam Kennedy, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Boston Red Sox
• Matthew Kiefer, Esq., Goulston & Storrs & Representative, Arboretum Park Conservancy
• Pamela Lazares, Former Chair, Justine Mee Liff Fund Luncheon
• Ursula Liff
• Monroe "Bud" Moseley, Senior Parner, Isaacson, Miller
• Jane Roy, Co-Chair, Justine Mee Liff Fund Luncheon
• Wendy Shattuck, Founder, Justine Mee Liff Fund Luncheon
• Linda Edmonds Turner, President, Urban College of Boston
• Elizabeth A. Vizza, Principal, Vizza Consulting & Chair, Park Overseers

EX-OFFICIO DIRECTORS

• Samantha Overton Bussell, Deputy Director, Urban Parks Division,
  Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
• Thomas DeMaio, Commissioner, Brookline Department of Public Works
• Erin Chute Gallentine, Director, Brookline Parks & Open Space
• Antonia Pollak, Commissioner, Boston Parks Department
• John Sullivan, Jr., Chief Engineer, Boston Water and Sewer Commission

Park Overseers

Chair - Elizabeth A. Vizza, Boston Society of Landscape Architects
Vice Chair - Sarah Freeman, Arborway Coalition

• Julie Brandlen, Boston Nature Center of MA Audubon
• Dorothy Clark, Friends of Pinebank
• Suzanne Comtois, Fenway CDC
• Rich Frost, Fenway Civic Association
• Julie Coop, Arnold Arboretum
• Jeffrey Ferris, Emerald Necklace Greenway Project
• Lieza Dagher, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• Sarah Hamilton, MASCO
• John Linehan, Franklin Park Zoo/Zoo New England
• Arlene Mattison, Friends of Leverett Pond
• Cecily Miller, Forest Hills Educational Trust
• Sally Muspratt, Garden Club Federation of MA
• Christine Poff, Franklin Park Coalition
• Fredericka Veikley, Fenway Civic Association
• Carroll Williamson, Friends of the Muddy River
• Gerald Wright, Friends of Jamaica Pond

Stewardship Council

• Eugenie Beal, Boston Natural Areas Network
• Charles Beveridge, Series Editor, The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
• Frances Colburn
• John Cook, Director, Environmental Careers Organization
• Robert Cook, Director, Arnold Arboretum
• John Cornish, Esq., Choate Hall & Stewart
• Jody Dow, Republican National Committeewoman
• Scott Dumont, Senior Development Director, Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse
• Bruce Enders, Consultant, Executive Service Corps of New England
• Grace Fey, Chair, New England Zoo, Emerald Necklace Conservancy Investment Committee
• Courtney Forrester, Co-owner, Sweet Cupcakes
• David Gluck, Esq.
• Myra Harrison, Superintendent, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site/National Park Service
• Whitney Hatch, Regional Director, Trust for Public Land
• James Hunnewell, Jr., AIA
• Frank Keefe, CEO, Boston Museum Project
• Mimi LaCamera, President, Freedom Trail Foundation
• Arleyn Levee, Past President, National Association of Olmsted Parks
• Robert McCoy
• Hubert Murray, AIA
• Bill Nigreen, Principal, Facilitation for Social Change
• Louise Riemer
• David Scudder, Chairman & CEO, Aureus Asset Management
• James Seder, The Cabot Estate
• Jack Smith, Consultant, Executive Service Corps of New England
• Leslie Stacks

Rose Garden Advisory Committee

• Gary Forst
• Kit Ganshaw
• Tony Hennessey
• Sally Muspratt

Project Review Committee

The Project Review Committee reviews projects that are proposed on property adjacent to or near the Emerald Necklace and assesses the potential impacts they may have on the park system. Membership on the Project Review Committee consists of the President and two members from each of the Conservancy's governing bodies: the Board of Directors, the Park Overseers and the Stewardship Council.

Matt Kiefer, Chair and member of Board of Directors
Bill Gutfarb, Board of Directors
Jeffrey Ferris, Park Overseers
Sarah Hamilton, Park Overseers
Bill Nigreen, Stewardship Committee
Hubert Murray, Stewardship Committee
Julie Crockford, President