Uche Amaechi - Chair
Uche is a Lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and a Leadership and Group Work Consultant and Facilitator. For the past 17 years, he has also served as the ELT coordinator at the Fletcher Maynard Academy in Cambridge. Uche earned his Bachelor’s from Harvard University, an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and his Ed.D from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
David Boghossian - Vice Chair
David is a Managing Director at Commonwealth Impact Partners and a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of expertise in technology, strategy, and entrepreneurship. He is the founder of several successful start-ups including StoryStreet Technology and PowerSteering Software, Inc. and has served as a mentor to numerous mission-driven Harvard and MIT start-ups. He holds degrees from Harvard College, where he was a nationally ranked rower, and Harvard's Kennedy School, where he was a Littauer Fellow.
Alex Saltonstall - Treasurer
Alex is the Global General Manager of CastleGate at Wayfair. Prior to joining Wayfair, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Agile Mind, an education technology company, and spent almost a decade working at Cambium Learning Group. Alex is also on the Board of Directors at 2Seeds Network, Inc. He earned his Bachelor’s from Harvard University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Rene Alderete
Elizabeth Bartle
Elizabeth has worked in the non-profit sector since graduating from college, first as a legislative aide for two congressman on Capitol Hill, and then, after graduating from Harvard’s Kennedy School, as a press secretary, communications director and media consultant. In addition to her work for the US House of Representatives, she has worked on the state level, for a national foundation, and on numerous political campaigns and non-profits. In recent years, she’s taken on a number of roles - as an independent consultant, founding member of two local non-profits, and admissions advisor for a local elementary school.
Segan Helle
Jose Juves
Jose is the Vice President, Public Affairs at Wave Life Sciences. He has over 20 years of communications and marketing experience in the public and private sectors, including positions at Biogen, the Massachusetts Port Authority, and as Deputy Press Secretary to former Massachusetts Governors Weld and Cellucci. Jose earned his Bachelor’s degree from Tufts University.
Cindy Albert Link
Cindy is the Senior Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Berklee College of Music. She has three decades of development and marketing experience, including as Assistant Vice President for Capital Giving at Princeton University and Associate Dean of External Relations at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Cindy earned her Bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a Master's degree in public and private management from the Yale University School of Management.
Tamiko Moore
Lori Nelson
Kim Scheltz
Jacob Schneider
Jake is an Intellectual Property Litigation Partner at Holland & Knight LLP. Before entering private practice, Jake served as a Special Assistant District Attorney for the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. Before practicing law, Jake was a web applications software developer. He earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Trinity College and a J.D. from the Boston University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law.
Board Meetings
Board Meetings for the 2023-24 school year will be held on: September 25th, October 25th, November 29th, January 31st, March 27th, April 12th, May 29th, and June 26th. All meetings begin at 5:30pm.
This Zoom link is used for all Board of Trustees meetings, and you can register for public comment here.
Board Committees
Academic Accountability (Chair, Tamiko Moore)
Development, Advocacy, and Outreach (Chair, Uche Amaechi)
Finance (Chair, Alex Saltonstall)
Governance (Chair, Elizabeth Bartle)
To get involved or learn more about CCSC's Board of Trustees, please contact Elizabeth Debraggio, Director of Communications and Development, at edebraggio@ccscambridge.org.