Board Members

Arianna Mamoli, board president, long-time volunteer and board member. She has a master's degree in communication from the University of Arizona and she teaches Italian at Harvard. She very much enjoys teaching, but right now she is totally devoted to her new full-time job: being a mom!
amamoli@parentsforum.org

Eve Sullivan, Founder and Board Member, mother of three grown sons, lives in Cambridge, Mass., and works part-time as an editorial assistant at MIT. She trained as a language teacher and has dedicated her volunteer efforts over the past 15 years to PARENTS FORUM. She is active on behalf of the program in the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, the Cambridge Family Literacy Collaborative, the Vienna International Committee of NGOs on the Family, CIVICUS and the UN Committee on Mental Health. She serves on the board of the International Federation for Parent Education based in Paris.
esullivan@parentsforum.org

Michael Heffner, board treasurer, father of one son, lives in Boston, Mass. He is Vice President at State Street Corporation focused on managing a business analysis team. His goal in joining PARENTS FORUM is to align his personal goal of being a good father and husband with the goal of giving back to the community. In his personal life he and his wife Sherry enjoy living in the South End and traveling. He also competes in triathlons.
mheffner@parentsforum.org

Nina Breygin, web developer, lives in Newton, Mass., having come from Russia over a decade ago. She has an engineering degree and works for Management Sciences for Health. She designed and maintains this website and gives the board excellent advice on technical and other matters, including nutrition and exercise!
nbreygin@parentsforum.org

William Sharp (M.A.), Board Member, is a therapist in private practice in Brookline, Mass., and Director of the School Based Counseling Program of the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. He is a Parent Educator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and consultant to the Commonwealth's Department of Social Services and Department of Mental Health.
wsharp@parentsforum.org

Hayley Arnett, Board Member. She has a master's degree in Child Development from Tufts University. Her interest in joining the board is to bring her expertise in the areas of Children with Special Needs and Public Health to help PARENTS FORUM reach more parents and institutions by helping create a social marketing campaign.
harnett@parentsforum.org

Grantwriter

Melissa Cariño lives in Lowell, Massachusetts but hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently works at the Boston Women's Fund as the coordinator of the Young Sisters for Justice in Philanthropy (YSFJP) project. Melissa's grantwriting experience comes from her development work at the United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) and grant reviewing work with both the Boston Women's Fund and the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Melissa hopes to become a mother herself someday either by birth and/or adoption. Until then, she is a proud mama to her dog, Sam.
mcarino@parentsforum.org  

Co-Founders

Eve Sullivan is the author of the program handbook Where the Heart Listens. It is her vision of a community of parents and others who care about children and families that created PARENTS FORUM.

Chris Bates, mother of a son and a daughter, both grown, and the happy grandmother of two wonderful little boys, lives in Nahant. Her practical skills and efforts helped make the PARENTS FORUM dream a reality.

Past Board Members include . . .

Daniel Mulugeta, Allison Bell, Sharon Leah Brown, Shawn Crossman, Lee Ann Frigulietti, Eugene Kalaw, Emma Lathan, Mary McCormick, Mary McPeak, Paul Nicholson, Marsha Orent, Margaret Serpa, Lois Sullivan, Natalie Thue and Howard Wolfe. We appreciate all the help you have given and, in some cases, continue to provide! 

Get Involved

Have you been looking for a group of passionate people to join?

Are you missing something important in your life: friendship and understanding?

Are you a parent who would like to learn more about parenting and also contribute to the worthy cause?

PARENTS FORUM is waiting for YOU!
Call PARENTS FORUM today at 617-864-3801 and get involved.
Children are our future.
They need us to be the best parents we can be.

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