Board
Stephen Lang
Board Chair
Vice President of Sales & Marketing - Classic Envelope - Brookline, MA
A graduate of Boston College with a BS in Management/Finance, Stephen brings a wealth of development experience to AFC. Very involved in the Boston region, Stephen has owned two local businesses, served as President/CEO of two other businesses, and previously served on three corporate boards.
Vanessa Fazio
Board Clerk & Chair, Governance Committee
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists/Screen Actors Guild - Boston, MA
Vanessa graduated from Boston College in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Communications, during which time she interned at AFC. She received her law degree from Suffolk University Law School in May 2006 and is licensed to practice law in Massachusetts. Vanessa also has an LL.M. degree from S.U.L.S. in Global Law and Technology. Vanessa currently works for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists/Screen Actors Guild in Boston. She is also an AFC mentor.
Matt Hegarty
Board Treasurer
Vice President of IT, New York Life - Westwood, MA
Matt has worked in Information Technology for the past 20 years, most recently responsible for managing Infrastructure and Technical Services for the company's Retirement Planning division. A graduate of Harvard College, he is on the Budget and Athletic Committees of the Harvard Club of Boston. He is also a member of the Danversbank Advisory Board, and former Board Director for Bank Malden. Matt is AFC’s treasurer. In February 2010 Matt and his mentee will celebrate the first anniversary of the mentorship.
Lynn Holmlund
Chair, Marketing Committee
Marketing and PR, CXO Media Inc - Framingham, MA
Lynn graduated from Bentley College with a BS in Marketing, and received an MA in Communications from Suffolk University. She has worked in the Marketing and PR department of CXO Media Inc. for more than four years in branding, program rollouts and product launch initiatives. Lynn is responsible for the event planning and budgeting of her class reunion activities, giving her ample experience for her role on AFC’s Development Committee.
Mark McCurdy
Chair, Development Committee
President and Founder Jobs in Nonprofits
Mark McCurdy is a certified Human Resource Professional (PHR), with over eight years of recruitment and management experience in the nonprofit sector. Mark graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a BA and a concentration in Human Resource Management. After working in New York City and Washington, DC, Mark has now brought his extensive nonprofit experience to Boston as founder of Jobs In Nonprofits (JNP) who’s primary goal is to connect the brightest hearts and minds to the best nonprofits. Mark chairs AFC’s Development Committee. He was adopted from Colombia as a child.
Justin Pasquariello
AFC Founder, Graduate Student at Harvard Business School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government - Boston, MA
Justin, adopted at age nine by his foster family after intermittent stays with relatives and his birth mother, founded AFC during his senior year at Harvard College. Noting that his own journey through foster care was far smoother and more successful than most, Justin created AFC as a way to give back and to boost foster care youth’s chances of success. Justin served as AFC’s Executive Director until 2007, when he returned to Harvard to pursue graduate studies in Business and Government. Justin was awarded the prestigious Reynolds Foundation Fellowship, as well as a Local Heroes Award from Bank of America for his work with foster and adopted youth in Massachusetts. He is currently studying finance for social change through a concurrent degree program at the Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.
Charlie Rich
Investment Manager, NorthStar Capital - Cambridge, MA
Charlie is an Investment Manager at NorthStar Capital, a management firm that provides investment services to individual clients. Prior to NorthStar, Charlie worked at AFC Mentoring in many different capacities. He was the third employee to be hired by the organization and during his time there he assisted in volunteer recruitment, program development and evaluation, mentor and mentee support, and fundraising. He was also a group mentor. Charlie received a BA in Philosophy from Kenyon College and a graduate certificate in Nonprofit Management from Northeastern University. He currently serves on our Development Committee and chairs the Rodman Ride for Kids subcommittee.
Linda T. Sanford
Program Committee
Licensed Independent Social Worker - Simmons College - Boston, MA
Lynn. Sanford is a licensed independent clinical social worker who began working with survivors of sexual assault in l973 and with children with sexual behavior problems in l983. Over the past twenty years she has served as Clinical Director for: an outpatient trauma clinic; a 40 bed staff-secure facility for teen boys convicted of crimes against people; a 16 bed long-term locked psychiatric unit for teen girls and most recently, a day school and residential treatment center for 95 latency-age children with profound learning differences, mental illness or attachment issues. In 2002, Linda received the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Award for Outstanding Contribution to Social Work Practice. She serves on AFC’s Program Committee and helps lead evidence-based evaluations of our programs.
Chiemeka J. Azubuine
Development Committee
Senior Manager for Events Scheduling and Support at Harvard Law School - Cambridge, MA
CJ graduated with a BA in Music Business and Management from Berklee College of Music in 2002. He currently works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Campus Activities Complex as the Assistant Manager for Event Operations. He will return to school this summer to begin work on a Master’s degree in Leadership at Northeastern University. CJ serves on the Development Committee and chairs the Special Events subcommittee.
Kim Stevens
Project Manager – North American Council on Adoptable Children
Kim has extensive professional experience working with youth in foster care, spending eight years at the Massachusetts Families for Kids program of Children's Services of Roxbury, eventually becoming co-director of the company. Currently, Kim works at North American Council on Adoptable Children as project manager for the Jockey-funded Community Champions Network (CCN). CCN is working to support eight North American communities in building coalitions to advocate for funding and implementation of effective post adoption support services. Kim and her husband, Buddy, have six children, four of whom were adopted from the foster care system. Her knowledge of the child welfare system makes Kim an invaluable asset to AFC and to developing AFC’s services for youth “aging out” of care.
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