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Board of Advisors The Board of Advisors is a diverse group of civic leaders with a keen interest in improving the governance of the Greater Boston region. The board meets on a regular basis and plays a valuable role in advising Rappaport Institute staff on current and potential projects. Alfred C. Aman, Jr. Dean, Suffolk University Law School About Our Board Members
To learn more about Jerome Lyle Rappaport, read the short biographical piece "Coming Full Circle."
Susan Tracy, President of the Strategy Group, works with corporations and nonprofit organizations on strategic planning, communications, and community relations. The Strategy Group’s clients include the Boston Red Sox, CareGroup, and the Citizen’s Housing and Planning Association. Ms. Tracy was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1990, where she served Allston-Brighton for four years. In her second term, she was appointed to the House Ways and Means Committee and named Vice Chair of the Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture. Prior to serving in the legislature, Ms. Tracy worked for the city of Boston, where she served as Director of the Emergency Shelter Commission, coordinating Boston’s services for the homeless. She attended the Kennedy School of Government as a Rappaport-Boston Urban Fellow in 1987-1988.
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Alfred C. Aman, Jr,
is Dean of Suffolk University Law School and an internationally known scholar and lecturer. Dean Aman was the Dean of Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington from 1991-2002. More recently, Dean Aman has been the Roscoe C. O'Byrne Professor of Law at Indiana . He has previously served as a member of the Cornell University Law School faculty and has held a Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Trento , Italy , and visiting professorships in England , France , and Italy . Dean Aman is the author of five books and numerous articles on administrative and regulatory law, especially as it relates to the global economy. Dean Aman is a graduate of the University of Rochester and the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. 
Karl E. Case is the Katherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, where he has taught for 29 years. He is also a founding partner in the real estate research firm of Case Shiller Weiss, and serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of the Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), Century Bank, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He is a Director of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. For the last 20 years, Professor Case’s research has focused on real estate markets and prices, and he has authored several studies that attempt to isolate the causes and consequences of boom and bust cycles and their relationship to regional economic performance. He is author or co-author of five books as well as numerous articles in professional journals.
David M. Cutler is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Harvard Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government, and he also serves as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for Social Sciences. His work in health economics and public economics has earned him significant academic and public acclaim. He served on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during the Clinton administration, advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Bradley and John Kerry, and has held positions with the National Institutes of Health and the National Academy of Sciences. Currently, Professor Cutler is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Institute of Medicine. He is the author of Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America’s Health Care System (Oxford University Press, 2004). 
Tiziana Dearing is the President of Catholic Charities of Boston. From 2003 to 2006, Ms. Dearing served as Executive Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. Leading the center through a period of strategic change, her responsibilities included providing strategic direction; marketing and fundraising; personnel management; relationship management with major donors, foundations and advisory board members; serving as the public face of the center; coaching students, faculty and researchers; and conducting independent research. Prior to joining the Hauser Center, Ms. Dearing served in a number of consultant roles for nonprofit organizations including faith-based organizations, specializing in strategy, organizational development, executive coaching, conflict and group problem solving, program start-up and ethics. 
Lawrence S. DiCara, a partner at Nixon Peabody, LLP, practices in real estate and administrative law. A former member and president of the Boston City Council, he has served as a member of the Democratic State Committee for over 30 years. He also is Chairman of the City of Boston's Audit Committee, a Director and Clerk of A Better City, the organization that grew out of the Artery Business Committee, a Director of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, a Trustee of The Children's Museum, and chair of the Boston Bar Association's Legislative Steering Committee. He has also served as President of the Boston Latin School Association and was a Trustee of the University of Massachusetts. 
Dr. David W. Ellis, upon his retirement from the Museum of Science, began a new career as consultant, teacher, arbitrator, and board member. His first appointment was as the first Senior Fellow with the Boston Foundation in 2003-2004. He has also been active as a consultant with science centers and institutions of higher education, as a board member for nonprofit institutions, as a teacher at Harvard Extension School, and as an arbitrator. From 1990-2002, Dr. Ellis served as President and Director of the Museum of Science, one of the world’s largest science and technology centers, where he is currently Trustee Emeritus. He has been President of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, and has held a variety of positions at the University of New Hampshire. He is active in numerous professional associations and organizations and serves on several boards. 
Gerald Frug is the Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard Law School, he worked as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in Washington, D.C., and as Health Services Administrator of the City of New York before he began teaching in 1974 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1981. Professor Frug's specialty is local government law, a subject he has taught for more than twenty-five years. He has published dozens of articles on the topic and is the author, among other works, of a casebook on Local Government Law (4th edition 2006, with David Barron and Richard T. Ford), Dispelling the Myth of Home Rule (2004, with David Barron and Rick Su), and City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls (Princeton University Press 1999). 
Carly Janson is the Founder and President of New Sector Alliance and also currently serves as Director, Social Impact for The Boston Consulting Group. Her work over the past decade has focused on developing strategies and executing change initiatives in the field of social enterprise, including work with NGOs, public sector agencies, cross-sector partnerships, and corporate citizenship programs. She is a subject matter expert on employee recruitment and retention programs, based upon her experience running Harvard Business School recruiting for The Boston Consulting Group and consulting to various for-profit clients on these matters. In 2000, Carly founded New Sector Alliance, a nonprofit consulting firm that works in partnership with leading academic institutions and consulting firms (specifically The Boston Consulting Group) to recruit, train, and support student and professional consultants to deliver high-quality, affordable consulting services to clients. Carly has also consulted to Fortune 100 companies in the financial services and telecommunications industries. Carly holds a BA in Economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has studied International Economics and The Economics of Social Problems at the London School of Economics. She was recently a Center for Social Innovation Fellow at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Carly is passionate about teaching and career coaching. She currently co-teaches a course on Consulting to Nonprofits at Harvard and guest lectures at several other academic institutions.
Thomas M. Keane, Jr. is one of four general partners at Murphy & Partners, a New York-based private equity fund. At M&P, he has participated in the start-up or financing of numerous businesses in a range of sectors including long-term care, radio broadcasting, newspaper publishing, television production, web design, and elementary and post-secondary education. From 1993 -1999, Mr. Keane was a Boston City Councilor representing parts of Allston, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Kenmore Square, and Mission Hill. He has also worked as a financial, business, and management consultant, and as a chief financial officer and director for International Healthcare Corporation, a company that he helped found. He writes frequently on business, politics, public policy, and everyday life, and his pieces have appeared regularly in the pages of the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and numerous other publications. 
James B. King is currently participating in the Northern Ireland Executive Review of Public Administration. In the past, he served as Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management under President Clinton. He has been involved in policymaking and administration for more than 30 years at major universities and all levels of government, and he has received six presidential commissions. Mr. King has also been a Special Assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy and Chief of Staff to Senator John Kerry. Prior to his work in Northern Ireland, he completed a four-year Presidential Fellowship at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where, among other responsibilities, he taught "Public Policy and the Media." As one of six high-level independent experts on the panel to Review Public Administration, he is playing a full role in all elements of the review, including a central role in all public consultation and production of the final report. 
Kathy Kottaridis is Executive Director of Historic Boston Incorporated. Prior to joining HBI in May, she was the Associate Director of Public Affairs at Northeastern University, is responsible for shaping and implementing the university’s "Urban Mission," an effort on the part of faculty, administration, community representatives, and students to strengthen the university’s neighborhood and urban connections. Previously, she was Director of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Office of Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Director of Economic Development at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. She also initiated the nationally recognized Back Streets program and related policies designed to retain and grow Boston’s industrial jobs and businesses. She attended the Kennedy School of Government as a Rappaport-Boston Urban Fellow in 2002 -2003. 
Vivien Li is Executive Director of the Boston Harbor Association, a nonprofit public interest organization founded in 1973 by the League of Women Voters and the Boston Shipping Association to promote a clean, vital, and accessible harbor. Under her guidance, the Boston Harbor Association, working with city and state officials, has been the major impetus behind the successful restoration and enhancement of Boston Harbor beaches from Winthrop to Quincy. It has also acted as a strong proponent of the Working Port Priority program and as the leading advocacy group working for greater public access along Boston Harbor. In addition to her work with TBHA, she chairs the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ’ Brownfields Advisory Group, manages the Boston Port and Seamans’ Aid Society, and is a member of the Boston Conservation Commission. 
Patricia McGovern is General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Corporate and Community Affairs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She also has served as Executive Vice President for External Affairs at CareGroup Healthcare System. She has practiced law at Goulston & Storrs in the fields of public law and health care law. She served with distinction in the Massachusetts Senate for 12 years and chaired the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, authoring many groundbreaking and innovative budgetary and policy decisions. Ms. McGovern served as Executive Director of the Governor’s Committee on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice in the Executive Office of Public Safety. She has also participated in a number of Blue Ribbon Committees and Commissions and is a board member of various charitable institutions. 
Mary Jo Meisner joined the Boston Foundation in November 2001 as Vice President for Communications, Community Relations and Public Affairs. In her current capacity, she is responsible for all of the Foundation's communications, media relations, public affairs, and civic leadership activities, including the Boston Indicators Project and helping shaping the Foundation's public policy initiatives. Prior to joining the Foundation, Meisner spent 25 years in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and news executive at newspapers throughout the United States, including the Community Newspaper Company, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Washington Post, San Jose (CA) Mercury News and Philadelphia Daily News. She started her career as a reporter for the Wilmington News-Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. She has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror three times and was chair of the 1996 ASNE Writing Awards. In addition, she has taught various writing, editing, journalism ethics and management courses at the Maynard Institute, The Poynter Institute for Media Affairs and the American Press Institute. 
Jerome Lyle Rappaport has made major contributions to the shaping of Boston over the past 40 years as a real estate developer, businessman, lawyer, political leader, government official, and philanthropist. Born and raised in New York City, he graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School simultaneously before turning 21. Upon graduating, he served as assistant campaign manager for Mayor John Hynes and was one of the original founders of the New Boston Committee, a reform group that served as a catalyst for Boston’s rebirth. He was appointed by Mayor Hynes to lead the city’s Hoover Commission, which helped reorganize and streamline city government. After serving Mayor Hynes in the city’s Corporation Counsel Office, Mr. Rappaport left the public sector to pursue a career in law and real estate. Working with partners, he built Charles River Park between 1960 and 1975. Today, he is Chairman of New Boston Fund, Inc., one of New England’s leading private real estate investment, development, and management companies. 
Thomas Payzant is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Prior to that, he served as superintendent of the Boston Public Schools from October of 1995 until his retirement in June of 2006. Before coming to Boston, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve as assistant secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education with the United States Department of Education. Over the past decade he has led a number of significant systemic reform efforts that have helped narrow the achievement gap and increase student performance on both state and national assessment exams. In addition to his tenure in Boston, Payzant has served as Superintendent of Schools in San Diego, Oklahoma City, Eugene, Oregon, and Springfield, Pennsylvania. In 1998, he was named Massachusetts Superintendent of the Year. In 2004, he received the Richard R. Green Award for Excellence in Urban Education from the Council on Great City Schools. And Governing Magazine named Payzant one of eight "Public Officials of the Year" in 2005. Payzant also received the McGraw Prize for his leadership of the San Diego school system from 1982 through 1993. 
Paul J. Scapicchio is Senior Vice President of Government Relations for ML Strategies, practicing in the Boston office. From 1997 to 2006, Mr. Scapicchio was a member of the Boston City Council. During that time, he served as Chairman of the Council's Committee on Aviation and Transportation and the Council's Committee on Intergovernmental Relations and Vice-Chair of the Council's Committee on Economic Development. An expert land use and planning particularly as it relates to transportation and infrastructure, large projects and M.G.L. Chapter 91 which deals with waterfront development, he spent eight years in an of counsel capacity at Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels, LLP and served as head of Marketing at Gill, Devine & White, P.C., a mid-sized Boston area residential real estate firm.
James Segel is a founding member of the firm Smith, Segel & Sowalsky, which provides strategic guidance in public policy and governmental relations. After serving in the state legislature from 1974 to 1980, he became the first Executive Director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA), where he served with distinction for seven years. In the 1980's, Mr. Segel was recruited to join a select team of experts to help revamp the state's then-poorly performing pension system, work that ultimately led to the creation of the state's Pension Reserve Investment Management Board (PRIM). He also served on the Hamill Commission on Taxes, as a member of former United States Senator Paul Tsongas’ Commission on the Environment, as chair of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's Special Health Care Commission, whose work led to the successful merger of Boston City Hospital and University Hospital , and more recently as a member of the Municipal Finance Task Force. 
Melissa Tully has been a member of Hingham's Board of Selectmen since 2002 and served as the board's chair in 2005. During this time, she worked with the MBTA on matters concerning the construction of the Greenbush commuter rail line, most notably successfully negotiating the implementation of four quadrant gates. She also served as a member of Hingham's Advisory Committee from 1994 to 2001 and chaired that body in 2001. During her leadership, the Town of Hingham achieved a AAA bond rating and created an open and fair discussion of school budget within the context of town revenues and state aid. During 2004-2005 Tully participated in the Institute's Seminars on Municipal Governance and Policy and in fall 2006 she helped the Institute organize a series of seminars for elected and appointed officials in a dozen South Shore communities. She is also active in numerous non-profits; serving on several boards throughout her career.
Martha Wagner Weinberg is a consultant who has worked extensively with non-profit entities on issues of policy, strategy, leadership, and program design. She was Chief of Staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and became Vice President for Project Management and Chief of Staff at Partners Healthcare System at its founding in 1995. She also has held a variety of positions in Massachusetts and Illinois state government. She advised the Rappaport Charitable Foundation when it established Harvard’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and Suffolk University’s Rappaport Honors Program in Law and Public Policy and in 2005 she led the evaluation of the Rappaport Honors Program. Formerly a professor of political science at MIT, she is the author of Managing the State (MIT Press, 1977) co-editor (with Walter Dean Burnham) of American Politics and Public Policy (MIT Press, 1980), and author of articles on leadership in the private and public sectors. 
Joan Wallace Benjamin has returned as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Home for Little Wanderers after being Governor Deval Patrick's chief of staff for his transition team. The Home for Little Wanderers is New England’s largest child welfare agency and one of the nations oldest with a history dating back to 1799. At the Home, Dr. Wallace-Benjamin created a new strategic plan, a state of the art performance and outcomes department and started a forward thinking integrated service model. She has also served as Chief Executive Officer of The Urban League of Massachusetts, Director of Operations for Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston; Deputy Director of ABCD Head Start; as a Research Analyst for ABT Associates, and a consultant with Whitehead Mann, a global executive recruiting firm. She is a Trustee of Wellesley College and a member of the Board of Overseers for The Heller School for Social Policy & Management and has been a Corporation Member of Northeastern University and a Trustee of Pine Manor College.
Christopher Winship is the Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and a research associate in Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He has chaired the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Standing Committee on Public Service and the expert panel appointed by Kennedy School Dean David Ellwood to evaluate the Rappaport Institute in 2005. Prior to coming to Harvard in 1992, he was a Professor of Sociology, Statistics, and Economics at Northwestern University as well as a senior faculty research associate at the university's Institute for Policy Research. His current research interests include crime fighting in Boston, particularly the work of the Boston Ten Point Coalition, a group of black ministers who work with the Boston police to reduce youth violence, and the ways that residents of Boston and surrounding communities are involved with nonprofit groups.