Faculty Profile

Current Activities:

Management Consultant/Project Director on behalf of the Executive Office of Health & Human Services’ Massachusetts Building Blocks Person Centered Planning  (MABB-PCP)three-year federal demonstration project funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This Grant is an interagency, cross-age, cross-disability and cross-cultural project involving the highest levels of State government, as well as stakeholder groups and consumer coalitions from diverse communities who are motivated and committed to work with the Commonwealth to shape the community-based system of services and supports to be better aligned with the consumer’s personal preferences and community ties. The more permanent and essential result of MADD-PCP Project will be the development of new and improved PCP processes and tools that will be implemented in the Medicaid waivers and in the existing service system infrastructure. 

Lawrence City Councilor-at-Large for five consecutive terms of office, the focus has been on promoting the social and economic mobility of the working and professional management class.  Serves on the 9th year as Chairperson of the Housing Committee and is a veteran member of Ordinance & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee. Among many initiatives brought a multimillion federal program, Lawrence Weed & Seed, to weed out crime and plant the seed for socioeconomic revitalization in the most distressed area of the City; Initiated and maintain the Lawrence Teen City Council; and, facilitated communication between local government and constituents by improving on the composition and distribution of the City budget in Spanish and English.

Founder & Organizer of the Woman’s Agenda that created the annual women and policy symposiums in Greater Lawrence to encourage the participation of local women in the development of their communities; cover a wide range of social and economic policy issues. This work is a continuation of the participation of poor and working class women in the development of New York City communities through organizing symposiums, conferences, and focus groups on a variety of policy issues; worked with other organizations to coordinate the annual conference on the “Feminization of Poverty” and to obtain scholarships for local women to attend conferences such as the Worldwide Women’s Conference in Beijing; fostered partnerships with various embassy staff at the United Nations to address issues affecting indigenous women across the globe.