President
Dr. Mary Ann Millsap brings over 40 years’ experience evaluating U.S. education programs, with special emphasis on programs designed to meet the needs of disadvantaged students. She first became involved with GTL in 2010 when she helped design interview guides and surveys of GTL students, served on the on-site team in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and analyzed and reported results to the GTL Board of Directors.
Clerk
A resident of Newton, MA, Nancy Dougherty is a clinical specialist in community health nursing. She holds a Masters in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts. She has 25 years of experience working nationally and internationally in public health. For two years (1987-89), she lived and worked in rural Uganda, observing first-hand the everyday challenges faced by young women and children in that area. She also spent four years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted at the World Health Organization, New Delhi, India and has worked with the Massachusetts and Alaska State Departments of Public Health. In 2007, Nancy joined Novartis Vaccines in Cambridge, MA providing scientific expertise in support of the development and distribution of vaccines.
Penny Wells is an attorney and nonprofit manager. Most recently, she served many years as Executive Director of SADD, Inc (Students Against Destructive Decisions, founded as Students Against Driving Drunk), a national nonprofit with middle and high school chapters focused on teens helping teens make good choices in their daily lives. She has a special appreciation for the creativity and resilience shown by adolescents navigating a particularly stressful time of life. Penny graduated from Wellesley College and Boston University School of Law.
Jennifer Logan Coyle, is a public health consultant specializing in building bridges between research and practice. Her work is dedicated to social justice and the elimination of health disparities among under-served communities. Jennifer has designed, implemented, and evaluated public health interventions on various issues and in diverse populations internationally and domestically. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic (1996-1998), has a B.A. in Psychology from Boston College University, and an M.S. in Public Health.
A resident of New York City, Ian Beckford is a Director of Assessment at a local community college. He has over 30 years of experience in educational research, evaluation and assessment. He has devoted his professional career to studying social justice issues as they pertain to students of color. He holds degrees from Hamilton College, Western Kentucky University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Alexis Summit has always been passionate about advocating for women and has spent much of her free time supporting other women. She is a senior manager on the strategy team at Liberty Mutual Insurance in Boston. Her past experience also includes working in financial services as a Vice President at Duff and Phelps. Alexis holds degrees from Fordham University and the Duke University Fuqua School of Business.
An Immigrant from Kenya and a resident of Rockland, MA; Jane Wambu is an Accountant for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She has more than 25 Years of experience working as a Statistician, Accountant, and volunteer nationally and internationally in both public and private financial sector. She is very passionate about the GTL mission because it resonates with her personal experiences and those of many she grew up with. She has witnessed many intelligent and gifted students give up their education dreams for lack of financial support. There is a huge impact when you educate a girl, she not only changes her life but that of her community. She holds a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts and a minor in Applied Statistics from Kenya Polytechnic.
Charlotte Castronovo has a passion for supporting organizations that promote education and empower women. Charlotte has served as a junior board member of both the One Love Foundation and the Cornelia Connelly Center. As a board member of GTL, she is inspired by the mission to continue to support women's education. After spending four years living in New York City and working in financial services / private equity for Duff & Phelps and then Lexington Partners, Charlotte now lives in Washington, DC and works as a private equity associate at LNC Partners. Charlotte received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Boston University Questrom School of Business and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Daniel Osborn, Ed.D. has dedicated his academic and professional career to the study of Middle Eastern and Jewish histories and advancing a vision of education that is multicultural, global, inclusive of marginalized communities, and relevant for life in a globally-interconnected world. As a student of history and education, he holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Quinnipiac University, a master’s degree in Near East and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a doctorate in education from Boston University. As a program director at Primary Source, he has spent years writing history and social studies curriculum, designing professional development workshops and seminars, collaborating with teachers and school administrators, and thinking strategically about the mission of public education. He is the author of Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education: Teacher Discourse and Otherness and is under contract on his next book projects, Levantine Vignettes: An Educator’s Account of Border Crossing in the Middle East and Dismantling Orientalist
Kait Arnold is an AI Technical Specialist at IBM and an Adjunct Professor at Fairfield University teaching Artificial Intelligence. She is on the leadership team for Women at IBM and serves on the board for the Michael J Cleary Live Large Foundation. She has her Master’s in Computational Mathematics & Statistics in Data Science from the University of Notre Dame. Through her experience, she has cultivated a strong passion for helping others use technology, creativity, and innovation to achieve their goals. She is excited to join GTL’s board to make a lasting impact on the lives of young girls in Eastern Africa, empowering them to realize their full potential through education.
