Wes Eberle
Chair, Board of Directors
Wesley B. Eberle is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Alliance, as well as a senior director at O’Neill and Associates’ communications practice. In this role, Wes is responsible for providing clients with a variety of public relations services, including strategic planning and media relations. Before joining O’Neill and Associates, Wes worked for Boston 2004, Inc., the single-purpose, not-for-profit organizing entity for the 2004 Democratic National Convention, as well as directing field operations for Senator John Kerry’s 2002 re-election campaign and the 2002 Massachusetts Democratic Coordinated Campaign. Wes is a graduate of Boston University with a bachelor's degree in International Relations and Economics.
Jennifer Valenzuela
Vice Chair, Board of Directors
Jennifer Valenzuela, LICSW, MPH, is the director of the Young Parents Program at Children's Hospital Primary Care Center. YPP provides comprehensive medical care, mental health services, and advocacy to high risk, inner city teen parents and their children through a teen-tot medical model.
Michael Giles
Treasurer, Board of Directors
Mike has been involved with the Alliance since 2004; first as a member of the finance committee, and now as a member of the board and acting Treasurer. Mike works at National Mentor Holdings, a home and community-based provider of behavioral health services, where he assists senior management in analyzing potential acquisition opportunities and in determining appropriate metrics to measure business performance. He began his career at Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm focused on middle market buyouts and growth equity investments. Mike graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in government and also played running back on the varsity football team.
Veronica Serrato
Clerk, Board of Directors
Veronica Serrato joined the Board of the Alliance in 2007. She is an attorney with experience working for legal aid agencies in Massachusetts in family law cases. She is currently a Staff Attorney at Volunteer Lawyers Project in Boston. Veronica previously worked for Casa Myrna Vazquez (New England's largest battered women's and legal advocacy program), the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain, and as an Assistant District Attorney at Middlesex Child Abuse Prosecution Unit. She graduated from Harvard University in 1984 and Boston University School of Law in 1988. She lives in Brookline with her husband and two children, one teenager and one soon-to-be-teenager.
Karen Abrams
Member, Board of Directors
Karen Abrams is Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary at Cabot Corporation, a global performance materials company headquartered in Boston. Before joining Cabot, Karen was an attorney at the law firm WilmerHale in Boston, where she represented public and private companies in a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, secondary offerings and venture capital and bridge financings. Karen holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Arizona. She joined the Board of the Alliance in 2008.
Lucia Berman-Rossi
Member, Board of Directors
Lucia Berman-Rossi joined the Board of the Alliance in 2008. Lucia is a LICSW Social Worker and currently runs a private practice, consulting to various social service agencies in the Boston area around clinical and management issues. Lucia's previous employment has included the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Casa Mynra Vazquez, where she started SafeLink, the first statewide domestic violence hotline in Massachusetts, hospital based social work, school based social work and early intervention where she worked with children under age three. She graduated from Temple University in 1992 with her BSW and Boston University in 1994 with her MSW. Lucia lives in Cambridge with her husband and her 2 year old daughter.
Kelley Curry
Member, Board of Directors
Kelley Curry joined the Alliance board in 2007. She owns the web design and strategy studio BrightBold, providing innovative websites and open source content management for small businesses and non-profit organizations. Previously, she was an analyst at The Telluride Group, an information technology consulting group. Prior to her career in technology, Kelley spent seven years at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, where she first worked in the Public Affairs & Information department and later coordinated the annual fund. She received her AB in Biological Anthropology from Brown University. Kelley lives in the South End with her husband and two daughters.
Marie Doehler
Member, Board of Directors
Marie Doehler, LCSW, is a School Adjustment Counselor at the Foxborough Regional Charter School. Prior to working in Foxborough, Marie worked as a Social Worker for Catholic Charities with the Malden Teen Parent Program from 2007-2009. During her two years in Malden, Marie discovered her passion for the teen parent population and the need to advocate for the rights of teen parents and their children. Marie graduated in 2007 from Simmons College, earning her Masters Degree in Social Work and graduated from Northeastern University in 2005 with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology. While Marie has been working with the Alliance for several years, she joined the Board in the fall of 2009.
Lindsay Ervin
Member, Board of Directors
Lindsay C. Ervin joined the Board of Directors of the Alliance in 2007 and is currently a member of the Alliance’s Communications Committee. Lindsay works as an attorney at State Street Bank and Trust Company in Boston. Prior to joining State Street, Lindsay was an associate at the Boston-based law firm of Foley Hoag LLP, where she gained experience working with non-profit entities. Lindsay holds a B.A. in history from Williams College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.
Stephanie Everett
Member, Board of Directors
Stephanie was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. At age 19, Stephanie became a teen mother, given birth to her first daughter. Pregnant with her second daughter at age 21, Stephanie was determined to make her responsibilities the reason she would succeed in life and not let it hinder her life. In 2002, Stephanie received her Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University. Completing her educational goals, Stephanie earned her Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School in 2008 and was admitted to practice law in Massachusetts the same year. Stephanie is currently the District Director for a Massachusetts State Senator. In January 2009 Stephanie was appointed by the Caucus of Women Legislators to serve as a Commissioner on the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women. Stephanie also mentors and coordinates attorney-led activities for proven at-risk young girls participating in Roxbury Youth Work Female Focus Initiative in conjunction with the Women Bar Association. Stephanie presently resides in Mattapan with her husband and children.
Diane Felicio
Member, Board of Directors
Diane M. Felicio, Ph.D., is Senior Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations at Simmons College. She has taught courses and published professional articles and book chapters in her primary fields of interest: social psychology and women’s studies. Diane arrived at Simmons College in March 2003 and was responsible for overseeing corporate and foundation fundraising during the final year of the College’s CAMPAIGN for SIMMONS. Since then, she has secured the two largest private foundation gifts to the College, expanded the College’s visibility with corporate and foundation funders, and raised significant support from new corporate and foundation donors. Most recently, she was chair of the Simmons College Diversity Council. Diane is a member of The Boston Club, CASE, and Women in Development. She holds a Ph.D., in social psychology from The University of Vermont.
Jennifer Garcia
Member, Board of Directors
Jennifer is new to the board and to the Boston area. As a child of teen parents, she believes that every teen parent deserves the opportunity and support to raise a strong, healthy family in a stable environment. A Texas native, she earned a BA in History-Sociology at Columbia University and a JD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked for various non-profit organizations, including the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York, NY, and Self Help in Durham, NC, a community development lender that works with individuals and communities traditionally underserved by conventional markets. Jennifer is currently a policy analyst at the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, where she focuses on educating the public on the state budget process, tax policy and economic issues.
Joel Kahn, MD
Member, Board of Directors
Joel is the Executive Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of WorldCare International Inc. and the President of Global Health Services Ltd. He is responsible for running the WorldCare Global Health Plan, a unique insurance policy that provides treatment coverage in the U.S. for residence of foreign countries. He is a published author and an advisory board member for Health Care Globalization conferences and Motus Medical a medical device company. Dr. Kahn's previous professional experience includes serving as Executive Vice-President, Chief Medical Officer and a founder of InteliHealth. He also served as General Manager of allHealth.com the health site of iVillage.com and was a partner at Healthcare Executive Partners LLC. Prior to his career in health, Dr. Kahn was a recording engineer/producer for radio, TV, movies and live concerts. Dr. Kahn graduated from Wesleyan University, received his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College and did a fellowship in Medical Informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University.
Joanne Lawrence
Member, Board of Directors
Joanne Lawrence is an international management consultant, adjunct professor, published author and former corporate executive. She teaches Global Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility at Hult International Business School in Cambridge, MA, and previously taught at INSEAD, a premier business school in France. Ms. Lawrence has a B.A. in Literature, an M.A. in Corporate and Political Communication and an M.B.A. from the Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University.
Diana Makhlouf
Member, Board of Directors
Diana Makhlouf has worked within the field of early childhood education for the past 22 years, the last 13 of which she has been the Director of the Malden Teen Parenting Program. A member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, she has her Bachelor's degree in psychology, and is currently pursuing her Master's in Education. She is the mother of two sons who challenge her everyday. Diana has served on the Board of Directors since October of 2008.
Joel Miranda
Member, Board of Directors
Jennifer Slonaker
Member, Board of Directors
Jen is the Director of Education at Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, managing the delivery of quality, comprehensive sex education to parents, youth and professionals across Massachusetts. Before coming to Planned Parenthood, she served as the Youth Director at the YWCA of Carlisle in Pennsylvania. Her work with adolescents includes; supporting pregnant and parenting teens, substance use and violence prevention, LGBTQ issues, peer education work, and management of multiple afterschool programs, including support groups for young girls. Jen received her Masters of Social Work degree from Boston University in 2005.
Peggy Tonelli
Member, Board of Directors
Peggy Tonelli is a Massachusetts native. Since 1981 she has worked as a nurse practitioner at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Adolescent Reproductive Health Service caring for pregnant and parenting teens. In this role she provides prenatal and gynecological care and has long supported the service’s multidisciplinary mission to meet the many needs of pregnant and parenting teens. She is a community advisory board member of Urban Neighborhoods Healthy Families Program and Children’s Hospital Project Connect. She has published and lectured on providing healthcare to this special population. Prior to working as a nurse practitioner, she worked as a labor and delivery nurse. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts – Amherst with a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and Masters of Nursing Degree from Boston College. She lives with her husband, Steve, a dentist in private practice, and they have three adult sons.
Claudia Trevor-Wright
Member, Board of Directors
Claudia Trevor-Wright joined the Board of Directors in 2004. Claudia has a M.A. in Health Education and Human Sexuality Education from New York University, where she provided health education and counseling to students and staff. She has also worked for SIECUS (Sexualty Information & Education Council of the United States) and the Center for Reproductive Rights. Claudia currently practices law at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, MA.
Nicole Viera
Teen Parent Policy Advisory Board Representative, Board of Directors
Tabitha West
Teen Parent Policy Advisory Board Representative, Board of Directors
