Dr. Brian K. Perkins |
The President is Dr. Brian Perkins. He is a member of the faculty in the department of Organization and Leadership at Columbia University Teachers College in New York City. He is the author of three nationally acclaimed studies on urban school climate published by the National School Boards Association. He is currently the president of the National Black Caucus of School Board Members and the Immediate Past Chair of the Council of Urban Boards of Education. Dr. Perkins is a guest lecturer at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and consults nationally on education policy and the law. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Grambling State University, a Master's Degree in Public Health from the Yale University School of Medicine and a Doctorate of Educatation Degree from Columbia University Teachers College.
Term expires 9/2010
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| Elizabeth Torres |
Elizabeth Torres has worked in the housing and community development field for the past 14 years. Her first job was with a national nonprofit starting as a receptionist and then spending 10 years growing through the ranks and ultimately responsible for creating 84 units of affordable housing leveraging over $15,000,000 of financing from HUD, CHFA, and DECD.
Today, Ms. Torres is the Executive Director of Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust, Inc. a community housing and development organization focused on creating affordable housing, healthy homes and providing homeownership counseling for low income families. Since coming to Bridgeport, Ms. Torres has completed 25 units of affordable housing leveraging over $4,000,0000 of public and private resources and is working on another 53 representing over $10,000,000 of community investment. Ms. Torres has expanded BNT's operations to include Pre Purchase Homeownership Counseling and a Healthy Homes Initiative. Her most recent success includes securing a $2,000,000 three year grant from HUD to implement the City of Bridgeport's first Lead Elimination Action Program (LEAP).
Ms. Torres is also a member of the New Haven Board of Education and serves as the Treasurer for Casa Oto–al, Inc. Last but not least she has two children and one grandchild.
Term expires: 05/2012
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Michael R. Nast
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Michael R. Nast, a graduate of New Haven Public Schools and Fordham University, was Superintendent of Stamford Public Schools from 1994 to 1999, having risen through the ranks of Stamford's school system from high school principal to the top post. He started his career as a science teacher at James Hillhouse High School. Administrative positions held in New Haven include chairman of the Science Department at Hillhouse, assistant principal at Wilbur Cross High School and principal at Cross.
Upon retiring from the Superintendent's position in Stamford, Mr. Nast served as an educational consultant to many school districts in New England and New York, worked for the Education Alliance at Brown University, and served as interim Superintendent for both the Amity Region 5 and New Hartford School Districts. He currently is an adjunct professor in the University of Connecticut Administrative Preparation Program and is a consultant to the Center for Secondary School Redesign in Rhode Island.
Term Expires: 9/2012
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Dr. M. Ann Levett |
Dr. M. Ann Levett Dr. M. Ann Levett is executive director of the School Development Program at Yale University. Her research interests include minority student achievement, leadership development and instructional leadership.
Dr. Levett also has served as a National Review Panelist for the National Blue Ribbon Schools program for more than 12 years and has been active in the community. A few of the organizations she has been affiliated with include Junior Achievement, Girl Scouts USA, Boy Scouts USE, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and many others. She has been a frequent national speakers and has served as an educational consultant for many school systems. Her most recent publication is a chapter entitled, "Performance Management: The PrincipalŐs First Priority," in "The Field Guide to Comer Schools in Action."
Dr. Levett has a Ed.D. in Educational Administration at the University of Georgia; a MasterŐs in Special Education and Public Administration and a specialist degree in educational administration from Georgia Southern University; a B.S. in speech and language pathology from Armstrong State College; she has participated in leadership development programs at Harvard, Vanderbilt, University of Delaware, University of California, San Diego and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Term expires 9/2011
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Dr. Carlos Torre
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Carlos Antonio Torre earned three degrees at Harvard University: an Ed.M. in Human Development; a Certificate of Advance Studies in Administration, Planning and Social Policy; and a Doctorate of Education. He is, currently, Professor of Education at Southern Connecticut State University; former President of the New Haven, Connecticut Board of Education (member: 1993-2003 also 2006 to the present); and a Fellow at Yale University, where he served for seven years as Assistant Dean of the College and a member of the Psychology faculty. Dr. Torre is an elected member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Puerto Rico and was awarded the Academy's Medal of the Academician. Other awards include: the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences' first award for "humanitarian, ground-breaking contributions to the understanding of the mind through the application of dynamical science perspectives to educational psychology"; the Connecticut Association of Latin Americans in Higher Education (CALAHE) award "for contributions made toward the improvement of educational opportunities for Hispanics in higher education"; and others. Through the use of Recurrence Quantification Analysis, Dr. Torre's research seeks to identify characteristic patterns in the autonomic nervous system associated with particular emotions, (i.e., the emotions children experience as they learn). His publications include: articles on non-linear dynamics applied to education; a book-length research monograph on the triadic nature of the mind and university students' quality of thinking; chapters on educators "Eugenio Maria de Hostos and "Michael Apple"; an edited volume on Puerto Rican Migration; and a book in-progress on the "Ecology of Education.
Term expires 9/2009
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Richard Abbatiello
Term Expires: 9/09
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Richard Abbatiello, retired partner in the Aura Manufacturing Company, chairs the Board Personnel Committee. He graduated from New Haven's Wilbur Cross High School in 1959, Tilton Prep, and the University of New Hampshire. His wife is a retired teacher. He was president of the board of Farnham Neighborhood House, active on several committees including fundraising, and a long time member of Scungilli International, a civic group that raises scholarship funds for youth. He is an Advisory Committee member of Interfaith Refugees. Previously, he served on the New Haven Fair Rent Commission and the Livable Cities Commission.
Term expires 9/2009
Chairperson: Personnel Committee
Co-Chairperson: Policy Committee
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Susan R. Samuels
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Susan R. Samuels. Susan R. Samuels came to New Haven to attend Quinnipiac University. Later, Ms. Samuels graduated from Connecticut School of Broadcasting in 1987, attended Albertus Magnus College in 1990, and most recently became an honors graduate of the medical assistant/secretary program at Sawyer School (2006). She is a Justice of the Peace, and an independent contractor with the United States Social Security Office of Disability Adjudication and Review.
Term expires 9/2011
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