Giving - Codman Academy Charter Public School

Foundation Trustees:

Meg Campbell, Ex-oficio, is founder and Executive Director of Codman Academy Charter Public School.

Christine C. Carsman, Clerk, joined Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. ("AMG") in May 2004 as Vice President and Chief Regulatory Counsel and became Senior Vice President and Chief Regulatory Counsel in 2007. She is responsible for overseeing Affiliate Legal and Compliance and has primary responsibility for AMG's Affiliate Legal and Compliance Program, which provides legal and compliance services to the company's affiliated investment management firms. Prior to joining AMG, Ms. Carsman served as Vice President, Senior Counsel and Director of Operational Risk Management and Compliance at Wellington Management Company, LLP from 1995 to 2004. Previously, she held positions as Deputy General Counsel of The Boston Company, Inc. and as an attorney with Sullivan & Worcester, LLP. Ms. Carsman currently serves as chair of the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the Investment Adviser Association and was previously chair of the Investment Company Institute's Compliance Advisory Committee. She received her B.A. from Simmons College and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.

Stephen Columbia is a former investment banker/broker with considerable experience in the not-for-profit sector in Boston, New York City and Charleston, South Carolina. Over the last decade Steve has served in various capacities with the National Urban Squash & Education Association; the Boys & Girls Club of Boston; the Christian Brothers’ Foundation; Family Services of Greater Boston; SquashBusters; the Whittier Street Neighborhood Health Center; the Fessenden School; the Coolidge Corner Theatre; WBUR; the Boston Symphony Orchestra; the Belmont Hill School; PEN New England; CityYear of Columbia, South Carolina; The Citadel; CitySquash [Bronx, NY]; and Iona Preparatory School [New Rochelle, NY].

RoAnn Costin, President, has been the President and Managing Director of Wilderness Point, a financial investment firm, since 2005. From 1992-2005, she served as President of Reservoir Capital Management, an investment advisory firm. Prior to that, she was a Senior Vice President with the Putnam Companies. Ms. Costin received a BA from Radcliffe College and an MBA from Stanford University. Ms. Costin's board memberships include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the Boston Conservatory, Boston College High School, and the Guidance Center of Cambridge.

Juma Crawford joined College Bound Dorchester as the Director of Alternative Education in September 2009, having previously served as the Upper School Principal for Community Charter School of Cambridge where he spearheaded their senior internship program and had 100% of their first graduating class matriculate to college. Juma has significant experience working with high-risk students, including serving as a faculty co-founder and Foundation Board Member at the Codman Academy Charter School. In his current role, Juma leads College Bound Dorchester’s Alternative Middle School and College Prep programs, both of which are designed to provide disengaged, proven-risk youth with the support they need to get back on track academically. Juma has a Bachelor of Biological Science degree from Amherst College, a Master of Education from Harvard University (concentration: Social Policy), and a Jurist Doctor from Boston College.

Barbara Ginader is a General Partner of Boston Ventures, retired from a day to day role. Prior to Boston Ventures, Barbara was a managing director at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. in New York. She is a graduate of Cedar Crest College and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Elizabeth Granville-Smith is a managing director with Boston Ventures. She has more than 14 years of investment banking and principal investing experience. Previously, Ms. Granville-Smith was an investment banking analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. from 1991 to 1993. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Rave Reviews Cinemas, LLC and BVK Holdings, LLC. Ms. Granville-Smith earned her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Perrin M. Grayson spent much of her career as a lawyer in the communications field, including positions with American General Media, Time Life Films, Inc. and WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard College and her juris doctor from the University of Virginia. Perrin is a member of the Dean’s Council at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and serves on the board of the Boston Museum Project. She is also active with the Boston Athenaeum, Mother Caroline Academy, the Hestia Fund and the Beacon Hill Circle for Charity.

Dale Russakoff currently lectures at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A former reporter for The Washington Post, she wrote about politics, public policy, education, the economy and other national issues for 27 years. She was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, and graduated from Radcliffe College. She is married to Matthew Purdy, an editor at The New York Times, and they have two teenage sons.

Patti Saris is a U.S. District Judge. Patti has lifelong ties to Codman Square, as she grew up in the neighborhood and attended Girls Latin Academy. She is a 1973 graduate of Radcliffe College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and a 1976 graduate of Harvard Law School (cum laude). She currently serves on the Board of the 21st Century Fund at Brookline High School and Bottom Line, which provides college access to students in Boston area high schools.

Marlon Thompson, '06 is a student in business at Boston College. He has interned with Boston Ventures and worked in development at DotWell. Marlon is passionate about social justice and urban youth.

Mary Weber is a Ropes & Gray partner in the Corporate group. She concentrates her practice on mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other corporate finance and advises various public and private companies and their boards of directors with respect to corporate governance, securities regulation and general legal matters. Ms. Weber has served as a Trustee for the Massachusetts Bar Association and Greater Boston Legal Services, and she served as President and Trustee of Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. She received her B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Special Advisors to Codman Academy:

William A. Douglass, III, Founding Managing Director of K2 Advisors, has been in the investment business since graduating from Vanderbilt University in 1984. He then joined Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities where he worked as an institutional and retail salesman. In 1991, Mr. Douglass joined Tiedemann International Research, Ltd. (“TIR”) (Tokyo) as Director of Sales. He returned to the U.S. in 1992 to become Director of Sales for TIR’s North American operation where he co-managed the firm’s U.S. business until April 1994. In July 1994, Mr. Douglass founded K2 Advisors. He also worked at Caspian Securities from June 1995 until July 1997, when he devoted his full attention to K2.

Mr. Douglass also serves on the Board of Advisors of Outward Bound USA and Board of Directors of CitySquash, Inc.

Charles Longfield is CEO and founder of Target Software and Target Analysis Group. He is currently Chairman of the Boston Latin School Association's Board of Directors and a trustee of the Boston Digital Bridge Foundation. Mr. Longfield holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Harvard College, an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is a 1997 graduate of LeadBoston, a community leadership development program sponsored by the National Conference for Community and Justice.