Board of Directors

Claudia Marcela Paez, Chair
Legal Department Coordinator, Church of God Ministry Jesus Christ International

Richard Champagne, Vice Chair & Governance Committee Chair
Managing Partner, Champagne Law Group

Helena DaSilva Hughes, Secretary
CEO, Immigrants’ Assistance Center, New Bedford

Carolyn E. Crowley, Treasurer & Finance Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, Private Banking

Molly Carey, Resource Development Committee Chair
Partner, Fragomen

Denzil Mohammed
Public Education Institute at The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc

Elsa Gomes Bondlow
Principal of Ripple Acts Philanthropic Consultant
CEO of Social Equity Access Fund

Guilherme Costa
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Corporation, Bentley University

Mossik Hacobian
Director, Higher Ground

Natalya Belonozhko
SVP, Corporate Controller, Global Atlantic Financial Group

Robin Nice
Partner, McHaffey & Nice LLC

Surabhi Ahmad
VP, Regulatory Compliance at Columbia Management

Abeer Massri

Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence

Alma Cothias

Jewish Family Services of Metrowest

Amy Nishman

Senior Vice President of Strategy, Jewish Vocational Services of Boston

Arthur Almeda

Executive Director, Boston Missionary Baptist Community Center

Damaris Velazquez

Agencia ALPHA

Dawn Sauma

Executive Director, Asian Taskforce Against Domestic Violence

Emmanuel Owusu

Executive Director, African Bridge Network

Fernanda Silveira

Executive Director, Source Hub

Helena DaSilva-Hughes

Executive Director, Immigrants’ Assistance Center

Javier Luengo-Garrido

Organizing Strategist, ACLU of MA

Kevin Lam

Co-Executive Director, Asian American Resource Workshop