meet our team
More Than Words is led by a team of 60+ dedicated staff and AmeriCorps VISTA service members across our Boston and Waltham Sites. Our team includes:
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Business Training Managers
running hands-on job training
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Youth Development Managers
coaching youth on life goals
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Career Services Managers
supporting graduates in other jobs and education
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Admissions Staff
helping youth find and start our program
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Community Advocates
supporting youth with complex barriers and enabling conditions
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Evaluation Staff
helping our youth and team use and learn from data
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Administrative Staff
doing fundraising, technology, facilities, and more
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Alumni Coordinators
only for alumni, roles that bridge to full-time staff positions
get in touch with us
leadership team
department leadership
For all other inquiries, please contact our main email and we will direct you.
info@mtwyouth.orgboard of directors
Chris Anderson - Technology Consultant
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Barbara Berke, Vice Chair and Clerk
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Christopher Casgar - Managing Partner at The Newcastle Network
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Samuel Chambers - External Relations Coordinator, Harvard Kennedy School
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Renee Chan - Founder, Everyday Deeds
Renée Chan is dedicated to a variety of local initiatives focused on children and education. She is the founder of Everyday Deeds and currently also a member of the Board of Trustees of Atrium School. Renée has also worked with Union Church, McKinley South End Academy and Torit Montessori to support educational and family initiatives.
For nearly 10 years, Renée was a management consultant at Fidelity Investments and IBM, focusing on strategy development, process improvements and new business development across financial services sectors.
Renée received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College, a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a MBA from the University of Chicago. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in Japan. She is a long-time resident of the South End where she lives with her husband and two children.
John Chory - Partner, Latham & Watkins, LLP, MTW Board Chair
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Gordon Doristin - Sunlife Financial
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Christopher Farrington, Managing Director, Cambridge Associates
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Hon. Gail Garinger (ret.)
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Juliette Kopecky, Chief Marketing Officer, Linksquares
About Juliette: "I'm a data-driven marketing leader with experience running teams and launching products within B2B startups and enterprises, especially within high-growth SaaS companies. I'm passionate about understanding what makes customers tick, and then translating that into meaningful marketing campaigns focused on their needs."
Juliette has a BS in Business Management from the Questrom School of Business at Boston University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Her specialties include: product marketing, product launches, go-to-market strategy, product strategy, product positioning, startup marketing, sales enablement, competitive intelligence, user engagement, user testing, customer research, customer insights, inbound marketing, partner marketing, customer marketing, content creation, and project management.
Michael McCullough, Senior Director, Corporate Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific, MTW Treasurer
As Senior Director of Corporate Development, Michael McCullough helps lead Thermo Fisher Scientific’s portfolio strategy, capital allocation, mergers & acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and equity investments across the company. He previously led Finance and Government Relations for GE Aviation’s Lynn site, one of the largest manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts, and was the Operations Leader of GE Honda Aero Engines, a joint venture established to power air taxis and business jets.
Michael is a graduate of GE’s Corporate Audit Staff, Operations Management Leadership Program and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He has a B.S. in Engineering from Boston University, where he was a Harold C. Case Scholar, and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He resides in Wellesley.
Jodi Rosenbaum, ex officio - Chief Executive Officer, More Than Words
Jodi Rosenbaum, started MTW in 2004 with four young men from a Waltham group home, a 150 square foot office space, a computer, and a pile of books found on the side of the road. The young people that helped start MTW were empowered by real responsibility, earning money, and the high expectations and compassionate accountability that formed the bedrock of MTW’s culture.
More Than Words has grown significantly since then to include a youth-run warehouse bookstore in Waltham and a warehouse and retail/event space in Boston with expanded business lines and programming that includes 2 years of graduate support. Across sites and programs, MTW serves nearly 400 young people per year.
Jodi has more than 23 years of experience working with youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, public schools and youth development field, including with Teach For America. Jodi has a political science degree from Emory University with a focus on child welfare/juvenile justice policy and a master’s in education in risk and prevention from Harvard and has taken supplemental coursework in Business and Social Enterprise at Harvard and MIT. She has served as a guest speaker at numerous universities and conferences and received awards for social entrepreneurship and innovation.
Lorna Sabbia, Head of Retirement and Personal Wealth Solutions, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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