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Parks for People - New England Advisory Council

James S. Hoyte, Chair
Jamie is associate vice president for Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Equity Issues at Harvard University and teaches environmental policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard College. An attorney, he was a partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston before joining the Massachusetts Horticultural Society as its interim executive director in 1991. Prior to that, he was Secretary of Environmental Affairs for Massachusetts from 1983 to 1988 concurrent with being chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority in Boston from 1985 to 1988, after positions at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Massachusetts Port Authority, and Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Mr. Hoyte is a member of various state and national bar associations, and a member of the board of trustees for Massachusetts Environmental Trust, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Posse Foundation, Wheaton College, Cambridge College, and the Museum of Afro-American History and numerous other nonprofit and environmental organizations. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1965 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1968.

Myles Alderman
Myles is the associate director of development at the Connecticut Fund for the Environment. He has previously worked in development for the Connecticut chapter of The Nature Conservancy and as president of the H. M. Bullard Company. Myles is currently a board member of the New Haven Urban Resources Initiative, Inc.

Polly Cross Reeve
A graduate of the Landscape Institute of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Polly is a practicing landscape designer working on community and public projects, master plans, and residential garden designs. She co-chaired Concord's 1994 Open Space and Recreation Plan, served as co-director of development and communications at the New England Regional Office of The Trust for Public Land, and has been director of development at The Fessenden School in West Newton, Massachusetts and assistant director of development at the Groton School. She currently is a trustee of the Concord Land Conservation Trust and lives in Concord, Massachusetts with her husband, Brock, and three children.

Stephanie Fan
A graduate of Tufts University, Stephanie helped found the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center. In the 1970s, she joined the Boston School Department as an English as a Second Language teacher and a program administrator of bilingual programs. Following retirement from the Boston School Department and completion of her MBA at the Simmons College School of Management., she helped form PEACH Corporation, a non-profit consulting group. She is co-chair of the community advisory group focused on the Chinatown Park, a part of the Rose Kennedy Greenway, is on the Program Committee of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, and is an active member of the Chinese Historical Society of New England.

Charlotte Dougherty
Charlotte Dougherty holds a Masters degree in Environmental Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health. She has 20 years of experience managing environmental projects and programs as a consultant, Principal, and Director at Industrial Economics, Incorporated. Her most recent work involves issues of land protection and conservation, land use planning and economic development, urban infill and brownfields redevelopment, sustainable design and development, and open space benefits assessment. She has worked with government agencies, regional planning organizations, and non-profit organizations to develop policies, analyze impacts, and create education forums and outreach materials related to these issues. Charlotte is particularly interested in the public health and community benefits of parks, and land conservation strategies that integrate the environmental, health, economic, and social aspects of the human use of natural resources. She is currently a member of an environmental action team for a faith-based organization developing grass-roots support for conservation and climate change initiatives. Charlotte's in-depth understanding of the environmental, economic, and social values that underlie the importance of conserving land for human use fuel her passion for conservation.

Langston Dugger
Langston currently works in the Market2Customer at the Monitor Group, a consultancy in Cambridge, Mass, where he specializes in developing growth and branding strategies. He received his B.A. in economics from Brown University, where he was the recipient of both the Thomas and Lydia Carpenter Award and the Judge Alfred Joslin Award.

Beedee Ladd
Beedee is a resident of Wilson, Wyo. and Dover, Mass., where she is chair of the Open Space Committee. She is active in the environment across the country, serving as a member of the Board of Overseers for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Charles River Watershed Association, and as a board member with the Jackson Hole Land Trust in Wyoming and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.

Robert "Bob" Lindamood
Bob lives in Cambridge, MA and received a BA from Marietta College in Ohio, a Masters Degree in Education and Social Psychology from Columbia University, a Masters in Divinity from Columbia University and a PhD in Adult Education, Counseling and Psychology from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Bob is the President of Familiae Inc, in Cambridge, MA, which specializes in organizational development and training/counseling of employees and their families. A former Executive Director for Ohio Commission for Children and Families, former Vice President of Franklin County Children's Services in Columbus, Ohio and former Executive Minister at the Worthington United Methodist Church, Bob continues to counsel and educate families from diverse backgrounds. Bob has served on the Green Ribbon Open Space Committee in Cambridge, MA and has been a member of the Parks For People Advisory Council for the Boston area for several years.

Kyle McKinney
Kyle is a specialist in real estate and commercial business interests at Global Insurance Network in Needham, Mass. His has applied his expertise in community development corporations, financial institutions, and a broad range of real estate interests throughout the insurance industry and as former COO of the Lena Park Community Development Corporation in Dorchester, Mass. Kyle has degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lives in Andover with his wife, two daughters, and son.

Greg Shell

Helen Stein
Helen Stein is a psychologist in private practice in New York City. Helen is currently working with the New York State Psychiatric Institute to promote resilience in New Yorkers directly affected by 9/11 and is a reviewer for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She also has spent much of her career teaching, from preschoolers in England to clinical psychology Ph. D. students at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas, the City University of New York, and New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Maggie Super Church
Maggie Super Church is Executive Director of Groundwork Lawrence, a non-profit organization working to build healthy and sustainable communities through joint environmental action. Ms. Church is a 1994 Truman Scholar and holds a B.A. with Honors in Architecture from Yale University, a Masters in Urban Design from the Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Groundwork Lawrence, she was a senior planner and urban designer at Goody, Clancy & Associates in Boston, and has also worked for Buchanan Associates Architects in New Haven, Connecticut; the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C.; and as a planning consultant in Dublin, Ireland. Ms. Church is the recipient of the 2003 Excellence in Public Service Award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ellen Quinn
Ellen Quinn is director of environmental programs for the United Technologies Corporation, where she oversees corporate and worldwide conservation and environmental remediation efforts. Ellen was formerly VP of Administration for Yankee Energy Systems, Inc., and was responsible for human resources, information systems, purchasing, facilities management, environmental management and safety activities. Ms. Quinn graduated from Franklin and Marshall College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Geology from Harvard University and a Master of Science degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic University. She is on the board of directors of the Regional Plan Association-Connecticut Committee and the Connecticut Audubon Society.

Updated 3/2009