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As a freelance writer, Melissa Coleman has written about lifestyle, health, and travel, and currently writes the monthly "48 Hours In" column for Maine magazine. Her New York Times bestseller, This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone, about growing up during the 1970s back-to-the-land movement, was published by HarperCollins in April 2011, and excerpted in O Magazine. Melissa lives in Freeport, Maine, with her husband and twin daughters.
Susan Conley is a co-founder of the Telling Room, where she continues to teach writing workshops. She is the author of The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf, 2011), which was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine and was an O, The Oprah Magazine Top Ten Pick, and a Slate Magazine "Book of the Week." Susan is the recipient of two MacDowell Colony residencies, a Breadloaf Writer’s Fellowship and a Massachusetts Arts Council Grant. Other work of hers has appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The North American Review and DownEast Magazine. In the past she taught workshops at Emerson College and then later at Harvard's Teachers as Scholars Program. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband and two boys, and is completing a novel forthcoming from Knopf.
Patty Howells is a cook and cooking teacher living in Portland. She is a graduate of Smith College with an AB in economics, and she is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, having served 2 years in Niger, where her focus was on maternal and infant health. She lived for 9 years in San Francisco, where she was a staff investigator for an agency specializing in indigent defense and civil rights investigations. While in San Francisco she turned her attention to food, attended culinary school, and cooked in the city’s top restaurants before moving to Maine.
Alex Krieckhaus, Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee, has spent the last fifteen years managing investment portfolios for large institutions with a focus on developing-country economics. Formerly based in New York, London and Madrid, Alex recently settled in Portland, Maine with his wife and their four children, who range in age from college-bound to diaper-clad. A product of academic parents, Alex has always had a passion for pedagogy; raising his children in different countries with different languages has only reinforced his belief that kids' hunger for learning is insatiable, and that we have a responsibility to provide them a steady stream of challenges and opportunities. Alex also sits on the board of IDSVA, a Maine-based doctoral program for the visual arts, and is a director and co-founder of Paper Empire, a nonprofit music promotion and recording collaborative.
Board Vice President Celine Bourke Kuhn is the Program Manager for the Health Action Collaborative and Payment Reform Committee of the Maine Health Management Coalition. Formerly she was the Assistant Research Director of Maine Medical Center's Departments of Family Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Geriatrics, collaborating on the design of departmental research projects and leading the analysis of data from research protocols. Celine serves on the Board of Trustees for Youth Alternative Ingraham (YAI) and lives in Yarmouth with her husband and 2 children.
Su Langdon lives with her family in Falmouth and teaches psychology at Bates College. With a background in developmental studies and counseling, her doctoral training focused on sport and exercise psychology. Her current research is an eclectic collection of mostly unrelated foci. It includes looking at the ways in which people define and experience respect; body image and identity; school climate and bullying. She has a special interest in adolescent development and the contexts and cultures in which it occurs.
James E. Leslie (Jay) is an information technology veteran with over 15 years of experience. He is currently a Senior Researcher at Idealware. In his previous role, Jay served as IT Executive with a multinational philanthropic organization where he was responsible for technology implementation. In this position, Jay evaluated emerging technologies to determine which ones merited adoption. He lives in Portland with his wife and son.
After graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, CT with a BA in Education and Psychology, Liz Meahl became a Certified Elementary School Teacher. Since moving from San Francisco in 1999, Liz has worked at Longfellow Elementary School in Portland. She is the Partnership Developer, Building Technology Coordinator and supports Special Education programming. Liz has been a Court Appointed Special Advocate and served on the board of the Portland Education Partnership. She and her husband live in Portland with their two children who attend the Portland Public Schools.
Pierre Meahl is an AVP at Unum responsible for the recruitment and training of its field sales and enrollment personnel. He spent the first part of his 17 year career in sales in San Francisco before moving to Portland in 2000. While in San Francisco, he also spent time working as a mentor in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters organization. He graduated from Colgate University with a BA in History. Pierre is married to Liz and has two young children, Jack and Sumner.
Kai McGintee is an attorney at Bernstein Shur, where she is a member of the litigation group and specializes in the area of labor and employment law. Since graduating from the University of Maine School of Law in 2007, Kai has provided pro bono legal services for victims of domestic violence. She also serves on the Auction Committee for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine. Prior to entering law school, Kai attended Davidson College and majored in English.
Apparel designer and founder of her own clothing company, Jill McGowan has a studio in downtown Portland and distributes her women's clothing to 300 boutiques around the country. Her work has been featured in films, television programs and publications nationwide. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Jill returned to Maine in 1991 and became a patternmaker at the Hathaway Shirt factory in Waterville, Maine. She lives in Falmouth with her husband and son.
Board President Genevieve Morgan is a writer and editor living in Portland. After graduating with a BA in English from Bowdoin College, Genevieve became the managing editor at SF Magazine in San Francisco and then at Chronicle Books. She is the author of several illustrated non-fiction works and co-founder of a book packaging company that has produced a variety of work, including Saints: A Visual Almanac of the Virtuous, Pure, Praiseworthy and Good and it’s (more dastardly) follow-up: The Devil. She has written for many corporate and editorial clients, including Smith & Hawken, Williams-Sonoma, Starbuck’s, Harper Collins, Borders Books, Time-Life Books, Body and Soul Magazine, and, locally, Thos. Moser, LL Bean, Concordia Partners and Fetchdog. Her most recent book, The Core Balance Diet was published by Hay House Publishing in 2009. She is currently at work on an adventure trilogy for middle readers set in the North Atlantic, entitled The Five Stones.
Co-founder Sara Corbett is the author of Venus to the Hoop: A Gold-Medal Year in Women’s Basketball and a contributing writer at the The New York Times Magazine. Her feature stories have covered topics like child-trafficking in Cambodia, the resettlement of Sudanese orphans in the U.S., and the psychological struggle of soldiers wounded in Iraq.
Ari Meil is the owner and publisher of Warren Machine Company, a regional publishing company located in Portland, dedicated to bringing Maine's excess of talent to market. His books include Portland's Best, Portland Through the Lens, and The Way Life Should Be: Stories by Contemporary Maine Writers. Ari is also the author of 2 short novels, Triptych and Fiction.
Co-founder Michael Paterniti is the best-selling author of Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s Brain. His work has appeared in publications including the Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and GQ.
