Unless posted otherwise, the BArT Charter Public School Board of Trustees meets the first Wednesday of each month, at 6pm, at One Commercial Place in Adams, Massachusetts. Meetings are open to the public.

Board members include:

Julia Bowen ( Executive Director, ex officio Trustee )
Ms. Bowen has a background in both business management and education. She worked for at the Monitor Group, an international consulting company headquartered in Boston, where she consulted to clients in the US, England, Israel and Bangladesh. She also worked on the management team of Monitor, with significant responsibilities in human asset management including recruiting, training and staffing over 200 consultants across North America. Ms. Bowen left the business world to pursue her passion for education. Prior to joining the founding BArT team, Ms. Bowen was a math teacher at Mount Greylock Regional High School where she piloted innovative uses of technology in her classroom. She has been a Big Sister and tutored inmates in the Suffolk County Jail. In addition to her work at BArT, Ms. Bowen serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association and is a member of the Mass Development Charter School Facility Fund Advisory Board. She was recently appointed a Founding Board Member for the Massachusetts Charter Public School Resource Center. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Dartmouth College.

Stacey Brock
Stacey Brock is an attorney specializing in Special Education, Family Law and Litigation. She has served as a Law Clerk in the San Diego Public Defender's Office, the Deputy District Attorney in Martinez, California, and has worked in private practice in both New York and Massachusetts having been admitted to the Bar in California, New York and Massachusetts. Prior to being a lawyer, Ms. Brock was a teacher and coach at Blair Academy in New Jersey and a Domestic Violence Unit Victim and Witness Advocate for the Essex District Attorney's Office in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She earned her B.A. in Political Science from Williams College and is a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law.

Dianne Cutillo (Board Vice-Chair and Chair, Communications & Development Committee)
Dianne Cutillo has over 20 years of experience in the communications, marketing and public relations fields. Currently, Ms. Cutillo is the Marketing and Public Relations Manager for Southwestern Vermont Health Care, based in Bennington, Vermont, where she serves as an in-house marketing and public relations account representative to clients throughout the integrated health care system. Prior to joining Southwestern Vermont Health Care, Ms. Cutillo served in simliar capacities at both Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton and Northern Berkshire Health Systems in North Adams. Ms. Cutillo has also worked as a publicist & editor for Storey Publishing in North Adams and as reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and The Transcript. She has been involved in numerous community organizations, including Northern Berkshire United Way, Northern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce and Girl Scouts of Western Massachusetts, Inc. Ms. Cutillo received a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Brandeis University and a Masters in Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. BArT’s role as a college preparatory public school is of particular interest to her as a first-generation college graduate and a graduate of a Massachusetts public high school that encouraged the college dreams of all of its students.

Jessica Harris
Jessica Harris is the producer and host of the NPR weekly radio show, From Scratch. Prior to her work in radio, Mrs. Harris was a documentary filmmaker who produced and directed a critically acclaimed documentary film about WWII, called On Common Ground. The film included commentary by Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite and John Kenneth Galbraith and was released widely on DVD and television (PBS). She formerly worked with Woody Allen on his film Sweet and Low Down and interned as a strategic analyst for Phil Anschutz, owner of Regal Entertainment Group, the nation's largest movie theater chain. Mrs. Harris also serves on the boards of Jacob's Pillow and the Civilians Theater Company in New York City. She earned her BA in Economics from Harvard University and her MBA from Columbia University.

Pam Johnson (Board Chair and Chair, Charter and Accountability Committee)
Mrs. Johnson has more than 25 years experience in the computer industry including heading a multi-national group of several hundred engineers at Digital Equipment Corporation. She currently provides consulting services in the areas of education and technology to arts organizations such as museums and theater companies. She recently helped Shakespeare and Company develop online curriculum. Mrs. Johnson lives in Monterey, MA.

Sarah McNair (Chair, Governance Committee)
Sarah McNair is an illustrator of nature and architecture with over 15 years of experience working with clients such as the Department of Natural Resources, the National Park Service and Wild Earth Magazine. In addition to her work as an independent illustrator, she has worked for Earthlink Inc., where she managed the space utilization for seven corporate sites. Prior to working with Earthlink, Mrs. McNair worked as a Development Associate, Volunteer Coordinator and Docent at the Randall Museum in San Francisco, California. As a naturalist and environmental educator with the YMCA, Clearwater, Inc., and Sandy Springs Friends School in Maryland she helped middle and high school students explore ecology, biology and social issues that affect the environment. She received an MS in Environmental Education from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a BS in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Eileen Miclette (Board Treasurer and Chair, Finance and Audit Committee)
Eileen Miclette currently serves as the Assistant Vice President of Risk Management / Compliance at Greylock Federal Credit Union, where she is involved with risk assessment, compliance with federal and state regulations, and strategic planning. Prior to joining Greylock Federal Credit Union, she was a supervisory bank examiner with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) where she evaluated the condition of banks and oversaw the work of 12 other examiners. She started her career at GE Plastics in Pittsfield, where she held various technical positions including pure research and technical marketing research. She has taught CCD at St. Mark's Church in Pittsfield, worked as a volunteer in the with the church's Meals on Wheels program, and served on the board member at the Pittsfield YMCA where she Chairs the Membership and Marketing Committee and sits on the Finance and Financial Development Committees. She is a graduate of Brandeis University where she received her B.A. In Biology and has completed most requirements towards her M.B.A. at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She recently completed a certificate program in non-profit governance.

Christine O’Connor
Christine O’Connor brings to BArT many years of experience working with and advocating for families in Berkshire County. Most recently, Mrs. O’Connor served as the Supervisor in the Berkshire County office of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), an organization dedicated to advocating for abused and neglected children in juvenile court. While at CASA, she was directly involved with the courts, the probation office, schools, DSS, mental health agencies and other social services agencies. Prior to her work with CASA, Mrs. O’Connor worked as a Pre-school Parent Liaison with Pittsfield Public School Special Education Unite, where she explained special education services to families of qualified children and encouraged positive parent-child-school interactions. Mrs. O’Connor has served on numerous boards, including the Northern Berkshire Mental Health Association and the Berkshire Mental Health Advisory Board. She was an active parent in her own childrens’ schools, including Pine Cobble and the Adams-Cheshire School District. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, and completed graduate work at both the University of Nebraska, Omaha and at Boston University.

Charley Stevenson (Board Secretary)
Charley Stevenson is currently the Health Professions Advisor and the Coordinator of the Math and Science Resource Center at Williams College. Prior to working at Williams, he was Dean of Studies at the Berkshire Country Day High School, and was a teacher and member of the board of the Berkshire Country Day School while it implemented a high school program. Mr. Stevenson earned his undergraduate degree from Williams College and his Master's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he focused on the pedagogical use of technology.

Diana Walczak
Diana is artistic director and co-founder of Kleiser-Walczak, a computer animation company in Hollywood and North Adams that provides digital visual effects and character animation for feature films including "Stargate," "X-Men" and "X2: X-Men United", commercials, and theme park attractions including Universal's "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" and Busch Gardens' "Corkscrew Hill." She has recently published on the topic of future education technology for the U.S. Department of Commerce initiative, "Visions 2020".

If you would like to be considered for the board, please contact us.