Board of Trustees

Pam has 25 years of demonstrated leadership in schools, nonprofits and business enterprises. Before joining Shady Hill, she consulted on advancement, board governance, public purpose and leadership development at various area schools. She has held numerous leadership positions on school and non-profit boards including Shady Hill, Beacon Academy, Prospect Hill Academy and The Foundation to Be Named Later.

Her first career was in private equity and she continues to invest in early stage companies, particularly those backed by female entrepreneurs. She is a graduate of Williams College and has four daughters, all graduates of Shady Hill and Noble & Greenough.

Jennifer S. Gala
Portfolio Director, Harvard Business School
Member since 2019
Member of Academic Affairs and Governance Committees

Jennifer is a lifelong learner with over 20 years of progressive management experience in higher education. She is passionate about transformational education experiences and access to education, at all levels and stages. Her expertise is in the areas of executive education and student programming; research grant administration, strategic relationship management; operations management and financial management; and delivery of high‐profile engagements. She has an aptitude for strategic thinking, prides herself on a global perspective and is most comfortable in a multicultural environment.

As Portfolio Director at Harvard Business School (HBS), she currently oversees the Healthcare and Strategy executive education program portfolios. Prior to joining HBS, Jennifer was the Associate Director for Executive Education and International Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Jennifer has also served as the Program Director for the Center for International Development at Harvard, and before that, as Program Director for Executive Education at Harvard Kennedy School.

In addition to her professional work and her PHA Board of Trustees role, Jennifer is the founding treasurer for the Savoyards of Boston, the scholarship chair for the Purdue Alumni Club of Greater Boston, and an ESL tutor with Project Literacy. Jennifer attended Purdue University (BA) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (M.Ed). She is the recipient of Harvard Kennedy School Dean’s Award for Excellence.

Laurens Goff is a co-founder of Stone-Goff Partners and has over 15 years of private equity investment experience. Laurens began his career in the investment banking division of Furman Selz LLC. He subsequently joined Hampshire Equity Partners, a middle market buyout firm where he spent over eight years sourcing, executing, and managing private equity investments. Past investments include companies in the specialty retail, consumer products, education and leasing industries. He founded Goff Management, a predecessor partnership to Stone-Goff in 2007. Laurens earned a BS in Finance at Boston College.

Laurens currently serves on the boards of NAS Recruitment, The Greene Turtle Franchising Corp, The Channel Company, Centerline Communications and Citi Trends (NASDAQ: CTRN).

Jeff Kushner applies the knowledge garnered in a twenty-year career in Finance to efforts in the Not-for-Profit and Social Impact spaces. He has a particular interest in ventures that take aggressive and novel approaches to social justice and to closing the opportunity gap.

Mr. Kushner serves in leadership roles in a number of ventures including as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Prospect Hill Academy Charter School. He is also Board Chairman of GRIT Inc., a Boston based social venture that designs and builds mobility devices. Jeff serves as a board member at Social Venture Partners, a Venture Philanthrophy organization with focus on early and growth stage not-for-profits. Jeff is also a member of Town Meeting in Brookline, Massachusetts where he resides with his wife and daughters. In addition to these roles, Mr. Kushner is an active angel investor and mentor, working with diverse organizations such as Launchpad Venture Group, Harvard Ilab, and Social Innovation Forum. Mr. Kushner is an adjunct professor in the Graduate Program at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media, and Design.

Prior to receiving his MPA from the Kennedy School of Government in 2014, Mr. Kushner held a number of leadership roles in the financial services sector, most recently serving as the CEO of BlueMountain Capital, Europe. Mr. Kushner also holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York and a BA in History from the University at Albany.

Giovany Morales-Ramos
Director of Technology, Citizen Schools
Member since 2020

The son of parents who immigrated to the United States from Guatemala, Giovany Morales-Ramos was born and raised in Boston. He was a member of the first graduating class of one of Boston’s first charter schools, Roxbury Prep, a place where he learned what it meant to be academically challenged and supported. He continued on to a private high school called The Governor’s Academy and then to Wentworth Institute of Technology for college to study Mechanical Engineering.

Months before graduating from Wentworth, the company with which Giovany was interning went on a hiring freeze. To gain financial stability, Giovany took on job as an IT support specialist at Boston Prep while resolving to find employment in the engineering field. After only a brief time working at Boston Prep, Giovany realized that his true passion lies in mentoring and educating minority students. For seven years, Giovany worked at Boston Prep as the Director of Technology, an advisor, a varsity soccer and baseball coach, and as a mentor for many students. He also taught 8th grade computer literacy for 3 years and 7th and 8th grade engineering for 1 year.

Giovany then decided to pursue a graduate degree in education and was accepted to Harvard Graduate School of Education and received a Masters in School Leadership. He is now the Director of Technology for a national non-profit organization called Citizen Schools where he is responsible for managing the technology department for the organization.

Trecia Reavis, Founder and current Chair of PHA’s Family Engagement Board Committee, has over 20 years’ experience in training and development, corporate logistics and managing learning events.  She possesses extensive planning, writing and strategizing skills with a passion for teaching and building cultural bridges. Trecia is the Executive Director of LAP, a learning program, for foreign students held at Harvard University and helps support small, minority owned businesses.

Trecia has an ALB from Harvard, with a focus on Humanities. She also has completed ALM studies in International Relations at Harvard, Social Entrepreneurship and Technology at City Vision University, and HBX Core Program Certificate At Harvard University Business School.

After 25 years as Founder, Director and CTO of CambridgeSoft Corporation (CS), followed by a successful sale of CS to a Fortune 500 company, Michael now directs his efforts toward social entrepreneurship in the Greater Boston area. In 2014, He was a fellow in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative.

Currently, in addition to developing a new platform for young people to identify and pursue opportunity, Michael serves on the boards of Beacon Academy and Prospect Hill Academy. Beacon Academy provides a transformational year between 8th and 9th grades to promising, motivated and hard-working students from Boston and surrounding urban areas. Michael is also a mentor at Year Up, which provides professional training and internships for high school graduates.

Madelin is passionate about business development and relationship management and has an extensive history of working in matrix environments, building strategic relationships, and partnerships. In her current role as Assistant Director at Harvard University, her passion is demonstrated by a proven track of establishing strong connections with city leaders, private and public sector stakeholders, from around the world, working on issues of housing, urban planning, energy, healthy cities, and digital transformation. With over 15 years of operational management experience, Madelin has managed marketing initiatives and more than one hundred core projects for corporations in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia for the past 10 years, including: Harvard University, Boehringer Ingelheim, Promeco, Citizens Financial Group, Avery Dennison, and Raytheon.

Madelin champions advocacy and legislation to promote well-being, financial security, and equal opportunity at school settings for children who are either on the Autism Spectrum or who have an Individualized Education program (IEP) in Massachusetts. Due to Madelin's own “journey” in which education played a key factor in overcoming poverty, she spends most of her time inspiring children to pursue a goal of continued and higher education. Since 1998, one of Madelin's main community volunteer efforts is with Hope Worldwide New England. She is responsible for coordinating fundraising initiatives for the Framingham Food Pantry to help emergency food assistance to local families. Due to the compelling economic situation in Central America and her own personal experience, she is particularly involved in helping desperately poor communities by providing outpatient medical and dental care.

Marc Saunders
Director of Operations at Cambridge Youth Programs, City of Cambridge
Member Since 2015
Member of Academic Affairs and Family Engagement Committee

Marc Saunders is a passionate supporter for education and youth development. Marc has worked in the space over the years at YouthBuild USA, Tufts University’s Lincoln Filene Center, Boston Partners In Education, and City On A Hill Charter School supporting educational innovation and improvement for the lives of young people. Marc believes that full educational attainment and closing the achievement gap remains one of the greatest equalizing factor for justice and equality in America.

A proud Cambridge College and Boston University graduate, Marc grew-up in Cambridge and still lives and works in this “great, open-minded and dynamic city.” In his view, parent engagement is a critical part of the solution, so while his son attended Prospect Hill Academy, he served as co-chair for the PHA Family Advisory Board, and later joined the Board of Trustees. Marc currently serve as Vice Chair and truly believes “we need each other to get this done.”