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Upcoming Event on Start-ups in Boston
June 11 at 8:00 a.m. at MassChallenge Event Space, 1 Marina Park Drive, Boston
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Current Rappaport/Boston Urban Scholars
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State Representative Linda Dorcena Forry grew up in Dorchester’s Uphams Corner neighborhood, where her parents settled after emigrating to the United States from Haiti in the mid 1960s. Upon her election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2005, Representative Forry became the second Haitian American to hold public office in Massachusetts. She is the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business and is a member of the Special Joint Committee on Redistricting. |
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Theresa Lynn is the executive director of ReadBoston, a nonprofit children’s literacy program founder by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino. ReadBoston’s mission is to have all children in Boston reading at grade level by the end of third grade. Prior to her work at ReadBoston, she was the campaign director for the YMCA of Greater Boston. She holds an MBA from Boston University’s School of Management and received a BA from the College of the Holy Cross. |
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State Representative Carl Sciortino has been a state representative since 2005, representing the 34th Middlesex district, which includes sections of Medford and Somerville. He is a member of the Joint Committees on Public Health, Transportation and Ways and Means. He also serves on the House Committees of Bonding, Capital Expenditures, and State Assets and on Ways and Means. He received a BA from Tufts University. |
| Former Rappaport Urban Scholars | Year |
| State Representative Steven Walsh (D-Lynn), House Chair, Joint Committee on Health Care Financing | 2012 |
| Mayor Joseph Curtatone, City of Somerville | 2011 |
| State Representative Jeffrey Sanchez (D-Jamaica Plain), House Chair, Joint Committee on Public Health | 2010 |
| Joseph Driscoll, Senior Vice President, O'Neill & Associates | 2009 |
| State Representative Alice Peisch (D-Wellesley), House Chair, Joint Committee on Education | 2009 |
| Barbara Salfity, U.S. General Services Administration | 2007 |
| Mark Falzone, Consultant, former State Representative | 2007 |
| State Representative William Straus (D-Mattapoisett), House Chair, Joint Committee on Transportation | 2007 |
| Tim Davis, Consultant | 2005 |
| State Senator Thomas Kennedy (D-Brockton), Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure | 2005 |
| Brad Swing, Mayor's Office of Environmental Services | 2004 |
| Mayor Joseph Sullivan, City of Braintree, former State Representative | 2004 |
| Katherine Kottaridis, Historic Boston, Inc. | 2003 |
| State Senator Barry Finegold (D-Andover), Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Election Laws | 2003 |
| Rachel Kaprielian, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, former State Representative | 2003 |
| Peter Koutoujian, Middlesex County Sheriff, former State Representative | 2003 |
| Charles Murphy, consultant, former State Representative | 2002 |
| Carol Blair, OnwardVia | 2001 |
| Joseph LaRusso, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Finance Manager, City of Boston | 2000 |
| Jack Hart, Nelson Mullins, and former State Representative | 2000 |
| Lillian Shirley, Director, Multnomah County and Portland, Oregon Health Department | 1999 |
| State Representative Kevin Honan (D-Brighton), House Chair, Joint Committee on Housing | 1999 |
| Bryan Glascock, Department of the Environment, City of Boston | 1998 |
| Honorable Stephen Lynch, U.S. House of Representatives | 1998 |
| Antonio Torres, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency | 1996 |
| Maureen Flynn, Coalition for Occupied Homes in Foreclosure | 1995 |
| John Munier, Boston Development Group | 1994 |
| Theresa Bourgeois, Assistant to the President for Media and Public Relations, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1993 |
| John Mills, Director, National Network of Sector Partners, Insight Center for Economic Development | 1992 |
| James Jordan, Criminal Justice Consultant, Strategic Solutions for Criminal Justice Organizations | 1991 |
| Honorable Justice Robert Rufo, Massachusetts Superior Court | 1991 |
| John McDonough, Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at Harvard School of Public Health, former Special Advisor on Health Care, Senator Edward Kennedy, and former State Representative | 1990 |
| Jeffrey Cronin, City of Pasadena, California | 1990 |
| James Brett, The New England Council, former State Representative | 1989 |
| Susan Tracy, The Strategy Group, former State Representative | 1989 |
| Thomas Bledsoe, Housing Partnership Group | 1987 |
| Kevin McCluskey, Director of Public Affairs, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, former Senior Director of Community Affairs, Harvard University and former Boston School Committee Member | 1986 |
| Priscilla Teague, Boston | 1986 |
| Richard Rouse, Boston, former State Representative | 1986 |
| Thomas Vallely, Vietnam Program, Harvard University, former State Representative | 1983 |
In Memoriam
| Bruce Bolling, MassAlliance, former Boston City Councilor | 1985 |
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