The Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School

Board of Trustees

Julia Bowen (Executive Director, ex officio Trustee)

Ms. Bowen has a background in both business management and education. She worked for the Monitor Group, an international consulting company headquartered in Cambridge, MA, 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 Center for Charter Public School Excellence and to the Board of Directors for the Northern Berkshire United Way. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Dartmouth College.

Dianne Cutillo (Board Chair)

Dianne M. Cutillo has more than 25 years of experience in the communications, marketing, and public relations fields. Ms. Cutillo was most recently the Vice President of External Affairs at Northern Berkshire Healthcare (NBH) in North Adams. She led marketing, community relations, fundraising, and planning for NBH and its subsidiaries. Prior to joining NBH, she served in similar roles at Southwestern Vermont Health Care in Bennington, Vt., Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, and earlier at Northern Berkshire Healthcare. 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 is a member of Forest Park Country Club and the Adams Lions Club. She previously held volunteer leadership roles for Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, Northern Berkshire United Way, and Girl Scouts of Western Massachusetts, Inc. Ms. Cutillo holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Brandeis University and a Master’s 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.

Emily Eakin

Emily Eakin is a National Manager, Major Donor Relations, for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. In her role she works closely with local chapters around the country to build and grow their Major Donor programs and also oversees the pipeline development for the entire department. Emily joined JDRF in May 2005 as Manager of Prospect Research within the Major Gifts Department and then was promoted to Manager of Donor & Prospect Management where she worked with a team to launch a new moves management program to track all JDRF major donors and major donor prospects. Prior to joining JDRF, Emily was the Manager of Donor and Trustee Relations at the Women’s Sports Foundation. Emily began her career as a Marketing Analyst for Streetmail.com, an Internet start-up company and working on the Advance staff for First Lady Hillary Clinton. Emily graduated from Williams College and after several years in New York City she and her family have now happily settled back in the Berkshires.

Jessica Harris

Jessica Harris is the producer and host of the NPR weekly radio show, From Scratch, a weekly radio show about the entrepreneurial life. 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.

Pamela Johnson

Pam creates web sites for a number of clients, many of them artists. Additionally, she is a fiber artist creating wall hangings using quilting techniques and will be the featured quilter and lecturer at a juried show in Westminster VT in October 2009.

Pam spent more than twenty five years in the computer industry first in the UK and then the US. Her management roles included heading a multi-national group of several hundred engineers developing software, advanced development of new hardware, marketing storage and information management systems, product planning and quality management.  She also acted as a fee paid consultant with assignments including the effective management of widely-dispersed, multi-discipline teams and an assessment of acquisitions and joint ventures.

From the mid-1990s on, Pam has elected to apply her management and technical expertise in pro-bono consulting to a number of not-for-profit organizations. She helped a theater company to create a successful grant application for a multi-media study guide to Shakespeare and project managed the implementation. She consulted with a museum director on the benefits and costs of multi-media technology; implemented an on-line scheduling and reservation system for a large, non-profit organization’s public education programs; sourced and customized the software, developed the procedures and trained the users; created a donor database and donor mailing system for a small museum; created large web sites for that museum and for a botanical garden; developed a ‘how to’ guide for organizing special events. She has served on the boards of the Fielding Graduate University, the Berkshire Botanical Garden, the Bidwell House Museum and the Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School, where she was a founding trustee and has served multiple terms as Treasurer and one as Chair.

Maria Mazzocco

Ms. Mazzocco's biography is forthcoming.

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. 

Charlie Toomajian (Chair, Charter & Accountability Committee)

Charlie Toomajian is the Associate Dean and Registrar at Williams College. His responsibilities include developing computerized student information systems; overseeing production of the course catalog and student handbook; advising all transfer students; working with students who take or return from medical leaves; and shares advising and disciplinary responsibilities.  He has extensive experience in higher education administration and institutional research, and has owned and operated a restaurant.  Charlie lives in North Adams with his wife.