Board of Directors 2008
The Community Wellness Coalition incorporated as a Maine nonprofit in January 2001, and received its IRS 501(c)3 tax exampt status in April 2007. The current Board members are listed below, with brief biographical statements, followed by a list of past Board members.
Gillian Carter, Kittery
Gene Glick, MD, York
Glen MacWilliams, York
Ron McAllister, York
Kristen Grant, South Berwick
Steve Workman, Kittery
(New members are being sought, including from Eliot, as we try to have members from each of the four KEYS towns.)
(The CWC also has an advisory group, called the Coordinating Council, which it calls upon for community projects. The list of members can be seen here: http://www.keysregion.org/keys_ofbd/contact.htm)
Board Member Bios
Gillian Carter retired from NYU where she worked in the area of computer systems. She was also previously a librarian. She moved to Maine in September 2003 and lives in an old home by the water in Kittery, which she has remodeled. She lives with two rescued cats, Dulcimer (Dulcie) and Dobro. She is thrilled to live in Maine where she hopes she can make a difference. She has served on a number of Boards including the State Board of the ACLU, her congregation in NYC, professional, and socially active organizations. She is currently a Worship Associate and co-chair of the Peace and Justice Task Force at her church. She also sits on the Board of Foxwell, an organization that provides affordable housing for seniors and for disabled residents. She sings in the Funky Divas of Gospel and volunteers at her local library and for the AARP processing tax forms for the elderly and low income people.
Gene Glick, MD Gene is a retired psychiatrist and a resident of York, Maine, where he lives with his wife, Susan Hudson Glick, a past CWC Board member.
Kristen Grant
As Southern Maine Marine Extension Associate since 1999, Kristen has worked extensively with communities in the region, facilitating their efforts to make informed coastal resource management decisions. Her work has focused in coastal ecosystem health, environmental monitoring and stewardship and community planning and development. She holds a MS degree with a focus in Environmental Education.
Kristen has been an active partner in the work of the Community Wellness Coalition since 2002 in several different capacities, including membership in the CWC’s Advisory and Executive Committees, and Coordinating Council and now Board of Directors. Kristen writes: "My interest in the CWC has always been its essential mission in working to address the elements of community life as an interconnected whole toward the goal of universal wellness. This is in line with the ecosystem approach that has been applied to environmental management. Because this world view has tremendous potential for improving community life, my hope would be that we as the CWC Board can strengthen the organization to the point that every KEYS resident is touched by CWC facilitated programming. As a mother of two young boys living in Eliot, I can imagine the richness life can hold if we follow a path of interconnection, rather than division."
Glen MacWilliams is an architect in private practice and a community planner who lives and works in York, Maine with his wife Susan and their dog Alex. His interests include energy conscious design and natural resource conservation. Glen served his country with the U. S. Marine Corps and he served his community as a Conservation Commissioner and Comprehensive Planner for the past twenty years. He currently serves with the York Planning Board and the York Board of Design Review. Glen is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Community Wellness Coalition and has been active in the KEYS (Kittery, Eliot, York, and South Berwick) Coordinating Council and the Seacoast Workforce Housing Coalition. Glen is a father, stepfather, and aspiring writer. He’s written and illustrated children’s books, a novel, and social and political commentaries, which express his interests in his community, in social justice, and his vision for the future.
Ron McAllister is a retired professor who resides in York. Raised and educated in Massachusetts, he earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University before taking a faculty position at the University of California (Riverside). He subsequently chaired the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Northeastern University where he later served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He left Northeastern after twenty years to become Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. At the time of his retirement in 2006, he was President of BCA a study abroad consortium based in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. His academic interests are in social conflict (he lived in Northern Ireland for a time in the 1990’s) and community studies. Ron is currently writing a novel set in Northern Ireland around the time of the Good Friday Agreement. He and his wife, Judith, have six sons and five grandchildren.
Steve Workman is the owner of Workman Consulting in Kittery. He has led the Kittery Children’s Leadership Council, a partner of Maine Communities for Children & Youth, for five years, and staffed the Eastern Trail Management District. He has also been the acting Director of KEYS of Promise, a substance abuse prevention and youth asset building coalition. Steve has a degree from UNH in recreation management and has worked at both the Kittery and Eliot town recreation departments. He lives in Kittery, Maine.
Board of Directors Past Members 2001 - 2006
Helene Cass is the Chair of the SAD 35 (Marshwood) School Board and an Eliot resident.
Deb Erickson-Irons is the Director of Choose to be Healthy, a Healthy Maine Partnership, and of the York Hospital Center for Community Health Promotion. She is a resident of York.
Paige Farmer worked for the United Way of the Greater Seacoast (UWGS) from December 2003 and served as Senior Director of Community Building until 2007, when she left to do consulting work. She was responsible for stewarding investments in support of United Way’s four community impact strategies: grant making, mobilizing volunteers, collaborative initiatives and public education/advocacy. Her role involved extensive coordination with diverse partners including non-profit organizations, businesses, municipalities, schools, coalitions and individual stakeholders throughout the Greater Seacoast region.
Previously, she served as Grant Project Director at the Community Wellness Coalition (CWC). In that capacity, she was involved in developing and managing asset-based juvenile delinquency and substance abuse prevention initiatives; a cardiovascular disease prevention project focused on improving nutrition and physical activity and tobacco prevention/cessation; and a strategic planning process bringing together community leaders from each of the four towns.
Paige is a member of Rochester Rotary, the South Berwick Comprehensive Plan - Housing Sub-Committee and the Executive Committee for the Community Wellness Coalition. A graduate of Leadership Seacoast Class of 2005, she also serves as Chair of United Way of York County's Nurturing Children and Youth Community Impact Team. She has earned associates degrees in marketing and business administration from Hesser College and has completed (and taught) numerous courses in community development, grant writing, coalition building, systems interventions and best practices.
Born and raised in Portsmouth, Paige has lived in South Berwick, Maine with her husband and four children for since 1997.
Roland Glenn is a retired Retired Teacher/Administrator and Early Learning Specialist living in Kittery, Maine. His experience includes: V.P. and Director of Research: Creative Playthings, Princeton, N.J.; early learning specialist at the Drug Dependence Institute, Dept. of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, and Director of Planning and Training for the Massachusetts Department of Social Services.
Susan Hudson Glick is a consultant to nonprofit organizations, working through her firm The Hudson Group. Susan offers project development and grantwriting, and she also reviews grant applications for several foundations. Specialty areas include social justice, education, mental health, and the needs of children and families. Other professional experience includes work as a medical librarian, managing the research effort of the children’s hospital at New England Medical Center, developing and managing the grants office at Wheelock College, and editing medical journal articles and texts. She is secretary of the Board of Families First of the Greater Seacoast and last year completed three years as president of the Board of Maine Initiatives, a Maine foundation that supports grassroots organizations working for social, economic, and environmental justice. She has been part of several other boards and community groups, including the early Community Wellness Coalition and the York Public Library, and she is the founder of the York Diversity Forum. Susan and her husband live in Cape Neddick, which is part of the municipality of York.
Cathy Goodwin is the President and CEO of the Greater York Region Chamber of Commerce. She is a resident of York, and a former resident of Eliot.
Jon Prichard is an Associate Professor with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Based in York County, he connects the University to Maine people through community development and leadership capacity building education. His work focuses on two audiences; youth and communities. In his youth work, Jon develops programs that help youth obtain the life skills they need to succeed in the world; Jon partners with youth and schools throughout York County to provide resources, training and programs in life skills and environmental education. In his community building efforts, Jon helps Maine people enhance their leadership skills so they can help create the communities they want. Prior to joining the university, Jon was vice president at a regional community organization, where he provided community development support with Maine’s Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indian reservations. Jon is active in his community and serves in many volunteer capacities. He is a member of a 3-year community-building learning circle in Cambridge. An avid early music musician, Jon likens the art of building community collaborations to that of creating a musical ensemble; each participant has a unique voice that is made more beautiful in the context of a whole it helps to create -- as a community educator, his goal is to bring these voices together in ways that inspire individuals and communities to reach their highest potential. Jon lives in Kittery.
Bob Stevens is the Principal of York High School and a resident of York.