Advisory Committee

The Center's 2004-2006 Advisory Board consists of ten members. We have meetings once a semester to discuss the Center's mission, accomplishments and future direction. The role of the Advisory Committee is to help guide the Center such that it understands the needs of the Commonwealth.

• John R. Mullin: Director, Center for Economic Development
  
• Zenia Kotval: Project Consultant, Center for Economic Development
  
• Nat Karns: Executive Director, Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, Pittsfield
  
• Jeff Hayden: Director: Office of Economic and Industrial Development, Holyoke
  
• Jean Kidwell: Director, Office of Community Development, Chicopee
  
• Marty Green: Executive Director, Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce, Whitinsville
  
• Stephen Smith: Director, Southeastern Regional Planning Economic Development District, Taunton
  
• Diane Sullivan: MassDevelopment, Lowell
  
• Laila Michaud, Executive Director, Montachusett Regional Planning Commission
  
• Peggy Sloan, Director of Planning and Development, Frankling Regional Council of Development
  
• Michael Goodman, Donahue Institute
  
• Steve Winter, Metropolitan Area Planning Commission