Board of Directors
Generation Citizen is governed by a board of directors that includes current and former leaders of some of the country’s most innovative non-profit organizations, including Teach for America and City Year. Additionally, GC’s National Advisory Board includes several of the most respected academic authorities on civic engagement and voter participation.
Edwin Cohen, Carlin Ventures
Ed Cohen is a Co-Founder, President, and a Principal at Carlin Ventures, LLC. Prior to this, Mr. Cohen was a Consultant and a Partner at McKinsey & Company. He was the Founder and a Managing Partner of General Atlantic LLC from 1980 to 1992 and the Chairman from 1992 to 1995. Prior to General Atlantic, Mr. Cohen was also the General Counsel at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. He was also the founding Chairman of City Year. Mr. Cohen assisted in the creation of the Echoing Green Foundation and is a Member of Board of Directors. He is also a Director at New Profit Inc. He holds a B.A. degree in English from Amherst College and a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia.
Louise Langheier Davis, Executive Director, Peer Health Exchange
In 1999, Louise Davis and five other Yale undergraduates began teaching health workshops to teenagers in New Haven public high schools to fill the gap left by an underfunded, understaffed district health program. Today, more than 100 Yale volunteers teach workshops to high school students across New Haven. In 2003, Davis co-founded Peer Health Exchange, Inc. (PHE) in order to replicate this successful pilot program in other communities with unmet health education needs.
Under Davis’ leadership, in the last four academic years PHE has trained 800 college student volunteers to deliver health education to 7,000 low-income public high school students in New York City, Boston, and Chicago, seeing strong initial results. In 2008, PHE is launching its next site in the Bay Area and is pursuing a five-year growth plan to deepen and broaden its impact nationwide.
Davis serves on the board of directors of Dwight Hall at Yale—Yale’s Center for Public Service and Social Justice—and volunteers with the Hole in the Wall Gang Camps. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History in 2003. She was born and raised in San Francisco, California
Katie Pakenham, New Profit Inc.
Katie is currently with New Profit, an investment firm that scales non-profits into the national space. She was a founding staff member of Common Good Careers, an executive search firm for non-profit organizations. Prior to that, she was a long-term employee of City Year, and served in the development office of Concord Academy. She has a BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Mary Vascellaro, Chairperson of the Board, Community Volunteer in Education and the Arts
Mary Vascellaro, a 1974 graduate of Brown University and 1976 graduate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has an extensive background in retail buying and management, working for organizations such as Filenes and Lord and Taylor. She also has extensive non-profit Board experience, serving as a member of the Bay Area Advisory Board of Teach for America, a member and past chair of the Pembroke Associates Council at Brown University, a member of the Women’s Leadership Council, a presidential advisory group at Brown, a Board Member of Curving Road, a London-based organization supporting artists in their first public endeavors, and various other pursuits.
Scott Warren, Executive Director, Generation Citizen
Scott Warren is the co-founder and Executive Director of Generation Citizen. He is a current recipient of an Echoing Green Fellowship, and was a finalist for the Truman Scholarship. Scott graduated from Brown University with a degree in International Relations.
Scott’s passion for activism stems from his experience growing up abroad. After his father joined the State Department, Scott lived throughout Latin America and Africa, receiving exposure to diverse cultures and formative experiences. In 2002, Scott served as an observer in the first truly democratic elections in Kenya’s history, where he began to recognize the transformative potential of democracy. During college, Scott served as the National Student Director of STAND, a national student anti-genocide coalition. STAND works with over 800 high school and college chapters to work together to create political campaigns for US action to prevent and end genocide, and create a permanent student anti-genocide constituency. Scott also helped lead successful campaigns to divest Brown University, the City of Providence, and the State of Rhode Island from companies conducting business in Sudan. Scott founded Generation Citizen his senior year at Brown with the aim of helping to create an authentic democratic experience for all youth across the country, keeping in mind the transformative power he first witnessed in Kenya.
Gwenn Snider, Owner, Winnetu Oceanside Resort
Gwenn Masterman Snider lives in Wellesley MA. She is a writer and in the hotel business on Martha’s Vineyard. She has a background in marketing and merchandising. A long time board member of Facing History and Ourselves, Gwenn also serves on the board of The Pembroke Center at Brown University. She has been a past board member on a number of museums in the Boston area as well as active in organizations dedicated to helping children with learning differences. A graduate of Brown University she is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Gender and Cultural Studies.
Timothy R. Bowers, Attorney, K&L Gates LLP
Tim is a corporate attorney in the Boston office of K&L Gates LLP. He dedicates a substantial portion of his legal practice to corporate transactional work, including domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital. In addition, Tim counsels clients across many industries in a variety of contracts matters, including with respect to intellectual property licensing, software development, product distribution, services, confidentiality, employment, joint ventures and outsourcing. His clients are in various stages of development ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups and small family-run businesses to Fortune 500 publicly-traded companies. Tim holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law where he served as Articles Editor of the Villanova Law Review.