Board of Directors
Annie Doran, Founder of Fairloom
February 2005
When Annie was eight years old, she began pasting Portuguese words on appliances at home and singing "My Hat has Three Corners" in the beautiful Brazilian language. After years of begging her parents to bring her to Brazil, she finally spent the Fall of 2002 studying in NE Brazil. During this time, she met the community of Terra Prometida, was drawn to their determination and spirit, and knew she would be returning to do more than just study. Annie has a BS in Early Childhood Education with a concentration in Race and Culture from the University of Vermont. She now lives in Turner, ME and makes frequent trips to Brazil.
Secretary
Charlotte Cilley earned a combined undergraduate and graduate degree in Accounting at Pace University in 1980, then began her career as a tax accountant with Price Waterhouse. As part of her quest to change careers, she took a position at GE Capital, which offered her the opportunity to explore the world of group facilitation and personal coaching in which she thrived. While there, she also trained in process analysis and improvement. She currently lives in Danbury as a homemaker and welcomes the opportunity to 'give something back' to the world community through her association with Fairloom.
Catherine M. Dunham, Ed.D. is the President of the Access Project, a research and advocacy organization that has worked to improve access to health care for people without dequate health insurance since 1998. She served as national program director of the Community Health Leadership Program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1991 to 2007. She was also the Executive Director of the National Center on Family Homelessness during 2007.
From 1984-1991 she was the chief health and human services policy advisor to Governor Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts. Prior to that, Dr. Dunham was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers. She received her Masters in Education from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. She has faculty appointments at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Brandeis University.
Dawn Stopka received a BFA in Textile Design from Southeastern Massachusetts University in 1977 and ahs been working in the textile industry for over 24 years holding positions in management, product development and design. She is currently employed at Quaker Fabric in Fall River,MA as a Master Designer Stylist specializing in jacquard upholstery fabric.
When Ruth was in the Peace Corp 25 years ago, with her husband, Paul, they organized the first Special Olympics that ever occurred in Brazil. Since then, they have been raising their three daughters, including Annie. Ruth was an Occupational Therapist for 25 years, in 2002 received a Masters in Early Childhood Education, and began teaching first grade at the Paul Cuffee School in Providence RI. In June 2004, Ruth and Paul, returned to the small town in Espirito Santo, Brazil after 25 years of being away.
Rosiane Caride LaRose was born and raised in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. She is the daughter of a boat mechanic and a housewife from a poor suburban area of Rio de Janeiro. Economic conditions were harsh, her father was unemployed for long periods of time, and the family lived with her gradnparents. Her grandfather sold items by pushcart to help them. Rosiane struggled and worked her way through college while taking a two hour bus ride each way from home to work and then to school. She received a bachelor's degree in Management then immigrated to the United States in 1999. She worked as a staff accountant for Yankee Candle and received an M.B.A. at the University of Massachusetts in 2005. She is currently working in South Hadley, Massachusetts as the accounting manager for Canson U.S.A. She lives with her husband and dog in Northampton and travels to Brazil as much as possible.
Steve White is Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business, in the Charlton College of Business's Marketing and Management Information Systems departments, teaching courses on marketing principles, international marketing and international business. Steve earned a BSBA and an MA from Bowling Green State University, and an MBA and a DBA from Cleveland State University. Each year, White and fellow Charlton faculty member Dr. Godwin Ariguzo take a number of students in the international business program overseas as a part of the International Business Association (IBA) (http://www.umassd.edu/iba/), which offers experiential learning with a focus on service-based learning. He reflects that his most memorable experiences were twice receiving (2000 and 2003) the Charlton College of Business's Thomas J. Higginson Award for Excellence in Teaching.