BOSTnet Staff
Maryellen Coffey – Executive Director
phone: 617.720.1290 x 201
email: coffey@bostnet.org
Maryellen Coffey has been the Executive Director of BOSTnet since 2001. Maryellen expanded the core work of the organization by adding the Engaging Families, Community Afterschool, and Lead to Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities Initiatives (LOYD) in 2002. BOSTnet was designated the state affiliate for the National Afterschool Association in 2009, expanding BOSTnet’s network statewide to connect out of school time programs and practitioners to a statewide and national professional association. Coffey serves on the advisory board of the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care and is a member of the Workforce Development Task Force. She is chair of Achieve, a workforce development collaborative, working to build a professional development system for the out of school time field. She also is a member of the Children’s Investment Fund Facilities Advisory Committee, the T.E.A.C.H (Teacher Education and Compensation Helps) advisory committee aimed at bringing the model to Massachusetts to improve child care quality through scholarships for college credit and higher worker compensation, and the Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership advisory, a policy effort to increase and institutionalize public resources for out-of-school time in Massachusetts. She also has served as a commissioner on the first Massachusetts Commission on Afterschool and Out of School Time, was an advisor to the Massachusetts Afterschool Research Study (MARS), a statewide study aimed at documenting program quality, and served on the Early Education for All advisory board, a campaign to implement universal preschool in Massachusetts. Maryellen’s work over the past twenty years has been in non-profit management, including serving as C.O.O. at South Middlesex Opportunity Council, an anti-poverty organization providing services and policy work for the poor; and as Vice President for Programs at Crittenton Hastings House, providing shelter, education, and childcare services for families.
Manosi Datta – Program Director, Evaluation and Operations
phone: 617.720.1290 x 210
email: datta@bostnet.org
Manosi Datta has a decade of experience working for housing and education initiatives through community-based, regional and national organizations. As Program Director-Evaluation and Operations at BOSTnet, she develops systems for program delivery and evaluation. Previously, she directed the Community After School Initiative (CASI), working with programs to strengthen capacity, and developed Net Benefits, a pilot networking and collaboration initiative to explore economies of scale in the after school field. Prior to BOSTnet, she contributed to replicating elements of BELL after school programs nationally, as it grew from 1,000 to 7,000 children served. Manosi managed a $1.9 million HUD Housing program at the Housing Partnership Network, providing technical assistance to a national network of 34 housing programs. She serves on the G.I.R.L.S. Project/GirlTV Advisory Board and is a Children’s Defense Fund Emerging Leaders Fellow. A degree in Urban Systems and International Development from McGill University in Montreal provides her with a unique perspective on U.S. and Canadian public policy.
Elise Scott - Project Director
phone: 617.720.1290 x 240
email: scott@bostnet.org
Elise comes to BOSTnet with over a dozen years experience as a Trainer and Project Manager, with experience managing multi-million dollar projects and teams ranging in size from 2 to 175. She hails from rural Maryland, where she worked as a therapeutic instructor with emotionally and behaviorally challenged children and adolescents in a horse therapy program. She also developed and ran a large and vibrant volunteer program, engaging schools, family, and the community in the support of struggling children. In partnership with another instructor, she developed and implemented a school field trip program for children with special needs, a multi-disciplinary summer horse camp curriculum for SED (serious emotional disturbance) children and adolescents, and other inclusive educational programming. She implemented incorporation of literacy, science, and math into lesson plans agency-wide. She created and offered trainings for the volunteers, for staff, and for members of other agencies in the community. When the need arose, she developed and managed successful marketing and outreach campaigns to increase client enrollment, public awareness, and community involvement. She also trained and mentored new staff, and acted as Executive Director during an agency transition. Prior to that, Elise worked in research and program evaluation, managing a department while simultaneously running research and evaluation projects nationwide. She managed and mentored staff and resolved inter-departmental conflicts. She also created and offered trainings on a variety of subjects as well as presenting at national conferences. In addition to her work at BOSTnet, Elise is completing a graduate degree in mental health counseling, and brings expertise in emotional and behavioral health needs, strategies, and interventions to the team.
Monica Zgola – Statewide Network and Project Manager
phone: 617.720.1290 x 232
email: zgola@bostnet.org
Monica oversees special projects, the statewide members' network, and communications for the organization. Prior to her arrival at BOSTnet, she worked in direct care/child advocacy in a pre-independent living program for adolescent males at Communities-for-People in Somerville, MA. Monica has also worked in daycare, pre-school, summer camp, and after school programs in Upstate New York, along with high school tutoring in Cambridge, MA. Monica received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Binghamton University in New York State.
BOSTnet’s Board of Directors
Kerry Carey, Project Consultant, Sovereign Bank
Board Vice President
Jane Feinberg, FrameWorks Institute, Communications & Media Strategy
Deborah Fung, Program Officer, The Paul and Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation
Deirdre Hobson, Public Policy/Consultant & Parent
Board President
Bob Monahan, Director of Operations at Julie’s Family Learning Program
Roosevelt Smith, Executive Director at Urban Dreams
Paul Stuka, CEO of Osiris Partners
Board Treasurer
Susan Tufts
Board Clerk
Onyen Yong, Director of Information Technology/Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County DA's Office
Brandon Wolanski, Assistant Vice President, Barclays Capital
