Cheryl E. Warrick ('88), Chair
Richard M. Shea, Jr., Vice Chair

Hope Barkan
Jenna Casey (Student Trustee)
Kathleen Kiely (’78)
Dr. Richard Marshall
Patricia McGovern
Lark Jurev Palermo
Elizabeth Kelner Pozen
Robert Radloff
Dr. Samuel Yin

Short Biographies

Cheryl Warrick ('88) is a Boston-based painter best known for her richly colored and quilt like paintings that explore the journey of wisdom. In her work she incorporates folk wisdom, proverbs, symbols and landscapes. Her work asks the viewer to open doors to find visual relationships in the paintings and quietly discover their meaning.

Her work can be found in numerous collections including, The Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Philadelphia Free Library, Philadelphia, PA, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA Harpo Productions, Chicago, Il, Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, Embassy Suites Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Lucent Technologies, New York, NY. Ms. Warrick also earned a Masters in Education from Lesley University and she currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board.

Richard M. Shea is Vice President for Facilities Management at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and oversees all of the real estate assets of that institution. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and holds a master’s in Urban Planning from San Jose State University. Previously, he was president and CEO of MASCO (the Medical Academic Scientific Community Organization), which provides services for the institutions in Boston’s Longwood area. In that role he helped launch the Colleges of the Fenway consortium. He is a board member of the Harvard Coop and ABC (A Better City). He resides in Medway, MA with his wife, Kerry, and (art-student) daughters, Robin and Cory.

Hope Barkan is an independent curator and most recently co-curated an exhibition which had an international tour - From the Kilns of Denmark: Contemporary Danish Ceramics. She has been on the Executive Committee of the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps and serves as a director of the Watershed Center for the Ceramics Arts in Maine. Ms. Barkan is a graduate of Tufts University and a resident of Boston. She is affiliated with the Harvard Club Fine Arts Committee, Friends of Contemporary Ceramics and the Museum of Art and Design.

Jenna Casey
Jenna Casey is a senior Graphic Design major at MassArt where she has worked as a resident assistant, summer resident assistant, orientation leader, along with various other odd jobs such as the MassArt Benefit Auction. She is originally from Palmer, Massachusetts and hopes to live and work in the Boston area after graduation in the spring of 2008.

Kathleen Kiely  ('74)
Kathleen Kiely is a 25-year communications professional with a broad portfolio of marketing and advertising expertise. Kiely graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1974. Throughout her career, Kiely has helped develop and leverage successful communications programs for some of the country’s most recognized and respected brands including Fleet, McDonald’s, Verizon, Century 21, Playskool and Hershey’s Foods, and Bertucci’s. From 2001 through 2003 Kiely served as Executive Vice President, General Manager of Deutsch Advertising where she was responsible for launching the Boston office of the $1.5 billion agency. In this capacity Kiely directed new business, client management and strategic development initiatives

Currently Kathleen works as President of The Ad Club, a trade organization for the New England Communications Industry.

Dr. Richard Marshall
Bio coming soon.

Patricia McGovern is General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Corporate and Community Affairs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Prior to that Ms. McGovern was Executive Vice President for External Affairs at CareGroup Healthcare System. Before joining CareGroup in May 1999, Ms. McGovern practiced law at Goulston & Storrs, concentrating in the fields of public law and health care law. Ms. McGovern brought to all areas of the firm's practice a unique knowledge and understanding of the major economic and political trends affecting the New England and national business environments. Prior to joining Goulston & Storrs in 1993, Ms. McGovern served with distinction in the Massachusetts Senate for twelve years. From 1984 to 1992, she chaired the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, authoring many groundbreaking and innovative budgetary and policy decisions while crafting a multi-billion dollar operating and capital budget for Massachusetts.

Ms. McGovern holds a bachelor's degree and a law degree from Suffolk University. She holds numerous honorary degrees and, after graduation from law school, studied at the Academy of International Law, The Hague, the Netherlands. Ms. McGovern is a founder of the Women's Bar Association. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe College Public Policy Institute during the 1994-1995 academic year, and in 1992 was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. She is a guest lecturer at a number of colleges, universities, law schools and institutes throughout the Northeast.

Lark Jurev Palermo is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston, a Massachusetts nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and making homelessness a matter of conscience and action. From 1993 to 1999, Lark served as the Commissioner of the Division of Capital Asset Management (the state agency responsible for Massachusetts building projects). Prior to that she was a Partner in the Real Estate Department of Hale and Dorr, LLP, currently Wilmer Hale, a law firm with 12 offices in the United States and Europe. Lark is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts College of Art. She is a graduate of Boston University and Suffolk University Law School and resides in Brookline, Massachusetts with her two sons, Justin and Alden.

Elizabeth Kelner Pozen is a psychotherapist with a private practice in Boston. She is also a painter who serves on the Board of The Institute of Contemporary Art and is also affiliated with the Dimock Health Center and the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Association. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and she has graduate degrees from Cambridge University and Columbia University. Ms. Pozen also graduated from the Advanced Training Program of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She has been married to Robert Pozen and they have two adult children and a daughter-in-law. 

Robert Radloff is a retired Chairman of The Boston Company Real Estate Counsel; an investment advisor to institutional investors. A graduate of Boston University, Mr. Radloff has a long-standing history of service on various boards. He was a Trustee at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; a Director, First Night Boston; a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a former Director of the Friends on the Public Garden, and a Trustee, Boston Foundation for Architecture. Currently, he is a Trustee at WGBH Educational Foundation; an Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and a Director, Pembroke Real Estate Advisory Board (Fidelity Investments). He is a native of Chicago who has resided in Boston’s Beacon Hill for many years with his architect wife, Ann Beha, and two daughters.

Dr. Samuel Yin
Bio coming soon.