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Mary Jo Kane (MJ) is Executive Director of The Girls’ Coalition of Greater Boston. Before being hired in January of 2007, she served as “acting” Executive Director for the Girls’ Coalition and prior to that had worked with former Director, Katie Wheeler as a consultant. MJ received her BA from Loyola College in Baltimore (’81) and her MBA from The Simmons School of Management (’93), where she served her Internship at the Ms. Foundation for Women. She spent more than eight years with Patriots’ Trail Girl Scout Council of Greater Boston first as Director of Corporate Relations, then as Director of Corporate Relations & Development. Prior to her career in the public sector, MJ spent nearly ten years as a training consultant and has owned her own retail business. She lives with her daughter, her partner and her pug in Jamaica Plain Massachusetts.
 Rachel Oliveri
Rachel is an ongoing consultant with the Girls' Coalition. She has directed several projects, including the on-line resource directory and our first comprehensive program evaluation. She writes frequently for our journal, Girl Matters, and does various other writing projects. She has a master's in child development from Tufts University, with a focus on girls’ development. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University, coordinating an evaluation of five girls’ programs in the Boston area and running a community-based mentoring and tutoring project. She is the co-founder and cofacilitator of G.O.A.L.S. (Gaining Opportunities and Learning to Succeed), a girls’ empowerment group located in a HUD-subsidized community in East Boston. Rachel has been involved with the Girls’ Coalition since 1997.
 Emily Coe-Sullivan
Emily is a research intern at the Girls’ Coalition. She is currently a master’s student at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University with a focus on gender studies. She is interested in gender identity development, gender equity in education, and the intersection of race, class, and gender. Prior to her graduate work, Emily worked for the executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, conducting gender-equity research and coordinating conferences and events.
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