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Media Advisory
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 22, 2016 Contact:
Ellen M. Ganley, Director of Development 508 762-9807
EGanley@WCAC.net
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WCAC welcomes new Board Members
New faces bring strong community connections, diverse skills to agency
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Worcester, Massachusetts - At its meeting earlier this month, Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. welcomed four new members to its Board of Directors: Leslie Baker, Assistant Director for the Webster Adult Basic Education program; Kathryn Crockett, Vice President of the Worcester based architecture firm Lamoureux Pagano; Eric Batista, chief staff assistant in the city of Worcester's Office of the City Manager; and Radames Pagan, a resident of Plumley Village.
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Leslie Baker
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Ms. Baker is an active and dedicated member of the Webster community. She works with the Webster Public Schools to bring education services to the underserved adult population in Webster and surrounding communities. Additionally she has taken a leadership role in organizing the Webster Community for Success Council, working towards the overall betterment of the community. A resident of Webster for the past 26 years, Ms. Baker has a strong background in education having served as an adult education administrator/advisor, community planner, state trained family child care mentor, and early childhood education consultant and trainer. She is the mother of two adult children and five fur babies.
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Eric Batista
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Mr. Batista previously worked for five years as the Assistant Director of the Upward Bound Scholars Program at Youth Opportunities Upheld (YOU, Inc.) offering guidance and support to low income, first generation students from Worcester and Southbridge to help make their dreams of higher education become a reality. He is President of Adelante Worcester, and a member of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA), National Society of Hispanic MBA's (NSHMBA), and a Corporator for the Greater Worcester Community Foundation.
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Kathryn Crockett
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Ms. Crockett joined Lamoureux Pagano in 1986, become a principal in 1999, and was named vice president in 2013. She holds a bachelor of architecture degree from Boston Architectural Center, a liberal arts degree from Mount Holyoke College and is a LEED Accredited Professional. She has been the project architecton many of LPA's prominent design projects including K-12 schools in Worcester, Shrewsbury, Northborough, Ashburnham, and the Eagle Hill School's Cultural Center and Dining Hall in Hardwick. She also played a key role in the renovation of the Seelos Theatre at the College of the Holy Cross, Mechanics Hall and UMass Medical School Library and Amphitheatre. A member of the Society for College and University Planning and the American Institute of Architects, Ms. Crockett has served as president of the Massachusetts AIA, the Central Mass AIA, the Mechanics Hall Association, as well as being active in a number of other community and professional organizations.
Mr. Pagan is recognized for his leadership in the community throughout his past seven years as a resident of Plumley Village. Active with a community assessment and neighborhood survey, Mr. Pagan frequently utilizes his knowledge of the community, his commitment to help others as well as his own life experiences to mentor others.
"We are pleased to welcome such a diverse and talented group of individuals to our Board of Directors," noted WCAC Executive Director Jill Dagilis. "Their individuals strengths within the community will serve the agency well as we continue our efforts to help people move to economic self-sufficiency." As directed by the agency's bylaws, WCAC's Board of Directors is a tripartite board comprised equally of representatives of the public sector, private sector and community.
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About WCAC
For more than fifty years, the Worcester Community Action Council has served as the federally designated anti-poverty agency for central and southern Worcester County, with a mission of helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships and advocacy.
Serving the City of Worcester and 44 neighboring communities of Auburn, Blackstone, Boylston, Brimfield, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Dudley, East Brookfield, Hardwick, Holden, Holland, Hopedale, Hubbardston, Grafton, Leicester, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, Monson, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Northborough, Northbridge, Palmer, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Rutland, Shrewsbury, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Sturbridge, Sutton, Upton, Uxbridge, Wales, Warren, Webster, West Boylston, West Brookfield and Westborough.
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