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Monty
Cagwin - Monty has lived in Newton since 2012, when
he moved here with his wife Emily, and their infant
daughter. They immediately fell in love with the city, and
even more so with the tight-knit street they were lucky
enough to buy a house on. Emily and Monty developed a
friendship with their neighbor, Josephine McNeil, who
introduced them to her tireless work with CAN-DO. When
CAN-DO was in the process of purchasing the house next
door to his family in 2015, Emily was an early and vocal
advocate for the project. It served as a first-hand
introduction to the affordable housing crisis we face, as
well as the benefits of housing creation in our own
backyards. Professionally, Monty is a Design Director at
LogMeIn, a software company based in Boston that creates
remote work and security software. Prior to his current
role, he spent many years working at creative agencies for
clients across consumer and business-to-business
industries, spanning everything from sneakers to rental
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Robert
Dolan - is a Vice President of Commercial Lending at
Village Bank in Newton, MA, having spent the previous 30
years in Commercial Banking in the Greater Merrimack
Valley. His financing activities have included projects
for transitional living centers, housing for victims of
domestic abuse as well as affordable housing projects in
the Great Merrimack Valley. Community services included
past Board Memberships of the Lowell Transitional Living Center, a
shelter for homeless single adults in the Merrimack
Valley; Girls
Inc., an after-school program providing educational
programs for girls and most recently as the Treasurer of Lucy’s
Love Bus, an organization providing integrative
therapies for children with cancer. Bob and his spouse
Patti Quigley currently live in Wellesley, MA. |
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Samantha
Foley - Samantha has been a resident of Newton since
December of 2009. She first moved to Newton with her two
older sons by way of The Second Step shelter. Samantha was
introduced to CAN-DO and Josephine McNeil when she moved
into her first apartment in Newton at the Kayla Rosenberg
House. Within 2 years, Samantha and her two sons were able
to mobilize their Section 8 voucher and move into private
housing. Samantha has always kept in contact with CAN-DO
and Josephine McNeil, and her family currently lives in a
property owned by CAN-DO. Over the course of the last 12
years in Newton, Samantha has married and grown her family
with two younger children. After years of focusing on her
education, Samantha is now a registered nurse who has
worked in geriatrics for the last decade. Her interests
are hiking, reading with her kids, finding new ways to
give back to her community, and furthering her education.
Samantha’s personal experiences navigating the housing
system will help CAN-DO develop processes and services
that enable low-income Newton residents to thrive as
members of the Newton community. |
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Jason
Harburger - has lived in Newton since 2014. He
became interested in affordable housing advocacy after
learning about the history of the Mass Pike expansion in
the 1960s, which displaced families in a historic, Black
enclave near his home in West Newton. The more he learned
about housing policy in Newton, the more he wanted to get
involved. In addition to serving on the CAN-DO Board,
Jason is a member of the Steering Team at Engine 6.
Jason’s professional background is in financial services,
where he’s led strategy and analysis groups at banking,
investments, and employee benefits companies. Jason was a
founding Board Chair for Union Capital Boston, an
organization he served for five years, and recently
retired after four years as a performer with Boston’s only
Locking dance crew, The Beantown Lockers. Jason and his
wife, Amy, are parents to two (amazing) sons. |
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Marcia
Johnson - Almost 40 years ago, she and her family
were beneficiaries of a special financial program that
allowed them to move to Newton. Her interest in affordable
housing for people of all income levels is very personal
to her. Marcia was a member of the Board of Alderman (City
Council) from 2000-2016 in a leadership position for 14 of
those years. As chair of the Zoning & Planning
Committee, she worked with the Planning Department and the
Board of Aldermen to create the Mixed-Use 4 district which
had as a primary goal to “Expand the diversity of housing
options available in the City” This is the zoning district
which enabled the development of 28 Austin Street and the
Trio in Newtonville. She is the president of the League of Women Voters of Newton.
Recently retired, for over 20 years she was a human
resources professional who worked in the
bio-pharmaceutical industry focusing on organizational
& leadership development. She serves as one of the
co-chairs of U-CHAN
and is an active member of the Pathway to Possible (P2P) Best
Buddies Program, with her pen pal Faith. |
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Josephine
McNeil - was the Executive Director of Citizens for Affordable Housing in
Newton Development Organization (CAN-DO). CAN-DO is
a community-based nonprofit housing development
organization with a mission to create and manage
affordable housing in the City of Newton. She was one of
the organizing members in 1994 and served as its president
until 1999 when she took on the role of executive director
until her retirement in 2017. She recently resumed her
role as President of the organization and Interim
Executive Director. Her community activities include
serving as a member of the Community Benefits Committee
and the Board of Advisors of Newton Wellesley Hospital.
Josephine also serves on both the Newton Fair Housing Committee and
the Newton Housing Partnership. She
serves as one of the co-chairs of U-CHAN and is on the Mission and
Social Commission of the Eliot Church of Newton. Josephine is
a lawyer and serves as Vice-President of the Lawyers
Committee and as co-treasurer of the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston
Bar Association as well as the co-chairperson of the
Massachusetts Bar Association Civil
Rights and Social Justice Council. She also is a
Special Advisor to the American Bar Association Commission on
Housing and Poverty. |
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