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Linda M. Noonan, Managing Director
Linda M. Noonan is Managing Director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education. MBAE is brings together business and education leaders to promote public education reform through various programs, collaborative research, policy development and advocacy. The organization’s goal is to ensure a quality public education for every child in Massachusetts. Prior to joining MBAE in July 2005, she served as Executive Director of The Alliance for the Commonwealth (currently the Massachusetts Alliance for International Business), a nonpartisan research and educational foundation established by Associated Industries of Massachusetts to help companies maintain and increase their global competitiveness in order to create and maintain jobs locally.
Linda has also served as State Director for the National Federation of Independent Business in Massachusetts and as Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Ms. Noonan began her career with the federal government at the Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Her civic and volunteer activities include serving on the Westwood School Committee, and on the town’s Permanent Building Committee, during which time three schools were renovated and expanded, and a new high school was approved and designed. She was also a member of the Westwood Finance Committee and the Economic Development Advisory Board.
Linda is currently a member of the Teachers21 Board of Directors, the Steering Committee of Global Education Massachusetts, the Early Education and Care Advisory Team, and other boards and advisory committees. Ms. Noonan holds degrees from Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
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Katherine Lamanna, Director, Massachusetts State Scholars Initiative
Katherine Lamanna is Director of the Massachusetts State Scholars Initiative. The State Scholars Initiative is a national program that brings business leaders into classrooms to motivate students to complete a rigorous course of study in high school, one that will give them the skills necessary for success in college and postsecondary careers. Prior to joining MBAE, she was manager of BioTeach, the leading philanthropic education program of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation. In this position, she awarded over 75 Massachusetts public high schools with biotechnology equipment and training grants totaling $3.5 million dollars.
Katherine began her career in education as a student teacher in the Acton Boxborough Regional School System, where she taught seventh and eighth grade English. A graduate of Regis College, she also holds graduate degrees from Simmons College.
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