Meet Our Staff:
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Robert Krim,
Executive Director
Dr. Krim is the Executive Director of the Boston History & Innovation Collaborative which he helped to found with Liberty Mutual’s then-CEO Gary Countryman, Pat Moscaritolo, leader of Boston’s tourism industry, and historians Henry Lee and Brandeis Prof. David Hackett Fischer.
Prior to forming the Collaborative, Krim taught History, Economics, and Management at Roxbury Community College between 1974-1984. As first chair of the Business Department, he hired a predominantly minority faculty, and built a community economic development focus.
In 1989, Dr. Krim along with then-Boston Mayor Ray Flynn founded the Boston Management Consortium, a public-private partnership that facilitated organizational efficiency and innovation for Boston's government by matching the best of Boston’s organizational development consultants with the City’s most critical urban problems and issues. He is proudest of the work he did at the Management Consortium to help develop community policing in Boston with the Mayor and the Police Department, at a time when the homicide rate had just increased.
Dr. Krim is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and recently traveled to New Zealand as a Fulbright Senior Specialist to provide assistance to their New Zealand Trust for Historic Places. Dr. Krim holds a BA in Government Cum Laude from Harvard, completed a year of postgraduate study in Economic History at London School of Economics, and earned an MA in US (Economic) History at UC Berkeley; an MA in Economics (Goddard College), and a joint MBA/PhD from Boston College. His Boston College PhD is in Sociology; he has a strong background in research methodologies, and has published and spoken on this as well as Boston history. This Boston native is married and an active father of two children.
E-Mail: krimb@bostonhistorycollaborative.org |
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Leslie Marsh, Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations
As Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations Leslie Marsh is responsible for expanding the Collaborative’s funding base. Leslie has a background in both the for- and non-profit sectors. He also has an active academic life with an interest in cognitive science and philosophy.
Email: marsh@bostonhistorycollaborative.org |
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Meaghan Smith,
Operations Manager
As Operations Manager, Meaghan oversees the
Collaborative's dramatic and educational programs. She also manages the annual History & Innovation Awards and special events.
Meaghan received her B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross.
E-Mail: smith@bostonhistorycollaborative.org
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David Sears, Business Manager
David Sears has extensive experience managing the finances both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Following five years with the Peace Corps in Morocco, he moved to Boston for graduate school and stayed in the area as the CFO of a consulting firm while also advising on small business development internationally through World Bank and US government-funded programs. David received his B.A. from Haverford College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
E-Mail: sears@bostonhistorycollaborative.org |
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Jenna Leventhal, Research Manager
Jenna Leventhal coordinates the research efforts at BHIC. She has worked as a public historian in Houston, TX and Santa Barbara, CA. Before coming to Boston, she served as managing editor of The Houston Review of History and Culture, a history magazine, and as project director of an oral history project. She also worked as editorial assistant on The Public Historian, the official journal of the National Council on Public History. Jenna holds a M.A. in Public History from the University of Houston and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
E-Mail: leventhal@bostonhistorycollaborative.org |
Researchers of
Boston's Four-Century
History of Innovation
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Marti
Frank
Marti Frank is a historical researcher finishing
her PhD in American Civilization at Harvard, and
working with the Collaborative’s Shaping an
Action Agenda for Innovation: Learning from Boston’s
Four Centuries. As a student in Harvard University’s
interdisciplinary Program in the History of American
Civilization, she is writing her PhD dissertation
on the adoption of the steam engine in New England
textile mills. Ms. Frank received a B.A. in Philosophy
and American Studies from Georgetown University and
currently lives in Portland, OR.
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David
Bartone
David Bartone contributes to
the research that helps push the Collaborative into
the future while guiding research interns through
a valuable semester/summer of experience and learning. He
holds a Bachelor’s degree in
History from Boston University, where he completed
a graduate-level thesis correlating 2 major social
innovations within Race Theory and Popular Music: “Du
Bois’ Double-Consciousness in Early Motown Music.” When
he moved to Boston in 1998, he quickly learned why
it’s so difficult to call anywhere else home.
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Colin
Rowan
Colin Rowan is a historical research intern who recently finished his M.A. in World History
at Northeastern University. As a student of World History, Colin studied
the use of memory and forgetting in history, the trans-regional history of the
Ocean, and modern interactions of culture. In researching with the Collaborative,
Colin loves the anecdotal stories that bring Boston’s history of innovation
to life. Outside of research, Colin enjoys travel, working on bikes, fighting fire with fire, and hiking.
Colin received a B.A. with Honors in History and Politics from Brandeis University.
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Kerri Greenidge
Kerri Greenidge worked for eight years as a park ranger and historian for Boston African-American National Historic Site, a branch of the National Park Service. She is a Ph.D. candidate in American and New England Studies at Boston University. She is a visiting lecturer in African-American Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She has served as guest lecturer at UMASS-Boston, the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Massachusetts State Census Bureau, and the Carter G. Woodson Center. She has been featured on “Basic Black,” on “Chronicle” and in “The Boston Globe.” Her first book, Boston’s Abolitionists, was published in September, 2006. Her study of William Monroe Trotter and the legacy of Boston’s Black abolitionist movement is forthcoming.
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Frequent Collaborators
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Susan
Wilson, Author
Former Globe columnist "Sights
and Insights," and author of The Literary Trail
of Greater Boston, Boston Women's Heritage Trail:
Guidebook, Walking Trails, Maps, Sights and Insights:
A Multicultural Guide to Boston, and Forest Hill
Cemetery Guidebook. In 1992 she received an award
from the tourist organization Boston by Foot for
enhancing public awareness and appreciation of Boston
history, architecture, and the urban environment.
In addition to being a professional writer, Ms. Wilson
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Ed
Gordon, Content Expert
For the past twenty five years
Ed Gordon has been a consultant working on historic
preservation cultural resource inventories and
National Register nominations for Massachusetts
cities and towns. Ed has compiled inventories
on historic properties in Lowell, Arlington,
Marion, Norwood as well as numerous neighborhood
surveys for the Boston Landmarks Commission (most recently the North and South
Slopes of Beacon Hill with detailed information on 500+ buildings).
He has provided exhibit research, administration
activities and volunteer group development to
Boston area museums. He is the former Executive
Director of the Gibson House Museum and the current
Historic Site Administrator for the Old Scwamb
Mill in Arlington, MA.
Since 1984, Ed has served on the board of the
Victorian Society in America, New England Chapter
and has been the nonprofit organizations president
since 1991. He is the co-editor of the VSA/NE's
Beacon Newsletter and coordinates the chapter's
annual study weekend in NYC and vicinity. The
NE Chapter will publish a new edition of its
1975 walking tour guide to Boston in July 2004
(Northeastern U. Press). Ed has been the recipient of several awards,
including the Bay State Historical League's Ayer
Award for contributions to field of Massachusetts
History (1999) and Boston Magazine's Best Tour
Guide Award (1998) as well as the Boston Center
for Adult Education's Leadership Award (1998).
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Arnie
Reisman , Video Designer
Arnie Reisman is
an acclaimed video producer. He created the video elements
for Boston by Sea and Innovation Odyssey, and is an
award-winning writer, producer, and performer. He has
worked in commercial and public television, corporate
video, theater, and film. His national broadcasts include
the documentary Hollywood on Trial, Public Broadcasting
System's The Other Side of the Moon, and PBS's AIDS
Quarterly. Reisman was also the coauthor of Teacher,
a half-hour TV play that won the American Film Institute's
special drama award. He has written six screenplays,
coauthored WGBH's documentary, The Big Dig, helped
develop WCVB's "Chronicle", and received
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Dramatic Staff:
Jon Lipsky is the Playwright and Creative Director
for Innovation Odyssey and Boston by Sea. He is also
Associate Artistic Director for the Vineyard Playhouse
and is an Associate Professor of acting and play writing
at Boston University's College of Fine Arts. Mr. Lipsky
was formerly playwright-in-residence at the Merrimack
Repertory Theater, TheaterWorks, and Reality Theater.
He is the author of Call of the Wild, The Survivor:
A Cambodian Odyssey, Maggie's Riff, Living in Exile,
Dreaming with an AIDS Patient, They All Want to Play
Hamlet, Beginner's Luck, and Molly Maguire.
David Coffin is the historical singer:has performed
the Boston by Sea show since it began in 2000, and is
the Musical Director. For 2004, he and Debbie Hazell are
the co-producers. David Coffin been delighting people
of all ages with his musical performances in many genres
of music for over 20 years. He has performed since 1980
with the Christmas and Spring Revels, and since 1991,
as Master of Ceremonies, teaching and leading Revels audiences
in song.
With a strong focus on the Maritime tradition, David's
reputation as a singer and instrumentalist has taken
him from Nova Scotia to Hawaii, the Newport Folk Festival,
and as a featured performer to the International Sea
Music Festival at Mystic Seaport. In April of 2003 he
was one of four nominated for the National Early Music
Brings History Alive Prize from Early Music America.
In Sept. 2001, David arranged and performed the music
featured on NBC's two-hour documentary Revenge of the
Whale. When he's not on Boston by Sea, Mr. Coffin is
performing for one of his many School Enrichment Programs
throughout the New England region.
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