MVP 2.0 Equity Partners

The Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program has welcomed state-contracted Equity Partners (EP) to support individual municipalities and regional groups in the MVP 2.0 Planning process. Learn more about what our Equity Partners do, who they are, and how they help support the MVP 2.0 Planning process.

What is an Equity Partner?

The Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program has welcomed state-contracted Equity Partners (EP) to support individual municipalities and regional groups in the MVP Planning 2.0 process. These partners will collaborate with a locally procured Planning Vendor (PV) and the community's core team, providing coaching and guidance on topics such as:

•  understanding social vulnerability
• fostering inclusive engagement, and
• measuring the equity impacts of projects.

Andreanne Chu Breton-Carbonneau

MVP 2.0 Communities

• Municipalities
  • Devens
  • Lawrence
  • Natick
  • Princeton
  • Spencer
  • Swansea
  • Wrentham
• Regional
  • Essex, Gloucester, Manchester, Rockport

About Andreanne

Andreanne Chu Breton-Carbonneau is the founder of ACBC Consulting, specializing in social resilience, environmental justice, and health equity. With a background in public health and environmental sciences, she is dedicated to integrating historically excluded communities into design and planning processes. Through initiatives like Medford Connects, Andreanne has led efforts to build climate resilience by prioritizing community-based organizations and culturally-aligned liaisons in decision-making. Her work with historically marginalized groups is centered in co-design and equitable solutions that ultimately support the entire community.

Andreanne has developed a social resilience model that connects climate adaptation strategies with sectors like workforce development, housing, and food security, exemplifying how to build a social foundation for future climate impacts. She also facilitates diversity, equity, and inclusion training, partnering with municipal staff and community organizations across Massachusetts to create more inclusive and effective governance. Her experience managing language access ensures broad participation in community engagement efforts.

Andreanne is nearing the completion of her PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where her research focuses on climate-adaptive greening and health justice. Outside of work, she enjoys nature walks with her husband and dog, and discovering new foods.

Caitlin Marquis

MVP 2.0 Communities

• Municipalities
  • Buckland
  • Monterey
  • Pelham
  • Springfield
  • Ware
• Regional
  • Adams, Lanesborough, North Adams, Williamstown

About Caitlin

Caitlin Marquis owns Taproot Embodied Practice, through which she provides coaching and consulting that supports changemakers in embodying the practices of community organizing for radical system change. Caitlin has over a decade’s worth of state-supported public health and food justice organizing experience through work with the Healthy Hampshire program of the Collaborative for Educational Services, the Growing Food Connections program of the American Farmland Trust, and other food justice organizing roles. With an approach rooted in generative somatics, radical white antiracism, systemic constellations, and Wayfinder coaching, Caitlin helps her clients find their roles in movement spaces, connect with their personal stakes in systemic transformation, and root themselves in grounded approaches to their work. 

Caitlin has a B.A. in Sociology from George Washington University and an M.S. in Environment and Natural Resources with a Rural Sociology specialization from Ohio State University. Some of her current joy practices include organizing with Western MA Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and the Center for Aliveness and Liberation, practicing partner acrobatics, participating in a fat- and queer-friendly fitness community, and frolicking around the land near her home in Leverett with her spouse and corgi.

Gina Cruz Taveras

MVP 2.0 Communities

• Municipalities
  • Grafton
  • Millbury
  • Shrewsbury

About Gina

As a Facilitator and a Coach, Gina’s work has always centered on creating space for people to cultivate the skills to advocate for themselves. Gina is a native of Lawrence, MA, and a proud first-generation Dominican-American, so her work is motivated by her lived experience. Everything she does is focused on supporting and amplifying marginalized voices in education, non-profit, corporate, and communal spaces. That’s what she’s good at and what she cares about.

Gina is passionate about helping teams work better together by fostering understanding, collaboration, and shared purpose. She has led and supported initiatives across sectors to drive meaningful change, from shaping dignified marketing policies for the DREAM Project in the Dominican Republic to facilitating leadership development as a founding member and Social Innovation Forum Innovator at GenUnity. As a consultant, she has partnered with organizations like Starluna Consulting, Linnean Solutions, RogersLeads, Reframe Evaluation, and Collective Next to transform workplace culture, guiding teams through complex conversations on their most pressing issues. As a TA at Harvard Division of Continuing Education, Gina supported leaders in exploring increasing societal inequalities and constructive approaches to redefine leadership within their industries. Across all her work, Gina is committed to creating environments where people can connect, communicate, and move forward together.

Marissa Zampino

MVP 2.0 Communities

• Municipalities
  • Boston
  • Braintree
  • Cambridge
  • Dover
  • Lexington
  • Melrose
  • Newton
  • Swampscott
  • Weymouth
• Regional
  • Norwood, Dedham, Milton

About Marissa

Marissa Zampino is the Climate Organizing Director for the Mystic River Watershed Association. She works with community members and organizations to help implement climate resilience solutions. Prior to MyRWA, she worked as an organizer for MASSPIRG Students where she recruited, trained, and organized hundreds of college students on voter registration, fighting hunger and homelessness, and transitioning UMass Amherst to 100% renewable energy. 

They graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Spanish, and found their love of community engagement during their AmeriCorps VISTA service year. In her free time, she enjoys reading, drinking coffee, or finding new places to roller skate.

Peyton Siler Jones

MVP 2.0 Communities

• Municipalities
  • Duxbury
  • Falmouth
  • Gosnold
  • Marion
  • Mattapoisett
  • New Bedford
  • Newburyport
  • Sandwich
  • Sherborn
  • Wareham
• Regional
  • Martha's Vineyard Commission

About Peyton

Peyton Siler Jones (she/her) launched Siler Climate Consulting (SCC) in 2023 to support local climate action that acknowledges and addresses the underlying structural and systemic drivers of the climate crisis. She brings 10 years of experience supporting municipal climate solutions with a focus on equitable community and stakeholder engagement, climate resilience planning, and implementation for communities. Prior to launching SCC, Peyton served as the Sustainability Program Director at the National League of Cities (NLC) Center for Municipal Practice where she worked at the intersection of municipal governance and sustainability, resilience, and climate and environmental policy. 

Peyton also brings experience in the public sector having worked for both the City of Portland, Maine’s Sustainability Office and the City of Boston's Environment Department. In Boston, she worked both as a Climate Resilience Project Manager where she led community engagement for neighborhood scale resilience planning. She holds a Masters from Tufts University in Urban Planning and Environmental Policy. Her research and masters thesis at Tufts focused on centering the voices and demands of movements for climate justice in local and regional climate policy and planning.

Rachele Gardner

MVP 2.0 Communities

• Municipalities
  • Brookline
  • Canton
  • Concord
  • Mendon
  • Scituate
  • Stow
  • Westborough

About Rachele

Rachele Gardner is an experienced social impact consultant with over 15 years of expertise in advancing social equity and community empowerment. Since founding her consultancy in 2017, she has collaborated with nonprofits, academic institutions, and local governments to drive transformative change and achieve lasting impact. Rachele specializes in participatory methodologies, centering communities with lived experiences in designing, implementing, and evaluating solutions. Her extensive expertise spans community engagement, strategic program design, participatory action research, and multi-sector collaboration. Rachele has successfully led projects in areas such as community violence intervention, environmental justice, civic engagement, and youth development. Notable accomplishments include leading innovative social impact initiatives at Emerson College to apply collaborative storytelling to promote environmental justice and violence prevention in Boston, organizing the Boston Civic Leaders Summit to equip over 300 residents to advance racial equity through grassroots organizing, founding Youth Hub Boston, which empowered 600 youth through participatory action research and leadership development, and co-designing equitable engagement practices to transform city planning and development. 

Rachele holds a Master of Social Work from Boston College, where she occasionally teaches community engagement, social impact, and macro social work as an adjunct faculty member. Based in Dorchester, she enjoys being active in her community, exploring the city, and spending time in nature with her family. Learn more about Rachele at rachelejgardner.com

Weslyn Rawlins

MVP 2.0 Communities

• Municipalities
  • Salem
  • Holyoke

About Weslyn 

Weslyn Rawlins is an accomplished equity strategist, project manager, and disability justice advocate with over a decade of experience across corporate, nonprofit, education, and grassroots sectors. Her work focuses on building inclusive systems and programs that center historically marginalized communities—especially people with disabilities.

Weslyn has contributed her expertise to a range of organizations, including Verizon, Disability:IN, and Cedar Hill Independent School District. She has led large-scale initiatives focused on disability inclusion, mental health, equitable leadership, and cross-sector partnerships. She helped establish partnerships with mission-aligned organizations such as The Trevor Project and The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth (CFSY).

In addition to her corporate leadership, Weslyn currently serves as a Principal Consultant at Just Cause Rights and Equity Group, where she develops and facilitates equity-centered training and community engagement strategies for organizations and municipalities. A proud Black-disabled-immigrant-queer woman, Weslyn’s trauma-informed and community-rooted approach blends lived experience with strategic expertise to create spaces of access, safety, and transformation.