Council Members, Staff and DD Network Representatives

Find the names and contact information for our Council Members, Staff and DD Network Representatives.

Council Staff

Telephone: (617) 770-7676 (Voice)

DD Suite Project Team Staff

Telephone: (617) 770-7676 (Voice)

 
Council Members

Executive Committee

  • Raquel Quezada – Chairperson ext. 130
  • Cody Rooney – Vice-Chairperson
  • Alana Russo –  Secretary
  • Sandra Heller – Member-at-Large

Citizen Members

  • Asha Abdullahi
  • Priscilla Bessa
  • Gyasi Burks-Abbott
  • Andrew Carr
  • Austin Carr
  • William Edes
  • Chelsey Goddard
  • Cynthia Laine
  • Bridget Levandowski
  • Paul Lutfy
  • Dusya Lyubovskaya
  • Marissa O’Donnell
  • Amber Pettell
  • Sara Scrivener
  • Tatiana Thomas
  • Courtney Waters

State Agency Representatives

  • Kathleen Biebel, Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission
  • Elaine Gabovitch - Department of Public Health
  • Mary Mahon McCauley, Massachusetts Office on Disability
  • Timothy Cahill, Department of Developmental Services
  • Ann Lynch, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division & Disability Rights Coordinator
  • Sarah Kelleher-Machak, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Public School Monitoring Team Supervisor
  • Carolyn Kain, Office of Medicaid, EOHHS
  • Annette Peele, Executive Office of Elder Affairs

State DD Network Representatives

Disability Law Center (Protection & Advocacy Agency)

  • Barbara L'Italien, Executive Director
    The Disability Law Center
    11 Beacon Street, Suite 925
    Boston, Massachusetts, 02108
    Voice:(617) 723-8455
    Fax: (617) 723-9125
    TTY: (617) 227-9464
    Email: mail@dlc-ma.org

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at UMass Chan Med School (University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD))

  • Emily Lauer, PhD, MPH
    Center for Developmental Disabilities Evaluation and Research (CDDER)
    E.K. Shriver Center
    UMass Medical School
    55 Lake Avenue North, S3-301
    Worcester, MA 01655
    Voice: (774) 455-6527
    emily.lauer@umassmed.edu

Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston (University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD))

  • Cindy Thomas, Director
    Institute for Community Inclusion
    UMass Boston
    100 Morrissey Blvd.
    Boston, Massachusetts 02125
    Voice:(617) 287-4300
    Fax: (617) 287-4352
    TTY: (617) 287-4350
    Cindy.Thomas@umb.edu

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