We’re a team with a mission.

Every new mom needs support. Some more than others. That’s where we come in. We believe this is what healthy community infrastructure can look like.

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Meet the folks behind Family Health Project

Joe Knowles is CEO of the Institute for Health Metrics (www.healthmetrics.org), a
nonprofit incubator of evidence-based solutions to improve quality and outcomes in healthcare. He is a Trustee of the MGH Institute of Health Professions; Member of CRICO Strategies Committee; Director of Police Addiction Assistance Recovery Initiative (PAARI), Gloucester; and Treasurer of the Evelyn Lily Lutz Foundation, Beverly. He holds an AB (Government, 1979) from Harvard College, an MBA (Marketing, 1983) from Columbia University, and an MPH (Family and Community Health, 2002) from Harvard School of Public Health.

Joe Knowles

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Kelley Journey

Kelley Journey brings her years of experience working with programs focused on the wellbeing of mothers and children across the globe to her role as Relationship Manager. She holds Master's degrees in Global Public Health and Early Childhood Education and has worked in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and across the US.

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Dana Branco

Drawing from her personal experience as a new mother, Dana Branco joins FHP with a commitment to empowering fellow new mothers during the pivotal first years of their children's lives. She has nearly a decade of experience in nonprofit, higher-education, and healthcare development. She lives in Easton with her husband, toddler, and dogs

Annie Coe

Annie brings a decade of entrepreneurial and sales leadership across the North Shore, most recently as a commercial real estate Broker at Colliers International, building relationships with property owners and companies throughout the region. Earlier in her career, Annie managed the people, profit, and process of a 100-room hotel in Boston, cutting her teeth in hospitality before building and opening her own project: The Cabot Lodge, a 13-room boutique hotel in Beverly. She trained in staff, grew occupancy, and maintained consistent 93% excellent customer satisfaction scores on TripAdvisor before selling the business in 2023. Annie also spent two years leading the commercial leasing team at Cummings Properties in Beverly, achieving record-high occupancy during her tenure.
Born and raised on the North Shore, Annie brings that same drive to her community involvement — including service on Beverly Hospital's Philanthropy Committee, where she recently helped complete a campaign to revitalize the birthing center, and six years on the Cabot Theater board, where she currently co-chairs the Development Committee.
Annie holds a Bachelor's degree in Spanish from the College of the Holy Cross and lives in Wenham with her husband and children. She's excited to put her strengths in building relationships and driving growth to work in service of FHP's mission.

Advisory Board

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Anthony S. Bashir has spent a lifetime dedicated to children and adolescents with communication disorders and served for 25 years as the coordinator of speech-language pathology services in the Department of Otolaryngology at Boston Children’s Hospital. He spent twenty years at Emerson College where across his tenure there he served as the director of the Freshman Academic Studies Program, Coordinator for Academic Access, and director of the Writing and Academic Resource Centre. Currently, he continues to serve as an adjunct faculty member in Teacher Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College. Anthony is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a recipient of its Honors. His years in clinical practice and teaching have led to research interests in the natural history of developmental language disorders as well as the literacy and self-advocacy needs of students who struggle with language development and learning.

Anthony S. Bashir, Ph.D

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Lisa A. Gennetian is an applied economist whose research straddles a variety of areas concerning child poverty from income security and stability to early care and education with a particular lens toward identifying causal mechanisms underlying how child poverty shapes children’s development. She is a co-PI on the first multi-site multi-year randomized control study of a monthly unconditional cash transfer to low-income mothers called Baby’s First Years. Her recent work bridges poverty scholarship with a behavioral economic framework. “The Persistence of Poverty in the Context of Economic Instability: A Behavioral Perspective,” describes such a framework for poverty programs and policy, co-authored with Dr. Eldar Shafir and her co-authored publication “Behavioral Economics and Developmental Science,” further advances the application of behavioral economic insights to the arena of children’s development. Lisa has since launched the beELL initiative; applying insights from behavioral economics to design strategies to support parent and family engagement in, and enhance the impacts of, existing childhood interventions.

Lisa A. Gennetian

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Jeff Madrick is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He is director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative at the Century Foundation, where he is a Senior Fellow; editor of Challenge Magazine; and visiting professor of humanities at The Cooper Union. His most recent book, Invisible Americans, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in January, 2020. His 2009 book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton), received a 2009 PEN Galbraith Non-Fiction Award. He is also the author of Taking America (Bantam, 1987), and The End of Affluence (Random House, 1995), both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Taking America was chosen by Business Week as one of the ten best books of the year. Madrick is a fellow of the World Policy Institute and is a member of the board of The Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Jeffrey G. Madrick

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Kate Barrand began her tenure as President and CEO of Horizons for Homeless Children in November, 2015, but has been supporting Horizons for more than 25 years. She has served as both a volunteer going into shelters to play with children and as a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to her role with Horizons, Kate Barrand worked as a strategy consultant and operating manager in the finance and technology sectors, working with C-suite and executive teams of financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and nonprofit organizations. She was also the Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Clareon Corporation, the first online business-to-business payment engine sanctioned by the US Treasury following her time at BankBoston leading Strategic Planning and Global Strategic Marketing. Kate holds a BA in Early Childhood Development from the Eliot-Pearson Department at Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University.

Kate Barrand

Board of Directors

Joe Knowles

President

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J. Richard Crowley

Treasurer

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Gene Lindsey, MD

Secretary

Ollie Parker

Director

Kennedy Ukelegharanya, JD

Director

Julie Bogdanski, LCSW

Director

Stacey Landry

Director

Kimberly McGovern, JD/MSW

Director

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F. Bradley Neuenhaus

Director

Organizations that support Family Health Project

As an independent 501(c) 3, we are funded solely by private philanthropists and are grateful for the generous support of community members and local foundations.