Board of Directors 2024

President/Treasurer

Ellen is the Board President and a 26 year Roslindale resident. She has recently retired from MHIC where she was a Senior Asset Manager and has been involved in developing and overseeing affordable housing and community development projects for 36+ years.

Vice Chair

Diana Kelly is the Board Vice Chair. She is a Vice President at Maloney Properties, a property management company that manages mixed-income communities throughout New England. Her affiliations include Hearth, Inc. and Focus, Inc.

Sharon Hinton is a former professor of Springfield College. Sharon is affiliated with The People’s Academy, Jubilee Christian Church, Boston Education Justice Alliance, The Boston Neighborhood Network, and the Collaborative Parent Leadership Action Network.  She is a home owner in Hyde Park.

Clerk

Sarah Lamitie is CRA & amp; Community Affairs Officer in Greater Boston at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). She has been a Roslindale resident for over 25 years. In addition to serving on the board of the Southwest Boston CDC, Sarah also serves on the board of the Partnership for Financial Equity, the Steering Committee of the Mel King Institute for Community Building, and the Loan and New Markets Committees of the Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation (MHIC).

Janean and her husband have been residents of Hyde Park for 30 plus years. A mother and grandmother of seven, she has spent her adult years in working and volunteering to support various Human Service agencies in the Boston area (ABCD, Inc.; Franklin Park Area/Grove Hall AARP Chapter; Southwest Boston CDC; Girl Scouts of Eastern Mass.)

Always committed to helping those seek out the necessary resources they need to become empowered!

Mimi works for the City of Boston in the Economic and Industrial Corp. Mimi’s list of affiliations include LISC United Way, The W-18 Democratic Committee, Friends of the Hyde Park Library, Friends of the Hyde Park Historical Society, The Hyde Park Neighborhood Association as well as the Hyde Park Board of Trade and ABCD Head Start. 

Bob is a self-employed IT consultant. He is affiliated with multiple Hyde Park organizations such as the Hyde Park Artists Association, Hyde Park Main Streets, Hyde Park Historical Society, Hyde Park Board of Trade and the Hyde Park Food Pantry. He is also connected to F.I.T.C., FGTF, and Neponset  R.W.A. And on the board of the 54th Mass Volunteers Company A.

Alix Cantave is a long time Roslindale resident and founding board member who recently rejoined the CDC in late 2020. He works as a grant maker at the Kellogg Foundation.

Jay has lived in Hyde Park since 2002 and is the Program Director of the Massachusetts Cultural Facilities Fund. The Fund supports the planning, development and repair of cultural facilities in Massachusetts. Prior to that Jay worked as Program Officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in Boston and San Francisco as well as the California Council for the Humanities and the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. Jay is affiliated with the Hyde Park Art Scene, Friday Night Traffic Jam, The Switch Co-op and the local band Louder Than Milk.

Beth Columbo has been a resident of Roslindale for 35 years. She is the leader of The Dale St. Neighborhood Association Crime Watch and South West Boston Civic Association and has continued to work on community issues for over 30 years. She is a retired EMT and also Parking Enforcement Officer for the City of Boston. She is the mother of 3 and grandmother to two wonderful grandkids.

Adriana Cillo born in Italy and speaks Italian and some Spanish. She is currently employed as the Educational Programs Coordinator for Boston Water and Sewer Commission. Adriana lives in Roslindale, and was one of the member who worked on starting up the Southwest CDC. She is also very much involved with Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale and the Finance committee. She’s also on the Haley elementary school board in Roslindale. In the past she was in the Roslindale Main Street and started the Litter Posse in Roslindale. Adriana has various awards, in 2021 from NEWEA as the Youth Educator of the Year and Neighborhood Service Award in 1982 under Mayor Flynn and many others.