Diana J. Kelly
Board Chair Diana Kelly moved to Hyde Park from Boston's Mission Hill neighborhood in 2002. She is part owner of Maloney Properties, a company that manages over 6,000 units of resident-controlled and community-sponsored housing in Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island. Diana has been a regional property manager at Maloney Properties since September 1982, and presently oversees on-site property management operations at low- and mixed-income apartment complexes in Roxbury, the South End and Newport, RI.

Diana is a graduate of Simmons College and has managed property for MB Management Corporation, the Commonwealth of Mass., Tenants' Development Corporation and Greater Boston Community Development. She currently serves as the President of the Affordable Housing Management Training Foundation and has previously served on the Board of Directors of United South End Settlements; the Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development; and Casa Myrna Vasquez. Diana is a founding member of the New England Black Property Managers Forum.

Mimi Turchinetz
Vice Chair Mimi Turchinetz has a B.A. from UMass Amherst and a Juris Doctor from New England School of Law. Mimi is a long-time activist and community political organizer. She currently administers the Living Wage Division for the City of Boston, and directs the Mayor's Earned Income Tax Credit Campaign, which is committed to economic empowerment and enfranchisement of the low and moderate-income neighborhoods of Boston. Mimi owns a home and lives in Hyde Park.

Sarah Lamitie
Sarah serves as Treasurer of Southwest Boston CDC’s Board and works as CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) Associate and Vice President of Boston Private Bank and Trust Company, a full service commercial bank headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with assets of $2.9 billion. Sarah also has served as co-chair of the Expanding Opportunities Committee of the Commonwealth Housing Task Force and Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Hyde-Jackson Square Main Street Program. Sarah lives in Roslindale with her husband Doug Matthews and their two children.

Rob Corley
Board Clerk Rob Corley graduated from Wentworth Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management and is Executive Director for a CDC on the South Shore of Boston. Rob also is a licensed Builder and Real Estate Broker who has worked for a family-owned real estate business located in Hyde Park. Born in Ireland, Rob became a US citizen at the age of 12 and has lived and owned property in the Hyde Park/West Roxbury area for many years. He is dedicated both through his work and as a neighbor to the development of safe, affordable housing and neighborhoods.

Vic Carrara
A life-long resident of Hyde Park, Vic lives in Readville with his wife, two daughters, and son. Vic has been a member of the Carpenter's Union Local 67 since 1986, and currently serves as a Business Agent for the New England Regional Council of Carpenters. As a working carpenter and as a representative of the Carpenter's Union Vic has seen first hand the benefits, such as quality housing and job opportunities, that CDCs have provided to their respective communities.

Seth Grady
Seth has a broad professional background that includes transportation planning, financial analysis, real estate development and general business management, and an educational background in engineering and business. As a consultant, he has worked on planning and implementing major infrastructure development projects throughout the world, but mainly in Latin America. He has also been responsible for running a growing manufacturing company. He grew up in Boston and currently resides in Roslindale with his wife, Veronica, and their three children.

Dean Lampros
Originally from Lynn, Dean has lived in Hyde Park for over a decade. Dean formerly worked for the New England Foundation for the Arts and has a background in historic preservation. He presently is completing his doctoral dissertation in preservation. He is a member of a Greek music band and has been active in efforts to preserve same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.

Matt Lawlor
Matt, his wife Ann-Marie, and their two children have lived in Roslindale since 2000. Matt is a graduate of Amherst College and holds both a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from North Carolina (Chapel Hill), and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. Matt is an attorney in the real estate and land use group of the law firm of Robinson and Cole in Boston.

Luis Mancebo
Luis is Fiscal Director of the DDS Division at the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, and brings over twenty years experience in accounting and familiarity with administration for a variety of businesses to his volunteer work with Southwest Boston CDC. Luis and his wife Neri live in Hyde Park, where they raised their three children, and are active parishioners at Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale. Luis’s expression of interest in joining the Board in 2008 captures the goals of many Board members simply and eloquently: “to represent my community, working together for better neighborhoods.”

Marcia Thornhill
Marcia has been a resident of the Hyde Park, Readville neighborhood since 2003. She joined Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation in Roxbury 16 years ago as a Project Manager. Her efforts on projects such as Palladio Hall and the Dartmouth Hotel, both major development projects in Dudley Square, are a major factor in the success Nuestra has achieved these last 16 years. In 2002, Ms. Thornhill was named Director of Nuestra’s growing Real Estate Development Department. In this position, Marcia has overseen acquisition, rehabilitation and construction of several hundred units of affordable housing and commercial space, cultivating respect for Nuestra exponentially along the way. She continues to lead the Real Estate Development Department.

Ms. Thornhill has been a member of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporation’s Housing Peer-Advisory Committee for four years. She was also recently elected to the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporation’s Board of Directors. In addition, she co-chairs Nuestra’s Real Estate Development Committee and has participated in numerous neighborhood community group meetings over the last 16 years. Ms. Thornhill has a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Tufts University and Bachelors degree in Financial Management from Boston University’s Metropolitan College.

Bob Vance
Bob has lived in Hyde Park for most of his life. He became involved in politics at an early age with busing in Boston during the mid-1970's. He is an advocate for the Human Rights Campaign, active with the Greater Boston Food Bank and has been President of the Fairmount Hill Neighborhood Association for several years. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the recently formed "02136, All Things Hyde Park." He is very excited about revitalization projects involving Hyde Park business and the Neponset River. Bob is currently employed as an IT Business System Analyst.