Meet Our Staff
Jeanne DuBois
Executive Director
Jeanne joined SWBCDC in the Fall of 2018 after 20 years as Executive Director of Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation. In her short time as ED, Jeanne pushed our local expansion of Boston’s Access & Opportunity Program (AOP). Receiving commitments of $8M from the City and PCI, Property & Casualty Initiative, SWBCDC is acquiring 30 rental units to stabilize current tenancies for low-moderate income individuals and families. In addition to eight apartments in 2016, SWBCDC acquired three new rental properties this year in a joint venture with for-profit joint venture partners. Our pipeline also includes larger mixed-income developments.
As ED of Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation, she oversaw the development of 800 units of affordable/mixed-income housing with resident-driven programs; a digital printing factory in Savin Hill; and the Commonwealth Kitchen on Quincy St.— creating more than 400 jobs. The Fairmount Indigo Rail line CDC Collaborative has worked for 16 years with Southwest Boston CDC to acquire sites for over 1000 mixed-income housing units and commercial projects; and they worked with the Fairmount Indigo Transit Coalition to help win $200M of public investments for new stations and better service and lower fares. In addition, the CDCs also helped start the Fairmount Greenway.
Jeanne and her husband Bill Coyne have lived in Roslindale for 35+ years where they raised two children and helped launch a strong neighborhood watch with wonderful block parties. A member of Hyde Park Presbyterian Church, she began faith-based organizing in Hyde Park and Roslindale which evolved into the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO), a multi-issue organization that has supported policy change on affordable housing funding, criminal justice reform, and broader health care. Her volunteer work as co-president on the Roslindale Village Mainstreet Board helped organize residents and businesses to create the Roslindale Village Market.
Pat Alvarez
Assistant Director
Pat is a long time Hyde Park resident and manages the Green Initiative, which includes advocacy and organizing related to climate change, as well as the Green Team Youth Jobs and Environmental Stewardship Program. Pat has over 35 years of experience as a social worker, program developer, community organizer and educator. Through the Archdiocese of Hartford, she worked with community leaders to create a neighborhood mediation program and a prison grievance program in Connecticut. For 11 years, she worked with Boston’s Public Housing residents on maintenance and modernization issues, as well as youth program development. At Southwest Boston in its earlier years she helped stop displacement of people in expiring use properties and also built collaborations such as the Hyde Park Community Resources and the Hyde Park Arts Initiative. As with the other Kresge-funded Fairmount line CDCs, she is working closely with the SWBCDC team in outreach to families in our properties and networks as they suffer both physically, vocationally, and financially from the COVID-19 crisis. She has taught community organizing at Boston University and Salem State College School of Social Work. She has been a SWBCDC board member and then staff since its founding in 2001.
Anny Wargana
Wargana Bookkeeping Services LLC
Anny joined our team in 2019 as our bookkeeper and finance manager. She manages our operational and program budgets and handles payroll. Her diligence and expertise have increased our fundraising efforts and capacity as well as allowed our real estate portfolio to grow. She keeps detailed records of our growing real estate portfolio, with its numerous LLCs and constant transactions as we buy additional properties. She has her MBA and previously worked with Rumah Mode Factory Outlet in Indonesia and Fidelity Investments in Boston. She came strongly recommended as a financial manager for some Hyde Park and Dorchester local businesses. She was instrumental in helping SWBCDC apply and win an important PPP (Payroll Protection Plan) federal loan/grant during the current financial crisis. She lives in Milton with her husband and two sons, who are both highly competitive swimmers with the Shamrock Swim Club in the New England Swimming LSC.
Board of Directors 2022
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Ellen Caracciolo
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.
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Diana Kelly
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.
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Sharon Hinton
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.
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Sarah Lamitie
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).
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Janean Muhammad
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!
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Mimi Turchinetz
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.
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Bob Vance
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.
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Alix Cantave
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.
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Jay Paget
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.
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Beth Columbo
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.
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Adriana Cillo
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.
