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Smallbean team

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Staff

Sean Hewens

Sean is the founder and Executive Director of Smallbean and a member of the Smallbean Board of Directors. A former corporate lawyer type, Sean is also a graphic designer, amateur electronics enthusiast, and the all around Smallbean handyperson.

 

Heather Pierce

Heather has her MBA from Boston University and helps Smallbean keep our feet firmly planted on the ground with questions like, "Wait, how much is that solar panel going to cost?" Heather is the Chief Financial Officer at Smallbean and a member of the Board of Directors.

 

Noah Cornwell

Noah is a professional computer coder in his day job. Because he's crazy like a fox, he thinks it's fun to do volunteer coding projects in the evenings as well. Noah is helping Smallbean refine and improve our PhotoTagging software. 

 

Jim Hamski

Jim specializes in water conservation and other alternative energy issues. He uses his melon on Smallbean's behalf as our Chief Strategist.

 

John Cockrell

John is the Smallbean webmaster and a master of both front end design and back end coder jargon. The new Smallbean website (this is it...) is John's masterwork.

 

Anna Norcross

Anna is helping Smallbean with grant research and writing. Doing great things requires the resources to do them and that's exactly where Anna comes in!

 

Tristan Snell

Tristan is Smallbean's Chief Technology Officer. In addition to being an IP attorney and a writer, he finds time to serve as Smallbean's designated "dude that understands how stuff works."

Board of Directors

Peter Turk

Peter is an attorney at the law firm of Hogan Lovells. He's also the very capable head of Smallbean's Board of Directors. Peter has extensive experience in the nonprofit arena and was a pretty good bowler in law school.

 

Sean Hewens

You've met Sean before (see above).

 

Tom Kim

Tom is currently a dual degree candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School. At the end of the 2010-2011 academic year, Tom will be rejoining Bain & Company to resume his consulting career. In addition to being a top flight businessman, Tom owns a one-eyed cat named Cookie which is actually how he was introduced to Smallbean many years ago.

 

Jesse Leff

Jesse works as an attorney for the United Nations in Tanzania. He speaks French like a Frenchman and surfs when he can.

 

Heather Pierce

You've met Heather before as well (see above).

 

Smallbean Advisors

 

Jared Banner

Jared is the Coordinator of Amateur Scouting for the Boston Red Sox. He helps Smallbean build our name and fundraising presence in the greater Boston community. And let's be honest, there's no better way in this town to make friends than with a little help from the Sox!

 

Pro Bono Legal Counsel

 

John Barrie

John is a partner in the Tax department at the law firm of Bryan Cave in NYC.

Academic interns

Jared Jones

Jared is a graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and working to improve the Smallbean Citizen Archivist Project curriculum this semester. Prior to joining Smallbean as part of Harvard's Field Experience program, Jared has been living and working abroad in some of the most amazing locations on earth, including Namibia, Myanmar, Egypt, and Uzbekistan.

 

Ananya Mandal

Ananya is a graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Ananya worked tirelessly throughout the fall semester to build the new and improved version of the Smallbean Citizen Archivist Project teaching curriculum. Ananya continues to help out Smallbean this semester in an advisory role.

 

Madison Zraick & Gabi Arias

Madison and Gabi are undergraduate students from Boston University enrolled in BU's PR Lab for the semester. For Smallbean, Madison is creating a cause marketing campaign and Gabi is organizing a Kickstarter campaign.

 

Cory Needle

Cory is a third year law student at Harvard Law School. As part of his work with the Harvard Transactional Clinic, Cory is assisting Smallbean with several discrete intellectual property issues.

 

Volunteers

 

William and LaTonya Johnson

William and LaTonya volunteer for Smallbean all the way from Washington, DC. William is a mobile phone application developer and leading the volunteer coding team creating the Smallbean Android app. LaTonya is an electrical engineer and diligent member of the Android team.

 

Miriam Hiersteiner

Miriam is a kick-butt graphic designer and working on the user interface (called "GUI" in nerd circles) for the Smallbean Android app.