Board of Directors

Sarah Stiles, President Adjunct Professor Sociology Department Georgetown University Sam Marullo, Treasurer Professor, Chair Sociology Department Georgetown University Paul McElligott Executive Director Perry School Community Services Center Deanna Cooke Director of Research Center for Social Justice, GU

Mary Anne Saunders Associate Professor Human Services and Sociology George Washington University Jason Willis Blake Biles Attorney Arnold & Porter, LLC Adey Stembridge Collaborative for Urban Education, Research, and Development American University Daryl Levine Policy Analyst National Assn for Student Personnel Administrators

 

Sam Marullo, is a long-time practitioner of service-learning and has been undertaking community based research for several years.  He is a tenured professor and current department chair (Sociology) at Georgetown University. He has published extensively on service-learning, both in discipline-based and interdisciplinary journals.  He is the co-author of Community-Based Research and Higher Education: Principles and Practices, a book based on the experiences of seven institutional centers? or partnerships? development over the last several years.  He also serves as the Director of the Office of Research at Georgetown University's Center for Social Justice, which is responsible for supporting service-learning and community based research.  In 2000, he was recognized by Campus Compact as a finalist for the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning.

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Sarah Stiles

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Paul McElligott is the Executive Director of the Perry School Community Services Center (PSCSC), Inc., which provides youth development, social services, and job training and placement to residents of the North Capital St. Area of S.D.C.  Prior to coming to PSCSC, Inc. in December 1997, he was Executive Director of North Capitol Neighborhood Development, Inc., the local community development corporation.  A lawyer by profession, Mr. McElligott has also served on various church and community board. 

 

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Mary Anne Saunders is the Associate Professor of Human Services and Sociology at The George Washington University.  She received her Ed.D. in Human Development in 1991 from The George Washington University.  Her research interests include: developing leadership in the non-profit sector; the role of the third sector (NGO's, PVO's, non-profits) in human rights conflict resolution and social gerontology.

Saunders sabbatical research in Zagreb, Croatia, investigated two interest areas, the role of the third sector in transition countries, especially in central Europe and the development of leadership skills in the executive sector in transition countries.  The second of these interest areas has evolved into a longer-term training project of the governmental, corporate as well as the non-profit sectors in Croatia and has been endorsed by a number of ministries and large private firms.

Saunders was recently elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the Meridian International Institute for Cooperation and Development of countries in transition in Zagreb, Croatia and has been selected as an advisor to Dr. Dragan Primorac, Minister of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

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Jason Willis is currently working for Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Services. He is also pursuing a graduate degree at Columbia University's Teachers College.  As an undergraduate student at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., he participated in a variety of community research and civic engagement activities. Jason served as the program coordinator for the CoRAL Network for two years. In addition, he was president of the Habitat for Humanity chapter at Catholic University and lead several other initiatives to provide after-school tutors to school-aged children and training to help tutors improve their skills. He has presented on issues of community-based research and service at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, and the Urban Affairs Association. Jason has received various awards including the Catholic University Award for Community Service and the Washington, DC Mayor's Community Service Award.

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Blake Biles, is a attorney and partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter, LLP, in Washington DC.  He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1975 and his B.A. from Kansas University in 1968.  His areas of expertise are Environmental, Consumer Product Safety, Life Sciences, International Trade and Biotech and Medical Technology. 

Blake Biles has provided services to a wide variety of clients concerning the full range of substantive environmental requirements and with reference to virtually all types of legal matters; counseling, transactions, rulemakings, compliance audits and both enforcement and appellate litigation.

Mr. Biles served the Environmental Protection Agency, first in the Agency's Office of Water Enforcement, and then in the Office of the General Counsel. Thereafter, he was the first Director of the Premanufacture Review Division in the Office of Toxic Substances.

Adey Stembridge

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Deanna Cooke

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Daryl Levine

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Last updated on 2/19/08