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Tim Cohen-Mitchell, M.Ed. | CEO & Founder
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Tim began working with youth in 1986 in Cork City, Ireland while researching his undergraduate honor's thesis, Unemployed or Unemployable? Joblessness Amongst Disadvantaged Young Men. In 1987, he founded a health clinic in remote Mkushi, Zambia, which has since grown into a small hospital. From 1988 to 1993, Tim founded and managed Ajabu African Arts, a youth handicrafts fair trade co-op in Nairobi, Kenya and Amherst, MA. From 1994-1997, he served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA and project manager at Franklin County Community Development Corporation in Greenfield, MA where he helped local artisans & specialty food producers launch a retail outlet; organized peer-lending groups; piloted a welfare-to-work co-op business training program, and co-founded the community currency, Valley Dollars, and trading network issuer, the Valley Trade Connection. Tim began working in Orange in 1997 as a community organizer at Orange Revitalization Partnership, where he coordinated the restoration of Memorial Park, volunteer recognition, summer youth festivals, and a teen center. Tim founded YES at ORP in 1998. A 1999 winner of the national 'Teacher of the Year' award by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Tim was also trained by his mentor and NFTE founder, Steve Mariotti, as part of NFTE's first team of certified teacher trainers. An honors graduate of Vermont Academy, Tim holds a BA, cum laude, in anthropology, an M.Ed., in community development education, and is currently completing his doctoral dissertation on youth entrepreneurship education, all at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of numerous articles, including Community Currencies at a Crossroads: New Ways Forward and the book, Journey of Dreams: A Teenager's Life in Kenya, and co-author, with Tony Savdié, of Local Currencies in Community Development Center for International Education). A former nationally-ranked BMX and road racing cyclist and Massachusetts native, Tim has lived in Orange since 2004.

Bobby Falco-Killoran | Manager, Phil Harmonix Studio
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Bobby, 22, is a 2011 graduate of Greenfield Community College and earned his ProTools Certification at Berklee School of Music in Boston. He is the owner-operator of BFK Studio, a sound production and DJ firm, and was co-founder with YES in 2010 of Phil Harmonix Studio.

Katie Marble | Manager, YES BizCenter
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Katie, 21, is a 2009 graduate of Franklin County Technical School where she focused her trade studies on office technology. She is a long-time YES member, graduate of our BizVenture!, Learn 2 Earn, and MoneySmart programs, and worked at the BizCenter as a Community Service Intern and Orange Jobs for Youth intern.

Jenessa Kupcho | Promoter, BizVenture
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Jenessa, 22, is a senior at UMASS, Amherst where she is majoring in Japanese. She is from Connecticut and currently lives in Sunderland. She plans on opening a boutique hotel.

Kelly Jones, Jones & Erviti | Bookkeeper
Kelly and her husband, Jim, set up QuickBooks for YES at our founding in 2000. She served as a volunteer for many years before she became our bookkeeper in 2008. She lives in Warwick, MA.


Adjunct Faculty
Amber Ortiz
Jerry Whaland (YES '99)

Commonwealth Corps
Betsy Ames
Stephanie Ariza
Jim Basford
Travis Goewey
Michael Hagar
Lauren Hospers
Kenan Jackson
Nate Johnson
Charlie Kerrigan (The Literacy Project)
Amber Ortiz (Time Bank)
Jessica Smith (Time Bank)
Justin Varnet
Sharon Wachsler (Time Bank)
Diana Wheeler
David Wiles
Karen Werner (Time Bank)

College Interns
Marie Coleman, Mt. Wachusett Community College
Yoni Glaser, UMASS, Amherst
Caca Wanjala, Amherst College
Will Bangs, Hampshire College
Lauren Cordova, Amherst College
Devlin Man, UMASS, Amherst
Aaron Soules, UMASS, Amherst
Kristin Spinoza, UMASS, Amherst

Community Service Interns
Greg Ellis, Turners Falls High School
James Fanning, homeschool
Jessica Hough, Mahar Regional High School
Katie Marble, Franklin County Technical School
Hillary Matalainan, Pioneer Regional High School
Brieanna Moore, homeschool
Alex Rabideau
Gabriel Santiago
Nicole Wilson, Franklin County Technical School

Past Staff Members
Employees
Deven Vautour
Kenan Jackson
James Fanning
Stephanie Ariza
Rayna Ramirez
Tracy Dowd-Diabe
Alan Paige (YES '03)
Sheila Fisher
Kenan Jackson
Samantha Charter (YES '04)
Jeroth Clark (YES '02)
Christine McMahon
Amber Ortiz
Jeff Aho
Amy Barstow
Jerry Whaland (YES '99)
Dave Wiles (YES '06)
Dan Richards (YES '99)

Faculty
Jeff Aho
Vanessa Adams
Marge Allard
Sheila Carey
Lisa Deyo
Mary Drew (Assistant)
Carol Giguere
Vicky Lynde, M.Ed.
Sheila Parker
Dan Richards (YES '99), Incorporator
Doug Robertson

Contractors
Diana Wheeler
Will Harris Bangs
Bobby Falco-Killoran
David Wiles
Roy Nilson
Emily MacDuff
Jera Jamison
Deen Leonard
Jen Lambert
Gordon Kramer
Danielle Blanchard
Eric Boughton
Mary King

Greenfield AmeriCorps Program
Melanee Oakes
Michelle Buja
Katie O'Ferrell
Matt Burgoon
Dan Richards

Mt. Wachusett Community College AmeriCorps Program
Tyler Sweeney
Elliott Marquis

Orange Jobs for Youth Program
Willis Capo
David Malave
Katie Marble
John Paige
Travis Reynolds
Jeremy Theriault
John Williamson

Summer Youth Employment & Training Program, WIA

Cooperative Education, Franklin County Technical School
Dave Wiles

Senior AIDE Program
Marsha Vadebonceour
Florence Lachowitz
Sheri Lenois

Welfare-to-Work Program
Stephanie Ariza
Brian Doughty
Crystal Frates
Kristy Goodwin
Joanna Rodriguez

Federal Work-Study Program, UMASS, Amherst
Rondale Davis
Tom Borden
Nate Johnson
Ashley Sanderson
Matt Perkins

Federal Work-Study Program, Greenfield Community College
Bobby Falco-Killoran

Graduate Research Assistants, UMASS, Amherst
Melissa Benoit

Community Scholars Program, Mt. Wachusett Community College
Jeremy Parker


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