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Tim Cohen-Mitchell, M.Ed.
Executive Director & Founder email Tim Tim began working with disconnected youth in Cork City, Ireland while researching his undergraduate honor's thesis, Unemployed or Unemployable? Joblessness Amongst Disadvantaged Young Men. Soon after, he founded a clinic in remote Mkushi, Zambia, which continues to bring basic medical care to the underserved, and co-founded Ajabu African Arts, a street-youth handicrafts fair trade co-op in Nairobi, Kenya. For three years, Tim was an AmeriCorps*VISTA member serving as 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 its issuer, the Valley Trade Connection, a trading network of 450 residents & small businesses. He began working in Orange, MA in 1997 as community organizer at Orange Revitalization Partnership, coordinating park restoration, volunteer recognition awards, summer youth festivals, and a teen center. It was at ORP that Tim founded YES in 1998. A winner of a 'Teacher of the Year' award by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship Tim was also trained by mentor, and NFTE founder, Steve Mariotti, as part of NFTE's first 5-member international 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 national-caliber BMX and pro-am road cyclist and Massachusetts native, Tim has lived in Orange since 2004. Curriculum Vitae
Christine grew up in Malden, MA and graduated from Malden High School in 1981. From 1982 to 1987, she worked at law firms in downtown Boston. After her children were born in 1993 and 1996, she took a job as building superintendent, and later owned and operated two convenience stores in East Boston. She moved to Orange in 2007.
Kenan Jackson | Manager, YES Ink
Diana Wheeler | Coordinator, BizVenture Series
Dave Wiles | Web Developer
Travis Goewey | Assistant Manager, YES BizCenter
Brittney Wheeler | Coordinator, QuabbinTeens.org
Michael Hager | Coordinator, PhilHarmonix Sound Studio
Kelly Jones, Jones & Erviti | Bookkeeper
Adjunct Faculty
Commonwealth Corps
College Interns
Community Service Interns
Past Staff Members
Faculty
Contractors
Greenfield AmeriCorps Program
Orange Jobs for Youth Program
Summer Youth Employment & Training Program, WIA
Cooperative Education, Franklin County Technical School
Senior AIDE Program
Welfare-to-Work Program
Federal Work-Study Program, UMASS, Amherst
Graduate Research Assistants, UMASS, Amherst
Community Scholars Program, Mt. Wachusett Community College
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Christine McMahon | Manager, YES BizCenter & Youth Organizer, NQ Young Leaders Council