EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Kam Bellamy lives her best life every day and loves helping others discover what their best life looks like. After graduating from Georgetown with a degree in Race and Gender Studies, she moved to North Yorkshire, England to live in a community with people with developmental disabilities and study biodynamic vegetable growing. Working outside, living with others, reading poetry every day, traversing the moors and singing in a choir, she learned that there are many ways to live a good and fulfilling life of service in harmony with the earth. Later, intrigued by the power of business in the world, she completed an MBA at Yale School of Management. She is passionate about ensuring young adults have spaces in which they can develop their capacities for bold and personal visioning and creating a world around them in which all can thrive.

BOARD PRESIDENT

Christopher Nye has a PhD in American Studies and has been a professor and then dean. After leaving higher education, he moved to Orion Magazine to serve eventually as board chair and acting CEO. He also is vice president of an operating foundation, The Myrin Institute, and manages its nature preserve. He is co-founder of Educate the Whole Child and is a children's author and published poet. From early in his teaching career, when he taught a course called "Strategies for Social Change," Chris has had a keen interest in visualizing more just, creative, and humane ways for people to live together, and at the same time ways to prepare and empower young leaders who want to seize this challenge.

BOARD VICE PRESIDENT

Jean Nye works as a consultant and coach to individual leaders in businesses and non-profits. Majoring in art history, she started her career leading a children’s museum and doing research into early-childhood learning and play. She transitioned to high tech, using her MBA during 19 years at Hewlett Packard before becoming the first head of Human Resources for the HP spin-off Agilent Technologies, responsible for the cultural transformation of the new company as it established its distinct identity and leadership practices. She works as a director of several non-profit organizations, including Canterbury Shaker Village and Safe Schools New Hampshire. She aims to be an encourager, guiding others to know and apply their gifts and aspirations to serving their communities and the planet. She is a founding director of Springboard.

BOARD SECRETARY

Elizabeth Lynch holds an Ed.D. in Literacy Studies from Hofstra University. Her experience in education includes a 26 year career in elementary education, from which she retired in 2015, as well as 20 years as an adjunct professor of education. She is the author of a chapter in Resisting Reform: Reclaiming Public Education through Grassroots Activism (2015), which documents her journey as an outspoken education activist resisting policies and mandates that are harmful to children. Her current participation as part of the leadership team at Educate the Whole Child and as a board member of Springboard reflects her belief in holistic education and in meeting the unique needs of each individual student, at every level of their education. She currently teaches an on-line course on Fundamentals of Teaching the Whole Child at Castleton University

RESEARCH DIRECTOR

Grace works to develop schools that reimagine traditional educational models and think differently about what school can be. She served on the team building Outer Coast, a nascent liberal arts college in the rural island community of Sitka, Alaska, and later supported The Burke Middle School in Boston and Workshop U in Philadelphia. At Springboard, Grace helps to tell the story of emerging small-scale, place-based schools and their communities through portraiture, research, writing, and narrative. On her own time, Grace is learning her way around a woodshop, and thinking about the role that labor, building, and fabrication could have in our education system.

Grace graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in Human Biology concentrating in Neuroethics, and received her M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she studied education leadership and school design.