Portland Girl Scout Elected to Board of Directors

Ambassador Girl Scout Bree Currier of Portland was elected to Girl Scouts of Connecticut’s Board of Directors at the organization’s Annual Meeting on May 4 in North Haven.

Bree has been a Girl Scout in Portland since 1999.  While in Girl Scouts she has earned her Bronze and Silver awards.  She has been a National Delegate representing Girl Scouts of Connecticut at the 51st National Convention and she has represented Girl Scout of the USA at the UN at a Conference for the Status of Women.  By joining the Board she would like to bring a girls voice to the board.

Bree will serve a one-year term on the board as a non-voting member-at-large. She is expected to attend the quarterly board meetings and will be encouraged to provide her unique perspective to guide the decisions of the board in its efforts to best serve girls around the state.

The complete list of Girl Scouts of Connecticut’s Board of Directors includes:

Ex-Officio:

• Jennifer Smith Turner, CEO, Girl Scouts of Connecticut

Officers:

• President – Teresa Younger, Executive Director, Connecticut General Assembly’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
• 1st Vice President – Caroline Sloat, Director of Scholarly Publications at the American Antiquarian Society
• 2nd Vice President – Karen Hoffman, retired
• 3rd Vice President – Aurora Daly, Principal, Travel Daly

• Secretary – Suzanne Wakeen, Vice President, People’s United Bank

• Treasurer – Naomi Kleinman, Vice President, The Phoenix Companies, Inc

Members-At-Large:

• Kyle Ballou, Administrative Director for Community and Government Relations, Yale-New Haven Hospital
• Kathleen Bolduc, Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Hartford Arts Council
• Gail Brathwaite, Executive Vice President and COO, NewAlliance Bank
• Michelle Cook, State Representative for the 65th Assembly District in Torrington
• Janice Deskus, Lead Human Resources Partner, Aetna
• Ann Glover, Chief Marketing Officer, ING
• Anthony Harris, formerly an Audit Manager with Pitney Bowes, Inc
• Walter Harrison, President, University of Hartford
• Diana Ingraham, Recording Secretary, Town of Voluntown
• Shirley A. Jackson, Professor of Sociology, Southern CT State University
• Edward Lewis, Senior Managing Director, CIGNA Corporation
• Elsa Nuñez, President, Eastern Connecticut State University
• Kimberly Pita, Managing Principal, Pita Communications LLC and Chief Operating Officer, Vrroomedia, LLC
• Patricia Russo, Vice President, Yale Campaign School for Women
• Mary Pepe, President, RE:SOLUTION LLC
• Meg Sakellarides, CFO, Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc
• Saba Shahid, student, Quinnipiac University

• Robert White, General Manager for Crown Properties, Inc.

Girl Members at Large:

• Bree Currier from Portland
• Cristina MacKinnon from Bristol

Representing a number of counties throughout the state of Connecticut, the new board consists of life-long Girl Scouts, prominent community leaders, nonprofit and corporate executives, two university presidents and many board veterans. The 25 members who now comprise the board will draw from their extensive experience in Girl Scouting, finance, communications, government, education, technology, and marketing and property management to lead the state’s largest girl-focused organization.

The Board of Directors is a policy-making and governance body responsible for establishing the vision for Girl Scouts of Connecticut, developing strategic priorities, and providing governance and fiscal oversight for the implementation of these priorities by the CEO and staff members. Board members must be members of the Girl Scout Movement, live by the Girl Scout Promise and Law, and work to promote Girl Scouts as the leading organization for leadership development of girls in Connecticut.