• Senior Co-President Eugene Mahr '77
• Junior Co-President, BASC/Communications Alex Slawsby '00
• Past President, Nominations Ethan Flaherty '93
• Past President Renee Inomata '87
• Treasurer Emily Boynton '00
• Secretary Susan Heffernan '93
• Membership Adam Green '05
• Communications Nicholas Schade '05
• Young Alumni Chair Sonia Gupta '06
• Brackett Scholarship Margaret Woo '79
• Ivy Plus Erica DeRosa '00
• Harvard Club Jeff Upton '84
• General Member Langston Dugger '04
• General Member Heather Gelchion '97
• General Member David Grace '76
• General Member Barbara Kurze '82
• General Member Joel Rosen '75
• General Member Jasmine Waddell '99

Board Member Biographies

Eugene Mahr '77, Senior Co-President, Multicultural Alumni Committee Chair

Eugene Mahr’s first job after graduation was in the Admission Office at Brown, where he was Associate Director until 1985. He left to get an MBA at the Yale School of Management, and then worked in international marketing operations for over a decade, including a three year posting in Hong Kong for Polaroid. After suffering the slings and arrows of life at an internet company, he returned to higher education, first as a Major Gifts Officer at Brown Development, and is now a Senior Officer in Corporate and Foundation Advancement at Northeastern.

Eugene was a member of AASA in its early history, and was Vice President his junior year. He is a longtime BASC interviewer, and is currently the President-Elect of A4, the Asian/Asian American Alumni Alliance. He is also on the Board of the Brown Alumni Association, serving on MAC, the Multicultural Alumni Committee, as well as the Outreach Committee.

Brown is near and dear to his heart, due to the many friends he has made there over the years. His connections to Brown are further reinforced by his wife Jody (nee Levine), who is also Class of ’77, and his son Christopher ’07.

Alex Slawsby '00, Junior Co-President, BASC/Communications

Alex Slawsby is a senior associate at Innosight, a Watertown, MA-based innovation consulting firm.

Prior to joining Innosight, Alex graduated from the MBA program at the MIT Sloan School of Management. At his graduation, Alex was awarded the Seley Scholarship, the highest award that the MBA program can give, for outstanding leadership, professional promise, high academic achievement, and contribution to MIT Sloan.

Prior to attending the Sloan School, Alex interned with IDG Ventures Boston, a Boston, MA early stage venture capital firm and spent greater than 4 years with technology industry analysis firm, IDC, as a mobile and wireless device analyst.

While at IDC, Alex was the primary author of the Firm's quarterly industry benchmark reports on mobile and wireless markets, vendors, and technologies. Alex also delivered presentations at major trade shows including CES and CTIA as well as presentations to industry leaders. In addition, Alex appeared on National Public Radio, CNN, Fox News, CNET Radio and TV, Tech TV, and WBZ-TV Boston and was quoted in major publications including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Forbes, The Financial Times, and Investors Business Daily.

At IDC, Alex won five awards for research quality and was selected as IDC's 2001 Rookie Analyst of the Year. Alex was also awarded a Global Fellowship to study the mobile and wireless market in Japan and received a DEMOGod award for moderating a panel of technology industry leaders at the 2004 DEMOMobile conference. From 2000 through 2005, Alex was the second-most quoted mobile and wireless device analyst in the world.

Alex graduated from Brown University in 2000 with a B.A. in Political Science and from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2007 with an MBA.

Ethan Flaherty '93, Past-President, Nominations

Ethan M. Flaherty is a senior associate at Pabian & Russell, LLC. Ethan concentrates in the areas of mergers and acquisitions (buyer, seller, and ESOP transactions), corporate contracts, software and biotech licensing, joint ventures, private placements of securities (angel and venture), asset-based financing, lender- and borrower-side loan transactions, trademark and copyright, corporate entity selection and formation, executive employment agreements and compensation, family business succession planning, and general business law.

Ethan received his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1996 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Brown University in 1993. While at Georgetown, Ethan was an executive editor of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review and a member of the American Inns of Court. Ethan currently serves as the co-President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Brown Club of Boston, and is a member of the Boston Lawyers Group.

Prior to joining the firm at its inception in March 2005, Ethan was an associate in the Boston office of Nixon Peabody LLP from 1996 to 2003, and in the Boston office of Keegan Werlin & Pabian, LLP from 2003-2005.

Ethan was selected by his peers as a "Super Lawyer/Rising Star" by Boston Magazine and Law & Politics Magazine in 2005 and 2006, a distinction given to only the top 2.5% of up-and-coming attorneys in Massachusetts. Ethan is admitted to practice before the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He also is a member of the American and Boston Bar Associations.

Renee Inomata '87, Past President

Ms. Inomata is Chair of the Labor, Employment & Employee Benefits Group at Burns & Levinson LLP. She is a Partner and also a member of the Business Litigation and Intellectual Property Groups. She received her J.D. degree from Boston University School of Law and her Sc. B. in neural science from Brown University. Ms. Inomata is also the junior Co-President of the Board of Directors of the Brown University Club of Boston. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Appleseed Center of Law and Justice, Inc., the Harvard Square Business Association and the Board of Editors of the Boston Bar Journal. She is active in the efforts of the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, and in the Asian-American community in the Greater Boston area.

Her legal practice focuses on employment laws and workplace solutions and all aspects of securing, obtaining, enforcing and maintaining trademark, service mark, trade dress and trade secret rights and copyrights. Ms. Inomata counsels and advises clients and also represents them in litigation. Ms. Inomata speaks frequently on employment and intellectual property law matters, including chairing the trademark panel for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education’s Annual Intellectual Property Conference the New England Chinese Information and Network Association (NECINA) Information Security Conference. She has also developed and conducted educational workshops and training for harassment and discrimination awareness for managers and non-managers. She is a member of the American, Massachusetts, Boston and Women’s Bar Associations and the International Trademark Association.

Ms. Inomata also speaks on career development for women attorneys and Asian-American women, most recently at the Women’s Bar Association Law Student Committee’s annual conference entitled Women in Law: Options and Opportunities and at the 2006 Asian-American Women in Leadership Conference, hosted by ASPIRE. She is also a founding member of the Saffron Circle and Asian Women's Connection.

Emily Boynton '00, Treasurer

Originally from Concord, Massachusetts, Emily is a Relationship Underwriter for Bank of America’s Commercial Real Estate Group in Boston. After graduating, she worked at Forrester Research as a Market Research Analyst and Sales Associate, analyzing emerging technologies that affected corporate environments and operations. Transitioning after three years, Emily joined The Boynton Company, a value-added real estate firm founded by her father, and realized her passion for real estate.

Emily Boynton received her degree from Brown University, where she studied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Management, in 2000. While at Brown, Emily played Women’s Varsity Soccer and Women’s Varsity Lacrosse. She also spent time tutoring and mentoring economically disadvantaged children in math and writing skills.

Emily serves as the Secretary for The Play Ball! Foundation of Boston, a charity established in 2005 to benefit after-school sports programs for inner city schools, providing funding for all costs borne by student-athletes and their parents. Emily also participates on the Executive Committee for The Friends of Brown Women’s Lacrosse, working to engage the alumnae base, as well as maintaining growth of participation in fundraising.

Nicholas Schade '05, Communications

Nick Schade concentrated in Mathematical Physics at Brown and is now a science teacher at Andover High School, where he teaches AP physics, physical science, and other science courses. He lives in Somerville and also interviews high school seniors applying to Brown in the Boston and Andover areas through BASC.

Before he became a teacher, Nick worked as a systems analyst at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington. He was a member of a team that received a Lincoln Laboratory Team Award for the development of a novel airborne sensor, as well as a personal letter of gratitude from the Secretary of the Air Force for the efforts and success of this team.

Nick was on the staff of the Critical Review throughout his four years at Brown and was Editor-in-Chief his senior year. He also tutored physics students, played intramural ultimate, and drew editorial cartoons for the Brown Daily Herald. He still plays ultimate in his spare time.

Margaret Woo '79, Brackett Scholarship

Margaret Woo is Professor of Law at Northeastern University and teaches civil procedure, administrative law and comparative law. In 1997, she was named the law school's Distinguished Professor of Public Policy. She is a former fellow of the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and is presently an associate in research at the East Asian Legal Studies Center of Harvard Law School and the Fairbank Center of Harvard College.

Professor Woo has published and spoken widely on China's legal reforms. She is the co-editor of East Asian Law - Universal Norms and Local Cultures (Cruzon/Routledge Publishers, 2003), a collection of interdisciplinary studies on the competing tensions of global/local forces on East Asian identities and legal systems. She is also the co-author of American Civil Litigation (Aspen Publishers, forthcoming), which places American civil procedure in historical, empirical and sociological context.

At present, Professor Woo is working on a joint study with a group of legal scholars from Tsinghua University and Peking University in Beijing, China. This study has collected empirical data from the Chinese courts and is the first systematic analysis of current Chinese legal reforms. As part of this work, Professor Woo is co-authoring an article, "Civil Justice in China," with Professor Wang Yaxin, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. The article analyzes initial data collected from three different intermediate courts in China, each representing a different stage of legal reform.

Among her other activities, Professor Woo is also committed to Asian American and civil rights issues, serving as a board member of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Harry Dow Legal Assistance Memorial Fund and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She is chair of the Association of American Law School's standing Committee on Retention and Recruitment of Minority Law Teachers, as well as a member of the executive committee for the Section on Civil Procedure.

Sonia Gupta '06, Young Alumni, Ivy Plus

Sonia Gupta concentrated in Economics and Community Health at Brown.

Staying within the theme of an intersection between business and life science, she is now an Analyst at Health Advances, a health care management and strategy consulting firm in Weston, MA. Prior to working at Health Advances, she worked at a general management and strategy consulting firm in Back Bay.

Beyond academics during her time at Brown, Sonia was heavily involved with Student Government, Class Activities and Alumni Relations. She was elected President for the Class of 2006, and will remain in that position through 2011. During her senior year, Sonia served as an ex-officio member on the Board of Governors for the Brown Alumni Association. Currently, apart from consulting and Brown-related activities, Sonia dabbles in 85 Broads, a society oriented towards women in business, and plays ultimate frisbee.

Jasmine Waddell '99

Since returning to the U.S. from time abroad, Jasmine served as a National Institutes of Child and Human Development (NICHD) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and as a Lecturer at Boston College, where she taught a seminar on the sociology of human rights. In spring 2007, Jasmine Waddell joined the faculty of the Graduate Certificate Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston's John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. In addition, Jasmine works as an Assistant Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations in the Office of Advancement at Boston College.

Jasmine earned her M.Phil. in Comparative Social Policy and her Ph.D. in Social Policy from the University of Oxford as a U.S. Rhodes Scholar. Her doctoral research explored the barriers to effective implementation of anti-poverty policies for women and children in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of post-apartheid South Africa. She completed her B.A. with honors in political science from Brown University. While at Brown, she was a Women's Peer Counselor and active student government leader who served as president of the student body and on various administrative committees.

Jasmine is actively involved in various national organizations such as the Association American of Rhodes Scholars (AARS) and the Truman Scholar Alumni Association (TSA). She serves on the Massachusetts Selection Committee for the Truman Scholarship and on the District 6 Selection Committee for the Rhodes Scholarship. She also contributes to a number of community groups in Boston including South Africa Partners, and she chaired the 2006 Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast sponsored by the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. In addition, Jasmine is a published photographer who has had shows in England, South Africa and the U.S. and one of her shows was attended President Mandela, in the BBC, and on CNN International.

Langston Dugger '04

Langston Dugger is the Organizational Development Manager at the Boston Center for Community & Justice ( BCCJ ) where he is responsible for internal capacity building, alumni community development, foundation relations, and finance. Prior to BCCJ, Langston worked as a Module Leaders at The Monitor Group in their growth strategy group. While at Monitor, he co-founded and co-directed the firm's Racial Diversity Network and was actively engaged with INSPIRE, the firm’s pro bono consulting arm serving educationally focused Boston area nonprofits. In addition, he was heavily involved with recruiting and was responsible for recruiting for the firm at Brown. Prior to The Monitor Group, Langston started and ran a small contracting company based in Providence.

Langston currently serves on the Advisory Council of the Parks for People New England program, within the Trust for Public Land and on the Museum of Fine Arts’ Multicultural Audience Development Committee. He is an avid sports fan and competing member of the Greater Boston Track Club and the Boston Union Wrestling Club.

Langston received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Brown in 2004. While at Brown, Langston was the Chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board (UFB), Editor-in-Chief of the African Sun, member of the Varsity Track team, member of Mezcla, Chair of the Brotherhood, Chair of the Organization for United African Peoples (OUAP) and actively involved in the Third World Center.

Langston is a Boston native and currently lives in Roxbury.

BASC - Brown Alumni Schools Committees, is the program that identifies and interviews Brown applicants. With the rising number of applicants to selective colleges like Brown and the growing number of Early Decision applicants, Brown's goal of contacting and interviewing applicants has become more and more challenging. You can help Brown by allocating a couple hours to interview Brown applicants. You get a chance to meet the next generation of Brown students, while providing an invaluable service to the Brown Admissions Department. If you would like to volunteer for BASC, please send an email to brownclubbostonATgmail.com. You can also learn more by going to Brown Alumni website.

MAC is the Multicultural Alumni Committee, whose goal is to sponsor activities that appeal to the diverse cultural interests of Brown's alumni base. For more information, please contact Eugene Mahr at 617-373-7886 or at e.mahrATneu.edu

IVY+ Singles is an organization offering a variety of social events in the greater Boston area for single alumni ages 30-49+. It is staffed by volunteers from the eight Ivy alumni clubs, plus MIT and Stanford. For event and membership information, please call Faith Stimson at 617-864-0743 (evenings) or Karen Sehl at 978-740-2747 (evenings). You can also send an email to ivyplusalumniATyahoo.com.

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Ivy Plus is an organization staffed by volunteers from the eight Ivy alumni clubs, plus MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Johns Hopkins. Ivy Plus organizes special events of note, geared to the combined alumni constituencies of these schools. These events are listed among our other event offerings on the Events page. For questions for for further information about Ivy Plus, please contact Emily Boynton at emily.h.boyntonATbankofamerica.com.

Ivy Plus and IVY+ Singles are not affiliated with each other.

You can also volunteer to help Brown by doing alumni interviews with promising high school applicants to Brown. Volunteer for BASC by sending an brownclubbostonATgmail.com.

The Bird Street Community Center and Lucas Orwig (class of 2005) are looking for Youth Mentoring Program volunteers. Read more about this opportunity.

The Edward Brackett Memorial Scholarship Fund is an endowed fund established by the Brown Club of Boston. Established in 1980, the fund was named in honor of Edward Brackett, class of 1914. Edward Brackett was a distinguished Brown graduate who was also one of the founders of the Club. As the Club's official scholarship fund, the Brackett Fund has annually awarded a scholarship grant to a worthy first-year Brown University student from the Boston area.

One of the goals of the Brown Club of Boston is to increase the endowment of the Brackett Scholarship Fund through charitable contributions and promotions so that increasingly generous awards can be made to deserving recipients. All contributions to the Brackett Scholarship Fund are tax-deductible in accordance with state and federal law (as are your Brown Club membership dues).

You are welcome to make a donation at any time - now, at the next event, or when you renew your membership. Donations (made out to the Brown Club of Boston) should be sent to Margaret Woo PO Box 960676, Boston, MA 02196-0676. Please indicate that the donation is for the scholarship fund.

For information about this year's Brackett Scholar, click here.