Kevin is the Executive Artistic Director of Payomet, a position he has held since 2007. He is a playwright, named a Theater Person of the Year by New York Theater.com in 2004. He served as a chair of the Wellfleet-Truro Affordable Housing Partnership from 1986-1992, and is a frequent traveler to Russia, where he has staged two plays.

Seth is the director of the Cape Cod Fisheries Trust. He has worked as a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and founding editor of The Cape Cod Voice. He served as chief of staff and then senior advisor for Cape and Islands Senator Dan Wolf before joining the Fisherman’s Alliance.

Claire Adams is the chef and co-owner of Salty Market, a sandwich shop, grocery and liquor store in North Truro, with her husband, Truro native Ellery Althaus with whom she also shares an amazing two and half year old daughter.  She has lived and worked here in Truro full-time since 2014 and also serves on the Board of Directors at the Provincetown Commons.

Nicholas is an emeritus professor at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, where he was the chair of the International Business and Strategy Department and taught courses in international business and management. He was the regional director for PepsiCo’s KFC International Division in the North Pacific and then in Europe and the Middle East, and was a naval officer in the Greek Navy.

Carla is an independent health care consultant who leads innovative health care projects in the private and public sector. She spent her career in the health care industry holding senior leadership positions at Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP)and CIGNA HealthCare. She has a home in Provincetown where she enjoys spending time with her family and practicing Iyengar yoga.

Barry is the former Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, founding director of the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and the founding dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. He has led research projects on housing, local economic development, state and local public finance, and the manufacturing sector in Massachusetts.

Russell is a registered architect and former Provincetown and Truro Building Inspector. He was the architect, project manager, and developer for more than 200 units of housing at the former Westover Air Force Base.

Lisa is a Diversity and World Cultures teacher at Nauset Regional High School, and the runner-up of MA Teacher of The Year in 2018. She's traveled the globe and spends time in Haiti doing educational outreach and liaison support with a community youth program and Nauset's Human Rights Academy.  She is a jazz drummer and world percussionist and a founding member of Wellfleet OysterFest.

Ellen is the former president of the Lyric Stage Company of Boston and is the Vice Chair of the Board of Metalwerx, a metalsmith school and studio in Waltham, MA. She is a jewelry designer at Ellen Carno Design, and has worked as a political campaign manager and as a mediator in the Massachusetts courts and in private practice.

Alan is an Emmy® Award winning filmmaker and owner of Boston-based Parallax Productions. He has worked with many musicians including jazz legend Art Blakey, The Rebirth Brass Band, Yoko Ono, Aerosmith, Aimee Mann, Wynton Marsalis, and John Legend. His feature length films “Song for New Orleans” and “Outermost Radio” were screened at Payomet and his association with our organization has grown from there.

Liz is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History Department and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. She is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Bancroft Prize winner for her book Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. 

Ellen is the vice president of commercial lending at Cape Cod Five Cents Saving Bank. She is the credit review chair for Habitat for Humanity Cape Cod, and works with the Eastham Conservation Foundation and St. Joan of Arc church.

Michael is an attorney specializing in real estate, litigation and municipal law at Pierce & Mandell, PC in Boston. He is a recent transplant to Truro and a member of the Truro Open Space Committee. He has previously served on a wide range of non-profit boards and municipal committees, including as Chairman of the Planning Board and Town Moderator for Sudbury, MA.

Ellen is the managing partner at Cambria, and founder of their executive coaching practice. She has also served on the boards of for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and has received a Founding Fellow Award from the Harvard Institute of Coaching. She was an associate professor at California State University, Stanislaus, and has been admitted to the State Bars of Michigan and California.

David has more than 25 years of experience successfully founding and managing technology and consulting firms that have become world leaders. He currently serves as co-founder and managing director of Constellation Research and Technology, Inc., and has taught at both Tufts and Harvard University.

Frederick is a semi-retired urban planner and architect. He grew up in Truro, attended the University of Wisconsin and did graduate study at MIT as a professional planner and architect. He was a member of the first ranks of the new Peace Corps in 1964 and spent two years in India, followed by his career as a planner in Boston and Cambridge.