March 3, 2008
Contact: Nathalie Favre-Gilly
(617) 521-0127

New Members join Casa Myrna Vazquez Director Team

Casa Myrna is pleased to announce the recent appointments of two seasoned professionals to the agency’s Director Team. In November of 2007, Bill Sullivan joined the agency as Director of Finance & Operations. Bill has over thirty years of comprehensive experience managing the administration and finance functions for school districts, housing developments and residential human services organizations. Before joining Casa Myrna Vazquez, he was Executive Director of Grow Associates, a non-profit serving the needs of 140 adults with developmental disabilities through training, employment, day habilitation programs, and community based services. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer at St. Coletta’s of Massachusetts, and held positions prior to that as Business Manager and then Assistant Superintendent for Administration and Finance in the Brookline and Needham Public Schools. Bill has a BA from St. Columban’s College, an M.Ed from Boston State College and an MBA from Bentley College.

Taking over the leadership of the agency’s Community Programs is Mardi Chadwick, who joined Casa Myrna in March of 2008. Mardi’s commitment to victims of domestic and sexual violence dates back to her student days at the University of New Hampshire, when she worked as a victim’s advocate in local crisis centers. Since earning her law degree in 1998., she has served in positions of increasing responsibility at the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center in Newburyport, Massachusetts, most recently as Director of Client Services and Senior Counsel. Mardi is a co -creator of the Greater Newburyport Domestic Violence High Risk Case Response Team, a nationally recognized model of multidisciplinary professionals working together on homicide prevention for victims of domestic violence. She has a BA from the University of New Hampshire and a JD from Suffolk University Law School.