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Matthew A. Shapiro - President
Matthew A. Shapiro, currently serving as president of the Foundation, is an educator, civic organizer, former renewable energy consultant, writer, and social entrepreneur. A founding board member of the Follett Foundation, Mr. Shapiro initiated the successful effort to re-issue Follett’s The New State in 1998, for which he wrote the index. After writing the only long-term, independent study of education reform efforts in Idaho, he developed a program of community-based design of education systems. This led to his founding of the Garden City Community School, a public charter school built around the concept of participatory design, where he taught prior to pursuing his doctorate in education at Boise State University. Seeking also to foster the experience of participatory design of social systems at the neighborhood level, Mr. Shapiro facilitated the design of The North End Agora, an organization for communication and community building centered around an innovative neighborhood newspaper. Matthew was co-founder of Neighborhood Services, Inc., a community development firm, and he founded Coevolution Southern Idaho, a grassroots culture change project that sought to bridge theory and practice to address community problems at their roots.
Martha (Marti) Monroe, Ph.D
Marti is a family educator, parent and teacher coach, and a marriage and family therapist, with a specialty in Adlerian psychology. She does Granny 9-1-1 visits to homes and sees clients privately in addition to teaching classes on the most important job in life, that of parent. Her work in Idaho has been with the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation’s Open Book Initiative through the Lee Pesky Learning Center, Coordinator in Continuing Studies in Education at Northwest Nazarene University, Director of Family Education at the Landing Community Center in Eagle, and has worked as a public school teacher and college instructor and administrator.
Chris Francovich, Ed.D.
Chris is an educator, writer, and researcher. He is currently Chair and Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga Universtiy's Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies in Spokane, Washington. His
career in independent education has involved teaching, administration,
and school design. In his capacity as a research analyst for the
Northwest Regional Faculty Development Center in Boise, Idaho, he is focused on problems and processes of post-graduate
medical education in ambulatory medical clinics. Chris is also an associate of the Reina Trust Building Institute in Stowe, VT. Chris is also a father, husband, yoga practitioner, and life long friend of the marginalized.
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