The Graustein Family
LISA GRAUSTEIN, Board Chair
Trained as a Social Studies and Sexuality Education teacher, Lisa spent the first 20 years of her professional life as an out middle and high school teacher in public schools in Boston. Currently, Lisa works as a DEI facilitator in the Northeast, working with schools, non-profits, and faith communities. A Quaker, Lisa co-leads a cohort program focused on uprooting racism within her faith community for Quakers from across the U.S. and Canada. She holds an MEd in Racial Justice Education and her thesis focused on using racial identity development theory as a tool for more effectively engaging white people in ending white supremacy. Lisa is a mom to a teen and an artist in her free time.
WILLIAM GRAUSTEIN
William, or Bill as he is known to family and friends, is a former geologist and formerly served as the Lead Trustee for the Memorial Fund. Bill also launched the Community Leadership Program (CLP) through his Office and is now a Senior Advisor for the program. CLP builds the community’s capacity to work inclusively to imagine its future and to act effectively and compassionately to bring that vision into being. Learn more about CLP here.
"Education transformed my parents’ generation’s capacity to imagine and achieve their goals; it is as vital today as it was then."