Eric Schwarz is President & CEO of Citizen Schools. Prior to founding Citizen Schools, Eric worked for five years at City Year where he served as Vice President for Organizational Development and, later, as Executive Director of City Year Boston. Eric is a 1983 graduate of the University of Vermont and earned a Master's Degree at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in 1997.

Chief Operating Officer
Emily McCann

Emily McCann joined Citizen Schools in January 2003 as the Chief Financial Officer and is now Chief Operating Officer, responsible for developing and overseeing top-level financial, technology, human resources, and administrative support services for the organization. Before coming to Citizen Schools, Emily worked in Business Planning & Development for the Walt Disney Company and in North American Mergers & Acquisitions for J.P Morgan & Company. She earned an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Harvard College and a graduate degree from Harvard Business School.

Executive Director, National Network
Kate Mehr

Kate Mehr joined Citizen Schools in 2005. After beginning her career as a teacher, Kate helped found the Massachusetts Legislative Children's Caucus and launched the Massachusetts State Commission on National Service. Kate was asked by Governor Weld to run the Massachusetts Summit on Children and Youth. In 1998, she was appointed to a White Fellowship for national leadership. Kate then launched the United States-Canada Program for Ashoka. Kate served as the Vice President of Community Impact for the United Way of America, assisting 3,000 United Ways to increase impact in communities.

Executive Director of Development
Lori Stevens

Lori Stevens joined Citizen Schools during the summer of 2006. Before joining the Citizen Schools team, Lori directed fundraising for Harvard's cross-university public service initiative to support the Kennedy School, School of Education, and School of Public Health. In this role, she helped to secure a $10 million gift to establish the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship and many other major gifts. At Harvard, Lori also led the University's major gifts fundraising in the New York region.  In her eleven-year career at Harvard, Lori served as a major gifts officer, managing prospects in the Boston region and the Southeast.

Executive Director, Citizen Schools Boston
John Werner

John Werner has worked with Citizen Schools since its inception in 1995, when he was the founding Campus Director. John most recently served as Executive Director of Citizen Schools 8th Grade Academy and Alumni Services. Before joining Citizen Schools, John was a special education teacher in the Boston Public Schools for four years and then became principal of a residential school for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children for another four years. John is a graduate of Hamilton College in New York and president of its Boston Alumni Association. He also completed a Harvard Business School Executive program and is a member of the LeadBoston class of 2000.

Chief Learning Officer

Lisa Ulrich joined the organization as Director of the National Teaching Fellowship in July 2001. Prior to joining Citizen Schools, Lisa was the National Program Director at City Year, a nine-year tenure that began when City Year was just a one-page concept paper. Lisa was a member of New York City's first class of CORO fellows and a start-up team staffer of the City Volunteer Corps. She worked in the Mayor's Office of Economic Development and as a consultant on a variety of community development, national service and community policing initiatives in Massachusetts. In 1999, Lisa was awarded a fellowship from the German Marshall Fund to travel in Europe. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and son.

Chief Financial Officer
George Chu

George Chu joined Citizen Schools in 2006. Prior to Citizen Schools, George worked as a consultant for the Bridgespan Group, a non-profit consulting firm, centering on youth and education organizations such as Year Up, City Year, New Sector Alliance and the College Board. He was a management consultant at Arthur D. Little and a manufacturing engineer for Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates. George currently serves on the boards of The Bottom Line, a Boston college access and retention program, and ESAC, a community-based agency that strives to improve the quality of life for residents of eastern Massachusetts. He lives in Jamaica Plain with his wife Carolyn and his son, William.

Christin Driscoll joined Citizen Schools in 2008, having served as Senior Director for Policy Development and Advocacy for Catholic Charities USA. Christin previously served as the Senior Director of Public Policy for the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), where she rallied strong bi-partisan support in Congress to reauthorize and extend funding for the Perkins Career and Technical Educational Act. She was awarded the Leland-Emerson Award for Excellence in Leadership from the Congressional Hunger Center for her commitment to ending hunger and poverty and her excellence in mentorship.

Director of Information Technology
Will Nourse
B.A., Harvard College

Will Nourse joined Citizen Schools in 2008, with unique and varied professional experience. He began his career in Boston, MA as a trader/investment banker, after which he ventured into freelance consulting for educational non-profits such as Children's Television Workshop. He joined Arthur Anderson's business consulting practice in the late nineties to advise corporate clients on the development of sound business processes and technology tools. Will then served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer for the Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE), a non-profit international education organization until 2007. Most recently, he was Vice President of Product Development at a  technology start-up.   

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