Candidates declared elected:
Elections will take place at the 2021 Annual Meeting of Delegates for three district seats on the Board of Directors and four seats on the Retired Members Committee.
With no statewide or at-large contests, only delegates from districts 14D, 28D, 19G and the Statewide Retired District will be voting in the elections.
The candidates for the Retired Members Committee are listed in the next article.
Contests for district seats on the Board are as follows:
District 14D: Am Cecil Fuoti and Nancy Clougherty, both of the Framingham Teachers Association.
District 28D: Nancy Aykanian of the Westwood Teachers Association and Donna M. Grady of the Franklin Education Association.
District 19G: Daphnee Balan of the Somerville Teachers Association and Robert (Bobby) Travers, Jr., of the Cambridge Education Association.
All other Board candidates have been declared elected under the election waiver in the MTA Bylaws. The provision states that if there is only one candidate for an open position, the election will be waived and the candidate is declared elected. Terms begin July 1 and last for three years.
The Board candidates declared elected because of the election waiver are:
At-Large Director for Ethnic Minority Membership: Rosa Lopez-Whitehill, Pembroke Teachers Association
District 7B: Bria Hanson, Fitchburg Education Association
District 9B: Alana Stern, Wachusett Regional Education Association
District 10B: Hannah Weinsaft, Educational Association of Worcester
District 35C: Jonathan Wolan, Whitman-Hanson Education Association
District 42C: Cherian Armstrong, Monomoy Regional Education Association
District 32D: Kaitlin Tafe, Braintree Education Association
District 30E: Bernadette Murphy, Sharon Teachers Association
District 23F: Barry Davis, Haverhill Education Association
District 24F: Jody Sheehan, Danvers Teachers Association
District 25F: Kristen Martin, Revere Teachers Association
District 44H: Joe Nardoni, Massachusetts Community College Council
District 46H: Christine N. Turner, Massachusetts Society of Professors, UMass Amherst
District 47H: Thomas Estabrook, UMass Lowell Grant and Contract Funded Employees
Board candidates who supplied photos are pictured on this page. In contested races, biographical statements and photos of Board candidates follow.
