Our Board of Directors

Tonya Tedesco

Board Chair

About Tonya

Director

Tonya Tedesco is a long-time Boston resident and has raised her two children in the city.

She comes to CCI through her involvement with Showing Up for Racial Justice where she

has been an organizer for the past 7 years. She has been involved in organizing protests

both large and small including supporting the youth leaders in March For Our Lives Boston in

2018, mobilizing hundreds of constituents across MA Congressional District 8 in 2019

demanding justice for migrants at the border, and vigils that brought out hundreds of people

in the summer of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. She has advocated and testified for

better policy grounded in racial justice at the city and state levels. In addition, she has

worked on political campaigns from local city races to legislative seats and state-wide

elections. She is looking forward to supporting the work of CCI to organize, train and most

importantly activate other white folks committed to meeting the urgency of the times we are

facing.

Jen McCloskey

Director

About Jen

Jen McCloskey is a retired attorney and current higher ed administrator at BU Law. As the Director of

Advocacy Programs, Jen runs the Law School’s advocacy competitions programs, coaches law students,

and teaches classes on written and oral advocacy. Prior to returning to BU Law, where she received her

JD, she worked for Ropes & Gray in Boston.

Jen learned about the work CCI does through fellow board member and friend Tonya Tedesco. Jen’s

partner worked with Tonya on local political campaigns; Jen attended many of the events Tonya has

organized over the years, especially those organized in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd.

When Jen had her daughter a few years ago, she realized she needed to do more work on being anti-

racist so that she could raise an anti-racist white kid, and took those first steps by participating in a

multi-week Raising Anti-Racist White Children workshop. Hoping to become more involved in anti-racist

work at a local level, Jen became involved in Integrated Schools’ Boston chapter. She now looks forward

to using her legal background and skills to support CCI’s staff and mission, especially its work of engaging

and activating white folks to commit their time and energy to furthering racial justice.

Paul E. Madden, Ph.D

Director

About Paul

Director

Paul E. Madden is currently a faculty member and researcher within Connecticut College’s educational studies department. At Connecticut College Paul teaches both introductory courses, such as, Foundations of Education as well as courses focused on teaching STEM for justice, which is his core praxis area. Prior to Connecticut College he spent the first decade of his professional career as a secondary mathematics teacher, debate coach, non-profit leader, and 5-12 mathematics instructional coach in Boston, an Oglala Lakota Tribally Chartered School, and Foxborough, Ma.

Paul’s connection to CCI and his journey as an anti-racist began at Boston College as a member of FACEs, an undergraduate student organization committed to educating the Boston College community about systemic racism. As a new organization in 2004, FACES received formative training from Community Change’s former executive director Paul Marcus and the Women’s Theological Center’s Donna Bivens. Since then, Paul has been involved with CCI as a volunteer, Board member, finance committee member, and, currently, as the Board’s treasurer.