Glenn Cummings, Ed.D - President and Executive Director
Dr. Glenn Cummings became President and Executive Director of Good Will-Hinckley in September of 2010. Before returning home to Maine, Cummings served in President Obama’s administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Department of Education, where he helped manage a $1.9 billion annual budget that focused on improving access to adult education and literacy training, career and technical education, and community colleges. He was part of that team that designed President Obama’s plan to boost America’s graduation rate by 2020. Cummings also chaired the Department’s Green Initiative, which focused on increasing the teaching and learning of sustainability principles in American education.
Cummings is former Speaker of the House in the Maine House of Representatives, Majority Leader, and Chairman of the state’s Joint Committee of Education and Cultural Affairs, where he sponsored the bill to create the state community college system. He provided leadership for the passage of a bipartisan state budget; brokered an agreement on the largest economic investment bond package in the state’s history; and successfully led an effort to increase higher education appropriations.
Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Education, Cummings served as instructor of micro and macroeconomics at University of Southern Maine and as Dean of Institutional Advancement at Southern Maine Community College (SMCC). While at SMCC, he founded one of the first student-centered entrepreneurial centers and small business incubators in Northern New England. Cummings also served as Executive Director of the Portland Partnership, where he built strategic alliances between businesses and high school students. A multi-generation Maine native, Cummings began his career in Gorham, Maine, as a high school history teacher and department head.
Cummings recently obtained his Doctorate in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania. He previously earned a Masters of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Brown University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University.
Bill Brown - VP of Operations
Bill Brown, a native of Western and Central Maine, has 13 years of experience working with the Maine Legislature in a variety of roles including Chief of Staff to 2 Speakers of the House, Legislative Director and Senior Special Assistant for Budget and Policy Matters.
In those roles Bill was responsible for supervising and leading office and legislative staff, overseeing all aspects of the state budget process, health care and legislative fiscal matters; developing, drafting and negotiating public policy and securing passage of the Speaker’s agenda. Specifically Bill worked on the development and passage of over a dozen biennial and emergency state budgets and over $585 million in state funding and drawing an estimated $869 million in federal and other matching funds to support statewide education, land preservation, transportation, R&D and environmental infrastructure projects through statewide bond issues.
A graduate of the University of Maine at Farmington, Bill lives in New Sharon with his wife Sarah and their hounds and chickens. An avid runner, Bill also enjoys triathlons, mountain biking and is learning to ski.
Sheri Dodge, MBA - Director of Finance/Treasurer
Troy Frost, M.Ed - Director of Educational Services
Luke Schaedle, MBA - Director of Information Technology
Robert Berry - Director of Physical Plant
Anna Perkins, M.Ed - Director of Special Education
Emanuel Pariser - Education Program Designer
Emanuel Pariser has spent two and a half decades working and advocating as a teacher/counselor, administrator, writer, workshop presenter, and public policy advocate for adolescents at-risk who have dropped out of high school. In 1973 he co-founded the Community School in Camden, Maine. The Community School was the first alternative high school in the Mid-Coast area, and the first program of its kind to get state approval in Maine. Pariser helped to write the legislation which established Maine's Office of Truancy, Dropout and Alternative Education and serves as the commission's senior member. He served as president of Maine's Alternative Education Association, and chairs the Substance Abuse Services Commission. He also helped to found the Maine Association for Charter Schools, a state-wide organization dedicated to creating charter schools in Maine, and helped to write the enabling legislation to implement this objective.