Board of Directors
For inquiries about our Board of Directors, please email the Outreach Coordinator Annelise Dramm at [email protected]. Our Board members serve in a voluntary, advisory capacity and do not control the editorial or business operations of the paper.
Board Chair:
Calli Remillard is an editor and award-winning journalist at a family-owned local newspaper company on Cape Cod. She started her journalism career with The Huntington News in 2017, becoming the men’s hockey beat writer, and later serving as social media editor and sports editor. After earning a BA in Journalism in 2021, she worked as a General Assignment Reporter for The Falmouth Enterprise, the company’s flagship paper. Calli’s outstanding work during her breakout year earned her the 2022 Rookie of the Year award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association. Calli took over the editorship of The Bourne Enterprise in 2022, becoming the company’s youngest editor in its 130 year history. She has since become the editor of The Mashpee Enterprise and manages the newsroom’s intern program for college and high school students. She has conducted several workshops for young people on Cape Cod focused on journalism, encompassing the importance of local news, bias in news media and journalism ethics. Currently, Calli serves as the Enterprise’s Director of Audience Development in addition to her editing duties.
Board Members:
Avery Bleichfeld is the staff reporter and science editor at the Bay State Banner. A 2022 graduate from the Northeastern School of Journalism, he served as two-time managing editor for the Huntington News, as well as projects editor, data editor, and multimedia manager.
Dave Branda is a 2001 graduate of the Northeastern University School of Journalism. While at Northeastern, Dave held numerous editorial positions at the Northeastern News from 1997 through 2000, including News Editor. After graduating, Dave has spent more than 20 years working in Corporate Communications for Eversource/NSTAR and National Grid, specializing in web, customer and crisis communications. He coached youth baseball for more than 15 years in Brookline and Watertown, Mass., including three years on the Board of Directors for Watertown Youth Baseball. In 2008 he joined Operations Sports as a minority owner and executive editor, combining his passion for sports video games with his strategic communications expertise to position the website as a leader in its niche. Dave resides in West Roxbury, Mass. with his wife Kate.
Sonel Cutler is a 2025 graduate of Northeastern’s School of Journalism and served as editor-in-chief of The Huntington News from 2024-25. She’s a reporting fellow at the Chronicle of Higher Education, where she completed a co-op while at Northeastern, covering colleges and universities nationally. She previously covered local news for the Boston Globe.
Jenna Duncan is a 2012 Northeastern University School of Journalism graduate who served as editor-in-chief of the News from 2011-2012. She is currently the audience strategist at the Tampa Bay Times, where she builds strategies for digital growth and helps lead the engagement team. Before joining the Times, she spent a decade reporting and editing local news in Texas.
Zac Estrada is a freelance writer and editor primarily covering transportation, energy and technology news and based in Los Angeles A 2012 graduate of the School of Journalism with a Bachelor’s in Journalism and Political Science, he’s previously been a staff member of the Ventura County Star newspaper, Jalopnik, and The Verge. Other work has appeared in Gizmodo, Fast Company, Los Angeles Business Journal and many others.
Marta Hill is a 2024 graduate of the Northeastern University School of Journalism and a student in New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting program. While at Northeastern, Marta served as editor-at-large (2023-2024), editor-in-chief (2022-2023) and as a campus editor (2021-2022). She has worked as a reporter at The Transmitter, Boston.com and a science writer for NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Gal Tziperman Lotan is the newsletters producer at GBH News in Boston. Previously she worked for the Boston Globe and Orlando Sentinel, where she covered crime, courts, and the death penalty with a focus on data reporting. Gal is a 2012 graduate of the Northeastern University School of Journalism and a former managing editor of The Huntington News.
Lincoln McKie Jr. is a longtime journalist who has worked for three newspaper companies, including as a reporter, copy editor, city editor, managing editor, executive editor and publisher. He has taught journalism at Boston University, Northeastern University and Emerson College, and heads a communication consulting company that includes consulting with newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].
Larry Rothstein is a 1971 honors graduate of Northeastern University where he served as editor in chief of the Northeastern News. He went on to receive his doctorate in public policy analysis from Harvard University. He is a former editor of the Harvard Business Review and the Harvard Educational Review. Larry has collaborated on New York Times and Wall Street Journal best selling books. Currently, he is the co-founder and executive director of No Limits Media whose mission is to show the value and abilities of of people with disabilities. No Limits has worked with Tom Hanks, Ken Burns, Academy Award winner Geralyn Dreyfous on documentaries, with the United Nations, GBH-TV, the Paralympic Committee, Bloomberg Television, PBS, Time magazine and the Berklee College of Music’s Institute for Accessible Arts Education.
Charlie Wolfson is a local reporter based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Northeastern and its School of Journalism in 2020 and served as The Huntington News’ editor-in-chief in 2019, as well as serving as a co-op and part-time correspondent for The Boston Globe for several years. Since 2021 he has worked as a local government reporter at the nonprofit, digital newsroom PublicSource in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
