Leadership


Staff

 

 

The Right Question Project is led by Co-Directors Luz Santana and Dan Rothstein, who are part of the founding core of the organization.

Luz Santana, M.A., has modeled in her own life--raising her family on welfare, working on the factory floor, going back to school and then sharing her new skills with others--much of what we aim to accomplish through the work of the organization. She has extensive experience designing and implementing applications of the educational strategy in work in low-income communities, and she is recognized nationally for the participatory trainings and workshops she has designed and facilitated. Luz was chosen as a Community Fellow at M.I.T, and the Merrimack Valley Woman of the Year. She has served as a parent advocate in Lawrence, MA, and as an adjunct faculty member at the Springfield College - Boston Campus. In 1996, she received a Master's Degree from the Springfield College School of Human Services. (email: luz at rightquestion dot org)

Dan Rothstein, Ed.D., has spent many years learning from the people with whom he has worked and has applied those lessons to designing strategies to promote more effective advocacy and citizen participation efforts. Prior to his work with RQP, he developed and implemented programs in Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Israel as a community educator, organizer and urban planner. He served as Director of Neighborhood Planning for the City of Lawrence, MA and was a Fulbright Scholar and one of the very few non-academics to be chosen as a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow. He graduated from Harvard College and earned a doctorate in Education and Social Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he served as an editor of The Harvard Educational Review.  (email: dan at rightquestion dot org)


Board

 

 

The Right Question Project Board provides strong support for the work of RQP staff to develop a new model for building capacity in low-income communities, for identifying ways for systemic integration of RQP methods and for the development of the concept of Microdemocracy. The Board includes a former Head Start parent, frontline staff in different fields and professions, university scholars and a wide range of extensive civic expertise in various fields.


Agnes S. Bain, President of the Board:   Professor of Government at Suffolk University
 
Lavada Berger:  Strategy consultant at Monitor Group 
 
Macky Buck : Family Day Care provider and Early Childhood educator
 
Diane Englander: Artist
 
Franklin M. Fisher: Professor Emeritus of microeconomics at MIT; Director of National Bureau of Economic Research
 
David Guberman: Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 
Dan Rothstein, Co-Director, The Right Question Project
 
Ron Walker: Executive Director, Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color
 
Richard Weissbourd: Writer and lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Kennedy School
of Government
 
Mary Wendell: Chair of the board of trustees, Forbes House Museum, Milton, MA

   
 

 


National Advisory Board

 

 

Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Craig Kennedy, President of the German Marshall Fund

Bill Kovach, Chair, Committee of Concerned Journalists

Martha Minow, Dean, Harvard Law School

Wendy Puriefoy, President of The Public Education Network

Kay L. Schlozman, J. Joseph Moakley Professor in Political Science, Boston College


Funding

 

 

Financial support for RQP comes from three sources: Individual donors, Service-related revenue and Foundation grants.

Individual Donors

We are deeply grateful to the many individual donors who provide essential support for the work of The Right Question Project (RQP). Donors support the:

  • development of RQP’s innovative educational strategy that helps people learn to become more self-sufficient
  • dissemination of the strategy to organizations and programs all around the country
  • development of new methods and new ideas for building the capacity of all people, no matter their educational or literacy level, to participate in democracy on all levels and to make democracy work betters.

Service-related revenue

We also support our work with income from providing consulting and training services as well as through sales of materials and curricula.

Foundation Grants

RQP’s innovative work also receives strong support from private foundations. The following are some of the funders who have supported our work in various fields:

  • The Boston Foundation
  • Carnegie Corporation
  • The Germanacos Foundation
  • Jane’s Trust
  • The Jane B. Cook 1992 Charitable Trust
  • The Joyce Foundation
  • The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  • Partners HealthCare Community Benefits
  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  • The Rhode Island Foundation
  • The Proteus Fund
  • The Wallace Foundation
  • The Whitman Institute