TSNE has an experienced team of consultants and facilitators on staff with a wide range of skills, interests, and backgrounds. We also maintain a pool of independent consultants who we regularly engage to assist our clients with transitions.
Our team and Staff Consultants
Heang Ly, Director, Consulting and Training
Heang Ly is rooted in the field of youth development, group dynamics and systems, diversity, equity and inclusion, conflict resolution, and nonprofit management. Heang spent significant time, 13 years, at the Center for Teen Empowerment providing direct service in youth organizing, advocacy, and community development issues. While at the organization, she also provided consulting services and technical assistance to nonprofits, schools, and cities. She left to open her own independent consulting practice, working largely with grassroots community-based nonprofits and higher education institutions as a seasoned consultant, facilitator, and trainer. She has taught over 3,000 people of all ages on a variety of topics such as curriculum development, facilitation skills, conflict resolution, feedback systems, staff engagement, equity issues, and more.
Heang is the co-author of the chapter “Tensions of Purpose: Strategies for Youth and Adults to Carve a Pathway of Hope and Create Action toward a Just and Equitable World” in the book “At our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings” published by Information Age Publishing. Her short story "The Lotus Gift" was published in the award-winning book “Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora”.
Ms. Ly holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Psychology and Education Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy. In addition, she is a graduate of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice, where she received a certificate in nonprofit management and leadership from Tufts University.
Mimi Brunelle, Consultant, Executive Search and Transition
Mimi Brunelle joined TSNE in 2008 and has been instrumental in developing the executive search function of the Consulting and Executive Transitions Program (CET). Mimi brings over 15 years’ experience in human resources management, providing consultation and leadership in both for- and nonprofit settings. As CET’s Recruitment Specialist, Mimi has recruited for over 70 mission-driven organizations in a wide variety of nonprofit sectors, with significant experience in housing and community development; education and youth development; museums and arts administration. Before joining TSNE, Mimi worked in a variety of industries as a human resources generalist. She has a B.A. in political science from McDaniel College and a graduate certificate in human resources management from Bentley University.
Jodi Dowling, Manager and Senior Consultant, Executive Search and Transitions
Jodi Dowling joined TSNE in 2014 and brings over 20 years of retained executive search experience to TSNE. She has partnered with nonprofit, public sector, and corporate clients across a breadth of functionalities and industries, with a particular expertise in recruiting nonprofit C-suite leaders and niche interests in developing leadership talent & networks in the environment, public health, and education fields. Prior to joining TSNE Jodi served as senior associate of executive search with the Bridgespan Group, a national nonprofit management consulting firm. Earlier in her career, Jodi co-founded and managed an executive search research consultancy supporting major national search firms, specialized boutique organizations, and in-house corporate recruiting teams. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Alfred University and a Master of Liberal Arts, Extension Studies in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard University.
- Have a question about our executive transition services? Contact Jodi or call 617.896.9347
Alessandria Haynes, Coordinator, Training Programs
Alessandria Haynes started her journey with TSNE as a Professional Learning Associate in August 2018 and is now a Training Coordinator. Alessandria oversees the coordination, implementation, successful delivery and tracking of both short-term training engagements and longer-term cohort programs.
Prior to joining TSNE Alessandria lived in Florida where she attended University of South Florida. She served as the president of the Women’s Federation for World Peace and worked on various issues ranging from health care and education in developing countries as well as numerous volunteer service events in the Tampa Bay area. After her undergraduate career in 2014, Alessandria joined the United States Peace Corps and served as a Youth Development Volunteer in Ukraine from 2015-2017. While in Ukraine she helped start many initiatives such as an online journalism club, civic engagement and leadership club, English club, and a healthy lifestyle club for the youth. Upon returning home to the states Alessandria developed a passion for getting involved in the nonprofit field as well as international development. Alessandria hopes to gain enough experience in the nonprofit sector to best be able to assist in the many issues that affect both nearby communities as well as areas in developing countries, and to one day help implement some solutions to create a productive impact.
Joanne Horgan, Consultant, Human Resources
Joanne is currently a consultant and lead trainer for TSNE specializing in human resources systems. Joanne has worked with TSNE (formerly Third Sector New England) since 1993 where she served as Director of Human Resources. In her role, she has directed the internal human resources function as well as led a team in its delivery of services to over 60 fiscally sponsored projects. Joanne currently provides human resources consulting and training to TSNE clients. In this capacity, she leads comprehensive human resources assessments, offers employee relations coaching and consultation, helps managers build effective supervisory skills, and works with organizations to develop performance management systems.
Joanne excels at creating flexible human resources systems that allow organizations to reflect their unique values and culture in their policies and practices while maintaining compliance with the myriad of employment regulations. She approaches employee issues from a strength-based model that values the whole person while keeping the mission and values of the organization top priority.
Joanne holds a B.A. in Organizational Psychology and an M.S. in Human Resources Counseling from Northeastern University.
Carro Hứa, Program Manager, Learning Cohort
Carro (pronounced “car-row”) Hứa is the program manager of cohort learning at TSNE. As a social justice educator, she is committed to building and deepening the critical consciousness of People of Color and engaging with multiracial, and worker solidarity building for collective liberation. For over a decade she has taught social justice education in different capacities, including teaching ethnic studies to young people, facilitating workshops on anti-oppression learning, and supporting organizations with their staff development on equity-centered thinking and practices. Her professional journey consists of being an associate director of organizational equity practice at Trinity Boston Connects, learning and development manager at City Year Boston, assistant youth program director at the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development and teacher-intern at Breakthrough Collaborative and Steppingstone. Born and raised in Dorchester, Boston to refugee parents from Việt Nam, she is a Boston Public Schools and Smith College alum.
Yamaya Jean, Coordinator, Programs
Yamaya Jean is the Programs Administration Associate for the Consulting and Training team at TSNE. She supports the team in project coordination, administration, and communication.
Prior to her role at TSNE, Yamaya worked with social service nonprofits in Worcester, MA to leverage data and build capacity. Yamaya holds a B.A. in Economics and International Development, and a M.A. in International Development with a concentration in Monitoring and Evaluation from Clark University.
Simone John, Senior Consultant, Organizational Development
Simone John is a consultant, writer, and social practice artist based in Boston, MA. Prior to joining the TSNE team Simone spent 5 years at Trinity Boston Connects as the Associate Director of Organizational Equity Practice (OEP), a program that provides consulting, coaching and facilitation for nonprofits striving to become racially equitable institutions. Simone has developed curricula on topics like creating trauma inclusive organizational cultures; group facilitation with a racial equity lens; caucusing 101; and dismantling white supremacy culture in organizations, all scaffolded by three design principles: systems-thinking, relationship building, and trust. Outside work, Simone’s debut poetry collection Testify (Octopus Books, 2017) has been reviewed in The Boston Globe, Bustle, PBS Newshour, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. Learn more about Simone at simonejohn.com.
Nesly Metayer, Lead Consultant, Organizational Development
With a commitment to social and economic equity, Nesly Metayer brings an immense work experience moving with ease from organization to community development, from public health practices to research, and from public administration to non profit management. This solid and flexible work experience has been developed intertwining competencies from organizational development, organizational behavior, management and social theory addressing the profound structures of social inequity in America.
As a practitioner in the field, Nesly Metayer has been the executive director of Youth and Family Enrichment Services, an organization with the purpose of responding to the social and educational disparity of children from Hyde Park and Mattapan. Before joining YoFES, Nesly has spent six years at Tufts University as Senior Manager for Community Engagement leading the implementation of an innovative program to respond to child obesity disparity in New England. Named and awarded as Bridge Builder in 2013 from Tufts University President, Nesly Metayer was honored for assisting doctoral students and faculty to incorporate a social justice lens in their research and program implementation. Metayer has also worked as the Director of Community Development and Capacity Building at the Center for Community Health, Education & Research in Dorchester, MA. Previously, he worked for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; first as Director of Administration at the AIDS Bureau and then in the Commissioner’s Office as the Director of Community Planning. While there, Metayer developed and implemented the award-winning Common Ground, an Organizational Capacity Building Project recognized by the Council of State Government as Innovation in Government.
As an organizational development consultant, Nesly Metayer partners with organizations to design, implement and evaluate participatory practices of inclusion and deepen organizational culture to social accountability and equity outcomes through training, strategic management processes, community renewal, executive transition and organizational change.
As a practitioner-scholar, Metayer has designed and published works on leadership, community building, organizational effectiveness, community and stakeholder involvement, program implementing using both qualitative and quantitative inquiries.
He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Haiti, a graduate diploma from the National School of Administration (ENA-IIAP France), a DESS from the University of Paris XI, a Master of Sociology from Caen University, a Doctorate in Administration from University of Paris Sorbonne. Nesly Metayer has been awarded a Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Mandel Center/EDM Non-Profit Fellowship and is finishing his research for the Doctor of Management Degree at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Samantha Roy, Consultant, Organizational Development
Samantha Roy brings nearly 10 years of experience working with nonprofits to build capacity and drive impact. Prior to joining TSNE, Samantha was an independent consultant working with both large and small organizations on a wide array of projects including organizational, leadership and board development, sustainability consulting, and change management. Before branching out on her own, Samantha was the Director of Strategic Partnerships at Parenting Journey where she led the organization’s design and implementation of a 3-year strategic plan. Samantha holds an MBA with a focus in Social Impact and Innovation from IE University in Madrid Spain, and a BA in Sociology/Anthropology from Roger Williams University.