People Type: Board of Trustees

Terry is a seasoned educator and dedicated public servant with a rich background in science education and school governance. She holds a BA from Binghamton University and an MSEd from Hofstra University. Terry began her career teaching pre-college science in both Massachusetts and New York, later transitioning into roles that involved supervising and training PreK–12 educators and undergraduate student teachers. Her expertise in curriculum development and educational safety led her to co-author several science safety guides published by the National Science Teaching Association.

After serving as a Science Supervisor for the Brookline, MA Public Schools, Terry was elected to the Brookline School Committee, where she served for 18 years, including two years as chair. Her work extended into educational publishing at Houghton Mifflin, where she contributed to the development of linguistic software.

Currently, Terry serves as a board member of the Massachusetts School Building Authority, appointed by the MA State Treasurer. In this role, she helps oversee the approval of state funding for public school construction and renovation projects. She also lends her expertise as a community representative on several Institutional Biosafety Committees for institutions affiliated with Harvard Medical School. Terry has served on the Wade Institute Board, formerly MITS) since 2000.

Jake partners with school districts and educational organizations engaged in strategic planning, program design, and learning space development. He founded STEM Learning Design to encourage engaging learning experiences, with a particular focus on STEM education. Jake is excited about the potential for Manomet’s educational programming, particularly given the field-based nature of Manomet’s efforts and regional approach.

As past educational leader for the Massachusetts Department of Education, Jake engaged for more than a decade in education policy, curriculum development, professional development, school support, and strategies for systemic change. He was a lead facilitator of Massachusetts science, math, and digital literacy & computer science learning standards, and was a member of the national Next Generation Science Standards writing team.

Jake began his education career teaching high school science in New Hampshire and Tennessee, where he developed multiple courses incorporating project-based learning (PBL) and portfolio assessments. As a middle school coach and teacher educator in Detroit, MI, he helped new and veteran teachers to implement technology-rich, PBL curricula.

Jake volunteers to support a variety of educational organizations in addition to Manomet, including:

• His local community School Committee
• Beyond Benign, Executive Board
• Nemayiana: Africa Science and Technology Museum, Board Member

Pete is the Dean of Earth Commons Institute for the Environment and Sustainability and Laudato Si’ Professor of Biology and the Environment, Georgetown University. He is a senior scientist emeritus and the former director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. His research in avian conservation science has three broad themes, including the ecology of migratory birds, urban ecosystem ecology, and disease ecology.

Marra’s primary interests lie in understanding the factors that control population persistence and dynamics, so his research examines the roles of climate, habitat, food, and pathogens, as well as other anthropogenic sources of mortality on the individual condition of both migratory and resident birds.

Marra’s research emphasizes incorporating events throughout the annual cycle to understand how more complex interactions across seasons drive the ecology and evolution of species, and he uses this information to find conservation solutions. To do this, he has developed and incorporated multiple novel and emerging tracking techniques into his research.

Marra has founded several large research and communication initiatives, including Neighborhood Nestwatch, The Migratory Connectivity Project, and the Animal Mortality and Monitoring Program. Communicating his science and his excitement for the conservation of wildlife to as wide an audience as possible, including the general public, is a high priority of his overall program.

Marra earned a B.S. from Southern Connecticut State University, a master’s from Louisiana State University and a PhD from Dartmouth College.

Paul Dobbins is the Vice President, Low Trophic Aquaculture, and the Senior Director, Impact Investments, at World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US.) He joined WWF to lead the global project, “Advancing Seaweed and Shellfish Aquaculture for Climate Change.” Paul provides thought leadership and financial expertise on how seaweed and shellfish aquaculture can be scaled for increased biomass production and excess nutrient remediation. A former shellfish and seaweed farmer, Paul led the development of the United States’ first open-ocean commercial kelp farms.

Prior to returning to the ocean, he was a Managing Director at IDEXX Laboratories, a publicly traded provider of products and services for animal health. Earlier in his career, Paul participated in the funding, growth, and sale of several consumer products and business-to-business companies.

Paul served on the advisory boards of NOAA’s Maine SeaGrant, the Aquaculture Research Institute at the University of Maine, the Maine Aquaculture Association, The Maine Technology Institute, Focus Maine, and the Conservation Law Foundation. He currently serves as a US Delegate to the ICES working group on offshore aquaculture and as an advisor to federally funded aquaculture research projects in North America and Europe. He earned a B.A. in Administrative Science from Colby College and an MBA from the University of Minnesota.

Molly Bartlett is a lawyer with extensive executive experience in community based international conservation. From 2015 through 2023, she was the Executive Director of the International Conservation Fund of Canada (ICFC) reporting to its Board of Directors, with overall responsibility for managing a distributed leadership team, overall strategy, communications, land acquisitions, and program design. In this role she helped deliver biodiversity conservation in terrestrial and marine ecosystems through over 40 local organizations in 28 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. She led a reorganization of ICFC, including the establishment of a US affiliate, and a subsequent expansion resulting in overall donor revenue growth of 300%.

She previously was a senior executive within the Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative (CCI) as Director of its Forestry Program, which had projects in Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Vietnam, and Indonesia. In this role she led collaborative programs with national governments and rural communities to develop large scale avoided deforestation, reforestation and landscape restoration projects for climate resilience and biodiversity conservation. Her team also established Moja Global, a non-profit entity to house and maintain free open-source software tools to enable developing countries to affordably measure and manage their emissions from the land sector.

Prior to her international work, she served on the Town of Duxbury’s Conservation Commission which included oversight of the Duxbury Beach Management Plan. She served pro bono as Pilgrim Watch’s attorney during its 2006 challenge to the relicensing of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth.

She now serves as the President of the U.S. based International Conservation Fund. Bartlett has a master’s degree in molecular biology and a degree in environmental law. She divides her time between homes in Boston, and Gurnet Point in Plymouth.