Staff Collective & Board

Worcester Roots Project Staff Collective
Because we believe in workplace democracy and co-operative jobs, Worcester Roots Project utilizes a horizontal Staff Collective structure. Staff Collective members share the role and duties of Executive Director.

Sharron Tetrault/ Co-Director, Green Co-op Development Coordinator
January, 2012. Sharron coordinates the Youth in Charge program and brings 20 years of social justice, facilitation & training, public policy advocacy and fundraising experience to Worcester Roots. Sharron is on the Green Jobs Coalition, a member of the City Manager’s Worcester Energy Task Force as well as the Worcester Green & Healthy Homes Coalition. She has spent her career working for economic security for all, from building coalition to address welfare, housing & unemployment issues to creating space for people to get actively involved with the decision-making processes that affect their lives. She holds a BA in Sociology from Framingham State College. Her education also includes the training-of-trainers at United for a Fair Economy and The Right Question Project, multiple Undoing Racism trainings from the People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond as well as strategic planning and non-violent communication.

Matt Feinstein / Co-Director, Media and Organizing Coordinator
A member of Worcester Roots Project since 2001 and on staff since January 2006, Matt is passionate about social and environmental justice organizing, worker cooperatives and supporting youth to become agents of change. Using documentary film as a tool for connecting social movements worldwide, Matt has collaborated on film projects with groups in Argentina, Brazil, and Worcester, MA. He is originally from Western Massachusetts and holds a BA in International Development and Social Change from Clark University. Matt is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Thidi Tshiguvho / Co-Director, Development and Research Coordinator
Thidi joined the Staff Collective in July 2011, bringing with her a great amount of experience in research, project management and development work. She also has a background in environmental sciences, having achieved a BS and a Masters in her home country of South Africa. Thidi has more recently been deeply involved in local environmental justice efforts, including being a program director at the Urban Ecology Institute, and African community organizations in Worcester. She has also done significant international work including administering the UNAIDS aids2031 project based at Clark University, where she also received a PhD in Geography. Thidi is passionate about community-based and participatory approaches to achieving environmental justice.

Worcester Roots Project Board of Directors
Worcester Roots Project emphasizes youth leadership on all levels of our organization, including our board. By pairing youth and adults in executive board roles, we support youth in taking ownership of the organization and building new skills.

Caitlin Dwyer-Huppert (Co-President)
Janice Serrano (Co-President)
Kim McCoy (Co-Treasurer)
Patricia Feraud (Co-Treasurer)
Sergio Castillo (Co-Secretary)
Matthew Feinstein
Shawn Foreman
Rebecca Rothberg
Averi Hamilton
Janice Nyameyke
Louise Dwyer
Sarah Assefa
Dorothy Swope
Raquel Castro
Douglass Frink