The Community Foundation for Nantucket is governed by a Board of Trustees, which provides strategic oversight, ensures effective governance, and guides the foundation’s mission and operations. The Board is responsible for setting policies, overseeing financial management, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the funds entrusted to the foundation.
Our Board is composed of dedicated community leaders from across the country, each committed to enhancing the vitality of Nantucket’s nonprofits and the well-being of the island’s residents.
Officers
Michael Cozort, President
Michael has spent his professional life in education as a teacher, coach, principal and superintendent of schools in a career spanning forty years. Most recently he was the Superintendent for the Nantucket Public Schools for ten years. Following his retirement, Michael joined Thekla Shackelford and Pauline Proch in creating Our House, a place for Nantucket’s teens. He now serves on their Board of Directors.
Michael’s participation on island boards has included the Nantucket Historical Association, the Harvey Foundation, the Nantucket Education Trust, and Addiction Solutions of Nantucket. He has been a member of the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation’s Scholarship Committee for fifteen years. In addition, he serves as the president of the Nantucket Parks & Recreation Commission.
Michael lives on Nantucket with his wife, Martha. They have two daughters, Abigail and Elizabeth, and enjoy visits from their four grandchildren.
Pammy Brooks Griffin, Vice President
Pammy Griffin has been on the island for over 50 years, first as a seasonal resident and now as a year-round resident. She had a successful 30-year career in the media business in New York in both Marketing and Human Resources roles. In senior HR leadership roles, she provided strategic direction to senior management in a number of key areas, including organizational structure, integration of acquisition companies, executive professional development, performance management, and training and development.
Additionally, Pammy was also a partner with a large global search firm in New York City and also a Principal with a boutique firm. Griffin graduated from Bowdoin College with a BA in History.
Pammy has been an active member of the Nantucket Community for many years as both a volunteer and Board member. In addition to the Community Foundation for Nantucket, Pammy is also on the Board of the Egan Maritime Institute.
Griffin has also been a long-time volunteer for Nantucket Community Sailing and Swim Across America. In addition, she has been a Nantucket town election volunteer for many years. She has also been a past Patient to Patient volunteer with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Tom Anathan, Treasurer
Tom is a retired Managing Director of UBS Realty Investors who served on its Investment Committee and headed all marketing, client relations, communications and reporting for over 30 years. He has been a Board Member of numerous charitable organizations including Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum (oldest public art museum in the United States), The Mark Twain House, and the Nantucket Historical Association ( Treasurer and Member of its Executive Committee ). Both Tom’s family and his wife’s family have been summer and/or year round residents of Nantucket for over 60 years and have actively supported many other Nantucket charitable organizations during that time.
Lisa Botticelli, Secretary
Lisa was born in Louisiana and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1980 She left Hawaii to attend college at the Rhode Island School of Design where she met her husband Ray. After a living in Boston for 5 years they moved to the island in June of 1991. They both fell in love with living on Nantucket with their small family and started Botticelli and Pohl in 1994. Lisa and Ray have two daughters, Camille and Phoebe, and two adorable pugs named Timothy and Wesley. She has served on the Zoning Board of Appeals for the past 15 years and enjoys biking and tennis in her spare time.
Trustees
Georgine Anton
Georgine Anton and her husband, Frank, bought their first summer home on Nantucket in 2002. Over the years, the Antons have evolved into year round residents (with a few months in Florida). Georgine had a 30 year career in marketing and advertising. She is an avid tennis and pickleball player. She has been a proud member of the Board of Trustees for the past two years. She also chairs the Development Committee, and serves on the Executive Committee to support CFN’s ongoing strategic initiatives.
Jamie Foster
Jamie Foster is the CEO of the Nantucket Boys & Girls Club. He has been with the Club since 2006 and has been involved with the design of the current facility, developing an employee housing plan, enhancing program curriculum, and creating collaborative relationships with a number of other island organizations.
He has a BS from University of Mary Washington and an MS from Western Kentucky University.
He serves on a number of island boards and was awarded the Nantucket Advocate for Children Award in 2011 by the Nantucket Community School. Jamie and his wife, Courtney, a guidance counselor at Nantucket High School, live with their two sons on Nantucket.
Ellen Hoeffel
Ellen Hoeffel is a retired Human Resources professional who spent her career in the retail and fashion business. Her roles have spanned Employee Relations, Labor Relations, Recruitment and Benefits Planning, and Administration for Ann Taylor, Brooks Brothers, Saks Fifth Avenue and others. Ellen graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in British and American Literature.
A summer resident of Nantucket since 2004, Ellen has served as a Trustee of the Community Foundation for Nantucket since 2012 serving on the Development Committee, Grants Committee and as Chair of the Scholarship Committee.
Ellen and her husband, Christopher, have two adult children who have loved the island since they were toddlers. Her free time is spent boating, golfing, tennis, pickleball and stitching.
Rachel Hobart
Wendy Hudson
Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Wendy Morton Hudson is a graduate of Hawken School, Smith College, and Babson College’s Olin School of Business. She came to Nantucket for the summer in 1988 after attending the Williams College/Mystic Seaport Semester in American Maritime Studies, and has lived on the island year-round since 1992.
She and her husband Randy co-founded and co-own Cisco Brewers and Triple Eight Distillery, and Wendy owns Nantucket Bookworks and Mitchell’s Book Corner. With twenty years of small business, non-profit, and civic experience (she is a board member of the Nantucket Book Foundation, the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce, and the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, and is a former trustee of the Nantucket Historical Association, a former member of the NP&EDC, and a past president of Sustainable Nantucket), Wendy loves collaborative efforts and looks forward to helping CFN further its remarkable work on behalf of the Nantucket community.
David Johnson
David Johnson has been involved in the financial services business in various capacities over the past 35 years and has served on many corporate and non-profit boards. He is currently a member of the Board of Regents of Sewanee: The University of the South, chairing the economic development committee, and serving on several other committees including the executive committee, the investment management committee, and the resources and operations committee, among others. He also is a founder and serves on the board of Sewanee Village Ventures, an entity of the University of the South whose mission is the pursuit of a vibrant and thriving university community.
He and his wife, Edie Carell Johnson, have been summer residents of Nantucket for 25 years and have supported many organizations and businesses on the island over the years. They have two adult children, both of whom have spent every summer they can remember on Nantucket, enjoying the community and camaraderie that the island offers.
Doug Kepple
Doug lives in New York City with his family. He was a managing director in Leverage Finance at Credit Suisse and he spends his summers on Nantucket. Doug serves on the Finance, Audit, and Development committees.
Rachel Mandle
Rachel is the Executive Director and CEO of the Sherburne Commons, independent-living community. She previously served as the Assistant Town Manager and Administrator of Our Island Home nursing home. Her leadership experience includes previously serving as the Assistant Town Manager, Nursing Home Administrator of Our Island Home, Human Services Director where she worked with many non-profits, and as a member of various boards on Nantucket. She has also contributed to the community as a member of the Community Foundation’s Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Finance Committee. A graduate from University of Connecticut in 2004 with a degree in Human Development and Family Services, Rachel lives year-round on Nantucket with her Husband and three girls.
Joe Manning
Grew up in Attica, NY, 30 miles from Buffalo. He earned a degree in
physical therapy from Daemen University in 1999. After living in Buffalo
moved to Nantucket in 2001 to take a job at NCH. In 2006 started
Manning and Associates Physical Therapy, which most recently was
performing 8000 pt visits per year for the nantucket community. In 2024
Manning and Associates PT was transitioned into NCH rehab services.
Joe is now a strategic consultant for Nantucket Cottage Hospital
focused on rehab services and orthopedic specialty services.
Joe is married to Molly Harding, a nurse practitioner at NCH. Molly and
Joe have two boys, now 14 and 11, Will and Hank. They attend the
Nantucket Public Schools.
Joe was trustee at the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club from 2011 to
2023 and is currently a board member at Sherburne Commons, since
Outside of board work he volunteers as a coach for NBGC flag
football, NBGC basketball and Nantucket Little League.
Melissa Philbrick
Growing up in Falmouth on Cape Cod, Melissa graduated as an American Civilization major from Brown University in 1979 and received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1984. In 1986, after practicing law in Boston for 2 years, Melissa moved to Nantucket with her husband, Nat, and their two young children. Here on Island her legal practice was primarily real estate and corporate (for-profit and non-profit) law based. She left the active practice of law in 2008 to become the founding Executive Director of ReMain Nantucket, from which position she retired in 2018 and now serves as a Strategic Advisor to ReMain. Melissa has been a member of a variety of Nantucket non-profit boards over the past 3 decades, including a prior stint on CFN’s board. She currently serves on the Boards of the Nantucket Cottage Hospital and the Cape Cod 5 Bank.
Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he teaches current and future leaders how to maintain spiritual and moral grounding in their work. He also teaches moral leadership at Harvard Law School. He serves on the Leadership Council for the Aspen Institute, where he also guides the Institute’s leadership seminars. His prior career included service at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served as lead counsel in constitutional litigation impacting national security and technology. He has served as counsel for Senators Ted Kennedy and Patrick Leahy, focusing on civil rights, voting rights, and national security issues. For 13 years he served as CEO and chair of Pilot Freight Services, a global logistics company.
His volunteer work on Nantucket includes work with his dog Noelle as a pet therapy team, and service on the board of directors of the Nantucket Boys and Girls Club.
Martha Polachi
Martha Johnson Polachi first experienced Nantucket in 1977 with her husband, Charley, and summered here for decades until moving to Sconset full time in 2012. After graduation from College of the Holy Cross, Martha worked in Human Resources for Raytheon Data Systems and Prime Computer.
An active alumna of Holy Cross, Martha served on several committees and task forces over the years and most recently was co-chair of the President’s Council for three years. A member of the Board of the Sconset Civic Association for 12 years, she served as President from 2015-2020, and presided over many projects in the village including the renovation of the Sconset Rotary. For several years, Martha served on the Board of Directors of the Nantucket Lightship Basket museum and the Advisory board of the Nantucket Community Music Center. She is actively involved with Nantucket Racquet Sports Association, helps at the Nantucket Food Pantry, and sings in the NCMC Women’s Chorus and the choir at St Mary’s of the Isle and Sconset Chapel.
Before moving to Nantucket, Martha volunteered for many organizations in Sherborn MA including the historic 1800 House, Sherborn Public Library, Sherborn Girl Scouts, and served as President of the Bogastow Garden Club, ECDC Nursery School, and Sherborn Newcomers Club.
Magdalena Reid
Magdalena Reid has been living on Nantucket for almost 20 years coming from Burlington, MA. She has worked for two local banks on Island for close to 15 years in various positions including management.
Currently working for Hanley Development managing day-to-day operations including financials, investor relations and anything and everything in between.
Magdalena has been on the board of CFN for several years and has really enjoyed being part of the Nantucket Fund Grants Committee and Scholarship Committee as it allowed her to really get to know our community better.
She enjoys staying active, cooking, traveling when time allows and spending time with her family including her two favorite 4 legged critters, Minnie and Louie.
Dr. Roberto Santamaría
Dr. Roberto Santamaría is the Chief Executive Officer of Fairwinds, Nantucket’s Counseling Center. He previously served as Director of Health and Human Services for the Town of Nantucket, guiding the island’s nationally recognized COVID-19 response. His career in public health leadership has also included senior roles in Framingham and Everett, Massachusetts, with expertise that earned him a spot in the de Beaumont Foundation’s 40 Under 40 in Public Health in 2025. He holds a Doctor of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, an MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Boston University, an MBA from Salve Regina University, and a BS in Molecular Biology and Microbiology from the University of Central Florida. Roberto and his family are deeply rooted in Nantucket, having lived on-island year-round for more than 10 years, and where his children were born at Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
Geoff Verney
Geoff is a retired sales and marketing executive of Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc. Having worked at Monadnock for 38 years, he continues to serve on the board.
In New Hampshire he served as president of the board of the Sharon Arts Center. He also served on several local boards including River Meade, a continuing care retirement community.
Geoff has spent a portion of each year of his life on Nantucket. He is a former president of the board of the Nantucket Historical Association. He is a former commodore of the Nantucket Yacht Club and served on the board of Sherburne Commons. He is a former president of the Community Foundation for Nantucket.
Geoff is married to Elizabeth Thayer, and they split their time between Nantucket and Boca Grande, Florida.
Max Wolf
Max and his wife Olly moved to the island year-round in 2018, where he serves as Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. He currently serves as Chaplain of PASCON (palliative care) and Union Lodge (Masons), and is Fleet Chaplain of Nantucket Yacht Club. Max is the former President and now Vice-President of Nantucket Interfaith Council.