Rachel has been a teacher in the Chatham, MA schools for over 30 years. She currently teaches English and serves as the Instructional Technology Coordinator at Monomoy Regional High School. She’s also taught at the middle school level. In addition to teaching English and serving as past Department Chair, she’s taught Humanities and served as faculty advisor for Drama Club productions. She holds a B.A./M.A. in English Education, Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Connecticut. She is a strong supporter of civic education and has long served as a mentor for Project Citizen, program also sponsored by the national Center for Civic Education and the Massachusetts Center for Civic Education.

Roger is the President of MACCE and the Massachusetts State Coordinator for We The People. He is a retired teacher of history and government as well as French, Spanish, Latin and English at Millbury Memorial High School. He was a 2001 James Madison Fellow who holds an M.A. in Political Science from Boston University (2004), an M.A. in Education Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1973) and a B.A. in History from Assumption University (1970). He is a past president of the Massachusetts Council for Social Studies (2008) and has served as a mentor, facilitating mentor, assistant director and director of multiple institutes throughout the country for the Center for Civic Education. He founded the MACCE in 2015 and started the Citizen Lyceum for adult learners in 2015 to complement We the People and Project Citizen programs that serve the upper elementary through senior high school grades. He is also a Vietnam veteran who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1970 through 1974.

Jamie Gass is the Director of the Center for School Reform at the Pioneer Institute, where he has driven a robust agenda on education reform. With over two decades of experience in public administration, he has previously worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Massachusetts Office of Educational Quality and Accountability. He has been a powerful voice in the debate on school choice, academic standards, and district accountability, regularly appearing on regional media and publishing in outlets such as The Economist and Education Next. He holds a BA in International Relations from Boston University. He has been involved with the We the People program for over 20 years and joined MACCE’s board at its founding in 2015.

Caitlin A. Johnston is the Chief People Officer & General Counsel of The Shade Store, a purveyor of custom window treatments made in the USA with over 150 showrooms nationwide. Caitlin has lived and worked as an attorney in New York City, first in private practice and then in-house, since she graduated cum laude from Boston University Law School in 2012. Caitlin holds Bachelor’s degrees with Honors in Finance and Business Economics & Public Policy from Indiana University Bloomington's Kelley School of Business.  Caitlin is a proud three-time We the People alumna, having participated as an elementary, middle, and high school student in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  She has been involved with the program as a judge for State and National WTP competitions for over 15 years and has served on the Board of the Massachusetts Center for Civic Education since 2015.  

Matthew was a member of the Class of 2001 at Millbury Memorial High School and competed in the state We The People competition. He has been an active member of MACCE and a facilitator at the state competition each year. Matthew has been a leader in the field of Public Accounting for over a decade. He obtained a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) from Nichols College with a double major focused in Accounting and Finance. Matthew authored The Wretched Road to Success in 2015 - a book that explores business and management theories. In 2020 Matthew was named as one of the “Forty Under 40” by the Worcester Business Journal.

Sean is a Sales Planning Manager at New Balance in Boston, MA. With a background of over 20 years in the Sporting Goods Industry, Sean brings his passion for athletics to the business world. A graduate of Stonehill College (B.A. American History) and Northeastern University’s D'Amore-McKim School of Business (M.B.A), Sean’s passion for civic education has endured since he was young. He participated in the We the People competition in 2001 and has since kept active with the competition as a volunteer. Sean has been a member of the MACCE Board since 2023.

Richard Moore established himself as a university administrator before serving for decades in elected offices in Massachusetts, beginning with three terms as a Selectman. Fellow state municipal leaders named him President of the Massachusetts Selectmen’s Association (now the Massachusetts Municipal Association). 

From 1977 to 1994, Moore was a nine-term member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a member of the 1992 Presidential Electoral College. In 1994, President Clinton nominated him to serve as Associate Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He led efforts to develop a National Mitigation Strategy - a nationwide plan to help individuals, communities, and states reduce the risk of disaster from natural and technological hazards. 

He was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1996. He was Chair of the Health Care Financing and was promoted to President Pro Tempore, the Senate’s third highest ranking position. Dick was also elected President of the National Conference of State Legislatures. 

He has been a tireless advocate for issues that impact everyday life. Dick has been a leader in civic education for decades and is a founding member of MACCE’s board.

Ellen, a retired teacher, has been involved in the field of education for over 35 years. She holds a B.A. in History from Newton College of the Sacred Heart and an M.A. in Middle School Philosophy from Lesley University. Ellen taught American history and civics for thirteen years in Plymouth Public Schools. As a classroom teacher, she was named Social Studies Middle School Teacher of the Year by the Massachusetts

Council for Social Studies in 2000. After retiring she became the Massachusetts State Coordinator for, We the People: Project Citizen. For the past 18 years, she has promoted civic education and trained teachers in the Project Citizen curriculum. She has participated in a research program through Georgetown University validating the effectiveness of Project Citizen. Though she recently retired from the State Coordinator’s position, she remains deeply committed to civic education.

Ed is the Civic Engagement Manager at Revolutionary Spaces, the organization charged with stewardship of Boston’s Old State House and

Old South Meeting House. Currently overseeing the organization’s government and community relations efforts, as well its civic education

programming, public programs, and special events, Ed has spent the past two decades in the field of civic education and engagement. Elected to his

local School Committee in 2015, and thereafter twice serving as Committee Chair, Ed continued his civic education and engagement work as a member of the education team at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate. Prior to joining Revolutionary Spaces, Ed also created a

first-in-the-nation civic education program for incarcerated persons at the Middlesex County Jail in Billerica, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and New England Law, Boston, and is an active member of the leadership team at the Massachusetts Civic Learning Coalition, a statewide advocacy group committed to the advancement of civic education and engagement in the Massachusetts K-12 school system.

Diane has been an educator throughout her adult life. She taught English and Social Studies at the secondary school level in Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala. She also served as a secondary school curriculum writer focusing mainly on social studies and history. She served as a principal and school director in Quito, Ecuador and Antigua, Guatemala. She is a fluent Spanish speaker and authored materials for use in teaching civic education throughout Latin America. In the United States Diane taught in the Belmont, MA Public Schools. She served as the Massachusetts State Coordinator for both the We the People and the Project Citizen programs under the umbrella of the Massachusetts Center for Civic Education.

Zachary graduated from Stonehill College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations, and later obtained his Juris Doctor from New England School of Law Boston.  He currently works in the energy industry, and possesses more than twelve years of professional experience working in government affairs, communications, and policy roles, including the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He is a former member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth.