Please tell us about yourself (in 200 words). Include the following information:
- Where you currently live and where you are from
- Educational background: universities attended and areas of study
- Profession(s) (prior or current)
- Personal interests/hobbies/family
Margaret Woolley Busse
I have lived in Brookline for the past 4.5 years, and before that lived in Boston, Cambridge, and the DC area. However, I am originally from Salt Lake City. I studied Economics and Public Policy at Brigham Young University, and then obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School.
I’ve worked in the non-profit and public sectors; however, currently, I am working in the home sector, with three kids, at home right now: Gretel, 3.8 years, Peter, 21 months, and William, 1 month!
Hobbies that I still claim, however unpracticed in recent years, are: singing, dancing, skiing, waterskiing, hiking, musical theater, and travelling.
I am originally from No.Cal./Utah, but I have lived in Massachusetts sporadically since 1988. My current stint began in 1997.
Education: Wellesley College (English and political science), University of Cambridge (political theory), Stanford Law School.
I worked for five years at Boston law firms (Testa Hurwitz, Goodwin Procter), then spent three years at home managing education and therapy for a son with learning disabilities. I currently do independent research on religious liberties and obscenity laws as an Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School. I am also very engaged politically.
I have four wonderful children, ages 2-10, and spend my free time teaching them. Hobbies: music (vocal, choral, piano), reading, travel, opera, ballet, cycling, hiking, rock-climbing (um, 20 lbs ago).
I grew up in Lexington, MA and currently reside in Watertown. I studied marketing at UMass/Amherst and obtained an MBA from Babson Graduate School of Management in Wellesley.
I’ve been in beverage sales for the past 10 years. Most recently I’ve accepted a position with Sara Lee/Coffee & Tea Division as a Key Account Manager responsible for chain accounts in five states.
I am mommy to daughter, Maya who just turned three years old. Free time isn’t what it used to be! Currently I’m VP/Membership for my temple’s Sisterhood. I also run a monthly group for toddlers at the temple where they learn about holidays.
In the past I’ve enjoyed wind-surfing, roller-blading, power-walking, theatre, black-tie fundraisers and beaches! I took guitar lessons a couple of years ago, but of course have no time to practice! I would love to take a class in photography and mosaic art someday!
I grew up in Salt Lake City and currently live in Belmont. I first made my way east for college at Harvard, where I studied History and Literature. After working as an information technology consultant for a small firm in Manhattan, I returned to Boston for two years at Harvard Business School.
I’ve been working for UnitedHealth Group for the past four years, first in Business Development/ M&A and now in Product Management. I am intrigued by the challenges of the healthcare industry.
In October I joyfully celebrated the first anniversary of my marriage to Lars Nielsen, who occasionally reminds me that the weather is much warmer in his hometown of Modesto, California.
I enjoy playing the piano, jogging (now and again), singing, and taking ballroom dance classes with Lars.
Laura Carter Whiteley
I grew up in New Hampshire and have lived in Boston form the last 2.5 years. I then studied Economics at Brigham Young University and received a Masters in Public Policy from Duke University. My former professional life included working as a health care consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, in health policy for the New Jersey Hospital Association, and as a policy analyst for the non-partisan research wing of the Virginia General Assembly. Currently, I am at home with my daughter, Emma, who is almost 3 and my son, Carter, who is 3 weeks. My hobbies include music (violin, voice), reading, writing, theatre (as a well-informed observer!), dance, exercise, and travel.
Whitney L. Johnson
I have lived in Boston Metro-West since 2001; during the 1990’s I lived in Manhattan, the 1980s in Utah, with a 2-year stint in South America; grew up in San Jose, CA; and was born in Madrid, Spain.
I graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.A. in music, minor in English, and have completed graduate coursework at Stern School of Business.
My professional life has been on Wall Street; when I retired last year, I was the senior Latin American telecom and media analyst for Merrill Lynch. Currently I am pursuing various entrepreneurial ideas. For more details on our family’s life in the past year, you may want to read the Worcester T&G article.
http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061018/NEWS/610180709/1116
My husband Roger and I have been married 20 years in February; we have two children David (10) and Miranda (6).
My #1 hobby is figuring out how to brand people, companies, stocks, ideas. I’m taking singing lessons; and I really want to learn to do the rumba.
I am a native of New York but I have been living in the Boston area for over half a decade. I began my career in Finance for Marriott International and then moved to be analyst for Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette (which was acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston). I
met my husband in the Manhattan Singles Ward and relocated to Boston for his doctoral work. Since moving to the Boston area, I have worked for PerkinElmer, The Timberland Company and I currently working for Fidelity Management and Research Company as a Director of Management Effectiveness.
I have a passion for travel and due to the global nature of my work, I have been able to supplement my avid passion with travel in Europe, Asia and Africa. I have had the opportunity of teaching undergraduate Finance classes (for Suffolk University) in Dakar, Sengal (Africa). I have an undergraduate degree from The Pennsylvania State University (magna cum laude) and a graduate degree from Cornell University.
I grew up in many cities across the country, from Boston to Seattle (plus a year in Aberdeen, Scotland). As an adult, I have lived and worked in Los Angeles and New York City, moving to Belmont 2.5 years ago, when I married my husband, Mark.
I am a journalist. At CBS News in NY, I anchored, with Bryant Gumble, a morning program called The Early Show. Before that, I was a network correspondent at ABC News, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Good Morning America.
I left my career to mother 2-year old Ella and 1-year old William. I just wrote a book titled, I Am a Mother, to be published by Deseret Book in March.
I am originally from Minas, Uruguay, but have lived in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Argentina and Utah. My husband (Josh) and I currently live in Melrose, MA and are going on 5+ years in the Boston Metro Area.
I first came to the US to attend Brigham Young University, where I graduated with a B.A. in Marketing Communications I’ve worked in the field of advertising/social marketing for the past six years. Prior to my transition into freelance copywriting, I worked as an Account Manager for GEOVISION, Inc. developing social marketing campaigns for clients including the Mass Department of Public Health, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Environmental Trust.
I have a 2-year-old son–Julian and another on the way. My hobbies include writing, reading, cooking, travel, music (very rusty piano and voice), languages, and Latin and ballroom dancing.
I grew up mostly in the Intermountain West (Montana, Utah and Arizona) and graduated from high school in Lincoln, Nebraska. I have been in the Boston area for 5 years but have yet to call it home.
I graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in statistics and from Ohio State with a master’s degree in statistics. I am considering going back to school to obtain a graduate degree in history.
I came to Boston because I wanted to live in a place rich with history. I am a biostatistician at Tufts-NEMC and have worked there 5 years.
Hobbies include reading, learning about history (the colonial era is my passion), travel, and trying to be crafty by making bracelets, scrapbooks and cards.
Here is a sample of my adventurous side: In September, my husband, Jamie, and I took our kids (Hazel(4) and Robert(2)) on a week long biking/camping tour of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. We hardly trained, yet were able to leave from and return to our Cambridge home on our bikes, pulling the kids in a trailer! We loved sleeping outside and hearing Eastern Screech Owls at night. For us, that adventure was Tops.
I grew up in Tempe, AZ; Durham, NC; and Santa Cruz, CA. I am a violinist and musician who thoroughly enjoyed learning all the band and orchestral instruments for my Bachelor’s Degree in Music at BYU. I will study more music, after the fun of being with these two little people shortens as they enter school. For now, I’m trying to learn the bagpipes made for me by my Father-in-Law. I’m also finally becoming a real pianist (meaning, I’m getting used to missing notes in front of people while they’re singing instead of just being content to make mistakes alone in my living room).
A Massachusetts native, I was born in Springfield, the hometown of basketball and all things dysfunctional in public education. My parents hauled us off to the suburbs before major damage occurred in the classroom. Boston is where young people from the Springfield area move to after college. It has a different feel than “the BYU”, which I enjoyed, but not at first.
Political Science seemed an appropriate major for someone with aspirations of becoming a lawyer. (My attorney father was tired of fielding phone calls every time I encountered someone with legal troubles). After college, I served a mission in Panama and when I returned taught high school Spanish. After that, high school cooking and despite learning everything a day before the students, I discovered a passion for teaching. Taking a pragmatic approach to graduate school, I obtained a job at Boston University in order to subsidize my master’s degree. I haven’t taught formally since I had Andrew (4) and Sydney (1).
I enjoy novels, politics, dance and movies (but only if they are fabulous). I have been reading tirelessly about nutrition, which has resulted in many diet changes. Changes have not been a huge hit with my husband, Chris.
South Boston has been my home for 6 of the 7 years I have lived in Massachusetts. I tell people that I am from Reno, Nevada even though I spent 13 formative years in Lompoc, California (near Santa Barbara).
I received a B.S. in Psychology from BYU. The majority of my undergraduate clinical research background consisted in diagnostic assessments of trauma (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) in adolescents and their teachers in postwar Bosnia/Croatia. At first, I had the goal of obtaining a Ph.D, but a year after moving to Boston decided to reconsider my choice of discpline to better meet the needs of an underserved population, (psychotherapy with children and families). I obtained a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work from Simmons College in 2003. Shortly thereafter I became a fulltime mother to my boys, Mackay (3.5) and Grant (11mos).
My hobbies include designing jewelry (more often for friends and less often for stores), reading novels, learning about skincare, knitting, looking for recipes and baking. I am always looking for the next physical challenge and I am considering adventure racing. While dating, my husband and I would spent most of our time together road biking, but that was almost a decade ago.