Our Earth Is 71% water!
Board Director Spotlight
Benadette is a passionate swimmer and a Red Cross certified Swim Safety Instructor. and a Red Cross licensed trainer. She is an award winning educator, having spent 30 years teaching secondary math in public schools.
She was awarded "Boston Educator of the Year (2012), the Computer Science Educator Award (2019), and is a three-time State of Massachusetts award recipient of the The Presidential Award in Math and Science Teaching (2011, 2014, 2023). She has a National Board Certificate in AYA- mathematics.
She is a NASA Ambassador, speaking to the general public on Nasa's space missions. When she is not swimming she consults math teachers on classroom best practices and social justice curriculum.
She is a mother and a grandmother.
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Board Secretary Spotlight
Sarah Barrington began swimming by accident in kindergarten and never looked back. She swam competitively through college.
She has taught many adults and children how to swim and has always felt passionate about everyone having access to the ability to learn this life skill.
Currently she teaches Biology in Boston, is a Red Cross CPR First Aid instructor, and still swims in her free time. duct or service you'd like to show.
We want you to be safe and comfortable in it!
Board Treasurer Spotlight
Michele Goe is an avid athlete (tennis, golf, cycling, and hiking) and a new swimmer. She enjoys the salty beaches in New England from spring to fall. The best part of swimming for Michele is the joy of movement in water. For Michele, swimming is a family affair, both of her children are avid swimmers on the local swim team.
Michele had water anxiety for years prior to taking lessons as a new parent. In late adulthood she began to resolve her fear and learn to swim, motivated by a desire to break the 'curse' of women in her family who are afraid of water and cannot swim.
Michele currently does asset allocation research at a trillion dollar asset manager in Boston. Dr. Goe is the author of several academic papers on sustainability policy. She earned her doctorate in materials science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Goe has master's and bachelor's degrees in engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.