Pamela Seigle is a former classroom teacher, school psychologist, and staff developer. She helped develop the Open Circle Curriculum, a character-building program. Presently, Pamela is the founder and executive director of the Reach Out to Schools Social Competency Program and a community activist in Boston. She is president of the Community Playground Project, Inc.
Ellen McGill, an artist and activist and West Roxbury resident, has worked on many community art projects. In 1996, Ellen organized local children to paint the Billings Field House mural, one of the centerpieces of a well-loved and well-used community space. Formerly an art teacher in the Boston Public Schools, Ellen continues to show her work at the West Roxbury Library and local galleries. In 1986, she began her business of wedding flowers, Flowers and Finery. In the 1990s, Ellen began teaching art to children in small classes in her studio and annually offers a full scholarship to a student at West Roxbury’s R. G. Shaw School. In 1999 she painted a mural with children at the Stonehedge Nursing Home. With other parents, Ellen organized the first major landscaping of a Boston Public schoolyard at the Lewenberg School in Mattapan. She is an active volunteer for the AIDS Action Committee and a literacy volunteer in the Boston Public Schools.
