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New Sector Staff
Carlin (Carly) Janson, CEO and Founder
Carly Janson is New Sector's CEO and Founder and also currently serves as the organization's California Executive Director. Janson has fifteen years of social entrepreneurship experience and five years of private sector consulting experience. Janson founded New Sector in 2000 as a way to bridge social divides by leveraging the resources of academia, business, and the nonprofit sector. She incorporated New Sector as a social enterprise consulting firm in 2001. Janson's work over the past decade has primarily focused on developing strategies and executing change initiatives in the field of social impact, including work with NGOs, for-profit companies, public sector agencies, and cross-sector partnerships. Janson has also consulted to Fortune 100 companies in the financial services and telecommunications industries. Janson holds a BA in Economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has studied International Economics and The Economics of Social Problems at the London School of Economics. She was recently elected a Center for Social Innovation Fellow at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Janson currently serves on the boards of New Sector and The Rappaport Institute, co-teaches a course on Consulting to Nonprofits at Harvard, and guest lectures at several other academic institutions.
Laura Clancy, Managing Director
Laura Clancy is New Sector's Managing Director and Boston office Executive Director. Clancy is a nonprofit strategy consultant with over a decade of experience working in and with high-performing organizations. Most recently, she worked with the Bridgespan Group; her clients there included the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Boston Foundation, College Summit, Communities in Schools, and Center for Health Care Strategies. She has also worked as a development and strategy consultant at New Visions for Public Schools, best known as the main conduit for Gates education funding for New York City, and with at Community Resource Exchange, a management consulting firm focusing on grassroots nonprofits in NYC. She has served as Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations of the national office of Big Brothers Big Sisters. Clancy is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University where she was awarded their annual Women’s Leadership Award, Donald W. Moreland Award for Public Service, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Boston Summer Public Service Fellowship and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, where she was a William Randolph Hearst Scholar.
Carole Carlson, Senior Director
Carole Carlson is a strategy specialist with over twenty-five years of experience working with nonprofit and corporate management teams and public sector agencies. In addition to her work at New Sector, Carole is a faculty member at The Heller School of Brandeis University where she teaches Social Entrepreneurship, Strategic Managment and Consulting Skills in the MBA program. She also works with the Harvard Business School where she provides coaching to executive education participants on leadership development. Prior to these roles, Carlson was as a Principal and Project Leader for The Parthenon Group, where she directed numerous client engagements in a wide range of industries, including nonprofit, government, education, medical devices, insurance, information, and served as the firm’s subject matter expert on post-merger integration. Carlson holds a a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She is past President and Advisory Board Chair of the Harvard Business School Women's Association (women’s alumnae network) and an active volunteer in her community.
Steve Stanton, Senior Director
Steve Stanton is a senior director at New Sector with over thirty years of experience as a consultant, author, educator, and public speaker. Most recently, Stanton led New Sector's engagement with two leading HIV/AIDS organizations leading to their decision to merge as well as a strategic planning project for an innovative education client. He also helps New Sector to structure engagements and match clients with talent for New Sector’s Residency in Social Enterprise and Summer Fellows programs. Prior to joining New Sector, Stanton ran his own consulting firm, Stanton and Associates, and worked as a Senior Vice President at The Concours Group as well as Managing Director at Hammer and Company. Stanton started his career at CSC Index, where he became partner and led dozens of successful consulting assignments in a wide variety of industries. He holds a BA from Berklee College of Music and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Stanton’s publications include the best-selling “The Reengineering Revolution” published by HarperBusiness, and “How Process Organizations Really Work” Harvard Business Review. Stanton serves as Chairman of the Board for Community Action Partners (CAP), Harvard Business School’s alumni nonprofit consulting organization.
Paul D'Andrea, Senior Director
Following a 30 year career in marketing, business development and operational leadership, Paul D’Andrea is now using his extensive experience to help mission driven organizations succeed. Paul developed his skills working in and leading consulting engagements with companies like Clairol, Kraft Foods and Fujifilm. He has run major divisions of large multinationals, nurtured start-ups and helped small and mid-sized organizations grow by generating the efficiencies and insights that allow them to invest in their people, products and programs. Paul’s non profit experience includes consulting and advisory activities with a range of organizations including NFTE, Public PREP, Year Up, Park City Prep, the Social Enterprise Institute Leadership Program and mytown. His work with nonprofits focuses on helping them expand their reach and impact. He assists in developing practical, actionable strategic and annual plans, conducting operating reviews and identifying and implementing the programs and activities that improve how organizations communicate with and help their clients. Paul holds a BA from Fordham University and MBA from the Fordham University Graduate School of Business at Lincoln Center.
Hollis Van Inwagen, Senior Manager
Hollis Van Inwagen manages New Sector’s custom consulting engagements in partnership with Senior Directors and oversees the selection, placement, and management of over 50 AmeriCorps members with nonprofit client organizations across the greater Boston community. Van Inwagen takes great pride in facilitating relationships between today’s community leaders and tomorrow’s social change innovators. She also oversees the fiscal and operational administration of New Sector, runs the highly-competitive Summer Fellows program, and acts as the staff liaison to New Sector’s growing alumni community. Recent project work includes investigation and execution of strategic alliances in the nonprofit community for greater impact. Van Inwagen has represented New Sector at public forums including the Boston Foundation. She brings experience in Public Relations at one of New York’s oldest arts-in-education organizations to New Sector, as well as a love of the outdoors and small mountain towns in Colorado. Van Inwagen holds an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard University.
Ariel Harms, AmeriCorps Member Development Consultant
Ariel Harms, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, works with New Sector to strengthen and deliver high quality training to our AmeriCorps Members. After years of direct work with youth and children—ranging from nannying for autistic twins, to directing summer programs for urban youth, to teaching English to eleventh and twelfth graders at South Boston High School—she now specializes in training, assessment and organizational development for nonprofits. In September of 2006, Harms joined the Phillips Brooks House Association's permanent professional staff as the organization’s first Student Development Coordinator. Her primary roles include developing and implementing training and reflection opportunities for student volunteers and leaders. She also heads up evaluation efforts for the nonprofit. Harms also served as the first Program Manager for Strong Women, Strong Girls where she helped establish the program in Pittsburgh and grow offerings in Boston. Harms graduated from Harvard University with a BA in Sociology and MA teaching licensure. She also holds an M.Ed in Instructional Design from UMass Boston.
Elizabeth McKenna, Program Associate
Californian Liz McKenna joined New Sector in early 2010 as the Special Assistant to the CEO and Program Associate. In addition to serving as the main point of contact for Carly Janson, McKenna manages the placement of New Sector's AmeriCorps members at their nonprofit host sites and actively develops relationships with a variety of stakeholders in order to build New Sector’s presence in communities throughout the Bay Area. Prior to New Sector, McKenna worked on e-democracy and community organizing initiatives in several slum communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and as a Field Organizer for the Obama campaign in Port Clinton, Ohio. McKenna also served as a Summer Associate at Ashoka in both 2006 and 2007, where she did extensive field and translation work for Fellows throughout Latin America. McKenna holds a BA in Social Studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, where she was named an Elliot and Anne Richardson Public Service Fellow.
Diana Johnson, Operations Associate
Diana Johnson, a native of San Luis Obispo, California, serves as a part-time Operations Associate at New Sector's San Francisco office. Johnson is an AmeriCorps alum with over five years of experience in administrative and operations management roles in the nonprofit and public sectors and over fifteen years of experience serving disadvantaged youth. In addition to working for New Sector, Johnson currently manages a childcare center in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Johnson holds a BA in Political Science with an emphasis in Public Administration from California Polytechnic State University, where she earned special recognition for her community service contributions and worked full-time while attending school full-time.
Michael Lin, Operations Intern
Michael Lin is a senior at UC Berkeley working towards his degrees in Chinese, Psychology, and Rhetoric. He has been involved with many leadership training and development programs through the Center for Student Leadership where he is currently a student program coordinator. Since joining New Sector in June 2010, he has been supporting the launch of the 2010-2011 RISE program in San Francisco by doing research and organizing data on non-profits in the area. Michael is interested in the idea of social innovation and community empowerment through facilitation and capacity building. In the future, he hopes to pursue an MBA and work in the field of leadership development and organizational consulting with a focus on the social and public sectors.
Residents In Social Enterprise
Daniel Adler, Year Up
Derica Arceneaux, Just A Start
Moeena Das, Partners In Health
Rhett Dornbach-Bender, Nuestra Communidad Development Corporation
Mary Dory, Boston Senior Home Care
Peter Fishman, New Schools Venture Fund
Sumeet Goil, Project For School Innovation
David Greis, Partners In Health
Chenxing Han, Somerville Community Corporation
Tyneisha Harden, Diploma Plus
Marcus Haymon, Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Marilyn Hylton, Education Pioneers
Peter Kramer, Nonprofit Finance Fund
Carlos Livingston, City Year
Kendra Moore, New Sector Alliance
Kalaya Okereke, FSG Social Impact Advisors
Samantha Pierre, Education Development Group
Paul Teplitz, Building Impact
Mollie West, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
Erin Wilson, Boston Veterans Association Research Institute
Ashlee Yates, Stand For Children
Patrick Ziemnik, Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
