Gregory Chery serves as Minds Matter Boston’s Executive Director. A native of Haiti, Gregory has dedicated his career to furthering educational equity. He brings over a decade of experience in higher education, most recently as the Senior Associate Director of Admissions at Dartmouth College and the President of the Northeast Consortium Bridging Access to College. Gregory began his career in undergraduate admissions at his alma mater, Centre College. After five years, Gregory transitioned to student affairs serving as the Director of the Bonner Scholars Program, which provides diverse and low-income students with access to education and an opportunity to serve. After Centre, Gregory served as the Associate Dean of Multicultural Recruitment at Providence College, overseeing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr Scholarship. A first-generation college student and Boston Public Schools alumnus, Gregory returns home to Boston and brings a deep personal connection to MMB’s mission. He received his M.Ed. in Higher Education from Providence College and his BA in Philosophy from Centre College.

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Lindsey serves as Minds Matter Boston’s Director of Programs. She brings over 15 years of experience working in education primarily as a bilingual high school teacher and administrator. She has worked with talented educators and served students and families in Zacatecas, Mexico, Lynn, MA, and Denver, CO. She has returned home to the Boston area to support MMB’s work to build a sustainable, culturally responsive program for and with our communities. She received her M.Ed from Boston University with a focus in Curriculum and Instruction and her B.A.S from the University of Richmond where she majored in Sociology with a minor in Spanish and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

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Meredith Traquina serves as Minds Matter Boston's Director of Development. A native of the Greater Boston area, she is a proud AmeriCorps member alum and serves on the Advisory Board of Empowering People for Inclusive Communities (EPIC), a service-learning organization for young adults with disabilities. Most recently, she acted as Senior Director of Corporate & Foundations Partnerships at City Year Greater Boston. Her own formative experiences in education – both as a teacher and student - have inspired her to make those same experiences possible for all students. She studied Education at Bates College and was named Bates’ Young Alumni of the Year in 2019, having chaired the College’s largest business network. She completed her Master’s in Social Work at Boston College with a focus on community organizing, public policy, and nonprofit management.

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Rudy Luders serves as Minds Matter Boston’s Associate Director of College and Career Success. He brings over 10 years of college access and success supporting low-income, underrepresented, and underserved learners from Boston Public School and Cambridge Public Housing. He is a first-generation Haitian-American College Graduate and a proud Boston Public School Alumni, a podcaster, and a TEDx organizer who brings joy, passion and energy to the forefront of any project. He strive to foster a sense of community wherever he goes.

Inspired by his undergraduate experience, he developed a deep dedication to education and a strong commitment to empower low-income, underrepresented, and underserved learners and their caregivers to have a clear understanding of the financial cost of college while supporting learners in navigating challenges that may endure their college persistence or retention. He is passionate about helping young men of color develop a stronger positive sense of self, strong financial literacy, and connect to community values.

He is a part-time graduate student and will complete his Master’s in Education Leadership from Harvard University in May 2024. He received a B.S. in Biology from Suffolk University.

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Magnoly serves as Minds Matter Boston’s College Access Program Manager. A native of Lawrence, Massachusetts, her experiences as a first-generation low-income college student have inspired her passion for accessibility in higher education. Prior to joining the MMB team, Magnoly sat on admission teams at Merrimack College, Wheaton College, and most recently Providence College, where she worked to empower students on the path to college success. She received a B.S. in Business Management & Finance from Providence College in 2019 and M. Ed. in Higher Education, Student Affairs from Merrimack College in 2020.

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Juanita Murcia serves as Minds Matter Boston's Assistant to the Executive Director. As an immigrant born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, she has been inspired to work for education accessibility for everybody and brings a great amount of passion and determination to MMB. Before starting her role at MMB, Juanita was an arts teacher and Marketing Assistant at ARCK, and a Social Service leader in Colombia, where she worked hard to empower and give her students a voice and the accessibility to a better education. She studied Music Business and Contemporary Writing and Production at Berklee College of Music and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the institution.

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Alyssa Perea serves as Minds Matter Boston’s Program Coordinator. She joined the MMB team after completing a year of service with the Massachusetts Promise Fellowship at the Margarita Muñiz Academy. Originally from Boston, Alyssa is a Minds Matter Boston alum and graduated from the program in 2017. Her passion for working with youth and belief in educational equity inspired her to support other first-generation college students by creating college-access programming that effectively prepares them for the world of higher education. She attended Williams College, where she studied American Studies with a concentration in Latinx Studies.

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