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About Us > Board of Directors

Jerry Roseman
Philadelphia Healthy Schools Initiative and Coalition

Jerry Roseman, M.Sc.I.H., has worked as a public health, environmental science and OS&H professional for 32 years. He's the Acting Director of Health & Safety for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and works on behalf of the American Federation of Teachers as well as other labor unions. He has conducted hundreds of IEQ-related worksite inspections & has collaborated with NIOSH and EPA and has taught courses for the Hahnemann University School of Public Health and other universities.

Sarah Woodhead
DLR Group, Retired

Sarah Woodhead, a principal in the DLR Group international architectural firm, returned to 21CSF in September 2018 after many years hiatus to serve as a member of our board. Sarah worked at 21st Century School Fund during the development of the Oyster Public/Private Partnership. After leaving to head up the DCPS Facilities Office for several years, Sarah spent nearly a decade overseas, designing K-12 schools. She has returned to continue architectural work in Washington. Sarahs children, now grown, each went to DCPS schools from PK through graduation.

Will Perkins
Senior Legislative Services Manager

Will recently relocated to Richmond, VA where he leads the City Council's policy team responsible for researching, drafting, and amending all local ordinances before the Council. Prior to moving to Richmond, he worked in a variety of local government roles in the District of Columbia including as a graduate intern and policy associate with 21csf. His most recent positions were committee director and deputy chief of staff with the Council of D.C., managing oversight of the District's Department of General Services as well as all education, parks, transportation, and public works policy in his member's district. 

Mary Filardo
Executive Director, 21st Century School Fund

Mary Filardo is a leading national authority and advocate for improving the equity, efficiency and quality of public school facilities.  She founded the 21st Century School Fund in 1994 to improve the policies and practice for planning, design, construction, management and financing for the District of Columbia public schools and then in 2001 started Building Educational Success Together (BEST) to work nationally on these issues.  She has written extensively on public school facility issues, and developed software to support long-range facilities master planning. She worked in the private sector in residential construction management and was an active parent advocate during the nineteen years her children were in the DC public schools. She received a BA in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College, is a Truman Scholar from the District of Columbia, and was awarded a MPP from the University of Maryland.