Meet Our Team
Jean Rhodes
Co-founderFrank L. Boyden Professor of Psychology University of Massachusetts Boston
Jean Rhodes is the Frank L. Boyden Professor of psychology and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based mentoring at UMass Boston. She has devoted her career to understanding and improving mentoring relationships, publishing over 250 peer-reviewed articles on the topic over the past three decades and have worked tirelessly to disseminate this work. This includes co-authoring the National Mentoring Partnership’s Elements of Effective Practice, which has been downloaded by more than 10 million practitioners worldwide, helping to establish Centers for Evidence Based Mentoring in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, creating the popular Chronicle of Evidence-Based mentoring, and publishing op-eds in the New York Times, Scientific American, the Boston Globe, and more.
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Nancy McNamara
Co-founderCEO & Founder, Academic Web Pages
Nancy founded Academic Web Pages in 2002. Previously, she worked for The Worx Group, as a Senior Application Developer, where she engineered internet solutions and at OffRoad Capital as a Senior Programmer. For more than a decade, she worked at Interleaf, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, as a software developer and before that at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, CA. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from UCSB.
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Thomas Abraham
CEO HubspireMeet Thomas – or as we like to call him – the King of Apps. You’ve probably even used some of Thomas’ tech without even realizing – he’s the man who brought contactless payment to New York City transit! Thomas has a passion for using tech to make people’s lives better. He sits on the Advisory Board of City University of New York (CUNY) for the TechWorks Initiative, one of the US’s most extensive Federally Funded Software Education programs. His company HubSpire, where he is CEO, has also partnered with SproutCoding to teach coding and web development to children in Zimbabwe.
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Ania Sanchez
Director of MarketingAnia Sanchez is passionate about marketing, developing products and consumer attraction and retention. With previous experience at renowned international companies in the Retail, Cosmetics, Tech, and Toy Industries, she is now our Director of Marketing. Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Ani graduated with her Bachelors in Business and Marketing prior to completing her Masters in Business Administration at Vanderbilt University.
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Alex Werntz
Head Research CoordinatorAlex works with the MentorPRO team on research and product development. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia in 2020, specializing in supportive accountability for technology-delivered interventions. Her dissertation focused on how individuals with mental health challenges and their loved ones can be motivated to seek treatments that work. She is excited to work with the MentorPRO team to improve access to mental health, wellness, and education apps that work.
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Megyn Jasman
Marketing ManagerMegyn Jasman is the lab manager of the Rhodes Lab at the University of Massachusetts Boston and is working with the MentorPRO team as a marketing manager. In Spring of 2021, Megyn graduated with her Bachelors in Psychological Science from Central Connecticut State University as the Valedictorian in her department, and is furthering her education in the field by working towards her Masters. Megyn is excited to use her passion for psychology to help bring mentoring and resources to improve wellness into a variety of individual’s lives.
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Research reported on this website was supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health under award number 5R41MH126795.
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