Board of Directors
Cathy Ingram, Chair
Cathy is currently the Director of Development at Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield, MA. Prior to joining the Miss Hall's community, Cathy served as the Membership and Development Manager at the Berkshire Museum. Cathy has also worked as the Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship at Berkshire School in Sheffield, and the Director of Alumni and Parent Relations at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington. She is a passionate education administrator and teacher with experience in alumni relations, fundraising, and student development. Cathy has been a tremendous Flying Cloud leader, connecting us to educators and resources to support youth in our community. She also serves as a volunteer for the Berkshire County Development Alliance. Cathy holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Teacher Education from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and an M.A. in Student Personnel Administration from Teachers College at Columbia University.
Dana Vorisek, Treasurer
Dana is an economist for the World Bank Group in Washington, DC. She has worked extensively on the institution’s outlook for the global economy, with a particular focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, and has published on a variety of macroeconomic and international development topics. Her professional and academic path to economics was not direct, however, and through her own experience she has a great appreciation for the application of skills across fields. As an FCI board member, she hopes to contribute to the organization’s fostering of varied intellectual and skills development among school-age children.
Barbara Viniar, Clerk
Dr. Barbara Viniar retired to the Berkshires in 2018 after 40 years of leadership in public higher education. She served as President of Berkshire Community College, Executive Director of the Institute for Community College Development (ICCD) at Cornell, and President of Chesapeake College on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Her experience on non-profit boards includes community foundations, organizations serving women and girls, synagogues, museums, and theaters. She has also served on state and national workforce commissions, the board of the American Association for Women in Community Colleges, and the Presidents’ Academy of the American Association of Community Colleges. In addition, Barbara has published numerous journal articles on leadership and writes a weekly blog.
Now, through her leadership consulting firm, RiseUp Leadership Coaching, she is continuing to honor her commitment to preparing the next generation of leaders by working with individuals and organizations to develop the vision and skills they need.
Leigh Doherty, Director
Leigh is an experienced organizational leader with diverse experience working in schools, as well as in the non-profit sector. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Literacy Network and previously worked at Berkshire Country Day School as an Associate Head of School, at the International School of Boston as the Lower School Director, and at Community Day Charter Public School as the Lower School Head. Prior to that, Leigh served as a Curriculum Coordinator at two international schools, one in Belgium and the other in Namibia. She has also been a preschool, elementary and middle school teacher, mainly in multilingual settings.
Caitlin Greer Meister, Director
Caitlin is a specialist in strengths-based learning, neurodiversity-affirming practices, giftedness, and executive functioning. As a parent educator, instructional leader, founder, and mom of two, Caitlin is Orton-Gillingham trained and holds a certificate in Instructional Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work and words have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Parents, and more, and she provides professional development for schools, workshops for parents, and speaks for organizations and conferences in the United States and abroad.
Faith Gagliardi, Director
Faith is a highly experienced business manager with nearly 20 years of hands-on work experience covering marketing, operations, analytics, and leadership. She currently serves as Account Manager at Working Planet and previously worked as the Senior Director of Owned Media at Go Fish Digital (formerly Agital/Exclusive Concepts). Faith earned a Masters of Science degree in Communications from Lasell University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Sarah Reynolds North, Director
Sarah is the founder and baker at Found Bread. She trained at the San Francisco Baking Institute and has worked in bakeries around New England and across the pond. She spent 18 months in the UK, working with Brick House Bakery in London. In Boston she worked with Brassica, a local restaurant, supplying bread and was a bread consultant for Breadboard Bakery. Sarah moved to New Marlborough in 2022 with her family, where she bakes mainly sourdough and fermented breads, and teaches baking classes at the Hillsdale General Store. She's a firm believer in using locally sourced, grown and milled ingredients.
Before becoming a full-time baker, Sarah worked with the Immigrant Justice Center at the Southern Poverty Law Center. She attended graduate school for Documentary Studies at the Salt Institute and was a freelance reporter and producer for NPR for several years. Sarah was also a Peace Corps Volunteer and instructor in Guatemala.
Liliana Atanacio Garcia, Director
Deeply passionate about community involvement, Liliana is the co-founder of Latinas413, a nonprofit organization that advocates for Latina representation in Berkshire County. In recognition of her efforts, she received the prestigious "29 Who Shine" Award from the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education in 2018.
Liliana serves as the Grant and Program Administrator at Mill Town Foundation, where she supports grantmaking related to the foundation's activities, programmatic operations, and daily administrative functions. Prior to this role, she served as the Workforce Training Orientation and Youth Programming Manager at Berkshire Community College (BCC). While at BCC she organized BCC's first Hackathon and worked to establish the Eleanore Velez Scholarship.
Originally from Mexico, the Berkshires became Liliana's home in 2009. A mother of two teen girls, she cherishes raising them surrounded by the Berkshires' mountains and hills, rivers and streams, wildlife and trees. As a Latina woman, Liliana is passionate about traveling, gastronomy, and philanthropy. She finds solace and healing in the arts, music, and the region's natural beauty.
Jane and Lawrence Burke, Founders