About Our Senior Staff

Annette Florczak, Acting Executive Director and Finance Director

Annette Florczak

Annette has over 12 years of experience in the non-profit arena.  Currently, she is a consultant at the senior management level, acting as Finance Director/CFO to several organizations, including Teen Voices.  Annette is a full-time Lecturer in the Accounting" & Finance Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

She has provided accounting and financial management services to dozens of non-profit organizations, including the YWCA, Victim Rights Law Center, and MassEquality. She helps non-profits by guiding long-range financial strategic thinking and planning, and by overseeing financial reporting, internal controls, compliance and annual audits. Her expertise also includes operations, fiscal management, human resources, and information systems.

Annette's passion is to instill a high level of fiduciary management and responsibility into small non-profit organizations, while maintaining a high degree of fun!

Annette is a Certified Management Accountant, holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts, and a B.S. from California State University, Long Beach.

Saun Green, Program Director

Saun Green

Saun doesn't know what else she would do if she was not dedicating her life to the empowerment of teen girls.  She describes the work that she does with young people (particularly low-income girls of color) as her greatest passion, and takes great pride in the successes of the young people she supervises and mentors. Saun's philosophy is that young people deserve quality programs that affect them in a meaningful, holistic way. She puts her belief into action when working with girls in Sisters Helping Other Unheard Teens (SHOUT!) and Poetically Speaking  (Teen Voices' signature programs).

Saun is a certified youth worker who has spent the past 12 years as an advocate, practitioner and widely requested workshop facilitator for young people, and for the adults who work with them.  Formerly the Teen Education Coordinator for the Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club, she currently serves as the president of the Rutland Corner Foundation Board of Trustees.

Saun holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts, was born and raised in Boston, and attended Boston Latin School.

Kathryn A. Wheeler (Katie), Editor

Katie has more than 20 years of experience in girls' development, education, and programming. She was the founding Executive Director of the Girls' Coalition of Greater Boston, a local consortium of girl-serving agencies that served as a national model and has been replicated in several cities. As a researcher at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College, Katie participated in projects focused on gender equity in education and on improving the quality of out-of-school time programs. She is currently president of the Anna B. Stearns Charitable Foundation and runs a consulting business that offers research, development, and evaluation services to clients such as the Hadassah Foundation, Coastal Studies for Girls, and the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Pitzer College as well as a Masters and Doctorate in Education from Harvard University.

Kirsten Hashemi, Development Director

Kirsten has 13 years of fundraising experience primarily in nonprofits focused on education, at-risk youth, and human services. Her expertise includes foundation relations, corporate sponsorships, special events, and improving donor communication. Kirsten started successful corporate giving programs in support of at-risk youth and has initiated two bi-annual newsletters. Kirsten has a Masters in Social Science from the University of Chicago and has held the internationally recognized professional certification Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) for eight years.