Meet Our Board, Staff, and Volunteers
Good Beginnings Board of Directors
Anna Milkowski
President
Susan Mesner
Vice President
Matt Sutter
Treasurer
Madelyn Hamilton
Secretary
Susan Romans
Director
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Susan’s career includes over 40 years of experience of performance management: assessing problems; designing, proposing and implementing solutions; managing client/stakeholder relationships; selling proposals to external clients; managing talent.
Her expertise in course/curriculum development, data-driven course design evolved from her early years in education (secondary and university levels). Corporate roles in human resources and training and development led her to study and refine her skills in mediation, coaching, change management, and strategic planning. After three decades in business, she returned to teaching in 2003.
Susan moved to Montpelier in the summer of 2014 to be closer to family. No stranger to relocation, but she has lived in many places throughout her life. Before she was three, she had lived in five states and two countries. She continued that pattern throughout her life and has loved the experiences she gained from traveling and living in new places.
Mindy Parisi
Director
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Mindy has been a Registered Nurse for 39 years in the Maternal Child Health field. She currently serves as the Maternal & Child Care Coordinator at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, VT. Mindy has given her devoted service to Good Beginnings since 2004 in many capacities. Her passion is helping families every day, hoping to make a difference.
Mindy lives in Stowe with husband Ernie and has two beautiful grown children. Mindy spends her non-working time knitting, baking, hiking, kayaking and snowshoeing in the winter.
Sara Nevin
Director/Founder
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Sara has had an ongoing interest in primary prevention for children as a means of reducing intervention for some in later years. Her BA in Psychology from Norwich University, with emphasis in the Attachment Theory have been beneficial to families connected with Good Beginnings while she served as Founder and Director from 1991 to 2011.
Sara has five grown sons and enjoys supporting them and their families. She is a volunteer with community services, and the local food shelf. She is also a member of the Northfield’s Reading Circle, and St. John’s Church in Northfield. Sara is employed part time with Love Is…LLC which is based in Craftsbury, VT. Sara enjoys gardening and Early American painting.
Kyle Pivetti
Director
Molly Gleason
Director
Kelli Millick
Director
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Jessica Phelan
Director
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Vermont grabbed ahold of Jessica’s heart in 1997. For her, it was the abundant outdoor recreation scene, the ubiquitous sense of community, and not to mention the state’s unspoken quirk. Her marketing careers has offered roles across the Vermont business landscape including startups like Mamava which first connected her to Good Beginnings. Along her career path, she’s narrowed in to align her work with her values and passions: social justice and gender equity, especially examining how our culture values caregiving.
Established in 2010, Jessica is COO of the Phelan household, managing Mac, Maeve and rescue hound, Lucy. In her spare time, you can find her enjoying every Vermont season – sliding on snow, rolling two wheels on dirt, or pretending to be a gardener.
If you are interested in joining our Board of Directors please fill out this online application.
Good Beginnings Staff
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Jessica joined Good Beginnings in 2022 as the Program Director for the Nest and Journey Programs. She is a trained birth and postpartum doula and has experience working in many capacities in educational and social nonprofits, as well as in the outdoor industry. She loves to ski, garden, and chase her growing kids around. Jessica lives in Montpelier with her two daughters, husband, dog, two cats, and goldfish.
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Meet our Postpartum Angels
Our network of Postpartum Angels includes over 60 amazing and experienced women and men, and spans from Burlington to Hardwick & from Calais to Royalton.
Andy
Barbara
Cary
Catie
Chrissy
Lauren
Martha
Sheila
Sue
Tammie
Wendy
Kate
Julie
