Co-Founder and Board of Trustees, Secretary - Mary Jo Downey

Mary Jo has chief responsibility for ensuring accurate and informative notes are taken at each meeting and for ensuring the notes are typed and uploaded to RiverRun’s temporary website in a timely fashion.

• Owner of esbbooks, an online bookselling business developed in 2002 in order to work from home to care for her daughter
   

• Adjunct instructor, Schenectady County Community College
   

• Professional experience: assistant professor, Robert Morris College (Chicago); instructor, Central Michigan University; instructor, Villa Maria College (Buffalo); field liaison for the bus aide program, Buffalo
   

• A.B., Bryn Mawr College; M.Re., Unification Theological Seminary; Fifth Year Certificate in Education (grades 7-12), University of Vermont; Ph.D., University at Buffalo
   

• Resides in Alplaus with her daughter Eiry, age 5 (enrolled at RiverRun Community Montessori)

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