Team

  • Note: Rena Getz served as VP and President for many years before taking a seat on the City Council.
     
    I moved to Boston with my husband 22 years ago to follow our academic and professional careers. When it came time to identify where we wanted to...
  • When I first helped bring this council into existence, one of my goals was to begin serious future planning for Waban. The Future Planning Working Group held meetings and events for three years, culminating in the survey published on this website and shared with the...
  • I am a strong supporter of the Area Council idea of participation in government at no dollar cost to the voter. I have been actively involved with the other working members of the ad hoc committee that organized the Waban Area Council, meeting monthly for over a year, helping to address many issues of concern to Waban citizens by facilitating communication between the City’s executive and legislative branches and...

  • A Waban resident since 2011, Eve works as a Reading Specialist for elementary students. She’s active in local civic discussions and has served as a trustee of the Holt-Elwell Memorial Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports outdoor education. Eve and her husband, Chris, have two children.

  • Marcia Cooper has lived in Newton since 1978. As a retired art teacher, she is an active member of the local arts community who has shown her work in numerous public exhibits.  A current member of the Charles River Chamber Environment Committee, she also serves as a board member of the environmental nonprofit organization Green Newton, of which she was President for 18 years.  She especially enjoys mentoring youth...

  • I have been living in Waban for a little over 2 years with my wife, Margaux. My wife and I, along with our son, Harlan, who just recently turned one, and our dog, Dudley, love the community and Waban neighborhood that we get to call home. I'm grateful to be part of the Waban community and excited about the potential opportunity to represent the interests of our community on the Waban Area Council. As a relatively new...

  • TODAY.
    The Waban zip code is one of the wealthiest in the USA. Yet, jigsaw utility patchwork makes our roads unpleasant, an ancient high-wire act of tilted telephone poles line our streets, overgrown trees and shrubs make side-walking and intersection driving a real challenge, inviting retail signage and lighting does not exist, and residents who cherish a green environment cannot find a public EV...