Team

  • 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 raise our children it became Newton. We live in a home that was built at the turn of the last century by Nelson Marvin whose legacy for the Waban community was the founding of the Waban Land Trust, of which he was the original...
  • I have come to cherish Waban. My husband and I moved here to raise our two small boys in 1971. Our intent was to move to Boston as soon as the kids completed high school. That was decades ago. Through the years both of us and our children have become passionate about Waban: the place, the people, the built and natural environment, the location. We were slow to realize our good fortunate when we bought our house on...

  • 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 city. I am a firm believer that no matter the issue...
  • Originally from Pasadena, Megan moved to Newton in 2003 from Virginia. She fell in love with the historic look and feel of Waban, and moved to the Angier side of the village in 2013 with her husband and children. Before becoming the managing director and owner of Camperdown Properties, she conducted Alzheimer's research at the Virginia Center on Aging and volunteered for related causes. 

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  • 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...

  • Drake is a new resident of Waban. He lives on Pine Ridge Rd. with his partner, Michelle. A lifelong Massachusetts resident, Drake grew up in West Bridgewater and graduated from Stonehill College in Easton. Since then, he has been working in software development. Growing up in a small town, Drake had enjoyed fundraising for his local library, mentoring through the Big Brother Big Sister program, and teaching coding...

  • Sumukh and his wife Shalini and their two children have lived in Waban since 2008. Sumukh is currently a member of the School Council at Newton South HS. He leads product and marketing at a startup - Cybersixgill, a startup. Sumukh has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Univ of Mumbai and an MBA from MIT Sloan School.  He is interested in giving back to the village of Waban which has given so much to him and his...

  • Bill grew up in the very same house he lives in now on Varick. His devotion to Waban cannot be overstated. Simply, he believes it is the best place to live, to grow up in and to retire in. Bill is a graduate of Angier, Brown Middle, Newton South High School, and Wentworth University. He is a mechanical engineer at BR+A Consulting firm specializing in HVAC.  He and his wife Tasha (a well-known corporate and private...

  • Mark Friedman is the owner and founder of Senior Helpers Boston & South shore, a private duty home-care agency serving the Boston metropolitan and South Shore areas of Massachusetts metropolitan area. Friedman served as the National Chair of the Franchisee Owners Council.  He has grown this franchise into one of the top-performing Senior Helpers business in the country.  He is the author of a national blog on...

  • 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...