Meet the Board of Directors

  • Aida Manduley, LICSW (they/them & elle/le) is an award-winning Latinx organizer, bilingual clinician, and international presenter known for big earrings and building bridges. Trained as a health educator, social worker, and nonprofit executive, they’re working to make the world a more equitable place and get us all more comfortable with hard conversations. Their 15+ years of training and facilitation experience has yielded a range of successful collaborations with clients ranging from Departments of Health and Ivy League institutions to small grassroots organizations and neighborhood associations. Mx. Manduley is also known for launching Rhode Island's first Sexual Health Education and Advocacy Program housed at a domestic violence agency in 2011, which included groundbreaking data-collection on LGBTQ domestic violence and building the infrastructure to provide on-site HIV testing. Past projects include crisis-response with victims of sexual assault, consulting with state departments on LGBTQ health, and extensive leadership on a number of national and regional coalitions on HIV & STI prevention, BIPOC development, sexuality education, and anti-violence. As a Boston-based therapist, their practice focuses on trauma and communities marginalized due to gender, sexuality, and race. However, they are also devoted to merging clinical acumen with macro efforts through involvement in various projects exploring community-grounded and alternative responses to violence since 2011—including the more recent development of Cambridge HEART and its Mental Health Working Group—as well as the development of clinical treatment guidelines for stigmatized communities.

  • Lauren Leone, DAT, LMHC, ATR-BC (she/her) is Somerville-based artist, board-certified art therapist, and licensed mental health counselor who works with individuals, groups, and communities in the Boston area. She has been a member of HEART’s Mental Health Working Group since June 2022 and organizes for non-carceral community response/alternative emergency response in Somerville. Her clinical work focuses on supporting people in navigating trauma, dis/ability and chronic illness, the impact of medical conditions on mental health, medical treatment trauma, and intersecting issues related to cultural and social identity. Lauren also facilitates community art therapy projects rooted in community healing and abolition.

  • Betsey Chace (she/her) is a Cambridge community member and parent of two young adults educated in the Cambridge schools. She was raised in the suburbs outside of Boston, has a BA from Wesleyan University in East Asian Studies and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School. Her career has focused on social service and social justice, both locally and internationally, working primarily in grants, finance, budgeting, and program management roles. Most recently, she directs her efforts to ending the harms of prison and policing. She is the treasurer of Cambridge HEART.

  • Quinton Zondervan is the Policy Director at Run On Climate, co-owner of RadiQal Farms, and served three terms as a Cambridge City Councillor. He was first elected in 2017 as a Democratic Socialist, and served until the end of 2023. While on the Council, Quinton was an active supporter of HEART. Quinton is originally from Suriname, and identifies as Afro-Caribbean. Quinton and Radhika are parents to two adult children and one grandson.