Mayor Donnalee Lozeau

Mayor Donnalee Lozeau was elected the 55th Mayor of the City of Nashua in 2008. In that capacity she also serves as the Chair of the Finance Committee and the Board of Public Works.

Mayor Lozeau’s public service career began in 1984 when she was elected state representative from Nashua Ward 5. During her 16 years in the legislature, Mayor Lozeau was a leader on criminal justice, housing, healthcare, and youth programs, and tackled key issues including kindergarten, school funding, juvenile justice, and the death penalty. As Deputy Speaker of the House in 1998, Mayor Lozeau was named to New Hampshire Magazine’s 10 Most Powerful Women. 

From 1994 to 2008 Mayor Lozeau was Director of Program and Community Development at Southern New Hampshire Services. Collaborating with businesses, service providers, and government agencies, Mayor Lozeau helped developed hundreds of units of housing for seniors and the homeless, expanded Child Care and Head Start programs and established the Economic Opportunity Center to encourage financial self sufficiency and assist with employment opportunities.

Throughout the years Mayor Lozeau has been an active member of numerous community organizations:

• First president of Nashua’s Great American Downtown
• Chairman of the Mayor’s Housing Task Force and a member of the Greater Nashua Workforce Housing Coalition
• Past President of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Nashua
• Director of the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce
• Commissioner of the Nashua Airport Authority
•  A founding member and past Chairman of the Greater Nashua Dental Connection
• As a member of the American Council of Young Political Leaders, traveled as a delegate to the Philippines, led a group of officials to Taiwan, and hosted a delegation from El Salvador and Nicaragua

For her record of community service, Mayor Lozeau was recognized with the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce’s Eminence Award for Volunteer of the Year in 2004, and the United Way of Greater Nashua’s Max I. Silber Community Service Award 2006.

Mayor Lozeau is a native of Nashua, and attended public schools and Rivier College. She lives in Nashua with her husband of 25 years, David Lozeau. They have a grown daughter, a son at Keene State College and another son who is a freshman at Nashua High School South.

Malcolm Smith, PhD, CFLE

Family Life and Family Policy Specialist
University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension

Dr. Malcolm Smith is the Family Education and Family Policy Specialist for UNH Cooperative Extension and a faculty member in the UNH Department of Family Studies.  Malcolm is also the President of The Peaceful Intervention Program, LLC, a nationally recognized training program for youth services, corrections, and education professionals who care for angry children and youth.  His anger management, school violence reduction, parenting and anti-bullying curriculums are currently being used in over 400 school districts, juvenile centers, social service agencies and residential treatment programs across the U.S.A.

Malcolm was previously the Director of the Karl Menninger National Youth Care Training Center and, for many years, was a faculty member at the Menninger Clinic’s renowned Southard School.  He has also been a youth care worker, a foster parent and the director of a therapeutic camping program.  He has served as a consultant to such diverse programs as the U.S. Army Family Advocacy Program; The National Guard Challenge Program; The Kentucky Center for School Safety; The Baltimore, Maryland Mayor’s Child Care Task Force; The Montana Behavioral Institute, The Orlando, Florida Public Schools; The Kansas Children’s Alliance; The Missouri Juvenile Justice Association; The Iowa Attorney General’s Office; and state social service departments in 22 states.  He has provided training or technical assistance to schools and human service programs in all 50 states and responded as a volunteer member of the National Crisis Team to over 30 incidents of school violence including the Columbine tragedy and the shootings in Minnesota, Arkansas, Oregon, and Kentucky. 

His doctorate is in Family Studies and Human Services from Kansas State University, his master’s work in Education was completed at Minnesota State University and Malcolm’s bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts is from Washburn University.  His daughter, Haley, is currently a first year nurse in a rural Western Kansas hospital and his son, Dylan is a Freshman at Kansas University.  His wife Karen is on the staff of the Center for Disabilities at UNH.

Malcolm is the author of The Peaceful Intervention Program: Caring Safely for Angry Children and Youth; of Meditations on the Art of Peaceful Intervention; and of a popular parenting curriculum, The Realistic Parenting Program. His current research interests include the implementation of family life education into the workplace and the prevention of violence in family systems.  Malcolm currently writes a popular monthly column on balancing work and family life for The New Hampshire Business Review, and serves on two legislative committees in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.  He also plays and teaches Appalachian clawhammer banjo styles.

Joyce B. Miles, President

Joyce B. Miles & Associates, A Leadership Development Group

Joyce Beery Miles, originally from North Manchester, Ind., earned her bachelor's degree from the college in 1965. She has been a presenter at many conferences.

She taught family consumer sciences at Duval County Schools in Jacksonville, Fla., for many years and moved on to school administration, retiring in 1997. She now runs her own company that teaches leadership training and career coaching, and she plans to portray Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of home economics, in a monologue she hopes to take on stage nationwide.

Carolyn Jackson-AAFCS Executive Director

I have been a family and consumer sciences (FCS) professional for many years, and I’m proud to be the current American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) Executive Director.

My career includes both traditional and non-traditional uses of FCS.  With degrees in FCS Education and Family Economics, I began my career with the Kansas Extension Service.  I later moved to Washington, DC, to work for AAFCS (then called AHEA) as the head of membership, where I honed my skills in association management for a profession near and dear to me and made connections in the political arena after work hours.  From there, the divergence in my career began.  Dick Nickols from Kansas asked me to be the manager for his race to win a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.  He won and subsequently asked me to serve as his congressional office chief of staff.  It was that position that prepared me for the next opportunity to create a public relations initiative for the Congressional Youth Leadership Council (CYLC) and Envision EMI, whose mission is to “create unique experiences that provide a lifetime advantage for high achievers.”  When leaving CYLC and Envision, I began my own consulting business aimed at “guiding young professionals in developing skills for success.”  Now I’m happy to be back to my core roots at AAFCS as the executive director with all of the wonderful opportunities that come with this position.  My career has followed the adage, “Life is what happens when you are planning something else,” and I couldn’t be more excited about the professional journey I have had with my background in family and consumer sciences.

Anne Marie Davee

Muskie School of Public Service,
University of Southern Maine
45 Commerce Drive, Suite 11, Augusta, ME 04330
Work Phone: 207-626-5275
Work email: adavee@usm.maine.edu

Anne-Marie is employed as Coordinator II: Community Health Initiatives for the University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service based in Augusta, Maine.  This position facilitates the development, implementation and evaluation of nutrition, physical activity and wellness initiatives in Maine.

Anne-Marie is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian with over twenty-five years of experience in health promotion.  She has two degrees from the University of Maine at Orono; a bachelor’s degree in Foods & Nutrition and a Master’s Degree in Nutrition with an Exercise Concentration.  Her research on the effects of diet and exercise on bone density was published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.  More recently, Anne-Marie has authored numerous journal articles on Maine’s Vending and A La Carte Intervention in seven high schools.  These publications include CDC’s Preventing Chronic Disease Journal, the Journal of School Health and the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

Anne-Marie is a competitive runner and tri-athlete.  She has completed twenty (26-mile) marathons and six triathalons.  Her most notable marathon includes the first Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials in 1984.  In 2000, Anne-Marie was inducted in the Maine Running Hall of Fame for her running achievements.