Our Team

Co-Director
Shanté Rabouin, of Dorchester, MA is a Masters level licensed Social Worker/Special Education School Adjustment Counselor. She became acquainted with FCT in 2016, in her professional role as Event Coordinator for the Bridge Home for displaced children in Dorchester, as she forged a partnership with FCT that served a range of needs for her young clients, providing the children with an outlet as well as a sense of normalcy. Shanté feels a sense of belonging in the FCT community, as creating meaningful art has always been a part of her household and family tradition.

Co-Director
Maria F Cabrera is a community advocate with 40 years of experience at Boston Children's Museum and Museum of Science to diversify visitors and break down barriers of all kinds of access. Maria has been on several boards including New England Museum Association (NEMA), La Alianza Hispana, Black Church Project and Kids of All Learning Abilities (KOALA) from which she has received excellence awards for her community advocacy. She is also a freelance consultant focusing on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Access (DEIA)

Adaptive Art Education Specialist
Ed Pazzanese, FCT's founder, is a visual artist and educator with deep roots working in inclusive settings, as well as a person living with disabilities. He has been a Teaching Artist at the Henderson School, a fellow at Children’s Hospital and the NEA, and taught at Urban College of Boston. He holds a BFA from MassArt and an MS Ed from Wheelock Graduate School of Education.

Program Evaluator
Judy Battat is an educator and specialist in multicultural and special needs inclusion with 40 years of experience in program evaluation. She holds a BA in Anthropology (UNM) and an MA Ed (Antioch University), and managed Boston Children's Museum's Native American program 2003-11; also producing "AccessAbility," a national exhibit on special needs/learning differences.

Photographers

Miguel Ashley
Christle Rawlins-Jackson
George Delianides

Advisory Board

Sandie Fenton of Jamaica Plain, MA, a visual artist with commissioned works of art showing in the Boston Children’s Hospital, is a community activist for racial justice in education, as well as having 40 years of experience in education and community-based program development and planning.  She earned a Masters in Education (Wheelock College) and went on to teach Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Wheelock; she has also been a teacher in the Boston Public Schools. She initiated and coordinates the "Time Project"which brings together working women visual artists. 

Deborah Wheeler-Ramos of Roxbury, MA is a lifelong resident of Fort Hill and active in the Highland Park Neighborhood Association.  After raising her family, she went back to school to study Gerontology at UMass Boston, with a research focus on home and community-based services to support aging in place and countering elder isolation.  She is a registered member of the MA Gerontology Association, was herself a family caregiver for an elderly parent, and has volunteered for nonprofit and faith-based elder services programs.  Deborah serves on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Institute for Leadership Development, and is a person living with a visual impairment.

T. Lynn Dann has been an FCT Advisory Board Member since 2018. She is currently a Disability Ambassador, and leads the Disability Advocacy group for the City of Boston Tax Coalition. She works closely with and is an advocate for various disability groups. She's a doer and enjoys assisting FCT outreach to the community events.

Margaret Noce was the founder and the 25 year director of the JPC: Tree of Life/Arbol de Vida, small community based non- profit that focused on strengthening families and the community. She has retired from that position and remained on the Boston Children's Hospital Community Advisory Board, the Southern Jamaica Plain Advisory Board., the Youth Engagement Working Group and Early Childhood Education Working group of the Living Safely in Jackson Square Coalition

Emeritus

Judith Woodruff

Gary Ratliff

Sara Asmeron

Kathleen Gaskin Holland

Lygia Angel, Artist/Teacher

Lynn Niizawa, Community Activist

Rachel Greenberg, Writer/Teacher

Susan Kooperstein