Mission Statement

“The Boston Pride Committee, serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and allied community, works to enhance the visibility of Boston's LGBT community through a week of events each June, in conjunction with year-round activities, to promote LGBT awareness, dignity, and understanding.”

Meetings of the Pride Committee

The Boston Pride Committee meets every Tuesday at 6:30pm in the Wainwright Bank Community Room in the Back Bay (155 Dartmouth Street, Boston). All are welcome! Learn more about the format of our meetings here. Our upcoming meetings are posted here!

Board of Directors

Sylvain Bruni – Member, Board of Directors

Sylvain has been involved with Boston Pride since 2003. First a volunteer for several events (Parade, Festival, Block Party, Idol etc…), Sylvain chaired the Parade in 2005 and 2006, and the Stuart Street Block Party in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2007, he also joined the Board of Directors of Boston Pride. In 2010, in addition to his Board duties, Sylvain is the coordinator of the Pride Parade and the director of IT for Boston Pride.
Sylvain is a human systems engineer, working at Aptima, Inc., a small business based in Woburn, MA. Sylvain is also a PhD student at MIT, in Aeronautics and Astronautics. His work at Aptima and research at MIT focuses on human-machine interaction and collaborative human-computer decision making in aerospace and defense environments. He holds a Master's Degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Supélec (France).
At MIT, Sylvain has been strongly involved with student government and advocacy, campus life and large event planning, as a former Graduate Student Council President and Vice-President, Director and Treasurer of the MIT Career Fair, and officer for the Rainbow Coffeehouse, the graduate LGBT student group. Sylvain is also the current treasurer of BGALA, MIT's LGBT alumni association. Sylvain currently serves on Fenway Health's Young Leadership Council and on the French American Chamber of Commerce in New England's Young Professionals Committee.

Email Sylvain: sbruni@bostonpride.org


Malcolm Carey – Clerk, Board of Directors

Malcolm is not shy about telling anyone who asks “I joined Pride to meet guys”. In January 2004 during a blizzard Malcolm walked into the first annual volunteer recruitment meeting that year and has been with pride ever since.
Over the years he has been heavily involved in the production of the Pride Parade and done a little bit of just about every job there is to do for Pride. In 2008, Malcolm joined the board of directors as a member of the finance committee, applying his 9-5 job knowledge to the organization he’s grown to love.
In his imaginary free time, Malcolm likes to spend his time crocheting, playing Dungeons and Dragons and wasting endless hours with his Pokemon.

Email Malcolm: clerk@bostonpride.org


Linda DeMarco – President, Board of Directors

Linda DeMarco started as a volunteer for the Pride Committee in 1998 as Chair of the Festival on the Boston Common and is currently the President of the Board of Directors. Linda is a successful entrepreneur and owner of Boston Pretzel Bakery Inc. for over 15 years. Linda serves on the Board of Directors of the Faneuil Hall Merchants Association as well as the Small Merchants Association of Downtown Crossing. She brings her expertise in business and finance to the Boston Pride Committee. Linda met her spouse during a pride meeting many years ago and they still volunteer together during Pride week! When Linda isn’t working on Pride or twisting pretzels she is home with her partner enjoying their 3 cats and cheering on Boston’s home town sports teams. Her favorite thing about Pride is the smiles people have on their faces all day!

Email Linda: president@bostonpride.org


Pierce Durkin – Member, Board of Directors

Pierce Durkin has been involved with the Boston Pride Committee since 2003. He began his volunteer work by planning the Stuart Street Block Party, and coordinating the general logistics of Pride. Pierce increased his involvement in 2004 by co-chairing the Festival. Pierce is currently on the Board of Directors, and completing his Masters in Management and Administration at Harvard Extension School in Cambridge. Pierce's favorite thing about Pride is the experience of realizing that you are not alone. "One summer I walked home from Pride Day, no longer afraid about what people thought about me being gay" he says to friends. His favorite thing about Boston is its roots in democracy, and the three time Super Bowl champions the Patriots. Pierce comes from a large Irish family, and loves good conversation with interesting people.

Email Pierce: pdurkin@bostonpride.org


Wilfred Labiosa – Vice-President, Board of Directors

Wilfred Labiosa, born and raised in Puerto Rico arrived to Boston in 1989 to study at Boston University and then at Northeastern University. Since then he has been involved in community organizing and advocacy for Latinos GLBT and Immigrant rights. He is co-founder of Somos Latin@s LGBT Coalition of Mass, the only organization for and by the Latino GLBT Community and of Latino Pride of New England, currently in its 4th year. He is a mental health care provider and public health researcher, working in the field for over 10 years. He is the regional representative and member of the Board of Directors to Unid@s: the National Organization for Latino/as GLBT Human Rights. He lives in Medford with his spouse of eight years. He loves to travel, enjoy the cuisine of Latin America, reading, music, walking, and entertaining friends and family in his home.

Email Wilfred: vp@bostonpride.org

Staff

Keri Aulita – Deputy Director

Keri Aulita comes to the Boston Pride Committee with a long history of service to the non-profit sector and the LGBT Community.

Keri is a 10-year veteran of the Pride Committee and most recently served as Vice President of its Board of Directors. In that role, she worked tirelessly to uphold the mission of agency, acted as spokesperson for the organization, developed fundraising and community events, coordinated media campaigns, and networked with city officials, community groups and corporate partners.

In addition, she brings with her 15 years of development and special event experience and has worked with some of the regions largest non-profits including AIDS Action Committee, JRI Health, The Boston Living Center, Youth Pride and Fenway Community Health.

Most recently she served as the Director of Annual Fund and Special Events at Rogerson Communities, an organization that provides housing and adult day health services to low income elders and people with disabilities. At Rogerson, Keri coordinated the agency’s special events, developed new fundraising initiatives, and managed annual fund and major gift efforts.

In the newly created position of Deputy Director, Keri will oversee the Pride Committee's overall functioning including coordinating Pride Week activities, cultivating corporate partnerships, developing new educational and human rights programming, generating event revenue, working with community groups and agencies, and managing the committee’s media relations.

Also complimenting her work with Boston Pride is her position as Regional Director for the Northeast Region of InterPride, the international association of Pride organizations. In this Board role, Keri participates in decision-making activities for the organization, collaborates with Pride organizers from across the globe, assists in planning conferences, and relays information on international human rights issues to the local community.

Keri is a member of Fenway Health's Board of Visitors and Women in Development and holds a B.S. in Rehabilitation and Human Services from Boston University.

Email Keri: deputydirector@bostonpride.org

Committee Chairs

Heather Mills– Logistics Chair

This is Heather’s second year as the Logistics Chair. Heather attended her first Boston Pride in 2004 and loved it so much that, after graduate school, she decided to join the committee. She enjoys her role as the Logistics Chair as it gives her the opportunity to work with all of the other committees of Pride and see the "whole picture" of how it’s put together. She has thoroughly enjoyed the opportunities that being on the Pride Committee has given her to be more involved in the LGBT community in Boston.
Heather is a native of the Puget Sound region of Washington State and the Central Coast of California (and it still getting used to New England winters!). She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Wheaton College and a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her day job includes working in IT for a software company in Boston. Outside of work and Pride, Heather enjoys just about every outdoor/athletic activity, sci-fi/fantasy, hanging out with friends, cooking from scratch and reading up on/practicing sustainable living.

Email Heather: logistics@bostonpride.org


Cale Moore – Merchandise Chair

This is Cale’s third year working with the Boston Pride Committee. He started attending Boston Pride meetings as a way to become active in the community. Later in the year he became more involved when he was asked to help co-chair Merchandising. Cale’s favorite thing about Pride is the getting to meet all the different people that make our community so diverse and interesting. As a new committee member he hopes to bring a fresh and exciting perspective to the group. Cale lives in Dorchester, teaches mathematics, and coaches swimming. He enjoys cooking, biking and swimming when he can get the chance.

Email Cale: merchandise@bostonpride.org


Frank Pitts – Outreach Chair

This is Frank’s first year with the Boston Pride Committee. Frank is a proud Brother of the Delta Phi Upsilon Fraternity, Inc. Delta Chapter since 1995 and they are currently active within LGBT communities of color. Frank has always been involved in the community in some form or fashion, starting as a camp counselor for an ABCD program in his early teens. Over the years he has worked and/or volunteered for numerous agencies including AIDS Project Worcester, the Multicultural AIDS Coalition, AIDS Action Committee, Cambridge Cares About AIDS, The Greater Worcester Men’s Health Coalition, You Inc, the YMCA and the Bayard Rustin Breakfast Committee. Frank is very passionate about helping to uplift the LGBT community and brings a lot of drive and determination to the table. Frank’s favorite thing about Pride is seeing everyone enjoying themselves without hassle and he looks forward to a time when it can be Pride year round. Frank loves to travel and cook and is working on a couple of novels. He currently lives in Brockton and has a 15 year old son.

Email Frank: outreach@bostonpride.org


Sarah Prager – Volunteer Chair

Sarah has been volunteering for the LGBT community since she led her high school GSA in Connecticut. She came to Boston in 2004 to attend Boston University, and received her B.A. in Spanish while volunteering for MassEquality, Fenway Community Health, and other LGBT non-profits. She currently works for a social justice non-profit that provides training around issues related to HIV/AIDS and lives with her partner in the Downtown Crossing area.
Sarah attended Paraguay's first ever Pride Parade while spending a summer there and worked for Bulgaria's only LGBT right organization before they had ever had a Pride Parade. She also won the award for "most poorly-planned last-minute weekend trip" when she traveled to Brussels just in time for the counter-rally to protest the Pride Parade she had missed the day before.

Email Sarah: volunteer@bostonpride.org


Catharine Sauer – Festival Chair

Catharine first volunteered in 2007 for Boston Pride and joined the Committee in 2008 as the festival chair. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry with a minor in Biology. An environmentalist at heart, she is a graduate student in Chemistry with research focused on activated carbon. She is also passionate about keeping the planet a clean place to live. In addition to science, she volunteered for her university's queer student center.

Email Cat: festival@bostonpride.org



Committee Members


Rod Ferguson (Information Technology Subcommittee)
Elizabeth Stewart (Media Subcommittee)
Steven Cullipher (Festival Subcommittee)
Michael Chen (Parade Subcommittee)