BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Justin Kittredge is the co-founder of Shooting Touch, Inc. and chimes in on the operations and development of the organization when he is not busy (which is never) running his new footwear startup, ISlide, Inc. Justin's incredible vision for Shooting Touch has been the founding and driving force behind its fast moving growth here in Boston and overseas. Justin's energy and passion for Shooting Touch is incredible and felt by all who come before him.

Justin spent the past 15 years working in the athletic footwear industry, most recently as the Director of the Basketball Product Division at Reebok. Justin and his team worked to create, market and sell NBA basketball shoes throughout the United States and abroad. In January, 2013 Justin left Reebok to start his own footwear company called ISlide, Inc. which manufactures, markets and sells premium custom athletic sandals. The company, having launched in August of 2013, is already garnering the attention and support of big and small box retailers around the country.

JUSTIN KITTREDGE

Chair of the Board
President & CEO at ISlide

A graduate of Nobles in 1990, Alex Gallagher has a passion for the game of basketball coupled with a devotion to those he coaches. Gallagher has led the Nobles Girls Basketball Program to 13 ISL championships in 15 years while compiling an overall career record of 402-97. He also comes off the 2016 season having led his team to their 5th consecutive New England Class A Title. Before coming to Nobles, Gallagher coached the Weston Boys Basketball Team to two Dual County League championships, two North Sectional Championships, and one State Championship in 1998. He was honored in 1998 by the Boston Globe as the Massachusetts Coach of the year for his title-winning team. 

Gallagher has served as the Athletic Director at Nobles for the past seven years. He graduated from Nobles in 1990 and returned to work at his alma mater in the 2000/2001 school year. Gallagher also teaches history and was the Varsity Baseball coach at Nobles from 2004 - 2010. In the spring of 2016, Gallagher led a group of 19 Nobles students to Rwanda where they served the Shooting Touch communities. 

ALEX GALLAGHER

Vice Chair of the Board

Athletic Director and Girls Varsity Basketball Coach at the Noble and Greenough School

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DANIEL KANE

Treasurer

Director at CBIZ & Shareholder at CBIZ CPAs PC

 

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KATIE BENZAN

Trustee

Assistant GM of the Salt Lake City Stars; Coordinator of Pro Scouting for the Utah Jazz Former WNBA basketball player

After becoming a beloved player for the Boston Celtics to start his NBA career, Grant now plays for the Dallas Mavericks. He is a leading advocate for women’s equality in sport and is a perfect addition to this incredible group of altruistic minds, eager to advance Shooting Touch’s mission of health, racial, and gender justice through the game of basketball. Prior to getting drafted by the Celtics in the 1st Round of the NBA Draft in 2019, he was a standout player and person at the University of Tennessee, where he received back-to-back SEC Player of the Year awards (2017-2018, 2018-2019) as a member of the men's basketball team and took part in the university's VOLeaders Academy, a group of student-athletes working to create positive change through sport.

Grant is a known leader within the NBA, serving as the First Vice President of the National Basketball Players Association and is an active participant in local community service opportunities.

Grant is from Charlotte, North Carolina, where he has established the Grant Williams Family Foundation, dedicated to identifying and promoting opportunities for the next generation through sports, financial empowerment, mentorship, and the arts.

GRANT WILLIAMS

Trustee

NBA Player for the Charlotte Hornets & First Vice President of the NBPA

Marisa Moseley spent the past three seasons as the head coach at Boston University, her alma mater, where she guided the women’s basketball program to a 45-29 overall record. Moseley was named the Patriot League Coach of the Year after her first BU team finished fourth in 2018-19 after being chosen in the preseason to finish ninth. During the COVID19-influenced 2020-21 season, she led her team to a 12-3 finish and a spot in the conference tournament championship game.

Prior to Boston University, Moseley coached three national players of the year and 11 All-Americans while assisting UConn to a 331-14 record and two of the longest winning streaks in NCAA basketball history (111 and 90 consecutive games). In addition to her coaching duties, Moseley served as a member of the University of Connecticut Diversity Council and was on director of athletics David Benedict's Leadership Team. Furthermore, she was a member of the Student-Athlete Development Diversity Committee and was the athletics department's liaison to the Office of Diversity.

MARISA MOSELEY

Trustee

Former Division I Head Women's Basketball Coach

 

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KASH CANNON

Trustee

Director, Community Engagement at Boston Celtics

 
 
 

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Kathy is the winningest head coach in Ivy League history, head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith enters her 36th season with Harvard basketball in 2017-18. Delaney-Smith has put Harvard basketball on the map and expanded its reach both nationally and internationally as one of the longest tenured coaches in collegiate women’s basketball.

Delaney–Smith grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, one of six children. She attended Sacred Heart high school, but the school had no gym classes so she picked up her basketball skills playing on basketball courts across the street from where she lived. She played on the basketball team in high school and became the first female in Massachusetts basketball history to score 1000 points.

Delaney-Smith resides in Newton, Mass. Her son, Jared, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and currently works for Credit Suisse in New York City.

KATHY DELANEY-SMITH

Retired Head Coach of Harvard Women’s Basketball Team

In September 2012, Amy Latimer was promoted to President of the TD Garden. As President, Latimer is responsible for all day-to-day operating functions of the arena, one of the most active, highly regarded and successful sports and entertainment venues in North America. With almost two decades of knowledge and experience in the sports and arena industry, Latimer continues to champion the TD Garden as an industry innovator, overseeing the areas of premium service, fan experience and overall revenue generation.

For six seasons as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Latimer was responsible for developing and leading all sales and marketing strategies for the Boston Bruins and TD Garden. This included the advertising, corporate partnerships, community relations, tickets sales, and Premium Club sales and service. A recognized leader in the sports & Arena industry, she was name one of Sports Business Journal's 'Game Changers' in 2011.

Latimer was part of the inaugural executive team at the TD Garden and started as the Director of Marketing in 1995. She went on to launch the arena's e-Business department, harnessing website strategies and database marketing. She served as the Director of e-Business and then Vice President of Ticketing and then the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for both the Boston Bruins and the arena before assuming her current position.

AMY LATIMER

Executive Vice President & COO at Delaware North

Jackie MacMullan is a freelance sportswriter and NBA columnist for ESPN.com. In 1982, she joined The Boston Globe, serving as a columnist and associate editor until March 2008. From 1995 to 2000, her work with Sports Illustrated included NBA coverage as a senior writer. From 1996 to 1999, she became a regular contributor to CNN/SI, the 24-hour news network

In 1999, MacMullan worked with Larry Bird on his autobiography, "Bird Watching: on Playing and Coaching the Game I Love." In 2006 she released "Geno: In Pursuit of Perfection" with Geno Auriemma. MacMullan has been a correspondent for several cable television networks such as ESPN, CNNSI, Comcast Sports, and WHDH-TV in Boston. She is also a regular contestant – not to mention the only female, on the ESPN program "Around the Horn."

On May 12, 2010, Jackie MacMullan and longtime Cleveland Cavaliers radio play-by-play announcer Joe Tait received the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The awards are presented annually to members of the print and electronic media who made a significant contribution to the game of basketball. MacMullan was the first woman to receive the honor in its 21-year history.

JACKIE MACMULLAN

Retired Author and Commentator at ESPN

 

Dr. Vadnais received her medical degree from the University of Vermont and her MPH from Harvard University. She completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency and maternal fetal medicine fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Vadnais is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and maternal fetal medicine.

Dr. Vadnais comes to Shooting Touch as an advisor on the organization's health education curriculum here in Boston and overseas in Africa. We know the resources that she will bring to the organization will only help propel its impact in bringing vital health education to under-resourced youth around the world through the power of sport.

DR. MARY VADNAIS, MD, MPH

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

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ELIZA GOODE

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Car Guru

 
 

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Katie Carlson is a vocal advocate for the rights of women and girls around the world. As a specialist in gender and development with a particular focus on the African context and concentrated experience in Rwanda, Katie has been collectively studying, writing about and working in gender for over 13 years. In recent years she has focused primarily on developing capacity-building and training programs, and has extensive experience in project management and community development.

KATIE CARLSON

Founder of Paper Crown Rwanda

Nathalie Neema has grown up around Africa and now works in Kigali as the Lead in Operations at Impact Hub; working with community Growth and Management, developing Impact Measurements, managing events and Project Planning. Previously, she was an Operations Manager at SMGF Ltd (Societe Mutuelle de Garantie et de Financement). Nathalie has also volunteered with Solid Africa, GIZ, Umutima Women Center, Rwandan Orphan Project and with Shooting Touch before acting as a board member.

Crispin Gishoma is the Director of Rwanda Diabetes Association (RDA) since 2012 and the Chairperson of Non Communicable Diseases Alliance in Rwanda. He has been working for RDA after completing his undergraduate degree in economics in 2004. Crispin specialized in Project Planning and Management with a Masters degree and is currently pursuing a second Master degree in Global Health at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda.

It is the individual stories of endurance and struggle of people living with Diabetes in Rwanda that motivates Crispin to work hard to provide the best possible health care in Rwanda and to raise awareness about diabetes and other NCDs. As the Director of RDA he manages an organization of 18 employees that runs a centre for diabetes education and vocational skills, organizes conferences, conducts hospital visits and follow-up of diabetics around the country, patients’ group support, awareness campaigns and more.

CRISPIN GISHOMA

Director of Rwanda Diabetes Association, Chairperson of Non-Communicable Disease Alliance,  Kigali

NATHALIE NEEMA

Operations Lead, Impact Hub, Kigali

 

Dr. Magnifique Irakoze was born in Butare, a small village 2 hours outside of Kigali. Through his hard work and dedication, he received a scholarship through medical school and became a doctor in 2016. Magnifique has a strong passion for helping create a healthier nation and is extremely involved with empowering the youth. Magnifique is the Regional Director for the International Federation of Medical Students Association, the Vice President of AfriYAN (African Youth and Adolescents Network) and a teacher to 1st, 2nd and 3rd year medical students with the University of Rwanda.

DR. MAGNIFIQUE IRAKOZE

Resident for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kigali

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DOMINIQUE TURIYATE

UNICEF Rwanda Human Resources Officer and Vice President of UGB Men's Basketball Team Rwanda