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October 07, 2010

Contact: Carol D. Rugg, 810.238.5651, crugg@mott.org

Mott Foundation adds four program staff

FLINT, Mich. – Four new employees have joined the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s program staff:
 

• Mark Abbott has been named program director of the Foundation’s Pathways Out of Poverty grantmaking team.
• Gwynn Hughes will be a program officer for Mott’s afterschool-related grantmaking.
• Alicia Kitsuse joins the Foundation as a program officer on Mott’s Flint Area program.
• Jennifer Liversedge has been named assistant to Mott President and CEO William S. White, and program officer for the Foundation’s Exploratory and Special Initiatives grantmaking portfolio.

Abbott, who spent much of his career working in Washington, D.C., succeeds Jack Litzenberg, who served as acting program director for the Pathways Out of Poverty team since 2008. Litzenberg will return to his role as senior program officer at Mott.

Mark Abbott

Prior to joining the Foundation, Abbott served as director of grant operations with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. This was preceded by nine years with the Corporation for National and Community Service, where his positions included serving as senior advisor to the Chief Operating Officer, associate director for Learn and Serve America, and a program officer for AmeriCorps. Abbott’s nonprofit sector experience includes serving as a program director at the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in San Francisco and Pittsburgh.

Abbott holds a doctorate degree in cultural anthropology, with research focused on understanding the role of entrepreneurs in the emerging capitalist economies in Russia and Eastern Europe, from the University of Pittsburgh. He also earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics from Albion College in Albion, Mich.

Gwynn Hughes

Hughes succeeds An-Me Chung, who led Mott’s Learning Beyond the Classroom portfolio since 2000. Chung is now associate director of education for the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Program.

Hughes comes to the Foundation after serving six years as executive director of the Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership in Boston. Previously, she was chief of project management and policy support for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and chief operating officer of the state’s Office of Child Care Services.

Hughes is a graduate of Northeastern University’s School of Law. She also holds a master’s degree in music history from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass.

Alicia Kitsuse

Kitsuse joins the Foundation with considerable experience in the fields of civic engagement, community development and urban planning. In addition to writing extensively on such topics, she has served as a program manager, researcher, teacher and consultant.

She holds doctorate and master’s degrees in planning from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She also earned a bachelor’s degree in French studies from Smith College in Northampton, Mass. 

Jennifer Liversedge

Prior to joining Mott, Liversedge was a mechanical engineer and patent examiner with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where she specialized in finance and operations research. As part of her earlier studies, she was a student teacher at middle and high schools in the Foundation’s home community of Genesee County.

Liversedge holds a master’s degree in education from the Arizona-based University of Phoenix. She also holds two Bachelor of Science degrees, one in mechanical engineering from Flint’s GMI Engineering and Management Institute – now Kettering University – and the other in business administration from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va.
 

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