Press Release: 4/4/2025

Charles River Watershed Association Announces New Appointments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 4, 2025

Contact: Carly Sherman, Communications Associate

Email: csherman@crwa.org

C. 774-222-1330

To Board Of Directors

BOSTON, MA – Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) elected three new members to

its Board of Directors at its 59th annual meeting last week: Susie Klein, Claire White, and Jane

Wiseman.

Klein has had a diverse career spanning media, public and investor relations, and academia.

She is the former president of the Boston chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute.

Now retired, Klein serves on the board of Framingham Adult ESL.

White is a pediatric orthopedist at Boston Children’s Hospital. She founded the “Mad Scientist

Club” at the James Hennigan After-School Program and later chaired the Committee

Overseeing Volunteer Services at Yale School of Medicine.

Wiseman leads the Institute for Excellence in Government, a nonprofit consulting firm dedicated

to improving government performance. She is also an Innovations in American Government

Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Wiseman has served as assistant secretary at the

Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety, and as assistant to the director for strategic

planning at the National Institute of Justice.

In addition, Ralph Ebele renewed his membership on the board of directors, a position he’s held

for forty years. A retired scientist who began his 40-plus-year federal career in the U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service and finished as chief of the Water Quality Standards Section at EPA New

England, Abele served as CRWA’s Board President from 1989 to 1998.

Paul Levy, who served in several leadership positions over five decades and played a pivotal

role in the Boston Harbor Cleanup, was elected board president. Larry Yu, a Senior Editorial

Director for the Bridgespan Group, which provides management consulting to nonprofits and

philanthropies, was reelected as board clerk.