People category: Board of Directors

A Springfield native and member of the Springfield School Committee since 2009, Denise Hurst has brought new focus and commitment to promoting issues of equity and inclusiveness in educational opportunities, and was a driving force behind the Association’s Summits on Poverty. She has also been a highly effective leader and communicator, organizing the MASC Minority Caucus in 2016 for which she served two years as chair. (In 2020, the Caucus was formally recognized as MASC’s Division X: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.) In January 2019, she joined the MASC Executive Committee as Secretary-Treasurer.