Judy Burnette Boston, Massachusetts

Judy Burnette (Rock) is from Long Branch, New Jersey, and currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. She has held several positions as an teacher in public K-12 education, including elementary and middle school classroom teacher, junior high school math teacher and middle school special needs teacher. Ms. Burnette has also served as a curriculum specialist and teacher trainer at the New Jersey Department of Education and mathematics instructor for college freshman at kean College in New Jersey.

After receiving her Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ms. Burnette remained in Boston where she worked as Director of the Developmental Education Program at Roxbury Community College and Director of the School Improvement Program and Staff Development Specialist with the Boston Public Schools Department. Ms. Burnette taught English Composition in the Urban College program, a collaboration between Roxbury Community College and Bunker Hill Community College, and served as Director of Education and Professional Development at the Roxbury Multi-Service Center.

At Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Ms. Burnette served as Director of the Community Strategic Planning Project and currently serves as an Education Policy Research Analyst at Northeastern’s Urban Law and Public Policy Institute (ULPPI), and Adult Learning Consultant to the Law Clinics of Northeastern University. As part of her commitment to public service and community development, Ms. Burnette worked as an Education Policy Specialist for the Mayor of Boston, served as an appointee to the Governor’s (of Massachusetts) Education Reform Review Commission, and was the Director of the United in Spirit Healthy Boston Coalition.

Judy Burnette is a founder and member of the board of directors of the Coalition for Parent Choice in Education (CPCE) in Massachusetts, and served as executive director for the Children’s Scholarship Fund (CSF) of Boston.

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