Board Members and Officers

Marissa Breton, President, a senior at Thornton Academy in Saco, is a Project AWARE Player Founding Member and Artistic Facilitator.
marissa.breton1@gmail.com

Marilyn Breton, Vice-President, is a parent of two teens (including Marissa!) and works for Keys of Promise in southern York county with young people in a leadership and resiliency program.
Mar@maine.rr.com

Kristan Drzewieki, Secretary, is a Project Manager for a Portland consulting firm and an experienced grantwriter. Kristan lives on Peaks Island with her two children.
Kdrzewiecki@bdmp.com

Deb Dunlap coordinates the Parenting Education program at Youth Alternatives, a social services agency based in South Portland. She is a parent of two children, ages 15 and 12.
ddunlap@youthalternatives.org

Blake Baldwin is a Video Creations principal and a retired California banker and attorney who moved to Maine in 2001.
blake@videocreations.tv

Lee Cote is also a Video Creations principal, and recently retired from a career as audio-mixer and camera operator of reality shows on MTV, FOX and Spike TV.
lee@videocreations.tv

Alyssa McCourt, a freshman at Thornton Academy in Saco, is a Project AWARE Player and will play the lead character Jordan in “Untold Stories”.
Starlyssa92@maine.rr.com

Staff

Katey Branch, Coordinator Oxford County, Artistic Facilitator and Co-Founder, co-founded Project AWARE in 2003. A gifted facilitator and long-time community minded advocate for young people she lives in South Paris and is a massage therapist and mother of two teens, Emma and Ruby.
creatrix@roadrunner.com

Carl Lakari, Coordinator and Co-Founder, co-founded Project AWARE in 2003. A housing consultant for many years, he has now turned his full attention to young people. He lives is Saco with his wife Jeanette Schmid and daughter Nadia.
projectaware@maine.rr.com

Marissa Breton, Artistic Facilitator, has a dual role as Board President and part-time youth artistic facilitator.