Marie St. Fleur
JD
MA, USMARIE ST. FLEUR, JD.
President and CEO, St. Fleur Communications
Marie St. Fleur is a highly effective and passionate organizational and program leader with 30 years of - legislative, municipal and legal leadership linking public and private resources to bring transformational changes that enhance the quality of life in vulnerable communities.
Her experience as an attorney, legislator, senior leader in municipal government and nonprofit leader help drive grassroots research on early education and care and workforce systems, advocate for change, and expand engagement of families, providers, policymakers, government agencies, and the public.
As the CEO of the Bessie Tartt Wilson Initiative for Children from November 2013 to July 2016, Ms. St. Fleur led the formation of the influential Put MA Kids First Coalition securing increased investment in early education and care in Massachusetts for 2 consecutive fiscal years, and the creation of the Early Education Small Business Innovation Center, the first of its type in Massachusetts.
Ms. St. Fleur was appointed by Mayor Thomas M. Menino on June 13, 2010, as the Chief of Advocacy and Strategic Investment for the City of Boston. In that capacity Ms. St. Fleur led the Mayor Menino Circle of Promise Initiative and oversaw the Department of Intergovernmental Relations, The Office of New Bostonian, The Small and Local Business/Boston Jobs for Boston Residents Policy, and his Diversity and Reentry Initiatives.
Former State Representative Marie St. Fleur was first elected to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1999, and is the first Haitian-American elected to state office in the United States. As the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Education, Arts and Humanities, Representative St. Fleur championed two-way bilingual education, alternative education and led the establishment of the new Massachusetts Board and Department of Early Education and Care.
As a former Middlesex District Attorney and Assistant State Attorney General and Ms. St. Fleur has significant experience protecting underserved communities in the areas of criminal justice, human services and civil rights.
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Representative St. Fleur earned a Law Degree from Boston College Law School in 1987. Ms. St. Fleur served as Chair of The Advisory Council for the Haiti Fund at The Boston Foundation, is a former trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation and past President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. She has been featured on WCVB Television's City Line and Chronicle, WGBH Television's Greater Boston, Boston Magazine and Commonwealth Magazine. Ms. St. Fleur is a recipient of Boston Business Journal's 2014 Women Up award and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Dorchester Boys and Girls Club, and Nativity Preparatory School.
MARIE ST. FLEUR, JD.
President and CEO, St. Fleur Communications
Marie St. Fleur is a highly effective and passionate organizational and program leader with 30 years of - legislative, municipal and legal leadership linking public and private resources to bring transformational changes that enhance the quality of life in vulnerable communities.
Her experience as an attorney, legislator, senior leader in municipal government and nonprofit leader help drive grassroots research on early education and care and workforce systems, advocate for change, and expand engagement of families, providers, policymakers, government agencies, and the public.
As the CEO of the Bessie Tartt Wilson Initiative for Children from November 2013 to July 2016, Ms. St. Fleur led the formation of the influential Put MA Kids First Coalition securing increased investment in early education and care in Massachusetts for 2 consecutive fiscal years, and the creation of the Early Education Small Business Innovation Center, the first of its type in Massachusetts.
Ms. St. Fleur was appointed by Mayor Thomas M. Menino on June 13, 2010, as the Chief of Advocacy and Strategic Investment for the City of Boston. In that capacity Ms. St. Fleur led the Mayor Menino Circle of Promise Initiative and oversaw the Department of Intergovernmental Relations, The Office of New Bostonian, The Small and Local Business/Boston Jobs for Boston Residents Policy, and his Diversity and Reentry Initiatives.
Former State Representative Marie St. Fleur was first elected to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1999, and is the first Haitian-American elected to state office in the United States. As the House Chair of the Joint Committee on Education, Arts and Humanities, Representative St. Fleur championed two-way bilingual education, alternative education and led the establishment of the new Massachusetts Board and Department of Early Education and Care.
As a former Middlesex District Attorney and Assistant State Attorney General and Ms. St. Fleur has significant experience protecting underserved communities in the areas of criminal justice, human services and civil rights.
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Representative St. Fleur earned a Law Degree from Boston College Law School in 1987. Ms. St. Fleur served as Chair of The Advisory Council for the Haiti Fund at The Boston Foundation, is a former trustee of the Boston Bar Foundation and past President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association. She has been featured on WCVB Television's City Line and Chronicle, WGBH Television's Greater Boston, Boston Magazine and Commonwealth Magazine. Ms. St. Fleur is a recipient of Boston Business Journal's 2014 Women Up award and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Dorchester Boys and Girls Club, and Nativity Preparatory School.
