Meet Our Founding Board Members

Discover the dedicated individuals behind the Northern Collaborative for Quality Education's mission to enhance educational standards and opportunities for students in the North Country

Michelle Strasburger, Chairperson & Founding Board Member

Michelle Strasburger is...

Amber Calhoun, Founding Board Member
Bonnie Balsamo, Founding Board Member
Carrie Rancourt, Founding Board Member
Kelly Cunningham, Founding Board Member

Mr. Cunningham is a retired (after 35 years) software engineer and a former Vice President of Software Engineering at Fast Search and Transfer, a Norwegian based search engine company (acquired by Microsoft), and TotalView Technologies (acquired by Rogue Wave Software), the developer of software used by the Tri-Lab research institutes to troubleshoot High Performance Super Computers.

In addition to technology, software development, and AI, he has many interests including education, writing, painting, gamification, physics, politics, cooking, and farming during summers, when he and his wife operate a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Much of his work can be found at kcunningham1021.com.