Marie has been a High School Counselor at Austintown Fitch High School since 2006. Prior to that, she was a Family and Consumer Science Teacher from 1998-2006 also at Fitch High School.
Marie has served as a Board Member for the ESC of Eastern Ohio (formerly known as the Mahoning County ESC) and the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center since 1995. Also, she has served on the Northeast Region Executive Board of OSBA and was selected for the Northeast Ohio All Ohio School Board Member Award in 2009.
Marie graduated from Youngstown State University with both her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree. In 2016 Marie received the Youngstown State University’s Outstanding Educator Award.
Marie and her husband, Mike, have 3 daughters, Michelle married to Grayson, Kate married to Tim, and Andrea married to Gaurav. Michelle and Grayson have two children, Gus and Greta, and Kate and Tim have a daughter named Maeve.
Marie has been a member of Austintown Junior Women’s League for the past 12 years. Also, in her spare time she enjoys traveling, reading, and spending time with her family.
Jeff Good is the Chief Education Technology Officer for PBS Western Reserve, Ohio’s largest PBS station with over 5.1 million viewers and one of eight State of Ohio educational technology agencies funded to provide support to eight counties of educators in the field of educational technology and the effective integration in the classroom.
Jeff’s educational technology experience began at Youngstown State University serving as Associate Director of Media Services assisting higher education faculty with their requests for technology integration. His educational career continued with the Trumbull County Educational Service Center in the role as Broadcast Supervisor where the development of a distance learning network also involved working with K-12 educators in integrating educational technology in both the distance learning and traditional classroom setting. Jeff’s experiences in educational technology took him out of Ohio to work with the Oakland Intermediate School District where he served as Program Manager for the Oakland Network for Education, a 14 million dollar distance learning project connecting over 30 K-12 sites in Oakland County, Michigan and then to the Genesee Intermediate School District in Flint, where he assisted in the reconfiguration of an existing distance learning network into a higher speed, higher quality educational delivery system to over 22 high schools throughout Genesee County.
Jeff also served as an adjunct faculty at Youngstown State and Kent State where he worked with graduate and undergraduate students in the field of educational technology. Jeff currently possesses a graduate degree from the University of Phoenix in Curriculum and Technology and a bachelor’s degree from Youngstown State University in Speech Communications.
Jeff serves as a founding member and president of ITIP Ohio, a non-profit agency charged with providing educational technology support to teachers across the state of Ohio. ITIP Ohio is Ohio’s only ISTE affiliate and hosts Ohio’s largest Google conference bringing in over 800 educators over the last ten years.
Jeff has also served as a board member and president of South Range Local School District and is currently a board member and former president for the ESC of Eastern Ohio (known as Mahoning County Educational Service Center until 2020). He has been serving on the board of the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center (MCCTC) since 2022.
Jeff lives in Salem, Ohio with his wife and two dogs Connor, a golden retriever and Finnegan, a golden doodle. He has two grown children, Dan and Megan.
A lifelong resident of Mahoning County, Attorney A. Ross Douglass graduated from Boardman High School before attending Youngstown State University (B.A., 1997). He earned his law degree from the Duquesne University Law School in the year 2000 where he was included as a member of The International Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi.
Attorney Douglass started his private practice in 2001. His law firm was created to primarily focus in the areas of family law, juvenile law, criminal defense, and personal injury. In addition to maintaining his own practice, Attorney Douglass serves as Of Counsel to the law firm of Whalen & Duffrin as Chief Trial Counsel for all domestic relations and juvenile court child custody cases. Attorney Douglass is licensed to practice law in the State of Ohio and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Attorney Douglass practices extensively in the Mahoning County Courts, local municipal courts as well as the Court of Common Pleas General Division, Domestic Division and Juvenile Division.
Attorney Douglass is a member of the Mahoning County and Ohio State Bar Associations. He served as a member of the Board that established the Mahoning County Family Dependency Treatment Court; is member and past President of the Wolves Club of Youngstown; and served on the Board of Directors of the Youngstown Community School for several years. Attorney Douglass resides in Canfield with his wife Denise and their children.
Attorney McNabb Welsh has been on the Governing Board of the ESC of Eastern Ohio (formerly Mahoning County ESC) since June 2003.
A graduate of Bowling Green State University and the University of Akron College of Law, Attorney McNabb Welsh has been the Mahoning County Chief Deputy Clerk of Courts since December 1994. She was the first woman elected President of the Mahoning County Bar Association.
Attorney McNabb Welsh has also also served on the Board of Education of the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center since 2003. She is a past Trustee of Eastern Gateway Community College and is currently on the Board of the Boardman Civic Association.
Attorney McNabb Welsh and her husband, Attorney Tim Welsh, are members of St. Charles Church and have one son.
Richard S. Scarsella is a Youngstown, Ohio native, a long time Boardman, Ohio resident and has studied and travelled extensively in western and eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union.
He is the Choffin Career and Technical Center Job Training Coordinator, Youngstown City Schools. A summa cum laude graduate of Boston College, with a Bachelor of Arts in History/Secondary Education, he also has earned a Youngstown State University Master of Science in Education Administration and a Master of Science in Special Education. He has continued his studies at Ashland University, Walsh College and at studies at Kent State University, where he earned a Transition to Work endorsement.
Elected to the Governing Board of the Mahoning County Educational Service Center (now the ESC of Eastern Ohio) in November, 2005, Scarsella was also appointed to the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center (MCCTC) in 2006. He has served as president of both organizations. Appointed to the Mahoning Valley Regional Council of Governments (MVRCOG) governing board in 2017, he is also a member and former chairman of the Mahoning Soil and Water Conservation Board of Supervisors since 2010.
Scarsella has been active in community and non-profit work his whole life. Board membership has included the Boardman Boosters, St. Charles Home and School Executive Cabinet, the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (Steel Museum), Ethnic Heritage Society, Sr. Jerome Mission College Advisory Board, the Mill Creek Metroparks’ Board of Commissioners Interview Committee and Brier Hill Cultural Center. He is a long time member of the Boardman Civic Association, Friends of Boardman Library and Friends of Fellows Riverside Gardens. On the Mahoning Valley Vision for Education task force, he represented Boardman. He currently serves on the MCCTC Foundation Governing Board and Youngstown Steel Heritage Museum Board of Directors. He recently was appointed to the Mill Creek Metroparks interview committee and the newly formed park citizens’ advisory development committee.
Known as a local historian, he is chairman of the William Holmes McGuffey Historical Society and former president of the Boardman Historical Society. He founded several Idora Park historical societies. In 2005, he published Memories and Melancholy: Reflections of the Mahoning Valley and Youngstown, Ohio, which is still in print today. He previously wrote a weekly column for Town Crier Publications and is a frequent guest speaker, at area historical societies, libraries and universities.
