Richard Buery

A co-founder of iMentor, and iMentor's first Executive Director, Richard has an extensive background in nonprofit management, youth development, education, and public interest law. He is a co-founder and former director of the Mission Hill Summer Program, an enrichment program for children in the Mission Hill Housing Development in the Roxbury section of Boston. He also taught fifth grade at an orphanage in Bindura, Zimbabwe as a Michael Clarke Rockefeller Memorial Fellow. In his legal work, Richard was a staff attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and before that was a law clerk for Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the Federal Court of Appeals in New York City. He has also clerked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and the DC Public Defender Service. He is an active volunteer and board member for several non-profit community organizations in his native New York City. He is currently the President and CEO of Children's Aid Society. Richard received a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Harvard College.