Korngold Consulting LLC

Madeline Boccuzzi

Madeline Boccuzzi brings experience in international program development, strategic planning, fundraising, financial management, and project management to the team. Her experience is drawn from her work in nonprofits, higher education, and international government. Most recently, Madeline worked for the Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles in their Trade and Business Development department.

Madeline serves as an officer on the board of directors of a nonprofit engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention work in East Africa. Her involvement with this board followed her experience working in a Tanzanian village teaching HIV education to school children, village leaders, and community members. Madeline is proficient in Swahili.

Prior to moving to the west coast in 2009, Madeline worked for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York City, where she was the Project Associate for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum. Before then, she worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she was the Office/Program Manager for the Division of Postgraduate Education.

She graduated magna cum laude from Colby College with degrees in Women’s Studies and Science, Technology, and Society. Following her passion for global issues, Madeline will begin her Masters of Science degree in Global Health at Duke University this fall.

Daphne A. Kenyon, Ph.D.

Daphne A. Kenyon, Ph.D. has over twenty-five years of experience in research, education, public policy, and board governance in the field of public finance. She serves as principal of D.A. Kenyon & Associates, a public finance consulting firm and as a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. At the Lincoln Institute, she has published several reports, the most recent of which is Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Balancing Municipal and Nonprofit Interests, and presented the conclusions of these reports at various meetings across the U.S. She organizes educational seminars for state legislators and a mentoring workshop for junior economists.

Kenyon serves on three boards, including the New Hampshire State Board of Education, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s New England Public Policy Center Advisory Board, and the Education Commission of the States, a nonprofit, nonpartisan body made up of governors, legislators, state agency heads, and members of elected boards. Kenyon was appointed to the New Hampshire State Board of Education and the Education Commission of the States by New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch.

Kenyon’s prior positions include president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, professor and chair of the Economics Department at Simmons College, senior economist with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Urban Institute, and assistant professor at Dartmouth College. The courses she taught most frequently are public economics, introductory microeconomics, and econometrics. Her research and consulting have focused on state and local public finance, education policy, economics of nonprofits, health care policy and taxation. She has published widely in journals, books and monographs, and is the co-author of two books: Coping with Mandates (with Michael Fix) and Competition among States and Local Governments (with John Kincaid), both published by the Urban Institute. Kenyon earned her B.A. in Economics from Michigan State University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Michigan.