Elizabeth Caton has devoted much of her career to social awareness. She is currently an administrator of a real estate investment and development fund, with interests in California, Illinois, and Ohio. In this role, she has specialized in property development and speculation in new markets. Ms. Caton has also been involved in support of local and national cultural and political action; she volunteered in the Presidential campaign of Barack Obama.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Caton was a retailing executive at various department stores, and an advisor to independent retailers, specializing in children’s clothing. She has also been successful in organizing the business offices of interior design and construction firms in California and New Jersey.

Ms. Caton has two sons, Christopher, an economist at Morgan Stanley in Manhattan, and Nicholas, an attorney at Skaddan, Arps in Washington, D.C. She is married to Dan Caton, President of McGraw-Hill Learning Group.

Johanna Crawford founded Web of Benefit in January 2004. Web of Benefit reflects her deep commitment to aid and empower survivors of domestic violence, because for many years during her childhood she witnessed her mother's physical and emotional abuse by her father.

Since February 2002, she has volunteered at Transition House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, assisting survivors of domestic violence. During this period, she completed a comprehensive 40-hour training program for counselors. At Transition House, she responds to and manages crisis line telephone calls, screens prospective clients, acts as a housing and social services advocate, and performs client exit interviews.

After attending University of Vermont for several years, she was married, and following the birth of her two daughters, earned her Bachelor of Science degree in finance and management, with highest distinction, from Babson College. Since that time, she has created, bought and/or sold five small businesses in the Boston area, and worked there as a successful real estate broker.

For the past 35 years, Johanna Crawford has dedicated herself to community service in a wide variety of areas. She has devoted her time and energy to organizations and facilities such as the Museum of Science, Glover Hospital, Florence Crittenden House, Franklin Park Zoo, the Noble and Greenough Parents' Committee, Babson College Foreign Students' Committee, the literacy mentoring program at Juniper Hill Elementary School, and the oncology floor of Children's Hospital.

From 1984 to 1986, she served on the Town of Needham Finance Committee, responsible for recommendations regarding the town budget, then exceeding $54 million. During Needham's difficult transition to meeting the provisions of Proposition 2 ½, she served as liaison to the police department, fire department and public works department. She was also elected a Member of Needham Town Meeting.

Lucy Noyes has been committed to listening to women, and to helping their voices be heard, for many years. Through employment and volunteer work, Lucy has interfaced with people from many different backgrounds, facing adversity in various ways.

A Women's Studies minor in college, and an active participant in the Women's Center, Lucy helped to organize the annual "Take Back the Night March," which raised awareness about rape and women's rights on campus.

She also worked at a women's clinic as a doctor's assistant and reproductive rights educator. Lucy spent three years working as a Massage Therapist, alongside Physical Therapists, and found joy working with women recovering from injury and illness, or while pregnant.

She received a Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology in May 2008 from Lesley University. Lucy seeks to combine her goals of gaining knowledge about the human psyche, and helping women and adolescent girls find and express their voices.

Sean is a 2008 graduate of Babson College where he received his B.S. in Business Management, with a concentration in Marketing. He began interning with Web of Benefit in the summer of 2007, continuing through 2008. Sean was recently elected to the Board of Directors. The experience he gained in redesigning Web of Benefit's IT operations and managing grant applications helps him become an integral part of our commitment to upgrading our research on client needs and outcomes.