FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER:
JOSEPH RIVERA

Joseph Rivera is a doer, a maker, a motivator, an entrepreneur, a tinkerer, a metal worker, an artist and a woodworker.  He established JMR Works in Brattleboro in 2018.

Originally from New York City, Joseph and his wife moved permanently to Vermont in late 2018.

Joseph has a BA in Studio Art from the State University of New York at Geneseo.

FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER:
ALEX GYORI

Now retired, Alex led the Brattleboro Food Co-op for 33 years as it grew from a $700,000 a year business in 1982 to a thriving, $20 million a year anchor enterprise today in its small New England market town. Alex brings invaluable non-profit organizational and management expertise to the HatchSpace project.

FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER:
SETH HARTER

Seth Harter is a professional historian and an amateur woodworker.  He teaches Asian studies at Marlboro College, offering courses on everything from colonial literature, to conceptions of time and space, to Japanese joinery.  He has been taking courses at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport Maine, and did an apprenticeship with acclaimed chair maker, Tak Yoshino.  He is now a consultant for Tak’s Mt. Fuji School of Fine Woodworking.

BOARD MEMBER:
GAIL GRYCEL

Gail Grycel, owner of Twin Birch Woodworking in Westminster West, Vermont, has been a custom cabinetmaker since 1984. The balance of beauty and function exists in her cabinetry and furniture throughout New England. For over twenty years, and in three states, Gail has empowered women and girls through her class offerings in adult learning programs, woodworking courses in  her studio, at HatchSpace, and the Claremont Makerspace, Rosie's Girls summer camp sessions, mixed gender workshops and one on one tutoring. She is dedicated to sharing her knowledge and experience to all who want to explore the love of making things out of wood. 

BOARD MEMBER:
STEVEN VANNOY

Steven Vannoy took his first woodworking class at the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts in 1990. He has been an amateur woodworking enthusiast ever since. Steven enjoys making musical instruments of all kinds. With a background in computer programming the CNC was a natural tool for him to be drawn to. He is currently psychology professor and is excited to teach hands-on woodworking skills at Hatchspace.

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER:  DOUGLAS COX

Douglas Cox is a well-regarded violin maker, working in West Brattleboro since 1985.  He trained in the late 1960’s as a teenager at the State Violin Making School in Mittenwald, Germany.  His German training has been tempered with extensive experience with vintage instruments and his own values of efficiency, simplicity,  and freedom and strength of style.  Over his 50 years of making, nearly 1000 instruments have been placed in the hands of players internationally, some at the highest levels of prestige.

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER:
JIM MAHONEY

Jim tinkers with a CNC milling machine at the HatchSpace. He teaches computing at Marlboro College where he's been since finishing a PhD in physics in 1988 at MIT.

On Tuesday nights you can find him dancing Argentine tango just up the street.