October 6, 2025
This month, Equal Opportunity Schools welcomed three new members to our Board of Directors. With decades of leadership across industries including education, healthcare, and technology, our new board members each bring a wealth of experience and unique perspectives to advance EOS’s mission.
Learn more about each of our new board members below.
Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel
Dr. Heuschel is the principal owner of A+ Empowerment, MAH Consults, which was established in January 2023 to provide executive coaching and strategy implementation support to empower superintendents, their school boards, and district leadership teams in improving effective school district systems that impact student success.
Previous experience includes 8 years as Deputy Director at the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, Superintendent of the Renton School District, WA Deputy State Superintendent at OSPI, and years of service across the country and internationally with DoDDs as a classroom and special education teacher, principal, and school-improvement specialist.
Dr. Heuschel serves on the Board of Directors’ Audit & Finance Committee.
Tremayne J. Bess
Bess currently functions as Global Head of Human Resources at Eventbrite and has over 25 years of HR experience with companies like Wal-Mart, LinkedIn, The Gap, Inc. Kaiser Permanente, and Splunk Inc.
He serves on the Board of Directors’ Technology Governance Committee.
Patrick Wells-O’Brien
Patrick Wells-O’Brien serves as VP, Communications and External Relations for Gift of Life Michigan, the federally designated agency that makes organ and tissue donation possible in Michigan. Wells-O’Brien is responsible for communications, marketing, community relations, public education, donor family support, fundraising and governmental affairs.
Prior to Gift of Life, Wells-O’Brien was CEO of FAITH Catholic, America’s largest publisher of Catholic magazines.
He sits on the Board of Directors’ Personnel & Compensation Committee.
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