Meet Our Team

Marina Seevak, MAT, is the founding executive director of The Beautiful Stuff Project. She is also adjunct faculty in Early Childhood Education at Bunker Hill Community College. Previously she was director of the Evelyn Pitcher Curriculum Resource Laboratory at Tufts University where she also was an instructor in the Early Childhood Education Department. She also taught pre service teachers for many years at Lesley University. She began her career as a classroom teacher in the Cambridge Mass Public School System. She has been involved with early childhood education in some capacity for over 35 years but the title of “the beautiful lady” given to her by the school children of Somerville, MA is her most dear. Marina is the proud mom of one son who recently received his BFA at Sierra Nevada University in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Her home in Cambridge Mass is filled with both her mosaic art and her son’s ceramic, wood and metal sculpture.

Betsey joined The Beautiful Stuff Project team in 2018. She has a passion for hunting for treasures in yard sales and thrift stores. One of her daily tasks is combing through Craigslist and other online “free” venues for the materials we use. A self taught woodworker, she often uses repurposed wood for her projects. Betsey is thrilled to bring her experience and commitment to reusing, repurposing and recycling, to her work with the Beautiful Stuff Project.