Greg Torres
Publisher
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Greg Torres joined MassINC in June of 2007. As President, he is responsible to the Board of Directors for setting policy, leading fund raising activities, and guiding program operations. Greg also serves as publisher of CommonWealth magazine, now a leader in investigative journalism.
Greg began his career working with juvenile delinquents in the early 1970s in Boston. As the de-institutionalization movement proceeded, Greg was instrumental in developing community-based programs for adolescents with his work at the Massachusetts Committee on Criminal Justice. As Assistant Secretary for Criminal Justice under Governor Michael Dukakis, he led reform efforts in the adult correctional system as well. From 1984-1992 Greg served as Chief of Staff to the Massachusetts’ Senate Committee on Ways and Means.
In 1992 Greg joined the MENTOR Network as Senior Vice President, having served as a founding board member in 1980. Assuming the role of President and CEO from 1996-2005, Greg led the growth of MENTOR from a regional company providing services primarily to children into a national organization serving people of all ages in a wide variety of settings, now operating in thirty-seven states. Having retired as CEO, Greg continues to chair the board of the MENTOR Network.
Greg is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (MPA 1982) and of St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe PA (BA 1971). Greg chaired the board of Roca, a Chelsea-based organization from 2006-2009. He lives in Winchester with his wife Betsy Pattullo. They have two sons, Jess and Gabe, and two grandchildren, Jack and Lydia.
Bruce Mohl
Editor
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Bruce Mohl is the editor of CommonWealth Magazine, the quarterly journal of Massachusetts politics and civic life.
Mohl came to CommonWealth from the Boston Globe, where he spent nearly 30 years in a wide variety of positions covering business and politics. He covered the Massachusetts State House and served as the Globe’s State House bureau chief in the late 1980s. He also reported for the Globe’s Spotlight Team, winning a Loeb award in 1992 for coverage of conflicts of interest in the state’s pension system. He served as the Globe’s political editor in 1994, managing the coverage of the state election and the campaign for U.S. Senate between Mitt Romney and Senator Edward Kennedy. Most recently, Mohl was the Globe’s consumer reporter, writing the weekly Consumer Beat column and covering a wide range of policy and pocketbook issues.
Mohl is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He lives in Milton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Josephine Cappuccio, and his son, Erik.
Michael Jonas
Executive Editor
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Michael Jonas has worked in journalism in Massachusetts since the early 1980s. Before joining the CommonWealth staff in early 2001, he was a contributing writer for the magazine for two years. His cover story in CommonWealth's Fall 1999 issue on Boston youth outreach workers was selected for a PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.
Mr. Jonas got his start in journalism at the Dorchester Community News, a community newspaper serving Boston's largest neighborhood, where he covered a range of urban issues. Since the late 1980s, he has been a regular contributor to the Boston Globe. He has written for the Boston Sunday Globe's City Weekly section since its inception in 1992, and, since 1995, has written a weekly column for the section on local politics. His work has also appeared in the Dallas Morning News and the Jewish Advocate.
Mr. Jonas has also worked in broadcast journalism. In 1989, he was a co-producer for "The AIDS Quarterly," a national PBS series produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, and in the early 1990s, he worked as a producer for "Our Times," a weekly magazine program on WHDH-TV (Ch. 7) in Boston. He has also been a correspondent for "Neighborhood Network News," Boston's nightly public access television news program.
Mr. Jonas lives in Dorchester with his wife, Karen Silver, and their two daughters, Maya and Toni.
Gabrielle Gurley
Senior Associate Editor
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Gurley covers a range of issues, including mass transit, municipal government, and energy and the environment. Her recent articles have explored the problems facing the city of Lawrence, the long-delayed South Coast Rail project to Fall River and New Bedford, and immigration and the American Dream.She is a four-time Capitolbeat (Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors) award-winner, most recently for beat reporting on Bay State transportation affairs.
Prior to coming to CommonWealth in 2005, Gurley wrote for the State House News Service, The Boston Globe, and other publications. She launched her media career in broadcast journalism with C-SPAN in Washington, DC and also worked at Christian Science Monitor Television in Boston. The Arlington resident holds a master’s degree in political science from Boston College and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Georgetown University.
Jack Sullivan
Senior Investigative Reporter
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Sullivan, a veteran of the Boston newspaper scene for more than two decades, was most recently Editorial Page Editor of The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, a part of the GateHouse Media chain. Prior to that he was news editor at another GateHouse paper, The Enterprise of Brockton and also was city edition editor at the Ledger. Sullivan was an investigative and enterprise reporter and executive city editor at the Boston Herald and a reporter at The Boston Globe.
He has reported stories such as the federal investigation into the Teamsters, the workings of the Yawkey Trust and sale of the Red Sox, organized crime, the church sex abuse scandal and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the State House, state and local politics, K-16 education, courts, crime and general assignment.
Sullivan received the 2003 New England Press Association award for investigative reporting for a series on unused properties owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and shared the association's 2002 award for business for his reporting on the sale of the Boston Red Sox. He also won second place in 2007 for editorial writing from the Inland Press Association, the nation's oldest national journalism association of nearly 900 newspapers as members.
He is also an adjunct professor at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, where he teaches journalism writing.
A Boston native, Sullivan has lived in Massachusetts all his life. He was a major in English and History with a minor in Political Science at the University of Massachuetts Boston. A father and grandfather, he lives in Plymouth with his wife, Susan.
Paul McMorrow
Associate Editor
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Paul comes to CommonWealth magazine from Banker & Tradesman, where he covered commercial real estate and development. He previously worked as a contributing editor to Boston magazine, where he covered local politics in print and online. He got his start at the Weekly Dig, where he worked as a staff writer, and later news and features editor. Paul writes a frequent column about real estate for the Boston Globe’s Op-Ed page, and is a regular contributor to BeerAdvocate magazine. His work has been recognized by the City and Regional Magazine Association, the New England Press Association and the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. He is a Boston University graduate and a lifelong New Englander.
Christina Prignano
Web Editor
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Christina Prignano joins MassINC as a former intern and graduate of Northeastern University, where she majored in political science and journalism. During her time in college, Christina worked as an intern for US Senator Jack Reed and had the opportunity to travel to London to participate in the Hansard Scholars Program, which included an internship in the House of Commons. She also brings media experience through an internship with Governor Patrick’s press office and as a correspondent for the Huntington News, the newspaper of the Northeastern community.
Christina is a native of Rhode Island and now resides in Boston.