Ms. Salas is taking the helm as The Esplanade Association, a not-for-profit organization working to restore and enhance Boston’s historic Esplanade, aims to complete as many park improvements as possible before it launches a year of activities and special events to honor and celebrate the park’s centennial in 2010.

Ms. Salas has twenty years of management experience in the field of organized philanthropy. She has managed charitable trusts, corporate philanthropy and community relations in the investment and finance industries and fund development in the workforce development field. Prior to assuming her role as Executive Director at TEA, Ms. Salas served as Vice President of External Relations and Development for MY TURN, Inc., a youth education and training agency serving Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Previously, Ms. Salas was employed as the director of corporate philanthropy at Nellie Mae, Inc., a secondary student loan market corporation, and formerly was Assistant Vice President at Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co., where she administered a portfolio of charitable trusts.