Meet our Board of Directors

Steve Bradford

Steve is a Lieutenant with the Gainesville Police Department. He has experience consulting with school officials regarding issues at the school or in the community, investigating the circumstances surrounding crime that may have occurred on the school grounds, conflict intervention/resolution between students, providing advice to a troubled student, teaching law-related topics to students in a classroom setting, and building a positive rapport with the students at the schools. 

Cindy Boulware  

Cindy is a descendant of the Boulware family of North Gainesville. She is an active member of the NE Gainesville community. She has taught and/or coached at Gainesville High School for 32 years. She retired as the Athletic Director at Gainesville High School. She had an extremely successful career as the volleyball coach, having been named the Florida Dairy Farmers’ state coach of the year in 2003. In 2009 Coach Boulware was named The Gainesville Sun’s Coach of the Decade, and in 2012 was inducted into the Florida High School Athletic Hall of Fame. 

Audrey Sommer

Audrey is retired and has been a volunteer at Boulware Springs Charter School since 2015.. She had previously volunteered in Gainesville at the Boys & Girls Club as well as Kids Count. Prior to retirement, Audrey was a Fitness Director for Club Corporation of America (CCA), managing 95 employees at one of their flagship clubs in New York City. She was a Certified Fitness Director by the American College of Sports Medicine and had been recognized by CCA as the Health Fitness Director of the Year (award given to the top performing CCA Fitness Director in the country). Audrey graduated from University of Florida with a B.S. in Business Administration.

Megan Lane Conklin

Megan is the co-founder of Boulware Springs Charter School, along with the school’s former director, Kay Abbitt. Megan helped launched the school’s opening and served as a co-director for the first 3.5 years of the school’s operation. 

Marcia Leary

Erin Stucky

Erin is the parent representative on Boulware’s board of directors.