People

Board of Directors | Foundation Staff | National Advisory Board

Board of Directors

  • George Lucas, Chairman
  • Stephen D. Arnold, Vice Chairman/CFO
  • Milton Chen, PhD, Secretary
  • Micheline Chau
  • Kim Meredith
  • Kate Nyegaard
  • Marshall Turner

Foundation Staff

Administration

  • Milton Chen, PhD, Executive Director
  • Cindy Johanson, Chief Operating Officer
  • Brian Chan, Controller
  • Sheila Tuck, Staff Accountant
  • Silvia Tisell, Accounts Payable Accountant
  • Colleen Reichling, Grants and Contracts Administrator
  • Sharon Murotsune, Executive Assistant and Office Manager
  • Patty Schinzing, Project Manager
  • Sandy Miller, Administrative Assistant

Sales

  • Chip Fesko, Senior Director of Advertising Sales and Strategic Alliances
  • Katie Sullivan, Director, Advertising Sales (West)
  • Gerry Woodworth, Consultant, Advertising Sales (East)
  • Jim Benjamin, Consultant, Advertising Sales (MarketPlace)
  • Michele Yoskovich, Production Supervisor

Editorial

  • James Daly, Editorial Director
  • Jennifer Foote Sweeney, Executive Editor
  • Richard Koscher, Art Director
  • Owen Edwards, Consulting Editor
  • Naheed Attari, Managing Editor
  • Mark Nichol, Assistant Managing Editor and Web Production Editor
  • Malaika Costello-Dougherty, Editor
  • Grace Rubenstein, Staff Writer and Multimedia Producer
  • Sara Bernard, Staff Writer and Multimedia Producer
  • Shari Wargo, Editorial Assistant

Video

  • Ken Ellis, Executive Producer
  • Karen Sutherland, Video Editor
  • Amy Erin Borovoy, Coordinating Video Producer
  • Neil Tan, Intern

Web Production

  • Cal Joy, General Manager
  • Sara Inclenrock, Director of Marketing
  • Geoff Butterfield, Senior Technical Web Producer
  • Debra St. John, Web Developer
  • Sherry Heinz, Web Developer
  • Laurie Chu, Web Production Manager
  • Diane Demée-Benoit, Consulting Online Editor
  • Nina Bellisio, E-Learning Producer/Project Manager
  • Billy Hawes, Desktop-Support Specialist
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National Advisory Board

  • Ninive Clements Calegari, Cofounder, 826 Valencia
  • Chris Dede, Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Ted Hasselbring, Professor, Vanderbilt University
  • Jason Kamras, 2005 National Teacher of the Year
  • Larry Leverett, EdD, Executive Director, Panasonic Foundation
  • Susan Patrick, President, North American Council for Online Learning
  • Will Richardson, Learner in Chief, Connective Learning
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