People

Board of Directors | Foundation Staff | National Advisory Council

Board of Directors

1. George Lucas, Chairman
2. Stephen D. Arnold, Vice Chairman/CFO
3. Milton Chen, PhD, Secretary
4. Micheline Chau
5. Kim Meredith
6. Kate Nyegaard
7. Marshall Turner

Foundation Staff

Administration

1. Milton Chen, PhD, Executive Director
2. Cindy Johanson, Chief Operating Officer
3. Brian Chan, Controller
4. Sheila Tuck, Staff Accountant
5. Silvia Tisell, Accounts Payable Accountant
6. Colleen Reichling, Grants & Contracts Administrator
7. Sharon Murotsune, Executive Assistant & Office Manager
8. Sandy Miller, Administrative Assistant

Sales

1. Chip Fesko, Senior Director of Advertising Sales and Strategic Alliances
2. Gerry Woodworth, Consultant, Advertising Sales (East)
3. Jim Benjamin, Consultant, Advertising Sales (MarketPlace)
4. Leona Hanafin, Ad-Traffic Coordinator

Editorial

1. David Markus, Editorial Director
2. Tina Barseghian, Executive Editor
3. Laura Morris Designs, Creative Director
4. Barbara Tannenbaum, Managing Editor
5. Malaika Costello-Dougherty, Senior Editor
6. Mark Nichol, Senior Producer
7. Grace Rubenstein, Senior Producer
8. Bruce Raskin, Project Editor

Video

1. Ken Ellis, Executive Producer
2. Carl Bidleman, Video Producer
3. Karen Sutherland, Video Editor
4. Amy Erin Borovoy, Coordinating Video Producer
5. Lauren Rosenfeld, Coordinating Producer, Edutopia Digital Generation Project
6. Doug Keely, Production Assistant

Web Production

1. Cal Joy, General Manager
2. Geoff Butterfield, Senior Technical Web Producer
3. Laurie Chu, Web Production Manager
4. Betty Ray, Community Manager
5. Ray Hill, Product Manager
6. Debra St. John, Web Developer
7. Sherry Heinz, Back-End Developer
8. Sabrina Smith, Communications Manager
9. Elana Leoni, Online Membership Coordinator
10. Jen Fujimoto, Membership/Accounting Support Representative
11. Billy Hawes, Desktop-Support Specialist

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National Advisory Council

1. Craig Brandenburg, Media Production Instructor, YES Prep North Central, and Teach for America alumnus (Houston)
2. Nínive Clements Calegari, Cofounder of 826 Valencia and CEO of 826 National, a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization (San Francisco)
3. Chris Dede, Professor of Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and researcher exploring immersive and semi-immersive simulations for learning (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
4. Ted Hasselbring, Research Professor of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, and creator of the Read 180 reading software program (Nashville, Tennessee)
5. Jason Kamras, Director of Teacher Human Capital Strategy, District of Columbia Public Schools, and 2005 National Teacher of the Year (Washington, DC)
6. Larry Leverett, Executive Director, Panasonic Foundation, and former mentor superintendent of doctoral interns in Harvard University's Urban Superintendents program (Secaucus, New Jersey)
7. Doug Martin, Graphic Design and Illustration Teacher, Mingo Career and Technical Center; former Walt Disney Imagineer (Delbarton, West Virginia)
8. Pablo Muñoz, Superintendent of Elizabeth Public Schools and graduate of the Broad Education Foundation's Superintendents Academy (Elizabeth, New Jersey)
9. Susan Patrick, President and CEO, North American Council for Online Learning, and former Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education (Vienna, Virginia)
10. Kathleen Petersen, Principal at Santa Clara Elementary School, and National Association of Elementary School Principals 2007 National Distinguished Principal (Santa Clara, Utah)
11. Kati Reinke, English Teacher, Charlestown High School, and mentor teacher with the Boston Teacher Residency program (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
12. Will Richardson, Learner in Chief, Connective Learning, and Weblogg-ed blogger exploring the use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 (New Jersey)

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