People

Board of Directors | Foundation Staff | National Advisory Council

Board of Directors

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

Foundation Staff

• Cindy Johanson, Executive Director
• Milton Chen, PhD, Senior Fellow and Executive Director Emeritus

Content & Community

• David Markus, Editorial Director
• Lora Ma, Executive Producer, Edutopia.org
• Maili Holiman, Creative Director
• Kathryn Baron, Features Producer and Research Editor
• Grace Rubenstein, Senior Producer
• Amy Erin Borovoy, Video Programming Producer
• Betty Ray, Community Manager

Video

• Ken Ellis, Executive Producer, Video
• Karen Sutherland, Video Editor

Web Development

• Cal Joy, Director, Web Development
• Geoff Butterfield, Senior Technical Web Producer
• Laurie Chu, Web Production Manager
• Sherry Heinz, Back-End Developer
• Billy Hawes, Desktop-Support Specialist
• Leona Hanafin, Ad-Traffic Coordinator

Sales

• Chip Fesko, Senior Director of Advertising Sales and Strategic Alliances

Marketing and Communications

• Sabrina Smith, Director, Marketing and Communications
• Elana Leoni, Social Media Marketing Coordinator
• Carl Bidleman, Syndication Manager
• Jen Fujimoto, Membership/Accounting Support Representative

Administration

• Brian Chan, Controller
• Sheila Tuck, Staff Accountant
• Silvia Tisell, Accounts Payable Accountant
• Sharon Murotsune, Executive Assistant & Office Manager

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National Advisory Council

• Anthony Armstrong, U.S. History Teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator, Del Mar Middle School, and developer of a digital model for integrating wikis into the curriculum (Tiburon, California)
• Craig Brandenburg, Media Production Instructor, YES Prep North Central, and Teach for America alumnus (Houston)
• Nínive Clements Calegari, Cofounder of 826 Valencia and CEO of 826 National, a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization (San Francisco)
• Kati Delahanty, English Teacher, Charlestown High School, and mentor teacher with the Boston Teacher Residency program (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
• Leslie Fenwick, Dean, Howard University School of Education, and former teacher and administrator at an urban school (Washington, DC)
• Ted Hasselbring, Research Professor of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, and creator of the Read 180 reading software program (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Jason Kamras, Director of Teacher Human Capital Strategy, District of Columbia Public Schools, and 2005 National Teacher of the Year (Washington, DC)
• Larry Leverett, Executive Director, Panasonic Foundation, and former mentor superintendent of doctoral interns in Harvard University's Urban Superintendents program (Secaucus, New Jersey)
• Doug Martin, Graphic Design and Illustration Teacher, Mingo Career and Technical Center; former Walt Disney Imagineer (Delbarton, West Virginia)
• Pablo Muñoz, Superintendent of Elizabeth Public Schools and graduate of the Broad Education Foundation's Superintendents Academy (Elizabeth, New Jersey)
• Susan Patrick, President and CEO, International Association for K-12 Online Learning, and former Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education (Vienna, Virginia)
• Kathleen Petersen, former Principal at Santa Clara Elementary School, and National Association of Elementary School Principals 2007 National Distinguished Principal (Santa Clara, Utah)
• Will Richardson, Learner in Chief, Connective Learning, and Weblogg-ed blogger exploring the use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 education (New Jersey)




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