Victor A. Capoccia, Ph.D

Princeton, New Jersey

Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; former CEO and President, CAB Health and Recovery Services Inc.; former Director of Community Health Services, Boston Department of Health and Hospitals; former committee member , Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Community Based Drug Treatment; former Chairman of The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Panel; former Associate Professor, Community Organization and Social Planning Department, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, B.A. – Boston College, M.A. and Ph.D. – Brandeis.

Cheri Carter

Washington, D.C.

Executive Director, The Public Broadcasting System Foundation, Washington, D.C.; former Vice President Corporate and International Development, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation, Washington D.C.; former Chief Operation Officer, Host Committee for the 2000 Democratic National Convention; former Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Office of Public Liaison, The White House; former Director of External Affairs, Office of the Secretary, Department of Commerce; former Deputy Finance Director, Democratic National Committee; University of Georgia.

Douglas E. Fierberg, Esq.

Washington, D.C.

Partner, Bode & Grenier, LLP, Washington, D.C.; President, National Advisory Board of the National Criminal Victim Bar Association; Founder and Chairman, Association of Trail Lawyers of America Litigation Group. Mr. Fierberg specializes in representing high school and college students who have been injured or killed.

Jim Glynn

Overland Park, Kansas

Co-Founder and President, GlynnDevins Advertising & Marketing; President, Saint Joseph Health Center Advisory Council; Board Member, Saint Joseph Health Center Foundation; Former Vice President Marketing, John Knox Village; former Board Member, Rockhurst University; BA-Rockhurst University.

Kyle Katz

Kansas City, Missouri

Project Manager, Trabon Solutions, Kansas City, MO; former Director of Information Systems, The Lewer Agency, Inc.;former Director of Operations, American Capital Shareholder Services, Kansas City, MO;  former design consultant to AT&T/NCR High Speed Document Imaging and Recognition Systems.; BA from University of Central Missouri. Actively involved in local programs for at risk youth and young adults in the Kansas City area through his work in the Boys Sports Ministries for Kansas City Baptist Temple and program leader of Kansas City area based Celebrate Recovery programs.

Tommy Rosen

Los Angeles, California

Founder and Chairman, Freeway Entertainment with clients including Alamo-National Rent-A-Car, Victoria’s Secret and Banana Republic; former Producer and Director, Creative Affairs, Around The Fire Productions; Producer, Andrea Bocelli and Victoria’s Secret Best Musical Promotion Award by Promo Magazine; in partnership with Hart Events, business development for The Bonnaroo Music festival, The Jammy Awards, Cinema Screen Media, and Wind-Up Records; responsibility for sponsorship programs for North Beach Jazz Festival; BA-The University of Colorado.

Henry Wechsler, Ph.D.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Director, Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Studies; social psychologist; lecturer in the School’s Department of Health and Social Behavior; Author of 18 books and monographs and nearly 200 articles in professional journals on alcohol abuse and other high-risk behaviors; Co-Author, Dying to Drink, 2002.; Recipient of the American Public Health Association's Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs section's College-Based Leadership Award and the American College Health Association's Clifford B. Reifler Award.

Jamie Widdoes

Los Angeles, California

Executive Producer of more than 150 network television episodes. Director of more than 300 network television episodes. Board of Directors, Turning Point School; Chairman of the Board, Loomis-Chaffee School; Board of Trustees, California Association of Independent Schools; Board of Directors/Executive Committee, Camp Dudley-YMCA; Director’s Guild Award Nominee. Loomis School; New York University Tisch School, Los Angeles, California.

Beth Wilbins

Dallas, TX

President and CEO of Dallas-based Group W Associates LLC, a public relations and marketing firm. She first caught the media bug during her graduate studies in mass communications at Wake Forest University in her hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Since that time, she has enjoyed a distinguished career that spans nearly every aspect of the industry, including magazine publishing and editing, public relations, advertising, broadcast promotions, community relations, special event management, and marketing communications. A Dallas resident since 1984, Beth has been a familiar face within the community’s charitable and media circles. She was editor of D Magazine during the city magazine’s re-launch in 1994; and for eight years directed Philanthropy in Texas magazine, which she developed into Philanthropy World magazine, as publisher and editor-in-chief. She continues to serve the publication as editor emeritus.

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