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Dr. Melissa T. Merrick

President and CEO - Prevent Child Abuse America

Jennifer Jones, MSW

Chief Strategy Officer

Kathleen Strader

National Director, Healthy Families America

Dr. Bart Klika

Chief Research Officer

Kelly Christopher

Chief Development Officer

Mary Lubben

Chief Financial Officer

Anita Odom

National Director of State Chapters

Takkeem Morgan

Senior Communications Director

Jourdan Darensbourg

Executive Assistant to the CEO & Board Liaison

Amy Faugas

HFA Deputy Director

Dr. Karen Guskin

Managing Director of Healthy Families America Research

Kit Patterson

HFA Senior Director of Training & TA

Kerrie Green

HFA Learning Management Director

Kelly Crane

Policy & Government Relations Manager

Irmes Dagba-Craven

Senior Communications Manager

Kiersten L. Sutton

Special Projects Manager

Lara Melnik

Giving Officer

Catherine Hope Coleman

Event Manager

Alina Birenyte

Controller

Catherine Murphy

Research Manager

Christi Peeples

HFA Project Manager

Yomaira Molina

HFA Operations Manager

Jade Angulo

Data Analyst

Christa Austin

HFA Principal Trainer

Jennifer Baxter

HFA Quality Improvement Data Specialist

Andy Berkhout

Senior Manager, Data Innovations

Danah C. Bialoruski

Development Associate

Shameka Erby

HFA Operations Coordinator

Bailey Brewer

HFA Operations Coordinator

Gretchen Brogdon

HFA Training & TA Specialist

Kelly Foster

HFA Training & TA Specialist

Tomeaka Jupiter

HFA Training & TA Manager

Cristina Massey

HFA Training & TA Specialist

Sue Pence

Finance Consultant

Lenny Rivota

HFA Training & TA Specialist

Danita Roberts

HFA Training & TA Specialist

Diana Sanchez

HFA Site Development Specialist

Laura Shoaf

HFA Senior Principal Trainer

Sarai Perez

HFA Training & TA Specialist

Dr. Eric Thibodeau

Research Scientist

Shayna W. Cooper

HFA Training & TA Specialist

Reagan Eshleman

HFA Training & TA Specialist

Kristen Lawrence

Chapter Network Coordinator

Our Board of Directors

Michael Axelrod

Board Chair. Managing Partner at Trinova Partners LLC

Stephen Ban

Retired, Former Managing Director, Investment Solutions, Hightower Advisors

Lynnwood Bibbens

Chairman & CEO, ReachTV; Founding Partner & CEO, The Invictus Firm

William Boltz, PhD

Board Member, Chair, Resource Development Committee, Retired

Clinton Boyd, Jr. PhD

Research - Chapin Hall

Andrew Brady

Market President of Verizon Consumer Group’s Great Lakes market

Thomas Carhart

Founding Principal - South Street Advisors LLC

Kathy Dang

VP Operations and Health Plans at Spring Health

Maura Somers Dughi

Lifetime Member. Retired.

Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Ph.D.

Professor - San Francisco State University

SuEllen Fried

Retired, in Memoriam

Habeebah Grimes

Chief Executive Officer, Positive Education Program

Carley Kramer

Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD

Senior Research Scientist, New York Academy of Medicine. Founder and Co-Chair, NYAM Women’s Health Research & Wellbeing Workgroup.

Dr. Antoinette (Toni) Laskey

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine and Division Chief, Center for Safe and Healthy Families, Primary Children’s Hospital

Lolita McDavid, MD, MPA

Medical Director of Child Advocacy and Protection - University Hospitals

Kimberly Merchant

Managing Director - BMO Financial Group

Dr. Melissa T. Merrick

President and CEO - Prevent Child Abuse America

Kevin Moore

CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Wisconsin

Bruce Perry, MD, PhD

Co-Vice Chair. Principal, Senior Fellow, and Professor - Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University

Robert Rotondi

North America Head of Client Implementation and Integration for HSBC Global Payment Solutions

Jodi Scheurenbrand

Treasurer. CFO - New York Private Schools. National Vice President of Finance - Kappa Delta

Susan Stockton

National President of Kappa Delta

Kalen Thornton

Global Chief Brand Officer at Pizza Hut

Ramya Venkat Parekh

Executive Strategy Director, Accenture Song

Matt Walch

Immediate Past Board Chair. Partner - Latham & Watkins

Bernardo Wolfson

Founder & CEO - Realize, LLC

Dr. Marilyn Zimmerman

Co-Principal Investigator and Senior Director of Policy & Programs - National Native Children’s Trauma Center

Leadership Council

  • Rev. Darrell Armstrong, Pastor (President/CEO), Shiloh Baptist Church
  • Thomas (TJ) Fox, SVP of Industrial IoT and Automotive for Verizon Business
  • Alexandra Dickson Gray, Documentary Filmmaker
  • Spencer Halpin
  • P. Leigh Bishop, Esq., Director, Babies and Toddlers (BaT) Task Force, NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner
  • Andrè Rice, President Muller & Monroe Asset Management, LLC
  • David Goldblum, Chief Executive Officer at Conscious Contact Entertainment
  • Andrea Robertson, Immediate Past Chair, Prevent Child Abuse America Board of Directors; Group Executive, MasterCard Worldwide (retired)
  • Robert D. Rotondi, CTP, Managing Director; Head of Business Management and Transformation, Global Liquidity & Cash Management, HSBC US
  • Michael Wozniak, President/CEO, Wozniak Industries

Associate Board

  • Jarrett Dawson, Verizon Wireless
  • Maggie Prisinzano, McKinsey & Company
  • Claire Helpingstine, CDC Foundation
  • Jared Boyce, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Laura Donnelly, University of Chicago Professional Education
  • Lauren Medina, StackAdapt
  • Emma Andelson, American Medical Association
  • Jillian Krupko, Marmon Rail
  • Michael Serio, Chicago Fire
  • Elaina Wargo, YMCA of Metro Chicago
  • Sandra George, American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Christi Turner, Mayo Consulting Group

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Community Services

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Childhelp

Call or text for crisis intervention, information, literature, and referrals. Operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Missing & Exploited Children

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