BOARD of DIRECTORS

and ADVISORY BOARD

|Home Page| |About Prepare Tomorrow’s Parents| |Mission & Goals| |Accomplishments|

|Board of Directors/Advisory Board| |Supporters| |Make a Donation| |Contact Us|

Board of Directors

Suzy Garfinkle Chevrier, Founder and President

Gary Ferdman, Vice President of Fundraising

Director of Major Gifts, Common Cause

Carol Lewke, Vice President of Public Information
President, Chicago Learns

Mimi Plevin-Foust, Vice President of Marketing

President, Wide Time Productions

Marilyn Swierk, CFCS, CFLE, Vice President of Programming
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences;

1993 National FACS Teacher of the Year; Speaker; 2003 AAFCS Leader Award

Author, Nurturing Brain Development and A Guide to Service Learning

Dana McDermott, Ph.D., CFLE, Secretary
School for New Learning, DePaul University

Dorrie Maxwell, Treasurer
Certified Public Accountant

Keith F. Backer
Attorney at Law

Joan Message Barbuto, M.A., M.A.T.
Author, The ABCs of Parenting
Coordinator, Connecticut Coalition for Parenting Education

Myriam Miedzian, Ph.D.
Social Philosopher; Professor
Author of Boys Will Be Boys; Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

Janet Pozmantier, M.S., L.P.C., L.M.F.T., R.P.T.
Parents Under Construction^TM Program Director, Childbuilders

Andrea M. Schuver
Executive Director

Advisory Board

Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for the Improvement of Child Caring

Rabbi Balfour Brickner
Senior Rabbi Emeritus, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Executive Director, The Engelberg Foundation

James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H.
Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center;
Founder, Comer School Development Program

Jack Cuffari

Communications Consultant

Rebecca Doggett
Educational Consultant

Jonah Edelman
Executive Director, Stand for Children

Mary Gordon
Director and Founder, "Roots of Empathy"™

Kathryn Grody
Performing Artist; Author, A Mom's Life

Stuart I. Harris, FCA
Founder, Greater Roanoke Valley Character Coalition

Harriet E. Heath, Ph.D.
Director, The Parent Center, Bryn Mawr College; Curriculum Author

Lou Howort
Health Teacher; New York State Parenting Education Trainer;
Co-author New York City Parenting Education Curriculum

Mary M. Jurmain
President and CEO, Realityworks, Inc.

U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts

U.S. Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy
Rhode Island

Margaret R. Kind, M.D.
Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; Co-author NYC Curriculum

Jonathan Kozol
Author, Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities

U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu
Louisiana

Pat Loncto

Former New York State Parenting Coordinator

U.S. Senator Patty Murray
Washington

Mandy Patinkin
Performing Artist

David Popenoe, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the National Marriage Project, Rutgers University

Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; author

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D.
Professor, Harvard School of Public Health

Kyle D. Pruett, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center and Medical School
President of Zero to Three National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families
Author, Fatherneed and Me, Myself, and I

Jacquelynn Puriefoy-Brinkley
President and CEO, Educating Children for Parenting®

Tom Roderick
Executive Director, Educators for Social Responsibility, New York Metropolitan Area

Belinda Rollins
President, Parenting Coalition International, Inc.

Christopher Sarson
Television Producer; Creator, Masterpiece Theatre,® Zoom,® and Parenting Works!®

Judith Schiffer, Ed.D.
Professor of Education, Principal, Teacher, Communications Executive
author of School Renewal Through Staff Development

Mary B. Schroer
Former Michigan State Representative;
Trustee, Washtenaw County Community College Board

Jane Carney Schulze, Ph.D.

Coordinator, Californians for Parenting Education in Schools

U.S. Congresswoman Louise McIntosh Slaughter
New York

Senator John Vasconcellos
California State Senator, Retired

Bernice Weissbourd
Founder, Family Focus

Jack C. Westman, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Medical School

U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler
Florida

Peter Yarrow
"Peter, Paul, and Mary;" creator, “Don’t Laugh at Me” Program

Darlene E. Yoquelet, CFCS

Family and Consumer Sciences Teacher, Curriculum Writer

2000 Leader, American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

Edward Zigler, Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University
Director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy