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Appendix B
Speaker Biographical Sketches
Eric Brown, M.E.T., co-founded ImpactGames to influence society and
promote change through interactive media. Toward this end, ImpactGames
developed PeaceMaker, a video game simulation of the Israeli–Palestinian
conflict to promote dialogue and understanding. Unlike most serious games,
PeaceMaker aims to bridge the gap between education and entertainment
and reach a mass market. PeaceMaker has been sold in more than 60 coun-
tries, been featured in media outlets around the world, and won several in-
ternational awards. ImpactGames also created Play the News, a Web-based
platform to bring interactive gaming elements to the online news media
industry. Play the News changes the paradigm of news consumption from
passive reading to active engagement. Play the News won the first Knight
Foundation News Game Award. Mr. Brown was listed as one of the “100
Social Entrepreneurs Changing the World” in Newsweek Japan. He holds
a master’s degree in entertainment technology from Carnegie Mellon Uni-
versity and received a B.F.A. in painting, with focused studies in education
and computer graphics, from Washington University in St. Louis.
Judith Carta, Ph.D., M.S., is director of early childhood research at the
Juniper Gardens Children’s Project, a senior scientist in the Institute for
Life Span Studies, and professor of special education at the University of
Kansas. Her research focuses on developing strategies to minimize the ef-
fects of poverty on children’s development and translating that research
into practices that can be used by teachers, parents, and other caregiv-
ers to promote children’s school readiness and prevent child neglect. Her
work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers
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for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Education, and the
Administration for Children and Families, and since 1984 she has received
federal grants totaling more than $28 million. She has been the principal
investigator or collaborating researcher of numerous federally funded cen-
ters, including the Early Childhood Research Institute on Substance Abuse,
the Early Childhood Research Institute for the Measurement of Growth
and Development, the Centers for the Study of Child Neglect, Using Cel-
lular Phones for Enhancing Parenting Interventions for Preventing Child
Maltreatment, Early Head Start National Research and Evaluation Project,
the Center for Response to Early Intervention in Early Childhood, and the
Technical Assistance Center for Social-Emotional Intervention. She was
recently appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be
part of the Advisory Committee on Head Start Research and Evaluation.
Dr. Carta served for 10 years as the editor of Topics in Early Childhood
Special Education and serves on the editorial boards of numerous scientific
journals. Since 1985 she has been responsible for more than 100 publica-
tions in peer-reviewed journals and has authored books and several book
chapters related to evidence-based practices to improve the language and
social competence of young children, reduce risk factors affecting children’s
development, advance approaches for monitoring progress in young chil-
dren, and promote parenting interventions to prevent child maltreatment.
She is a national and international presenter and consultant to numerous
projects in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
Charlotte Cole, Ed.D., is senior vice president of global education at Sesame
Workshop in New York, overseeing the nonprofit’s company-wide global
strategies and leading the development of all curriculum and research
around Sesame Workshop’s international projects. Working with educators
and production teams throughout the world, she has most recently been en-
gaged in projects in Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel,
Jordan, Mexico, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and West Bank/
Gaza. Prior to joining the workshop, Dr. Cole worked as a senior researcher
at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston on a longitudinal study of families of
children with acute and chronic illness funded by the National Institutes
of Health. She has also served as a consultant to the Harvard Institute for
International Development on several child-health projects in Thailand. Dr.
Cole received her doctorate in human development and psychology from
the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. Her
teaching experience includes serving as a course instructor at Boston Col-
lege (Newton, Massachusetts), Lesley College (Cambridge, Massachusetts),
and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (Terre Haute, Indiana). She has
worked as a board member for several community service organizations,
including the Council on Domestic Abuse in Terre Haute, Indiana; Oxford
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Academy in Westbrook, Connecticut; and NetAid in New York. She is a
member of the editorial board of the Journal of Children and Media and
served as the publication’s first review and commentary editor.
Constance DeCherney is a strategist for iCrossing, where she serves clients
across numerous categories, including finance, travel, and health care.
iCrossing is a unit of the Hearst Corporation. Prior to joining iCrossing,
Ms. DeCherney led global digital strategy and innovation for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America. She built an award-winning mobile
program and implemented search and social media strategies as well as a
national social governance program. Under her leadership, Planned Parent-
hood was ranked 13th out of 100 by L2 Think Tank for the Public Sector
Digital IQ Index and received an eHEALTHCARE Award for Best Design
in 2010. She has lectured at Columbia University and New York University
and has been interviewed on culture and the Web by the New York Daily
News, BusinessWeek, and MSNBC.com. She earned a dual B.A. in anthro-
pology and political science from the University of Delaware.
XinQi Dong, M.D., M.P.H., is the associate director of the Rush Institute
for Healthy Aging and an associate professor of medicine, nursing, and be-
havioral sciences at the Rush University Medical Center. Having emigrated
from China, he has had longstanding interests in human rights and social
justice issues in vulnerable populations. Dr. Dong’s research focuses on the
epidemiological studies of elder abuse in the United States and China, with
particular emphasis on its adverse health outcomes and its relationship
between psychological and social well-being. He currently is an American
Political Science Association Congressional Policy Fellow/Health and Aging
Policy Fellow working with a diverse group of policy leaders at the na-
tional, state, and local levels on issues relevant to elder abuse. He has been
working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National
Institute on Aging, and the National Academy of Sciences on the state of
the science for the issues of elder abuse. Moreover, he has been working
with the Chicago Well-Being Task Force and the legislative task force to
revise and ultimately pass the Illinois Elder Abuse Act. Currently, Dr. Dong
serves as a senior policy and research advisor for the Administration on
Aging at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a senior
policy advisor for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is
actively working with Chinese communities to promote understanding and
civic engagement on the issues of elder abuse through innovative, culturally
and linguistically appropriate ways. He serves on the board of directors for
the Chinese American Service League, the largest social services organiza-
tion in the Midwest serving the needs of Chinese population. He is a fellow
of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago and a member of the Institute of
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Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention. He is a Beeson Scholar
and is the recipient of the Nobuo Maeda International Aging and Public
Health Research Award, the National Physician Advocacy Merit Award,
and the Maxwell A. Pollack Award in productive aging from the Geronto-
logical Society of America.
Mick Fealty is a writer and analyst and is the founding editor of Slugger
O’Toole, one of Northern Ireland’s leading political blogs. His study of the
future of unionism in Northern Ireland was widely acclaimed on all sides
of the political divide. He has blogged for a number of other websites,
including live reporting from the Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, in December 2003. He is currently working in
partnership with the British Council in Dublin as commissioning editor for
the Britain and Ireland website which is tasked with examining the politi-
cal and cultural shifts in relations between the United Kingdom and the
Republic of Ireland since the signing of the historic Belfast Agreement. He
has also written for a number of publications on the subject of journalism
and the challenge of the new media. He was born in Belfast and now lives
in Dorset, where he also teaches the Irish language to adults.
Michael Feigelson, M.P.A., is a native of New York City and worked
in Chiapas for the child-protection nongovernmental organization Melel
Xojobal before completing a masters in public affairs at Princeton Univer-
sity and joining the Bernard van Leer Foundation in 2007, initially as a
program officer. He has worked with various international organizations,
including UNICEF and the International Rescue Committee, and was the
recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship through which he worked with
street children in Mexico, Ghana, and Romania. He also spent some time
as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co.
Dahna Goldstein, M.B.A., is the founder and chief executive officer of
PhilanTech, LLC, provider of the PhilanTrack online grants management
system (patent pending), a Web-based platform that helps social sector
organizations manage grant information more efficiently for greater social
impact. Prior to starting PhilanTech, Ms. Goldstein worked for venture phi-
lanthropies, including Ashoka and the Blue Ridge Foundation New York,
and produced interactive eLearning programs for the Global Education
Network and Harvard Business School Publishing, including the award-
winning “What Is a Leader?” program. A graduate of Williams College, she
also holds a master of education degree, with a concentration in technology,
from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business
at New York University. She has written extensively about change manage-
ment and data integration in the nonprofit sector, including a chapter on
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managing change for technology in Managing Technology to Meet Your
Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders (Wiley, 2009). She serves
on the board of JustGive.org and was recently named one of Business-
Week’s 25 Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs.
Scott Goodstein is founder and chief executive officer of RevolutionMessaging.
com, a progressive digital and mobile technology company. Mr. Goodstein
was external online director for Obama for America in 2008 and developed
the campaign’s social networking platforms. His pioneering work included
running the first political campaign effort to launch niche-based social
networks such as BlackPlanet, Eons, MiGente, AsianAve, and Disaboom.
He built the campaign’s lifestyle marketing strategy and developed the
“street team” materials used in battleground states. He also created and
implemented Obama Mobile, an advanced communication strategy that
included text messaging, downloads, interactive voice response communica-
tion, a mobile website (WAP), and even an iPhone application. Prior to his
work at Obama for America, Mr. Goodstein worked for the Democratic
Legislative Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, and more than two dozen progressive political initiatives. In
2004 he co-founded Punkvoter.com and Rock Against Bush, which became
a $4 million young-voter mobilization effort. He has conducted political
training for the National Democratic Institute, UNICEF, Democracy for
America, the Campaign Management Institute, and the New Organizing
Institute. Mr. Goodstein has spoken at Columbia University, American
University, George Washington University, and the Milken Institute. He has
been a featured speaker at events in Morocco, Hungary, Finland, Singapore,
and Malaysia.
John Gordon is senior vice president of digital in Fenton’s New York of-
fice and manages the social media practice firm-wide. In that position he
works to create successful engagement campaigns by integrating strategy,
technology, and content for clients like the American Jewish World Service,
ASPCA, and Stonyfield Organics. Mr. Gordon was formerly the director of
new media at Spitfire Strategies, where he helped clients such as the Hewlett
Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Joint Ocean
Commission use new media to drive supporters, win campaigns, and build
capacity. While at Spitfire, Mr. Gordon worked with the president of the
firm to develop a comprehensive step-by-step guidebook to help nonprofits
plan public policy, advocacy, and social marketing campaigns. Prior to
Spitfire, Mr. Gordon was the director of interactive communications and
marketing at the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), where he developed on-
line marketing and communications initiatives that served the membership,
fundraising, advocacy, and e-commerce goals of the national organization
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and more than 300 Girl Scout councils nationwide. He created GSUSA’s
first online marketing campaign to support the $700 million annual cookie
sale and led Web strategy for a Dove Super Bowl ad campaign in partner-
ship with Unilever. Prior to GSUSA, he was partner and creative director at
the Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group (CTSG), where he led the development
of award-winning creative campaigns, including the reality show–inspired
cartoon series “Republican Survivor” for the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee and Amnesty International’s Stop Violence Against
Women. His innovative efforts have been recognized with multiple Webby,
Pollie, and Golden Dot awards.
Devon Halley is a senior technology consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP.
He co-authored “XBC: Creating Public Value by Unleashing the Power
of Cross-Boundary Collaboration” as well as “What Geeks Can Teach
Government” for Governing magazine. He is a recent alumnus of Deloitte’s
GovLab, which is a program that works closely with senior government ex-
ecutives and thought leaders to conduct research into critical and emerging
issues shaping the public and nonprofit sectors in order to develop innova-
tive yet practical ways that governments can transform the way they deliver
their services and prepare for the challenges ahead. Mr. Halley is currently
helping the Transportation Security Administration find ways to leverage
social computing to meet critical mission needs and improve the passenger
experience. He holds degrees from Allegheny College and Carnegie Mellon
University.
Frances Henry, M.B.A., serves as advisor to the F. Felix Foundation. From
2005 to 2009, she created and directed Global Violence Prevention, a
project which advanced the science-based prevention of violence in low-
and middle-income countries through a coalition of U.S. researchers and
practitioners. Based on her experiences of childhood sexual abuse, for 13
years she founded and directed Stop It Now!, an organization that prevents
the sexual abuse of children. She is author of Vaccines for Violence, a set of
five essays exploring how she learned to counter violence by dealing with
fear, by balancing accountability and compassion, and by increasing her
capacity to connect to others. Ms. Henry’s previous work includes owning
a management consulting company and directing presidential and guberna -
torial commissions for women. She served as staff to the U.S. Commission
on International Women’s Year.
Erik Hersman, who was raised in Kenya and Sudan, is now a technologist
and blogger who lives in Nairobi. He is a co-founder of Ushahidi, a free
and open-source platform for crowdsourcing information and visualizing
data. He is the founder of AfriGadget, a multi-author site that showcases
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stories of African inventions and ingenuity and is an African technology
blogger at WhiteAfrican.com. He currently manages Ushahidi’s operations
and strategy and is in charge of the iHub, Nairobi’s Innovation Hub for the
technology community, bringing together entrepreneurs, hackers, designers,
and the investment community. Mr. Hersman is a TED Senior Fellow, a
PopTech Fellow and speaker, and an organizer for Maker Faire Africa. You
can find him on Twitter at @WhiteAfrican.
Dale Kunkel, Ph.D., is professor of communication at the University of
Arizona. Dr. Kunkel studies children and media issues from diverse perspec-
tives, including television-effects research as well as assessments of media
industry content and practices. He is a former Congressional science fellow
and has testified as an expert witness on children’s media topics at numer-
ous hearings before the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and
the Federal Communications Commission. Dr. Kunkel previously taught at
Indiana University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among
the topics he examines are the effects of television violence, sexual content,
and advertising on young people.
Donna Levin has had a 15-year career as a social entrepreneur, most re-
cently serving as vice president of operations at Upromise.com, an online
service that helps families save for college. At Care.com, Ms. Levin has
served on the management team as vice president, operations, establishing
the company’s safety and customer service infrastructure. Care.com (www.
care.com) is the largest and fastest-growing service used by families seeking
high-quality caregivers, providing a place to easily connect with hundreds
of thousands of care providers, share care giving experiences, and get ad-
vice. Care.com has been featured in national news outlets including NBC’s
Today, Good Morning America, the Wall Street Journal, the New York
Times, USA Today, Parenting, and Fortune. In September 2011 she transi-
tioned to spearhead new programs for families who face some of the most
challenging care situations—our nation’s military population and families
with special-needs children and seniors. With a strong belief that both
government and corporate entities have a fundamental responsibility to
help improve their communities, she and her team are currently developing
innovative technologies and resources to unite all sectors in their mission.
Ms. Levin holds a B.A. from Emerson College.
Harriet MacMillan, M.D., Ms.C., is a psychiatrist and pediatrician con-
ducting family violence research. She is a member of the Offord Centre for
Child Studies and professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioural
neurosciences and in the department of pediatrics at McMaster University,
with associate memberships in the department of clinical epidemiology and
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biostatistics and the department of psychology. Dr. MacMillan holds the
David R. (Dan) Offord Chair in Child Studies and has received funding
support from the WT Grant Foundation, the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research, NARSAD and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
From 1993 to 2004, she was the founding director of the Child Advo-
cacy and Assessment Program (CAAP) at McMaster Children’s Hospital, a
multidisciplinary program committed to reducing the burden of suffering
associated with family violence. Her research focuses on the epidemiol-
ogy of violence against children and women, including prevention of child
maltreatment and intimate partner violence. She has led randomized con-
trolled trials investigating the effectiveness of such approaches as universal
screening in reducing intimate partner violence and nurse home visitation
in preventing the recurrence of physical abuse and neglect among children.
Joseph McCannon is senior advisor to the administrator and group direc-
tor of learning and diffusion in the Innovation Center at the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services. Prior to this, he was vice president and
a faculty member on dissemination and large-scale improvement at the In-
stitute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). He worked at IHI beginning in
2001, leading organizational efforts to spread change in Africa, the United
States, and several other regions. Specifically, he supported IHI’s collabora-
tion with the World Health Organization to design and amplify its “3 by 5”
initiative, an effort to deliver antiretroviral drugs to 3 million people glob-
ally by the end of 2005. He also directed the organization’s major domestic
initiatives to improve patient safety, the 100,000 Lives Campaign and the 5
Million Lives Campaign, which involved more than 4,000 hospitals and 70
field offices. He has advised or consulted on other national quality-improve-
ment efforts in the United States, England, Japan, Canada, and Denmark
and on initiatives outside health care (e.g., homelessness and corrections)
as well. Mr. McCannon started his career in the publishing industry, with
roles at Fast Company, Atlantic Monthly, and Outside magazines. He is
a graduate of Harvard University and was a Reuters and Merck fellow at
Stanford University in 2003–2004.
Brigid McCaw, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., FACP, is medical director for the Fam-
ily Violence Prevention Program at Kaiser Permanente (KP). Her teaching,
research, and publications focus on developing a health systems response
to intimate partner violence and the impact of intimate partner violence on
health status and mental health. She is a fellow of the American College of
Physicians. KP, a large nonprofit integrated health care organization serving
8.6 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia, has imple-
mented one of the most comprehensive health care responses to domestic
violence in the United States. The nationally recognized “systems model”
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approach is available across the continuum of care including outpatient,
emergency, and inpatient care; advice and call centers; and chronic care
programs. The electronic medical record includes clinician tools to facilitate
recognition, referrals, resources, and follow-up for patients experiencing
domestic violence and provides data for quality improvement measures.
Over the past decade, identification of domestic violence has increased six-
fold, with most members identified in the ambulatory rather than acute care
settings. The majority of identified patients receive follow-up mental health
services. KP also provides prevention, outreach, and domestic violence re-
sources for its workforce. Violence prevention is an important focus for KP
community benefit investments and research studies. The KP program, un-
der the leadership of Brigid McCaw, has received several national awards.
Kathleen (Kay) McGowan provides policy advice to the administrator of the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on political and devel-
opment issues pertaining to Afghanistan. A Persian speaker, Ms. McGowan
has been involved in rebuilding Afghanistan since 2003, when she served
as chief of staff to U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad at the American
embassy in Kabul. At USAID she is responsible for identifying high-impact
development opportunities that complement the U.S. government’s civilian
assistance portfolio for Afghanistan and foster improved coordination with
Afghan public- and private-sector stakeholders. Specifically, she pursues
foundational investments that are appropriate to Afghanistan’s current
capacity and needs, that are sustainable, and that contribute directly to
Afghanistan’s capacity to transition to full sovereignty. She leads USAID’s
effort to leverage the success of Afghanistan’s mobile telephony network
for economic and social development goals, including scaling the country’s
nascent mobile money sector and building innovative extension services for
agriculture, health, and education into USAID’s assistance portfolio. Before
joining USAID, Ms. McGowan ran the political section at the Iran Regional
Presence Office out of the U.S. consulate in Dubai. In 2006–2007, she was
a Rusk teaching fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study
of Diplomacy, where she remains a non-resident associate. She has written
about Afghanistan for the New York Times and State magazine. She is a
term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
James A. Mercy, Ph.D., is Special Advisor for Strategic Directions at the
Division of Violence Prevention in the National Center for Injury Preven-
tion and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
He began working at CDC in a newly formed activity to examine violence
as a public health problem and, over the past two decades, has helped to
develop the public health approach to violence and conducted and overseen
numerous studies of the epidemiology of youth suicide, family violence,
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homicide, and firearm injuries. Dr. Mercy also served as a co-editor of the
World Report on Violence and Health prepared by the World Health Or-
ganization (WHO) and served on the editorial board of the United Nations
Secretary General’s Study of Violence Against Children. Most recently, he’s
been working on a global partnership with UNICEF, PEPFAR, WHO, and
others to end sexual violence against girls. His recent publications include
“Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Conduct Disorder, and Young
Adult Intimate Partner Violence” (Archives of General Psychiatry, 2010)
and “Sexual Violence and Its Health Consequences for Female Children in
Swaziland: A Cluster Survey Study” (Lancet, 2009).
Michele Moloney-Kitts, M.A., is the managing director of Together for
Girls, providing strategic leadership to the partnership as well as manage-
ment and oversight of day-to-day operations. A staff member of UNAIDS,
the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, she also serves as a
senior advisor to the executive director. Prior to joining Together for Girls,
Ms. Moloney-Kitts served as the assistant global AIDS coordinator for the
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). As a leader in
international public health for more than 30 years, her primary focus has
been on women and children. She has served as a health officer for U.S.
Agency for International Development, with long-term postings in Mo-
rocco, Cambodia, South Africa, and Washington, DC. Within PEPFAR she
was the deputy assistant secretary responsible for oversight of field imple-
mentation and multilateral relations. In that capacity she also served on the
board of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB, and Malaria and as the chairman
of the Portfolio and Implementation Committee. Ms. Moloney-Kitts has
worked as a nurse practitioner and a nurse midwife, with a particular focus
on underserved populations, especially adolescents. She holds a bachelor’s
degree from Boston College and a master’s degree from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Eesha Pandit is currently women’s rights manager at Breakthrough. She
is the former director of advocacy at MergerWatch, where she worked on
the Raising Women’s Voices project, a national initiative working to make
sure women’s voices are heard and that women’s concerns are addressed
in national health reform policy. Previously, Ms. Pandit served as associate
director of programs at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program and
has been a weekly staff writer for RH Reality Check. She has also worked
with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and
Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Rights Program. She serves on the
board of the New York Abortion Access Fund and the National Network
of Abortion Funds. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the
University of Chicago.
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John Pollock is an award-winning analyst, writer, and communicator. He
has consulted at senior levels for nonprofit organizations, in the private
sector, in the public sector, and for government. Former clients include in-
ternational organizations such as the United Nations, the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development, and the World Health Organiza-
tion; government departments, such as the United Kingdom’s Department
for International Development; and ministers, including H.E. President
Kagame of Rwanda and his cabinet. Private-sector clients include blue chips
such as eBay (for which he was Chief Clue Elf), BlackBerry, and T-Mobile,
as well as major nonprofit organizations such as Oxfam and Save the Chil-
dren. A former research academic at Manchester University, he went on to
become the UK government’s first social policy researcher specializing in the
environment. For several years he specialized in exploring how the private
sector could have an impact on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. He has
published in publications around the world, including Technology Review,
the Guardian, the Times, and Red Herring. He has a longstanding interest
in the nexus among creativity, policy, and technology. Recently he has been
working on a series of high-level briefing, and white papers on subjects as
diverse as career advice and diversity, examining adaptive strategies during
rapid global change. His most recent work includes long-form reporting
and blogging for Technology Review on social media and the Arab Spring.
He is currently working on a follow-up based on the Libyan conflict.
Jody Ranck, Ph.D., has a career in health, development, and innovation
spanning nearly 20 years. In addition to his work with the mHealth Alli-
ance, Dr. Ranck has consulted with InSTEDD, IntraHealth, Cisco, GigaOM,
and a number of other organizations on innovation strategies, ehealth, and
health policy. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of San
Francisco School of Business and Management and also a principal inves-
tigator at the Public Health Institute in Oakland, CA. His previous work
has included efforts in post-genocide Rwanda, risk and new biotechnologies
(Zambia), the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, and leading the Global Health
practice and Health Horizons at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto,
California. Dr. Ranck has a doctorate in health policy and administration
from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an M.A. in interna-
tional relations and economics (Johns Hopkins University–SAIS) and a B.A.
in biology from Ithaca College.
Daniel J. Reidenberg, Psy.D., is the executive director of SAVE (Suicide
Awareness Voices of Education), a national nonprofit agency working
to prevent suicide and help suicide survivors and people suffering from
brain illnesses. Dr. Reidenberg also serves as managing director of the
National Council for Suicide Prevention and is the U.S. representative
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to the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Reidenberg
has done extensive work with adolescents and adults who have serious
and persistent mental illnesses, are chemically dependent, or have diverse
personality disorders. He is a consultant to psychologists, attorneys, and
businesses on health care and legal matters, is a nationally and internation-
ally sought-after speaker, and sits on numerous national expert panels for
suicide prevention and mental health issues. He is the chair of the Ameri-
can Psychotherapy Association (APA) and of the Certified Relationship
Specialists Board and is on the APA editorial board, the editorial board of
Esperanza magazine, and the advisory board to Reachout.com. He has re-
ceived numerous awards, including being named one of the Ten Outstand-
ing Young Minnesotans (2006), the B. Warren Hart Award for service to
humanity (2007), and Nonprofit Professional of the Year (2010), and he
was recognized as a Champion of Change by the Obama Administration
(August 2011).
William (Bill) Riley, Ph.D., is a program director in the Division of Car-
diovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and
is responsible for managing grant portfolios in tobacco control and other
cardiovascular and respiratory risk behaviors. He also serves as the chair of
the National Institutes of Health mHealth Inter-Institute Interest Group. He
is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Prevention and Commu-
nity Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health.
His research areas include eHealth and mHealth applications, tobacco de-
pendence, diet and exercise adherence, insomnia treatment, and behavioral
assessment.
Mark L. Rosenberg, M.D., M.P.P., is executive director of the Task Force
for Global Health. Previously, for 20 years, Dr. Rosenberg was at the Cen-
ters for Disease Control for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where
he led work in violence prevention and later became the first permanent
director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. He also
held the position of Special Assistant for Behavioral Science in the Office
of the Deputy Director (HIV/AIDS). Dr. Rosenberg is board-certified in
both psychiatry and internal medicine with training in public policy. He is
on the faculty at Morehouse Medical School, Emory Medical School, and
the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Rosenberg’s
research and programmatic interests are concentrated on injury control and
violence prevention, HIV/AIDS, and child well-being, with special attention
to behavioral sciences, evaluation, and health communications. He has au-
thored more than 120 publications and recently co-authored the book Real
Collaboration: What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed (University
of California Press, 2010). Dr. Rosenberg has received numerous awards,
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including the Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Medal. He is a member
of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Dr. Rosenberg’s organization, the Task
Force for Global Health, participated in the IOM-sponsored workshop
Violence Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Finding a Place
on the Global Agenda, and the Task Force remains interested in helping to
continue the momentum of the workshop through the Forum on Global
Violence Prevention. The Task Force is heavily involved the delivery of a
number of global health programs and sees many ways that interpersonal
violence and conflict exacerbate serious health problems and inequities.
Jason Rzepka is vice president of public affairs at MTV. His charge, quite
simply, is to use MTV’s superpowers for good. He does this by marshaling
the network’s forces to engage and activate America’s youth on the big-
gest challenges facing their generation. He is responsible for the strategic
direction of all of MTV’s “pro-social” campaigns, including the boundary-
shattering, Peabody-winning “It’s Your (Sex) Life,” with the Kaiser Family
Foundation, which has reached more than 200 million young people on
sexual health issues; Emmy-winning “Choose or Lose,” which has helped
drive the largest youth voter turnouts in U.S. history; and Webby-winning
“A Thin Line,” which has inspired more than 1 million young people to
draw their own line between digital use and digital abuse (all forms of digi-
tal bullying, dating abuse, and discrimination). Mr. Rzepka regularly serves
as an expert resource on issues such as youth mobilization, social media
for social change, cyberbullying, and sexual health. He has been a featured
speaker at the White House, the United Nations, the U.S. Capitol, the
U.S. State Department, the International AIDS Conference, TEDxPresidio,
South by Southwest Interactive, the National Conference on Volunteering
and Service, the Games for Change Conference, YPulse Youth Marketing
Mashup, and the Council on Foundations Family Philanthropy Conference.
He has also appeared on CNN and NPR and been quoted by the Wall Street
Journal, Reuters, ABC News, Huffington Post, and others. Prior to his cur-
rent role, he served as the head of communications at the PopTech Institute,
a renowned social innovation incubator hatching breakthrough solutions
to some of the world’s most intractable social challenges. Before PopTech,
Mr. Rzepka held senior communications positions at MTV, mtvU, IMAX
Corporation, and Ruder Finn. He serves on the board of directors of Pop-
Tech; the advisory board of Coffee Party USA, a non-partisan organization
working to bring civility and responsible citizenship back to American de-
mocracy; and the Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Public Awareness
taskforce. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
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Ben Sawyer has pioneered major initiatives in the field of serious games and
has become a nationally recognized leader within the games community
since beginning his career in game development over 10 years ago. For the
past 7 years Mr. Sawyer has dedicated his professional life to discovering
new ways to expand the use of games beyond entertainment. In 2002 he
co-founded the Serious Games Initiative, a project of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. The following year Mr. Sawyer organized
the first-ever Serious Games Summit, a conference that now annually at-
tracts 300 to 500 attendees who meet to share best practices in the devel-
opment of serious games. The Serious Games Initiative continues to serve
as one of the leading organizations in the field of serious games. In 2004
Mr. Sawyer also co-founded the Games for Health project, an initiative
that has built the primary social and professional networks of the health
games industry. Through online resources and regular regional and national
events, Games for Health connects health professionals, researchers, and
game developers to advance the development of health games and game
technologies. The Games for Health project receives major funding from
the Pioneer Portfolio, an initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Founda-
tion. As a game developer with his own firm, Digitalmill, Mr. Sawyer has
worked on more than two dozen major serious game projects beginning
in 2000, when he served as producer for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s
university simulation game, “Virtual U,” which was an award finalist at
that year’s Independent Games Festival. Prior to pursuing his professional
career, Mr. Sawyer graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and
studied at Baruch College.
Kim Scott, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., is an adolescent health and development
consultant who completed her bachelor’s degree in human biology and
psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her medical degree
at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. After working in medical
private practice and adolescent clinics, she went on to do her master’s de-
gree in public health in the Bronx, New York, focusing on behavioral and
emotional development in adolescence. She analysed the Jamaican data of
the Pan-American Health Organization 1997 Caribbean Adolescent Health
Survey and has written three papers: “Adolescent Violence,” “Adolescent
Suicide,” and “Adolescent Resiliency.” From 2000 to 2002 she worked
with the Ministry of Health, Health Promotion and Protections Division,
advocating for and coordinating the National Adolescent Health Program.
She worked with the Academy for Educational Development in Wash-
ington, DC, where she designed and conducted adolescent resiliency re-
search and developed and implemented a home visiting parenting program
for adolescents. She has conducted multiple training seminars for various
private and public sectors around parenting and adolescent health risk
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and resiliency (specifically sexuality, HIV and pregnancy, drugs, violence,
depression, and suicide) including coaches, pastors, guidance counselors,
teachers and health service personnel. She contributed to the National
Adolescent Development Strategic Plan 2005 and conducted an extensive
parenting research literature review in 2006. She contributed to content
writing, review, and field testing of the “Parenting the Adolescent” curricu-
lum for Family Health International and JA–Style. She reviewed and revised
the National Plan of Action for Children and Violence (NPACV) 2011 on
behalf of the Organisation of American States and the Child Development
Agency. In 2011 she conducted a situation analysis as to the child-friendly
school status of the Jamaican Education Sector on behalf of the government
and UNICEF. She is the founder and director of the Child Resiliency Pro-
gramme, an after-school program for children at risk for violence referred
from primary schools. She is a member of the International Association of
Adolescent Health, the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine, and the
Medical Association of Jamaica.
Andra Teten Tharp, Ph.D., is a health scientist in the Division of Violence
Prevention (DVP) in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Tharp is
currently leading Dating Matters: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Rela-
tionships, a teen dating violence prevention initiative at the CDC. Following
her doctoral studies in clinical psychology at the University of Oregon, she
conducted research and clinical work at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans
Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
In 2008 she received the young investigator award from the International
Society for Research on Aggression for her research examining violence
among veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. Dr. Tharp joined the
CDC in 2008 as a behavioral scientist in the Prevention, Development, and
Evaluation Branch in DVP. She continues to hold a clinical assistant profes-
sorship in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
in Houston, Texas, and is a licensed clinical psychologist in Texas. Dr.
Tharp’s research interests include sexual and teen dating violence preven-
tion. She has written and contributed to numerous publications on trauma
and violence-related topics.
Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the
department of society, human development, and health at the Harvard
School of Public Health (HSPH) and in the Division of Population Sciences
at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is director of the Health Commu-
nication Core of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC), and
co-leader of the Cancer Risk and Disparities Program of DF/HCC. He also
chairs the steering committee for the Health Communication Concentration
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at HSPH. His additional appointments include director, Enhancing Commu-
nication for Health Outcomes (ECHO) Laboratory, DF/HCC, and associate
director, Lung Cancer Disparities Center, HSPH. Dr. Viswanath received his
doctoral degree in mass communication from the University of Minnesota.
His primary research is in documenting the relationship between commu-
nication inequalities, poverty, and health disparities. He has written more
than 110 journal articles and book chapters concerning communication
inequalities and health disparities, public health communication campaigns,
e-health and the digital divide, public health preparedness, and the delivery
of health communication interventions to underserved populations. He is
the co-editor of three books: Mass Media, Social Control and Social Change
(Iowa State University Press, 1999), Health Behavior and Health Educa-
tion: Theory, Research & Practice (Jossey Bass, 2008), and The Role of
Media in Promoting and Reducing Tobacco Use (National Cancer Institute,
2008). He was also the editor of the “Social and Behavioral Research”
section of the 12-volume International Encyclopedia of Communication
(Blackwell Publishing, 2008). In recognition of his academic and profes-
sional achievements, Dr. Viswanath received several awards, including the
Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award (2010), jointly given
out by the International Communication Association and the National
Communication Association, and the Mayhew Derryberry Award from
the American Public Health Association (APHA) for his contribution to
health education research and theory (2009). He delivered the 23rd Annual
Aubrey Fisher Lecture at University of Utah in 2009. He was elected fellow
of the International Communication Association (2011), the Society for Be-
havioral Medicine (2008), and the Midwest Association for Public Opinion
Research (2006). He was also chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors
for the National Center for Health Marketing at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention from 2008 to 2010.
Lisa Witter is the chief operating officer of Fenton, the largest public interest
communications firm in the United States. She heads the firm’s practice in
women’s issues and global affairs for clients including Women for Women
International, MoveOn.org, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the
David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the American Medical Association,
the American Lung Association, and many others. She is a co-founder of
the award-winning website SheSource.org, an online brain trust of women
experts to help close the gender gap among commentators in the news
media. She was honored as an outstanding activist and expert on women’s
issues by Oxygen.com for her work on a national campaign against priva-
tizing Social Security during the 2000 presidential election. Ms. Witter is a
blogger and political commentator with work appearing on MSNBC, Fox
News, the Huffington Post, AlterNet, and Anderson Cooper 360. In 2004,
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she was a contestant on the Showtime reality show American Candidate.
Witter is co-author of The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for
Changing the World and How to Reach Them. She is on the advisory board
for Indianapolis University’s Women and Philanthropy Institute, Pop!Tech,
Momsrising.org, Women for Women International, and Climate Counts.
Ashley Womble has more than 8 years of experience working in the pub-
lishing industry and has developed an expertise in digital communications
and social media. As the online communications manager at the National
Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Ms. Womble works to develop innovative on-
line marketing approaches and strategic partnerships with key stakeholders
in social media to reach more persons in emotional distress or at risk of
suicide. Prior to joining the Lifeline, Ms. Womble worked as an editor
for Hearst Digital Media and played a key role of the development of
Cosmopolitan.com and CountryLiving.com. She created partnerships with
media companies (from Google and Yahoo to Foursquare) and spoke about
the Hearst Digital Media’s online and social media efforts. In these roles,
Ms. Womble played a significant role in rebranding traditional print media
into new media.
