Team & Advisors

Pia Guerrero
Executive Director
Kids Leadership Coalition

• 20 years nonprofit leadership Just Think, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Our Schools/Our Media, HOMEY, GirlSource
• Media literacy and youth development educator, curriculum specialist and national expert
• Founder and Editor AdiosBarbie.com: multicultural body image site
• Advocate for wider and more accurate portrayals of women and people of color in the media
• Grant review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and for the Independent Television Service (ITVS)

Meghan Harvey
New Media Outreach

• New Media Producer – WomenCount.org
• Freelance Writer – Blogger
• Early Childhood Educator
• Member naeyc (National Association for the Education of Young Children)

Laurie Braunstein
Marketing Director

• Former Vice President Sales and Marketing Showtime Networks Inc.
• Para Educator in Elementary and Middle School, Boulder Valley School District
• BA Political Science, University of Arizona

Cathy Cohn, PhD, NCSP, LCSW
Board Member
School Psychologist

• 12 years Licensed School Psychologist and School Social Worker
• Winner Impact on Education Award
• Adjunct Professor University of Denver, teaching origins of developmental resilience, examination of models of prevention, intervention, and modification of systems
• PhD and MSW from the University of Denver, Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan

Sue Nagle
Founder and Board Member
Kids Leadership Coalition

• 9 years management consulting in strategy, marketing, sales, and product development
• 8 years in industry with roles in marketing, product development and operations management including HP, Intel, and Pitney Bowes
• Non Profit EPC World Trade Center Relief Manager, Executive in Residence CU Leeds School of Business
• MBA, SM, SB from MIT

Sophia Yen, MD, MPH
Founder and President of the Board
Kids Leadership Coalition,
Pediatrician – Adolescent Medicine Specialist

• 5 Years Stanford Clinical Instructor, Department of Pediatrics
• Executive Board Member, Center for Reproductive Rights
• 2006 Faculty Teaching Award, Stanford Medical School, LPCH
• MIT BS, UCSF MD, Children’s Oakland Residency, UCSF Adolescent Medicine Fellowship, UC Berkeley, MPH Maternal & Child Health

Cynthia Closkey
Founder Kids Leadership Coalition,
President of Big Big Design

• Web developer and consultant for small business & nonprofit; Social media advocate
• Founder, Pittsburgh Bloggers; Organizer, PodCamp Pittsburgh
• Partner, Pittsburgh Social Venture Partners
• 15 years industry with Powersim, Nortel, NeXT, Oracle, CUECO, Gensym
• SM Management, SM Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, SB from MIT

Jill Kenney, JD
Attorney and Senior Executive

• Board of directors of the Women’s Vision Foundation, member Wise Women’s Council
• Former Executive and Senior Vice President roles at SpectraLink, StorageTek, and Xerox
• Fundraiser for Voices for Children (CASA)
• JD from University of Colorado, MBA from Emory University, BS from the University of Tennessee

Kris Pederson
Vice President/Partner, IBM Global Business Services

• Consultant focused on large-scale business transformation
• Named one of the Top 25 Consultants for 2007 by Consulting Magazine
• Former leader IBM Global Services strategy practice, overseeing 650 practitioners and 30 partners
• Industry Advisory Board American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• MBA from Harvard University, BA from UCLA

Von Sheppard
Asst Superintendent, Boulder Valley Public Schools

• Nationally recognized for leading school transformation from 17% to 76% percent students at standard in St. Paul, Minnesota, as elementary school principal
• Former CEO Twin City Rise program
• Former football coach and Minnesota Vikings Player
• MA from the University of St. Thomas, BA from the University of Nebraska

Rick Stevens, PhD
Asst Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado

• Journalism educator, focused on the field of new media journalism
• Research interests: ways in which journalism ethical models should be adapted for new media publications and the portrayal of technology in traditional mass media
• PhD from the University of Texas, MA from Abilene Christian University, BA from ACU