Team & Advisors

SheHeroes Team

	Sue Nagle Founder and CEO 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
	Elizabeth Kao Resource Development Director Elementary education volunteer, including PTA Reflections Chair 10 years with Ford Motor in strategy, manufacturing and product development Entrepreneurial start-up experience MBA/SM from MIT. BS from University of Texas
	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
	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)

SheHeroes Advisory Board

	Cathy Cohn, PhD, NCSP, LCSW 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
	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