Board of Directors Jane Gardner Children Now Board Chair Harbour Consulting, Partner Peter D. Bewley Children Now Vice Chair The Clorox Company, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary (Retired) Neal Baer, M.D. Wolf Films/Universal Television, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," Executive Producer Geoffrey Cowan USC, Annenberg School for Communication, Dean Jim Cunneen California Strategies, LLC, Partner John Garcia Kaiser Permanente, Vice President, Legal & Government Relations David G. Johnson Johnson-Roessler Company, Partner Suzanne Nora Johnson The Goldman Sachs Group, Former Vice Chairman Allan K. Jonas Jonas & Associates, Owner Donald Kennedy Stanford University, President Emeritus; Science, Editor-in-Chief Gay Krause Foothill College, Krause Center for Innovation, Executive Director Ted Lempert Children Now, President Daniel Luevano Attorney Lenny Mendonca McKinsey & Company, Director, San Francisco Theodore R. Mitchell NewSchools Venture Fund, CEO Molly Munger English, Munger & Rice, Partner Craig A. Parsons Communications Consultant Hon. Cruz Reynoso UC Davis, School of Law, Professor; California Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Jennie Ward Robinson, Ph.D. Institute for Public Health and Water Research, President and Executive Director Karen Schievelbein UnitedHealth Group, Executive Katharine Schlosberg, Ed.D. Educational Consultant James P. Steyer Common Sense Media, Chairman & CEO Michael Tollin Tollin/Robbins Productions, Co-President Gloria Tristani Spiegel & McDiarmid, Of Counsel; Former FCC Commissioner Grace K. Won Farella Braun + Martel, Partner   Jane Gardner Children Now Board Chair Harbour Consulting Jane Gardner is a partner with Harbour Consulting, a San Francisco-based group. Previously, she was Vice President of Marketing at Scientific Learning Company, which offers intensive computer-based training programs to help children develop their language and reading skills. She also worked for more than 20 years in positions of increasing responsibility at Foote, Cone & Belding, one of the world's largest advertising firms. Ms. Gardner has led many teams in developing highly successful marketing communications strategies for the firm's clients, including Amazon.com, Janus Mutual Funds, Novell, Pacific Bell and Clorox. In recent years, she specialized in helping growth-technology companies develop and implement communications and marketing strategies that maximize company resources by successfully targeting the most promising growth markets. Ms. Gardner also served as a term trustee for Williams College from 1983 to 1987. Ms. Gardner holds a B.A. degree from Williams College and a M.B.A. degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Peter D. Bewley Children Now Vice Chair The Clorox Company, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary (Retired) Peter D. Bewley joined the Clorox Company as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in February 1998 and retired in 2005. In this position, Mr. Bewley had overall responsibility for the Company's legal services. Prior to joining Clorox, from May of 1994 to February of 1998, Mr. Bewley was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of NovaCare, Inc., a medical rehabilitation services company located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. From 1977 to 1994, Mr. Bewley worked for Johnson & Johnson, serving as Assistant General Counsel from 1985 to 1990 and Associate General Counsel from 1990 to 1994. Mr. Bewley began his legal career in 1972 as an associate with the firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., after serving a summer clerkship at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City and a postgraduate clerkship at O'Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles. He also served as a lawyer with the grade of captain in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Air Force during 1971. Mr. Bewley received his J.D. degree from Stanford University in 1971. At Stanford he was Articles Editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He received his A.B. cum laude from Princeton University in 1968. Mr. Bewley is a member of the Board of Directors of the WD-40 Company, a member of the Board of Visitors of the Stanford Law School and a member of the Executive Board of the Institute for Public Health and Water Research. Neal Baer, M.D. Wolf Films/Universal Television, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," Executive Producer Dr. Neal Baer, multiple Emmy Award nominee, is Executive Producer of the series "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit." Until October 2000, he was Executive Producer of "ER." He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Political Science from Colorado College, holds Master's degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Sociology and spent a year at the American Film Institute as a directing fellow. Dr. Baer graduated from Harvard Medical School in June of 1996. He received the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Scholarship in 1994 from the American Medical Association as the outstanding medical student who has contributed to promoting a better understanding of medicine in the media. Dr. Baer's primary medical interests are in adolescent health. He has written extensively for teens on health issues for Scholastic Magazine, covering such topics as teen pregnancy, AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse and nutrition. Dr. Baer taught elementary school in Colorado and also worked as a research associate at USC Medical School, where he focused on drug and alcohol abuse prevention and wrote a $3 million funded grant from the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention for the city of Pasadena on community prevention. In 2001, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Colorado College. Geoffrey Cowan USC Annenberg School for Communication, Dean Geoffrey Cowan has been dean of USC Annenberg School for Communication since 1996. The Annenberg School for Communication, which includes a School of Journalism and School of Communication, has a faculty of 39 full-time tenure track members and 1,600 graduate and undergraduate students. He is a professor of Journalism and Law in Annenberg’s School of Journalism and holds a joint professorial appointment in USC Law School. Cowan is the author of See No Evil: The Backstage Battle Over Sex and Violence on Television and The People v. Clarence Darrow: The Bribery Trial of America’s Greatest Lawyer. Prior to becoming dean, Cowan had served as director of Voice of America, the international broadcasting service of the U.S. Information Agency, which broadcasts nearly 900 hours of programming in 52 languages to a weekly audience of 100 million. He was appointed to the position by President Clinton in 1994. Cowan also had taught communication law and policy at UCLA and was founding director of the university’s Center for Communication Policy. Concurrently with his teaching at UCLA, Cowan had worked as a television producer, receiving an Emmy Award for Executive Producer of “Mark Twain and Me,” which was voted Outstanding Prime Time Program for Children by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Cowan is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He is married to Aileen Adams, former secretary of California’s State and Consumer Affairs Agency. They have two children, Mandy and Gabe. John Garcia Kaiser Permanente, Vice President, Legal & Government Relations John Garcia is Vice President and Legislative Representative for Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento. He supervises government relations activities for California, representing the interests of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, The Permanente Medical Group, and the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. Mr. Garcia has been with Kaiser Permanente for 11 years. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Mr. Garcia was a field representative for United States Congressman Pete Stark. Prior to that, he was the community educator for the City of Hayward. Mr. Garcia is on the board of directors and advisory boards of various organizations, including Children Now, California Center for Civic Participation, California Latino Caucus Institute, California State Association of Counties Corporate Associates (past president), and the Hispanic Community Affairs Council. Mr. Garcia earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from California State University at Hayward. David G. Johnson Johnson-Roessler Company, Partner David Johnson is a partner of the Johnson-Roessler Company, a film and television production company, and was a founder of Agility Capital, LLC, a venture debt fund for private companies. Prior to his current activities, he was Senior Executive Vice President of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and a partner of the law firm White & Case. Mr. Johnson also serves on the boards of the American Red Cross of Los Angeles, the Dream Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and Reach Out and Read. He is Chairman of Public Counsel Law Center and is a member of the Los Angeles Mayor's Council of Economic Advisors and the California Council for the Humanities. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School. Suzanne Nora Johnson Goldman, Sachs & Co., Vice Chairman Suzanne Nora Johnson is a Vice Chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. She serves as chairman of the firm’s Global Market Institute and heads the Global Investment Research Division. Previously she co-headed the firm's worldwide healthcare business. Mrs. Johnson divides her time between the firm's New York and Los Angeles offices. Prior to joining Goldman, Sachs, she served as an attorney with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York and as a law clerk to the United States Court of Appeals in Baltimore. Mrs. Johnson was born in Chicago. She received a B.A. degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Southern California, with an emphasis in economics, philosophy/religion and political science. She received a law degree from Harvard Law School. She currently serves as Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Board of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the University of Southern California, Rand Health and the Harvard University Native American Program. Allan K. Jonas Jonas & Associates, Owner Allan K. Jonas, pioneer industrial developer in the Los Angeles International Airport area, owns and operates Jonas & Associates and is General Partner of more than 50 current investment properties. Mr. Jonas graduated from the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania, in 1943. Moving to California in 1948, he was co-founder and first president of the Westchester Chamber of Commerce in 1954 and 1955. He also co--founded and is past President of the American Industrial Real Estate Association, a growing group of professionals in the field. From 1960 to 1963, he took leave from his business to serve as Director of the California Disaster Office under Governor Pat Brown and was responsible for all emergency planning and services for natural or war-caused catastrophes in the state. For the past 40 years, Mr. Jonas has donated his expertise and half of his time to civic affairs. In addition to serving on the board of Children Now, his current activities include board member of LA's BEST, a volunteer board in partnership with the Community Redevelopment Agency and the Los Angeles Unified School District to extend after school care and enrichment for "latch-key" children at 24 elementary schools; and of KCET, Constitutional Rights Foundation, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and LA Music Center Opera. Donald Kennedy Stanford University, President Emeritus; Science, Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Harvard and has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present. He served as the Chairman of the Department of Biology from 1964-1972, as founding Director of the Program in Human Biology from 1973-1977. He served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1977-79 and as President of Stanford University from 1980 to 1992. His present research program, conducted through the Institute for International Studies, consists of interdisciplinary studies on the development of policies regarding such trans-boundary environmental problems as: major land-use changes; economically driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies. Dr. Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government. On June 1, 2000, Dr. Kennedy began a term as Editor-in-Chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Gay Krause Foothill College, Krause Center for Innovation, Executive Director Gay Krause is currently executive director of the Krause Center for Innovation (KCI), Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA. As executive director of the Center, Ms. Krause has been responsible for the renovation of the facility into a state-of-the-art multimedia lab. The mission of the KCI is to serve as a regional center that empowers K-12 educators, students and local community members to dramatically improve learning outcomes through the use of technology. Ms. Krause has over 27 years experience working in K-12 education in positions such as counselor, assistant principal and principal, mostly at the middle school level. Ms. Krause is actively involved with several community organizations including: the Mid-Peninsula YMCA board, Chairperson of the Mountain View-Los Altos Challenge Team, board member of the Foothill/DeAnza Colleges Foundation, and Advisory Board member of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley. She has received numerous awards for her involvement including the AAUW Status of Women Award, the Community College League of California Creating the Future Award, and the Instructional Technology Department Harold H. Hailer Service Award from San Jose State University. Ms. Krause was raised in Northern Virginia and received her bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University, her master's degree from the University of Virginia and her educational administrative credentials from the University of San Francisco and San Jose State University. She lives in Los Altos Hills, California with her husband, Bill Krause, who has been active in the Silicon Valley high tech industry for many years. Lenny Mendonca McKinsey & Company, Director, San Francisco Lenny Mendonca is a director in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company. He co-founded McKinsey's Public Sector practice and the North American Personal Financial Services practice, and has served dozens of corporate, government, and nonprofit clients. Mr. Mendonca leads McKinsey's Strategy Practice, is on the Shareholders' Council of McKinsey (its board of directors), and is the chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute. Mr. Mendonca is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Economic Forum, Secretary and Executive Committee Member of the Bay Area Council, on the board of directors of the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium, on the board of EdVoice, and a member of the Business Advisory Council for the San Francisco Unified School District. He is also the founder and owner of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company. Mr. Mendonca has led several McKinsey research efforts and helps direct the firm's knowledge development priorities. He has written and spoken extensively on globalization, economic development, regulation, education, energy policy, health care, financial services, and corporate strategy. He received his M.B.A. and certificate in public management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds an A.B., magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard College. Theodore R. Mitchell NewSchools Venture Fund, CEO Theodore Mitchell is the CEO of San Francisco-based NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy firm working to transform public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in the 21st century. A former deputy to the president at Stanford and vice chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Mitchell is a national leader in the effort to provide high-quality education for all students and has long been active in California and Los Angeles educational reform initiatives. Dr. Mitchell's involvement at Stanford spanned more than 20 years. A 1978 graduate with degrees in economics and history, he went on to earn a master's degree and a doctorate in 1983. Two years later he became the youngest person ever to be elected to the Stanford Board of Trustees. Dr. Mitchell served a five-year term as trustee, from 1985 to 1990, and served for three years as board vice president. In 1991, Dr. Mitchell joined the Stanford administration as deputy to the president and provost, managing a presidential transition and working as a part of the leadership team charged with steering Stanford through its federal indirect cost controversy. Dr. Mitchell is also an education advisor to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and served as a senior education advisor to former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. He serves on the boards of a variety of non-profit education organizations. Molly Munger English, Munger & Rice, Partner Molly Munger is a California-focused civil rights advocate based in Los Angeles. A 25-year litigation veteran, she is a co-founder and partner in the Los Angeles civil rights law firm English, Munger & Rice. She is also a co-founder and director of The Advancement Project, a national organization founded in 1998 to explore broadening and revitalizing approaches to inclusion and opportunity. Ms. Munger is a graduate of John Muir High School in Pasadena, Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School. She has been the president of the Federal Bar Association's Los Angeles chapter, chair of the Federal Courts Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and a member of the Harvard Law School Visiting Committee. She currently serves on the executive committee of the Western Justice Center, the Rand Corporation's Advisory Committee on K-12 Education, and the Board of Trustees of Occidental College. She is the 1996 recipient of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles' Ernestine Stahlhut Award. Craig A. Parsons Communications Consultant Craig A. Parsons has more than 30 years of communications and investor relations experience, encompassing various corporate, media, financial, public affairs, marketing and advertising responsibilities. He has represented companies in a wide span of industries--entertainment, consumer and manufacturing, health care and technology, among other areas. Mr. Parsons previously was a principal/partner for 18 years with Pondel Parsons & Wilkinson, which grew into one of the foremost corporate communications and investor relations firms in the country. Most recently he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations for the global entertainment company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, and was President of the Annenberg Associates, the professional alumni group for the USC/Annenberg School for Communication. Parsons also served as President and a member of the board of directors of a Los Angeles unit of the American Cancer Society, among other civic and professional affiliations. Hon. Cruz Reynoso UC Davis, School of Law, Professor California Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Justice Cruz Reynoso joined the UC Davis law faculty in 2001. From 1991-2001 he was a member of the UCLA law faculty, continuing a multi-faceted public and private career in law that began with several years of private law practice in El Centro, California, during which he also served in several state government positions. In 1967, he went to Washington, D.C., to work for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but he returned to California a year later to head California Rural Legal Assistance, one of the pioneering programs of the legal services movement. In 1972 he joined the University of New Mexico law faculty, having held part-time teaching positions at several institutions before then. Professor Reynoso's academic career was interrupted in 1976 by an appointment to be an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal. His service on that court was followed by elevation to the California Supreme Court, where he served from 1982 to 1987. Private practice followed until Professor Reynoso joined the UCLA law faculty. Among other state and federal public service positions he has held during his long and varied career, Professor Reynoso was appointed by President Carter to the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, and he has served as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and on the California Post Secondary Education Commission. The holder of several honorary degrees, he is a board member of several civil rights, environmental and educational organizations. He currently serves as a Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. His academic interests currently lie in the areas of professional responsibility, remedies and appellate advocacy. Professor Reynoso serves as Special Counsel to the law firm of Kay, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. Jennie Ward Robinson, Ph.D. Institute for Public Health and Water Research, President and Executive Director Jennie Ward Robinson is the President and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Health and Water Research. Prior to assuming leadership of the Institute, she was the Director of the Division of Medical and Scientific Affairs at Alzheimer's Association, a private health organization that supports national and international research projects and services for people with Alzheimer's. She has substantial expertise and training in organizational psychology, management of organizations, and recruitment, training and retention of staff. Dr. Ward Robinson received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She also holds a M.S. from Kansas State University and B.S. from University of Houston, Clear Lake, where she was recently recognized with a Distinguished Alumni Award for her contributions to minority health. Karen Schievelbein UnitedHealth Group, Executive Karen Schievelbein is an Executive with UnitedHealth Group. She serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the Vision and Dental divisions and previously served as the Chief Financial Officer at the behavioral health business of UHG, United Behavioral Health (UBH). Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Ms. Schievelbein spent five years as CFO at Blue Shield of California. She also held key financial positions at two other health plans, has served on the Board of Directors for PARTNERS, a San Francisco based domestic violence prevention consortium and BCBSA Federal Employees Health Plan Board of Managers. Ms. Schievelbein received her B.S. degree in General Management/Accounting from Purdue University and her MBA from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern with an emphasis in Marketing and Finance. She has a Certified Public Accountant certification in Illinois. Katharine Schlosberg, Ed.D. Educational Consultant Katharine Schlosberg has been involved in public and private education for 38 years. She began her career as a middle school mathematics teacher and science teacher in Rapid City, South Dakota. Over the next 18 years she held various positions of increasing responsibility in public and private schools teaching math, science and computer science. From 1985-1988, Dr. Schlosberg was a middle school counselor in Aurora, Colorado, working with students on issues of school, family, self esteem and peer relationships. Additionally, she served as a board member of the Colorado School Counselor's Association. In 1989, Dr. Schlosberg joined the faculty of Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena, California. At Westridge she taught high school mathematics and was a counselor. In 1993 she was named Director of Studies, serving in that capacity until 1997 when she took a leave of absence to complete her doctoral studies. From 2000-2002, Dr. Schlosberg was an adjunct professor in the Teacher Leadership Program at San Jose State University, and also was a consultant for WestEd, a national education research laboratory. Currently Dr. Schlosberg is an adjunct professor in the Dreeben School of Education at the University of the Incarnate Word. She serves on the Education Committee of the San Antonio Area Foundation, is a board member of Communities in Schools--San Antonio, serves on the selection committee for the Trinity University Excellence in Teaching Awards, and is on the Board of Visitors of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Phi Delta Kappa, and the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. Dr. Schlosberg holds an Ed.D. in Education Administration from UCLA, an M.Ed. from Trinity University and a B.S. in Mathematics Education from the University of Missouri. James P. Steyer Common Sense Media, Chairman & CEO James P. Steyer is an internationally respected expert on issues related to children's media and education. He is the Chairman and CEO of Common Sense Media. Previously he was the founder and CEO of JP Kids, a leading independent kids media company dedicated to changing the world for kids through quality media. With a hit series on the Disney Channel, "The Famous Jett Jackson," JP Kids develops fresh, fun, kid-friendly properties that can appear simultaneously on TV, online and across media platforms. Prior to founding JP Kids, Mr. Steyer served as founder and president of Children Now. In addition to his activities as an advocate, Mr. Steyer is also an award-winning faculty member at Stanford University, where he has taught popular courses on civil rights, education and media issues for 14 years. Mr. Steyer began his career as a district attorney and then as a national civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Michael Tollin Tollin/Robbins Productions, Co-President Since forming Tollin/Robbins Productions with his partner Brian Robbins in 1993, Michael Tollin has amassed a remarkable record of critical acclaim and commercial success in the film and television worlds. An Academy Award nominee and Peabody Award winner for his documentary Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream, he also directed the award-winning film Hardwood Dreams, narrated by Wesley Snipes. Mr. Tollin has been honored with three Emmy Awards as a producer and director. He served as producer on the show Good Burger and the hit films Varsity Blues, Ready to Rumble and Hardball. He made his feature film directorial debut with Warner Brothers' Summer Catch, starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. He currently serves as an executive producer of the WB series Smallville, the WB Kids! series The Nightmare Room and the HBO comedy Arli$$, and as an executive producer and co-creator of Nickelodeon's hit shows "All That," "Kenan and Kel" and "The Amanda Show." A founding board member of Children Now, Mr. Tollin has a well-established track record of working to positively influence young children's lives. Gloria Tristani Spiegel & McDiarmid, Of Counsel; Former FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani is currently with the law firm of Spiegel & McDiarmid. Tristani served as a Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission from November 1997 to September 2001, and in 2002 was the Democratic candidate for United States Senate in New Mexico. While on the FCC, Tristani was committed to ensuring that all Americans are able to share in the benefits of the telecommunications revolution. One of her primary goals was to preserve and enhance universal service in order to ensure that telecommunications services remain affordable and accessible. She was committed to accelerating broadband deployment to rural and other hard-to-serve areas, and to the goals of the "E-Rate" program which provides discounted Internet access to schools and libraries. Tristani was a supporter of the FCC's Equal Opportunity rules, minority ownership of media properties and low power FM radio. She was actively involved in other consumer issues, including slamming and cramming, children's exposure to TV violence and to broadcast indecency, and competition in the cable industry. She served as Chair of the FCC's V-Chip Task Force and member of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials. Grace K. Won Farella Braun + Martel, Partner Grace K. Won is a Partner at Farella, Braun + Martel, a San Francisco-based law firm. She maintains a diverse practice in the area of complex litigation, ranging from contract disputes, antitrust claims and securities law. Ms. Won advises media organizations on issues related to newsroom access and the reporter shield law, and her litigation experience includes both state and federal appellate work. Ms. Won has filed numerous writs and briefs in state appellate court and represented a major media organization in their briefs before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Won is a graduate of Harvard University and Georgetown University Law Center, where she was awarded the Charles McBride Prize in Civil Rights and a Ford Foundation grant for research into human rights tribunals.