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Advisory BoardClick on the names below to view a brief biography of the individual. Bernard S. Arons Dessa Bergen-Cico Jenny Blau Robert Wm. Blum Thomas Bornemann Joyce A. Bylander Barry Checkoway Laurie Davidson Mary Jane England John L. Ford Susan E. Foster Stephanie A. Gordon Donald W. Harward Richard H. Hersh Rebecca Herzig Elizabeth Huffman-Wilkinson Alison K. Malmon Hara Estroff Marano Jonathan M. Metzl Caryn McTighe Musil Sally E. Pingree Daniel Tad Roach William S. Speers Lynn Swaner Jennifer O'Brien BiographiesBernard S. AronsDr. Arons is Executive Director/CEO of The National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), a nonprofit behavioral public health research, training and prevention outreach organization. He was formerly the Director of the Federal Center for Mental Health Services and chair of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Working Group Cluster of the President’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform. A graduate of Oberlin and the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Dr. Arons is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine, and Howard University and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth University. Dessa Bergen-CicoDr. Bergen-Cico is Associate Dean of Students Syracuse University, is
the director of the Substance Abuse Prevention and Health Enhancement
Office; the University R.A.P.E. Center (dedicated to educating the Syracuse
University community about rape, sexual abuse, and other forms of nonconsensual
sexual activity); the Coordinator of Assessment for the Division of Student
Affairs; and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology and
School of Education. Dessa's expertise is in the field of population based
prevention and health promotion. She is the author of several college
health research articles and has conducted over 100 professional presentations
and television appearances. Dessa is a member of the Bringing Theory to
Practice Advisory Board and the National Advisory Board For the Program
on Health and Higher Education. Jenny BlauMs. Blau serves as a legislative advisor for Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis, the Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Health Task Force and the Congressional Women’s Caucus, with special responsibilities as director of the Women’s Caucus. A graduate of Bates College with a B.S. in Race, Poverty and Health, Ms. Blau is the recipient of the 2002 National Howard Swearer Humanitarian Award for her work with Latino populations at a local community clinic in Lewiston, Maine and internationally. She is the author of "Student Voices: Making Ourselves Heard," published by Campus Compact, and will be attending Georgetown medical school in the fall. Robert Wm. BlumRobert Wm. Blum, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., is the William H. Gates, Sr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has edited two books, and has written over 220 journal articles, book chapters and special reports. Dr. Blum is a Past-President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine;
has served on the American Board of Pediatrics; was a charter member of
the Sub-Board of Adolescent Medicine, and is a past chair of the Alan
Guttmacher Institute Board of Directors. Currently, he chairs the National
Academy of Sciences Committee on Adolescent Health and Development. He
is a consultant to The World Bank and UNICEF as well as the World Health
Organization where he has served on the Technical Advisory Group of the
Child and Adolescent Health Department as well as the Scientific and Technical
Advisory Group of the Human Reproductive Program. He has been awarded
the Society for Adolescent Medicine’s Outstanding Achievement Award
(1993); and in 1998 was the recipient of the American Public Health Association’s
Herbert Needleman Award “for scientific achievement and courageous
advocacy” on behalf of children and youth. Thomas H. BornemannDr. Bornemann became the Director of the Carter Center’s Mental Health Programs in 2002. Prior to that, he served as Senior Advisor for Mental Health in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence of the World Health Organization. Dr. Bornemann has spent his entire career in public mental health working in all aspects including: clinical practice, research, research management, policy development and administration at the national level. At the National Institute of Mental Health, he was one of the leaders in developing a national mental health program for refugees. He held the appointment of Deputy Director of the Federal Center for Mental Health Services in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. He was responsible for providing direction of a program of support to states and communities in service delivery, and in promoting knowledge, development, and application of best practices. Joyce BylanderJoyce Bylander is Associate Provost for Campus Academic Life at Dickinson College. Ms. Bylander came to Dickinson in August 1998 as Associate Dean. She assumed the position of Dean of Students in July 2000 and moved into her current position July 1, 2004. In addition to Dickinson College, she has served Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA as Associate Dean of Students and also worked at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. At Dickinson, she is responsible for creating a vision for connecting the in and out of classroom lives of students. Through a variety of programs Campus Academic Life seeks to create, highlight and support co-curricular activities that deepen student learning and engagement. She is responsible for the development or support for First Year Seminars, Learning Communities, and Service Learning. She provides direction and supervision to the directors of the Advising Center, Learning Support, Orientation, and the Conflict Resolution Resource Center. AP Bylander is also involved with academic initiatives that support campus diversity efforts. On occasion she teaches in American Studies. Barry CheckowayDr. Checkoway serves as Professor of Social Work and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. His research projects include "Involving Young People in Community Change" (Ford and Kellogg Foundation), "Community Initiatives to Promote Health of Older People in Latin America" (HelpAge International), "Leadership and Management of Community Health in Africa" (World Health Organization), and "Community Participation in Health Planning" (National Academy of Sciences). He is the founding director of the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning, and of the Michigan Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program involving graduate students and community-based organizations in Detroit neighborhoods. He previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania, and was a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Laurie DavidsonMs. Davidson is an Associate Director Center for College Health and Safety, Education Development Center, Inc., the nation's primary resource center for assisting institutions of higher education in developing and carrying out alcohol and other drug (AOD) prevention programs on their campuses. She develops Center collaborations with national organizations working on campus AOD prevention and helps campus, government, and community officials start and sustain statewide campus and community prevention initiatives. Before joining the Higher Education Center, she served a variety of organizations in the business, higher education, and non-profit sectors. Laurie has an MA in Counseling and worked for eight years in community mental health centers. Mary Jane EnglandMary Jane England, MD, is President of Regis College, Weston, MA, a Catholic liberal arts college for women and her own alma mater (class of 1959). Taking her medical degree from Boston University in 1964, she launched a national and international career as a child psychiatrist, the first commissioner of the Department of Social Services in Massachusetts (1979-83), associate dean and director of the Lucius N. Littauer Master in Public Administration Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1983-87), president of the American Psychiatric Association (1995-96) and the American Women’s Medical Association (1986-87), and corporate CEO (Prudential, 1987-90, Washington Business Group on Health, 1990-2001). Dr. England serves on the Board of Visitors of the Boston University School of Medicine, Mrs. Rosalynn Carter’s Task Force on Mental Health, and the National Academies/IOM Board on Children and Families. In 2004 she received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award for a distinguished American woman physician from AMWA. John L. FordDr. Ford is the Senior Vice-President, Dean of Campus Life, and Professor of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Prior to his appointment at Emory, Dr. Ford served as Dean of Students at Cornell University. He has held faculty appointments in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell, the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology at the University of British Columbia, and at the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work. Susan E. FosterMs. Foster is the Vice-President and Director of Policy Research and Analysis at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University; previously, she was co-founder of the consulting firm Brizius & Foster and was a partner of US Data on Demand Inc. She has also served as Deputy Undersecretary of Intergovernmental Affairs at the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. She is the author of numerous books and articles in the field of public policy. Stephanie A. GordonStephanie Gordon is the Director of Educational Programs at NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, where she coordinates professional development conferences, workshops, and e-learning opportunities. She is also the liaison to the NASPA Knowledge Communities which focus on specific fields of expertise within the student affairs profession. Prior to joining NASPA, she worked in student affairs, residence life and undergraduate admissions. Ms. Gordon graduated from Simmons College in Boston, MA in 1996 and went on to receive her Masters degree in Higher Education Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in 2000. Donald W. HarwardDr. Harward served as President of Bates College from 1989 thru June 2002, when he was appointed President Emeritus. Before taking office at Bates, Harward served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at the College of Wooster, Ohio; preceding his tenure there, he taught and served in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delaware, and subsequently designed and led the University Honors program. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Maryland. He is currently a senior advisor for the ACE Fellows Program and a Senior Fellow with AAC&U. He serves as a consultant for the Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement, a joint project of AAC&U and Campus Compact. President Harward also serves on a variety of foundation and educational boards. Richard H. HershRichard Hersh is currently working on a PBS Documentary, "Experiencing College," and is co-directing a national research study under the aegis of the RAND Corporation that has developed a "value-added" approach to assess what is learned in college. Formerly Director of the Center for Moral Education at Harvard University and President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Trinity College (Hartford), Dr. Hersh has been actively involved in the research on alcohol and other drug abuse on campuses. As president of two colleges, Dr. Hersh was heavily engaged with faculty, staff, parents, students, community leaders, neighbors, courts, bar owners, etc. in attempts to significantly reduce abuse. His current work on assessing the impact of college and university attendance includes development of measures of personal and social responsibility. Rebecca HerzigDr. Herzig is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Bates College. A specialist in the history of nineteenth-century science, technology, and medicine, she is the author of Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America (Rutgers University Press, 2005) and, with Evelynn Hammonds and Abigail Bass, The Nature of Difference: A Reader on Science, Race, and Gender, forthcoming with MIT Press. At Bates, her courses focus on the social dimensions of scientific change. A long-time advocate of engaged learning and progressive pedagogy, she has helped design and implement community-based educational programs in California, Maine, and Massachusetts. Elizabeth Huffman-WilkinsonElizabeth (Libby) Huffman graduated from Dartmouth College, where she participated in several studies and education classes, specifically in adolescent development. She also assisted in Dartmouth Hitchcock's eating disorder clinic. She currently resides in Georgetown and is a Government Relations Advisor for the law firm, Collier Shannon Scott. Alison K. MalmonAlison Malmon is the founder and Executive Director of Active Minds, Inc., a non-profit organization whose purpose is to develop and support chapters of the student group, Active Minds on Campus, at colleges nationwide, and to foster a movement of young adult mental health advocates. Ms. Malmon is a 2003 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She founded the first chapter of the organization, Active Minds at Penn, in 2001 following the suicide of her older brother, Brian, one year earlier. Since forming the nonprofit organization in summer 2003, she has helped develop chapters of the group at colleges around the country, including Duke University, Georgetown University, West Chester University, and Dartmouth College. The student group, Active Minds on Campus, is a mental health awareness, education, and advocacy organization designed for the college campus. Members of Active Minds educate their peers about issues of mental health, symptoms of mental illness, and available resources for seeking help. By promoting awareness and education, the group aims to remove the stigma that surrounds mental illness and create an open environment for discussion of mental health issues. Hara Estroff MaranoHara Estroff Marano is Editor-at-Large of Psychology Today. She has been with Psychology Today for the past 12 years, previously as Editor-in-Chief, and has written about human behavior for many consumer publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Smithsonian, the Ladies Home Journal, among many others. She writes a regular advice column for Psychology Today called Unconventional Wisdom, which now also appears weekly in the New York Daily News under the banner Sexual Healing. She is the author of two books, the most recent on the social development of children, “Why Doesn’t Anybody Like Me?”: A Guide to Raising Socially Confident Kids (Morrow, 1998). Jonathan M. MetzlJonathan Michel Metzl is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies and Director of the Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine at the University of Michigan. In this capacity he works as an attending physician in the adult psychiatric clinics and teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on gender, culture, and health. He has written for journals including the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Academic Medicine, Gender and History, Social Science and Medicine, Textual Practice, Ms. Magazine, and SIGNS: The Journal of Women, Culture, and Society. His book, Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs, was published in 2003 by Duke University Press. Caryn McTighe MusilCaryn McTighe Musil is currently Senior Vice President at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in charge of the office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives where she focuses on diversity, civic engagement, and women's issues in higher education. She is also co-director of AAC&U's Center on Liberal Education and Civic Engagement recently launched in partnership with Campus Compact. She has a long-time professional commitment to empowering students as critical, reflective learners who have voice and agency, which is why student-centered pedagogies, faculty development, and curriculum transformation have been special interests of hers. Dr. Musil received her B.A. from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. Before moving into national level administrative work in higher education, first as Executive Director of the National Women's Studies Association, she was a faculty member for eighteen years. A frequent keynote speaker and educational consultant at numerous colleges and universities, Dr. Musil has been writing, teaching, and speaking on how to build inclusive, engaged academic learning environments throughout her career. Sally E. PingreeMs. Pingree is a Trustee of the Engelhard Foundation. A graduate of Trinity College, her areas of interest have been health, education, and environmental affairs. She has served in public relations at the American Heritage Publishing Company and the Board of Trustees of the Potomac School (Virginia), St. Andrew's School (Delaware), Boston College, the Carter Center, and the African Wildlife Foundation. She is a member of the Advisory Council of AAC&U's/Campus Compact's Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement, the National Gallery of Art, and the Mental Health Task Force of the Carter Center. Daniel Tad RoachMr. Roach is a graduate of Williams College (B.A.) and Middlebury College (MA, Bread Loaf School of English) and joined St. Andrew's faculty as an English teacher, dorm parent, and coach in 1979. Tad served as Dean of Students, Assistant Headmaster for Student Life, Academic Dean, and Assistant Headmaster for Academic Affairs before being appointed Headmaster of St. Andrew's in July 1997. Tad continues to teach English and Religion and advises students at St. Andrew's.
William S. SpeersMr. Speers is a Princeton (A.B.) and Middlebury graduate (MA, Bread Loaf School of English). His former positions include Chair of the English Department, Director of Admissions and Financial Aid, Director of Studies, Dean of Students and Assistant Headmaster for Student Life. He has also coached boys' and girls' soccer and squash. During the summers, he teaches at the Milton Boarding Conference, a program that introduces new teachers to residential schools. He is currently Dean of Faculty at St. Andrew's and continues to teach English.
Lynn SwanerDr. Swaner is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), educational consultant, and Assistant Professor in Mental Health Counseling at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. Her professional experience includes coordinating academic support and accommodations for students with psychiatric disabilities at Columbia University, as well as directing the undergraduate peer tutoring program as part of Columbia's learning center initiative. She received her M.S. in counseling from C.W. Post and her doctorate in higher education from Teachers College, Columbia University, where her research focused on connecting curricular and practicum-based learning in graduate education. In addition to her current work with BTtP, Dr. Swaner recently authored a review of the literature for AAC&U's Project on Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility. Jennifer O’BrienJennifer O’Brien is the Program Associate for the Bringing Theory to Practice Project at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Jennifer recently graduated from George Washington University, where she completed her work in Psychology and Women’s Studies. As a student in these fields, she was able to cater much of her studies/research to her specific interests, including stress and mental well-being (focus on depression), self-image, and substance abuse habits of college-age students. Before joining AAC&U, she worked as Office Manager of a psychopharmacology practice in downtown Washington, DC, and assisted research at George Washington University on the Young Parents Study in the Psychology department under Dr. Christina Gee. |
