Meet Our Board Members

CEO

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Kandi Pickard

Board of Directors

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Chair

Tom Warner

Vice President, Undersea Warfare Programs General Manager, Manassas Operations at Lockheed Martin
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Audit Chair

Misty Holmes

Executive Director, Strategic Strike Programs at Raytheon Missiles Defense
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Treasurer

John Short

Chief Growth Officer at Kearney & Company
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Secretary

Janet Slaughter Eissenstat

Retired
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Deputy Secretary

Candace Whiting

Motivational Speaker at Great Life Unlimited and Entrepreneur (This board seat is held by a self-advocate with Down syndrome in honor of Mia Peterson.)
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Audit Chair

John McGuire

Partner & Global Head of the Conflicts Resolution Group at Goldman Sachs
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Founder and Board Member Emeritus

Elizabeth F. Goodwin

Retired
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Executive Committee Member

Hector Guinness

Partner at Hg Capital
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Executive Committee Member

Anthony Providenti

Regional President at Antech Diagnostics
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Board Member

LaSandra Brill

VP of Global Digital Marketing at NVDIA
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Board Member

Karen Gaffney

President at Karen Gaffney Foundation
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Board Member

Courtney Gaines

Self-Advocate
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Board Member

Schunda Jones-Murphy

Assistant Special Services Director at Wynne School District
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Board Member

Joe Joyce

Chief of Staff at Keystone
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Board Member

Michael Kulma

Associate Director, Programs and Communications at International House at the University of Chicago
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Board Member

Beverly Paperiello

Chief Operating Officer at Heartwood BioPharma Group
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Board Member

Tom Santos

Assistant Vice President, Federal Affairs at Zurich North America
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Board Member

Kerry Sette

Vice President, Head of Consumer Insights and Research at Voya Financial
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Board Member

Marjorie C. Shavers

Associate Dean in the College of Education, Missouri State University
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Board Member

Ciara Siegel

Founder & CEO at CJC
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Board Member

C. Mitch Taylor

Senior Advisor, Government Affairs Lobbyist at Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
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Board Member

Victoria Tremonti

Parent / Advocate
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Board Member

Ludivine Van Der Heyden

Pro Bono Immigration Attorney at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
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Board Member

Dr. Lauren Wang

Medical Director / Assistant Professor at Timothy Freeman, MD, Center for Intellectual Developmental Disabilities, UC Health / University of Cincinnati

Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board

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Chair

Dr. William Mobley

UC San Diego
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Vice-Chair

Ms. Romney Croft

Private Practice Therapist
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Dr. Heather Anderson

Ohio State University
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Dr. George Capone

Kennedy Krieger
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Dr. Priya Chandan

University of Louisville
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Dr. Brian Chicoine

Advocate Medical Group
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Dr. Jamie Edgin

The Virginia Tech College of Science
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Dr. Elizabeth Head

University of California at Irvine
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Dr. Amy Lewanda

Children’s National Health System
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Dr. Laura Mattie

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Dr. Paul Moore

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Dr. David Patterson

University of Denver
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Dr. Sonja Rasmussen

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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Dr. Roger Reeves

Johns Hopkins
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Dr. Stephanie Sherman

Emory
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Dr. Robert Siegel

Volunteer advocate and DSMIG member