CEO
President & CEO
Kandi Pickard
Board of Directors
Founder and Board Member Emeritus
Elizabeth F. Goodwin
Board Chairman | Talent Leadership Executive Coach
Carlo P. Frappolli
FRAPPSTRONG LLC
Vice Chairman | Vice President, Undersea Warfare Programs General Manager, Manassas Operations
Tom Warner
Lockheed Martin
Board Treasurer | Executive Vice President
John Short
EY
Board Secretary | Retired
Janet Slaughter Eissenstat
Deputy Secretary | Entrepreneur
Candace Whiting
Great Life Unlimited (This board seat is held by a self-advocate with Down syndrome in honor of Mia Peterson.)
Audit Chair | Executive Director, Strategic Strike Programs
Misty Holmes
Raytheon Missiles Defense
VP of Global Digital Marketing
LaSandra Brill
NVDIA
President
Karen Gaffney
Karen Gaffney Foundation
Self-Advocate
Courtney Gaines
Partner
Hector Guinness
Hg Capital
Assistant Special Services Director
Schunda Jones-Murphy
Wynne School District
Chief of Staff
Joe Joyce
Keystone
Assistant Director of Programs and Communications
Michael Kulma
International House at the University of Chicago
Partner & Global Head of the Conflicts Resolution Group
John McGuire
Goldman Sachs
Chief Operating Officer
Beverly Paperiello
Heartwood BioPharma Group
Regional President
Anthony Providenti
Antech Diagnostics
Assistant Vice President, Federal Affairs
Tom Santos
Zurich North America
Vice President, Head of Consumer Insights and Research
Kerry Sette
Voya Financial
Director of the School of Special Education, Leadership and Professional Studies
Marjorie C. Shavers
Interim Associate Dean in the College of Education, Missouri State
Founder & CEO
Ciara Siegel
CJC
Senior Advisor, Government Affairs Lobbyist
C. Mitch Taylor
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Parent / Advocate
Victoria Tremonti
Pro Bono Immigration Attorney
Ludivine Van Der Heyden
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Medical Director / Assistant Professor
Dr. Lauren Wang
Timothy Freeman, MD, Center for Intellectual Developmental Disabilities, UC Health / University of Cincinnati
Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Chair
Dr. William Mobley
UC San Diego
Vice-Chair
Ms. Romney Croft
Private Practice Therapist
Dr. George Capone
Kennedy Krieger
Dr. Jamie Edgin
The Virginia Tech College of Science
Dr. Elizabeth Head
University of California at Irvine
Dr. Paul Moore
Vanderbilt
Dr. David Patterson
University of Denver
Dr. Sonja Rasmussen
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Roger Reeves
Johns Hopkins
Dr. Stephanie Sherman
Emory
Dr. Amy Lewanda
Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC
Dr. Priya Chandan
University of Louisville
Dr. Laura Mattie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Brian Chicoine
Advocate Medical Group, Park Ridge, IL
Dr. Robert Siegel
Volunteer advocate and DSMIG member
Dr. Heather Anderson
Ohio State University