President & CEO
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President & CEO
Kandi Pickard
Board of Directors
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Founder
Elizabeth F. Goodwin
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Board Chairman | Talent Leadership Executive Coach
Carlo P. Frappolli
FRAPPSTRONG LLC
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Vice Chairman | Vice President, Undersea Warfare Programs General Manager, Manassas Operations
Tom Warner
Lockheed Martin
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Board Treasurer | Executive Vice President
John Short
EY
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Board Secretary | Retired
Janet Slaughter Eissenstat
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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.)
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Audit Chair | Executive Director, Strategic Strike Programs
Misty Holmes
Raytheon Missiles Defense
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Chief Happiness Officer
John Cronin
John's Crazy Socks
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Self-Advocate
Courtney Gaines
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EVP
Tony Gostkowski
Engelhard Hanovia,Inc
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SVP, Stores (West US Group)
Mark Johnson
Michaels Stores
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Assistant Special Services Director
Schunda Jones-Murphy
Wynne School District
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Chief of Staff
Joe Joyce
Keystone
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Assistant Director of Programs and Communications
Michael Kulma
International House at the University of Chicago
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Senior Vice President
Debbie Morris
Verisk
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Occupational Therapist/Mother/Advocate
Lisa L. Pelham, OTR, MA
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Assistant Vice President, Federal Affairs
Tom Santos
Zurich North America
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Vice President, Head of Consumer Insights and Research
Kerry Sette
Voya Financial
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Director of the School of Special Education, Leadership and Professional Studies
Marjorie C. Shavers
Interim Associate Dean in the College of Education, Missouri State
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Founder & CEO
Ciara Siegel
CJC
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Retired / Board Member of the ARC of Chester County
Bob Siegel
DuPont Company / Past President of the Board of Directors of the ARC of Chester County
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Senior Advisor, Government Affairs Lobbyist
C. Mitch Taylor
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
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Parent / Advocate
Victoria Tremonti
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Medical Director / Assistant Professor
Dr. Lauren Wang
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. George Capone
Kennedy Krieger
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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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Mr. Hampus Hillerstrom
LuMind IDSC
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Dr. Paul Moore
Vanderbilt
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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. Amy Lewanda
Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC
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Dr. Priya Chandan
University of Louisville
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Dr. Laura Mattie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Dr. Brian Chicoine
Advocate Medical Group, Park Ridge, IL
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Dr. Robert Siegel
Volunteer advocate and DSMIG member
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Dr. Heather Anderson
Ohio State University