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P. Shriver Timothy P. Shriver is the Chairman of Special Olympics, Inc. In that capacity, he serves nearly 2 million Special Olympics athletes and their families in more than 160 countries. He has helped transform Special Olympics into a movement that focuses on acceptance, inclusion, and respect for individuals with intellectual disabilities in all corners of the globe. He has also worked with world leaders and dignitaries such as Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Bertie Ahern, Rafiq Hariri, Thabo Mbeki, Julius Nyerere, Hosny Mubarak, Shimon Peres, Adrian Nastase, Adnan Terzi, and Alejandro Toledo to bring issues related to intellectual disabilities to the forefront. Before joining Special Olympics, Shriver served in various roles including educator, counselor, author, and speaker in order to bring issues to the forefront such as substance abuse, violence, dropout rates and teen pregnancy. He worked with the New Haven Public Schools’ Social Development Project, now considered the leading school-based prevention effort in the U.S. He has also applied his educational interests to TV and film, co-producing DreamWorks Studios’ 1997 release, “Amistad,” and Disney Studios’ 2000 release, “The Loretta Claiborne Story.” He is Executive Producer of “The Ringer” a Farrely brothers’ film. Shriver also has produced or co-produced shows for ABC, TNT, and NBC networks. Tim is a founding member of CASEL. Ann S. Nerad For the past three decades, Ann Nerad's community work has focused on mental health advocacy with an emphasis on children and prevention education. While serving on the board of the National Mental Health Association from 1982-1990, Mrs. Nerad became involved in prevention activities as they related to schools. She testified before the NMHA Prevention Commission about the importance of mental health education in the schools. Since 1986, she has served in collaborative initiatives to implement research-based social and emotional learning programs in the Chicago Public Schools and schools in DuPage County, including her own school district. Mrs. Nerad has served on the boards and as President of the Mental Health Association in Illinois, Prevention First, Inc., in Illinois, the DuPage Federation on Human Services and the Elementary District 181 Foundation. She also served on the Advisory Board of Futures for Kids, an initiative of the former First Lady of Illinois. Stephen D. Arnold Stephen D. Arnold is co-founder and venture partner at Polaris Venture Partners, based in the firm's Seattle office. Steve focuses on investments in information technology and digital media. Prior to starting Polaris, Steve served more than 10 years in executive positions in software companies and the digital media industry. He is also co-founder and vice chairman of the board of directors of the George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF), an operating foundation that promotes innovation and advocates for exemplary programs in K-12 education. Steve also serves on the boards of several early stage technology companies, and on a number of non-profit boards, including Islandwood, an outdoor learning center serving Seattle area 4th-6th grade students and the West Sound Academy, an independent middle and high school in Poulsbo, Washington. Jennifer Buffett Jennifer Buffett joined CASEL's board in 2010 and has been a collaborator, advisor and investor since 2007. As President of the NoVo Foundation in New York, she is responsible for all vision, strategy, program development, and partnerships. Jennifer co-chairs the foundation's board with her husband, composer and producer Peter Buffett. The NoVo Foundation has made social and emotional learning a priority in its pursuit of a broad vision of shifting the global paradigm away from societies based on domination and exploitation and towards mutual collaboration. Jennifer began her work in philanthropy in 1997 in Milwaukee, focusing on early childhood education for at-risk children and families. She serves on the board of the Nike Foundation to promote "The Girl Effect" - the positive economic and social empowerment of adolescent girls in the developing world, as well as the board of V-Day and the leadership councils of the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and BRAC USA. In 2008, Jennifer and Peter received the Clinton Global Citizen Award for their "visionary leadership and sustainable, scalable work in solving pressing global challenges." In presenting the award, former President Bill Clinton said, "the Buffetts are leading an inspirational campaign to improve the status of women and girls across the globe. Their innovative approach to philanthropy has leveraged the capacity of existing organizations to affect real, positive change." Jennifer and Peter were named among Barron's Top 25 Most Effective Philanthropists in 2009. Mark T. Greenberg Mark Greenberg is the Edna Bennett Chair of Prevention Research at Penn State University, where he is also director of the Prevention Research Center. Mark is a founding member of CASEL, and works on a variety of CASEL projects and has spearheaded CASEL's recent initiatives in the area of implementation research. In 1981, he began a curriculum project for the development of social and emotional competence with deaf and hearing-impaired children. This evolved into the PATHS Curriculum (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies), a classroom-based prevention program designed to improve the social competence of elementary-aged children by teaching self-control, emotional understanding, and social problem-solving skills. Since 1990, Mark has been one of the site directors of the FAST (Families and Schools Together) Track Project . FAST Track is a national project working with families and children who are at serious risk for developing conduct disorders and delinquency. The project combines universal prevention and targeted strategies to promote healthy development for all children in low resource schools. Roger P. Weissberg Roger P. Weissberg is a Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). For the past 25 years, Professor Weissberg has trained scholars and practitioners about innovative ways to design, implement, and evaluate family, school, and community interventions. Professor Weissberg has authored about 200 publications focusing on preventive interventions with children and adolescents and has written curricula on school-based programs to promote social competence and prevent problem behaviors including drug use, high-risk sexual behaviors, and aggression. Professor Weissberg has been the President of the American Psychological Association's Society for Community Research and Action. He co-chaired an American Psychological Association Task Force on "Prevention: Promoting Strength, Resilience, and Health in Young People." He is a recipient of the William T. Grant Foundation's five-year Faculty Scholars Award in Children's Mental Health, the Connecticut Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Psychological Contribution in the Public Interest, and the National Mental Health Association's Lela Rowland Prevention Award. He was named a 1997-2000 University Scholar at the University of Illinois and also was a 2004-2005 UIC Great Cities Institute Scholar. Professor Weissberg received the 2000 American Psychological Association's Distinguished Contribution Award for Applications of Psychology to Education and Training, and the Society for Community Action and Research 2004 Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research Award. |
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