Michael B. Lanahan, President
Dallas, Texas
Founder and Chairman, Greystone Communities, Inc. Former Senior Vice President, Blyth Eastman PaineWebber Health Care Funding, Inc. Board of Trustees, Baylor Medical Center in Irving, Texas. St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH; Syracuse University; MBA University of Virginia. Dallas, TX.
Robin Wright , Honorary Chairperson
Ross, California
National campaign spokesperson for the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, Golden Globe Award nominee for best supporting actress in “Forest Gump” (1994), three-time Emmy nominee for her role in the daytime series "Santa Barbara" (1984), and starred in the blockbuster hit “The Princess Bride” (1987).
Lynn G. Bailey, Vice President
Sun Valley, Idaho
Community volunteer. Former Managing Director and member of the Board of Directors, Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc., B.A. and M.B.A., U.C.L.A.
Leslie H. Lanahan, Secretary
Dallas, Texas
Community volunteer. Former advertising, package design, and interior design executive. The Taft School; Pitzer College, Claremont, CA.; New York School of Interior Design.
Elaine B. Agather
Dallas, Texas
Chairman, Chase's Dallas Region; South Region Head & Managing Director, JP Morgan Private Bank; Dallas Citizens Council, Board of Directors; Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Board of Directors; Advisory Board of Directors, National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame; Performing Arts Fort Worth, Fossil, Inc., Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show; TACA Silver Cup Award 2008; Northwood University Distinguished Women's Award 2005; Maura "Women Helping Women" Award 2002; Kim Dawson Attitude Award for Attitudes & Attire; Women of Excellence Award 2001; The Family Place Trailblazer Award. BA, University of Oklahoma; MBA, University of Texas.
John T. Booth
Litchfield, Connecticut
Chairman of the Board, Swenson & Booth; former Chairman of the Board and current Chairman of the Executive Committee, Greystone Communities, Inc.; former Partner, Blyth Eastman Dillon; former Chairman, Eastdil Realty, Inc.; former Vestryman, Trinity Church of New York; former Chairman, Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. Torrington, CT. Deerfield Academy; Amherst College; Harvard Law School.
Kenneth J. Douglas
Houston, Texas
Co-Founder and Chairman, Gas Supply Resources, Inc. now part of Duke Energy; Co-Founder and President Conservation Management, Inc. now part of Browning-Ferris Industries. Former Board Member, Houston Grand Opera. Syracuse University; South Texas College of Law.
Victor A. Capoccia, Ph.D
Princeton, New Jersey
Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; former CEO and President, CAB Health and Recovery Services Inc.; former Director of Community Health Services, Boston Department of Health and Hospitals; former committee member , Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Community Based Drug Treatment; former Chairman of The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Panel; former Associate Professor, Community Organization and Social Planning Department, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, B.A. – Boston College, M.A. and Ph.D. – Brandeis.
John F. Thomas
North Palm Beach, Florida
Former Senior Vice President, Member Focus List Committee UBS PaineWebber. Vice Commander and Treasurer of the Commandery of the Palm Beaches of the Order of St. John; Treasurer, The International Children’s Museum, in association with the Smithsonian Institute; Member, Planned Giving Council of The Place of Hope; President, Law Enforcement Assistance Foundation; former Chairman and Board member, The Benjamin School; Member, Professional Advisors to the Community Foundation. BA and MBA Syracuse University. North Palm Beach, FL.
Margaret Youngblood
San Francisco, California
Principal and Creative Director, Trinity – dynamic brand evolution, Berkeley, CA. Former Vice President and Creative Director, Banana Republic, San Francisco, CA. Board of Trustees, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; former Executive Creative Director and Principal, Landor Associates with clients including American Red Cross, United States Olympic Team, YMCA, Microsoft, Intel, Accenture, Charles Schwab, Warner Brothers, Gap and Old Navy; former National Board of Trustees, American Institute of Graphic Arts. BFA University of Arizona; Degrees in French and French Civilization, Sorbonne, Paris.
Claire K. Bailey, Treasurer
Sun Valley, Idaho
Community volunteer. Former teacher. UCLA.
Tommy Kendall
Santa Monica, California
Television Host, Speed Channel, Former Professional Racing Driver, Trans Am Series and NASCAR, La Canada High School, B.A. U.C.L.A.
William W. Lanahan IV
Greenwich, Connecticut
Development Department, Vineyard Vines, Inc.; Founder, Designated Driver Program, The Gilman School, Baltimore, MD; College of Charleston, SC.
H. Bruce McEver
New York, New York
Founder and Chairman, Berkshire Capital Securities LLC, New York. Former Assistant to the Chairman, PaineWebber Group, Inc. for mergers and acquisitions; former Vice President, Blyth Eastman Dillon, Inc. BIE Georgia Institute of Technology; MBA Harvard Business School.
Cheri Carter
Washington, D.C.
Principal & Innovation Strategist, Cause Innovation; former Executive Director, The Public Broadcasting System Foundation, Washington, D.C.; former Vice President Corporate and International Development, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation, Washington D.C.; former Chief Operation Officer, Host Committee for the 2000 Democratic National Convention; former Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, Office of Public Liaison, The White House; former Director of External Affairs, Office of the Secretary, Department of Commerce; former Deputy Finance Director, Democratic National Committee; University of Georgia.
Douglas E. Fierberg, Esq.
Washington, D.C.
Partner, Bode & Grenier, LLP, Washington, D.C.; President, National Advisory Board of the National Criminal Victim Bar Association; Founder and Chairman, Association of Trail Lawyers of America Litigation Group. Mr. Fierberg specializes in representing high school and college students who have been injured or killed.
Jim Glynn
Overland Park, Kansas
Co-Founder and President, GlynnDevins Advertising & Marketing; President, Saint Joseph Health Center Advisory Council; Board Member, Saint Joseph Health Center Foundation; Former Vice President Marketing, John Knox Village; former Board Member, Rockhurst University; BA-Rockhurst University.
Kyle Katz
Kansas City, Missouri
Project Manager, Trabon Solutions, Kansas City, MO; former Director of Information Systems, The Lewer Agency, Inc.;former Director of Operations, American Capital Shareholder Services, Kansas City, MO; former design consultant to AT&T/NCR High Speed Document Imaging and Recognition Systems.; BA from University of Central Missouri. Actively involved in local programs for at risk youth and young adults in the Kansas City area through his work in the Boys Sports Ministries for Kansas City Baptist Temple and program leader of Kansas City area based Celebrate Recovery programs.
Tommy Rosen
Los Angeles, California
Founder and Chairman, Freeway Entertainment with clients including Alamo-National Rent-A-Car, Victoria’s Secret and Banana Republic; former Producer and Director, Creative Affairs, Around The Fire Productions; Producer, Andrea Bocelli and Victoria’s Secret Best Musical Promotion Award by Promo Magazine; in partnership with Hart Events, business development for The Bonnaroo Music festival, The Jammy Awards, Cinema Screen Media, and Wind-Up Records; responsibility for sponsorship programs for North Beach Jazz Festival; BA-The University of Colorado.
Henry Wechsler, Ph.D.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Director, Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Studies; social psychologist; lecturer in the School’s Department of Health and Social Behavior; Author of 18 books and monographs and nearly 200 articles in professional journals on alcohol abuse and other high-risk behaviors; Co-Author, Dying to Drink, 2002.; Recipient of the American Public Health Association's Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs section's College-Based Leadership Award and the American College Health Association's Clifford B. Reifler Award.
Jamie Widdoes
Los Angeles, California
Executive Producer of more than 150 network television episodes. Director of more than 300 network television episodes. Board of Directors, Turning Point School; Chairman of the Board, Loomis-Chaffee School; Board of Trustees, California Association of Independent Schools; Board of Directors/Executive Committee, Camp Dudley-YMCA; Director’s Guild Award Nominee. Loomis School; New York University Tisch School, Los Angeles, California.
Beth Wilbins
Dallas, TX
President and CEO of Dallas-based Forte Public Relations, a public relations and marketing firm. She first caught the media bug during her graduate studies in mass communications at Wake Forest University in her hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Since that time, she has enjoyed a distinguished career that spans nearly every aspect of the industry, including magazine publishing and editing, public relations, advertising, broadcast promotions, community relations, special event management, and marketing communications. A Dallas resident since 1984, Beth has been a familiar face within the community’s charitable and media circles. She was editor of D Magazine during the city magazine’s re-launch in 1994; and for eight years directed Philanthropy in Texas magazine, which she developed into Philanthropy World magazine, as publisher and editor-in-chief. She continues to serve the publication as editor emeritus.
Luann Harrell Hicks
Dallas, TX
Community volunteer. Avid photographer. Former Advertising Director for D Magazine and Texas Business Magazine; Former Board member of Parkland Hospital Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 65 Roses, Chemical Awareness Council, and S.M. Wright Foundation.
Susan Bruce, Director
434-924-5276
sbruce@virginia.edu
Susan Bruce, M.Ed., is director of the University of Virginia's Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. She has nearly 20 years of experience in collegiate health promotion and has developed nationally recognized substance abuse and sexual assault education and prevention programs. She has expertise in the social norms approach and directs the NCAA-funded APPLE conferences, the leading national training symposiums dedicated to substance abuse prevention and health promotion for student-athletes and athletics department administrators. She is also a member of the STEP UP! bystander intervention Advisory Board.
Jason Shaffer, Assistant Director
434-924-5276
jss2u@virgina.edu
Jason Shaffer is the Assistant Director of Gordie CASE and the Social Norms Marketing Coordinator at the University of Virginia. He co-coordinates the NCAA-funded APPLE Conferences and co-advises the Student Athlete Mentor (SAM) program at U.Va. Jason oversees the Stall Seat Journal, a regular publication which conveys accurate information about student drinking behavior through posters hung in bathroom stalls. He has twelve years of professional experience in the field of Student Affairs and is in his tenth year at U.Va.
Debra Reed, Administrative Program Coordinator
434-924-5276
dsr3g@virginia.edu
Debra Reed serves as both an Administrative Assistant and Program Coordinator for the Gordie Center. Debra has served the University of Virginia for twenty-eight years; twenty-two of which have been dedicated to the Center. For twenty years, Debra has been co-coordinator of the NCAA-funded APPLE conferences. Her daily responsibilities include fiscal management of state and grant funded accounts, coordination of student community service hours and maintaining day to day operations in the office.
Holly Foster, Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Education Coordinator
434-924-5276
hfoster@virginia.edu
Holly Foster, M.Ed. spent three years at the University of Virginia’s Gordie Center as a graduate assistant and doctoral intern prior to beginning her position as ATOD Education Coordinator. She is working on her dissertation, which is focused on substance abuse prevention in higher education with methods such as social norms marketing and curriculum infusion. Her primary responsibilities include creating, implementing and assessing new alcohol, tobacco and other drug education programs as well as conducting program assessment related to alcohol and drug abuse prevention. In addition, she will work to disseminate programming models and materials to the U.Va. community and nationally.
Katy Locke, APPLE Conference Graduate Assistant
434-924-5276
appleorg@virginia.edu