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Enola Aird, JD
Enola G. Aird is an activist mother. She is the founder and director of Mothers for a Human Future, an initiative focused on fighting the forces promoting the commercialization of childhood and the commodification of children. A graduate of Barnard College and Yale Law School, she has worked for a variety of media corporations, including the National Association of Broadcasters and predecessor entities of Time Warner and Viacom, as well as the Children's Defense Fund. |
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Kathy Bowman EdS
Kathy Bowman is
a licensed family therapist with ten years of experience in
working with families and schools on strategies to lessen family
stress due to the detrimental effects of commercialism. She is
also active in her faith community in promoting this issue
through workshops and advocacy. She is the co-founder of the
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Quad Cities and a
member of CCFC's Steering Committee. |
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Nancy Carlsson-Paige, EDD
Dr. Carlsson-Paige is a professor of early childhood education at Lesley University where she has taught teachers for more than 30 years. She writes and speaks extensively about the impact of violence, especially in the media, on children’s lives and social development, and how children learn the skills for caring relationships and positive conflict resolution. Nancy is the author of five books and numerous articles on media violence, conflict resolution, and peaceable classrooms. Her most recent book is called Taking Back Childhood: A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kids. She serves on the Steering Committee of CCFC.
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Kevin Lee Hepner, CPA
Mr. Hepner is a certified public accountant and has worked in the non-profit sector since 1989. In January 2008 he assumed the position of President and CEO of United South End Settlements (USES). Prior to his current role he served as Vice President at Judge Baker Children’s Center, a Harvard-affiliated organization which promotes mental healthcare for children. He also is an instructor at the Boston University Schools of Social Work and of Management, Board President of the South End Community Health Center, past Board Chair of The Center for Teen Empowerment, Founding Board member and President of the Massachusetts Bay Self Insurance Group, and is an organizational consultant to Project Muso, a program serving low income women in Mali, Africa. He is a resident of the South End and is active in many other nonprofits in the Boston area. |
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Tim Kasser, PhD
Dr. Kasser is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. He is author of The High Price of Materialism and co-editor of Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World. |
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Allen Kanner,
PhD
Allen D. Kanner is a Berkeley child, family, couples, and adult
psychologist and a co-founder of the Campaign for a
Commercial-Free Childhood. His work includes consulting with
parents on how to counter the harmful effects of advertising on
their children. Allen has co-edited two books, Psychology and
Consumer Culture and Ecopsychology. In 1997, Utne
Reader chose him as one of the nation's ten leading
psychotherapist activists. Currently he is writing a column for Tikkun magazine on the corporatized society. |
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Joe Kelly
Joe Kelly is fathering coordinator for The Emily Program, a Minnesota eating disorders treatment program. The author of seven books, including Dads & Daughters®: How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter, he co-founded the girl-edited, ad-free media company New Moon Girl Media (www.NewMoon.com) and the national advocacy group Dads & Daughters. The father of adult daughters, he serves on CCFC's steering committee. |
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Velma LaPoint, PhD
Dr. LaPoint is
a professor in the Department of Human Development
and Psychoeducational Studies, School of Education, Howard
University. She conducts research on commercialism in the lives
of children and has a particular interest in this topic as it
relates to children of color and low-income children. |
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Diane Levin, PhD
Dr. Levin is professor of education at Wheelock College in Boston where she teaches a summer institute about combating the hazards of media culture with children and heads a service-learning program for Wheelock students on the peace process underway in schools in Northern Ireland. She has written 8 books including: So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and How Parents Can Protect Their Kids (with Jean Kilbourne), Remote Control Childhood, Teaching Young Children in Violent Times, and The War Play Dilemma (with Nancy Carlsson-Paige). She is a founder of CCFC and Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children's Entertainment (TRUCE: www.truceteachers.org).
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Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis works for Tobacco
Prevent Project of the National School Boards Association. Prior
to her work at NSBA, she was the Program Director at the
TV-Turnoff Network. |
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Alex Molnar, PhD
Alex Molnar is a Professor of Education Policy at Arizona State University. He directs the Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU) at the National Center for Education Policy. CERU's annual report on schoolhouse commercializing trends is a widely used resource for policy makers, parents, and activists. For the past twenty years, Molnar has studied and written about commercial activities in the schools and market-based school reforms such as private school vouchers, charter schools, and for-profit schools. His most recent books are Giving Kids the Business: The Commercialization of America's Schools (Westview/Harper Collins, 1996), The Construction of Children's Character (National Society for the Study of Education, 1997), Vouchers, Class Size Reduction, and Student Achievement: Considering the Evidence (Bloomington, Ind.: Phi Delta Kappa, 2000), School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence (Information Age Publishing, 2002) and School Commercialism: From Democratic Ideal to Market Commodity (Routledge, 2005). |
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Alvin
F. Poussaint, MD
Dr. Poussaint is professor of psychiatry and faculty associate dean of student affairs at Harvard Medical School; co-author with Amy Alexander of Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans, Beacon Press, 2000; and co-author with Bill Cosby of Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, Thomas Nelson, 2007. Dr. Poussaint is a seasoned media consultant and an outspoken advocate, addressing a wide range of issues from diversity and poverty to commercialism. |
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Michele Simon,
JD, MPH
Michele Simon is a public health lawyer specializing in policy
analysis, legal strategies, and countering corporate tactics.
With 12 years of experience researching and writing about the
food industry, Ms. Simon is the author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight
Back. Ms. Simon is a regular speaker on both food and alcohol
policy at various national and international conferences. Her
recent areas of research include the failure of self-regulation
and corporate lobbying that undermines public health. She is
currently watch-dogging the alcohol industry as Marin
Institute’s research and policy director and blogs regularly at
http://appetiteforprofit.blogspot.com. Ms. Simon received her law degree from University
of California, Hastings College of the Law, and her master's
degree in public health from Yale University. |
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Susan Linn, EdD
Director, CCFC
Susan Linn is co-founder and director of The Campaign for a
Commercial-Free Childhood and a psychologist at Harvard Medical School. An award-winning
producer, writer, and puppeteer, she is the author of The
Case for Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World, and Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood and
lectures internationally on reclaiming childhood from corporate
marketers.
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Josh Golin
Associate Director,
CCFC
Josh organizes CCFC’s advocacy campaigns and
develops its communications strategy. His writings about the
commercialization of childhood have appeared in a wide-range of
publications. He and his wife Jennifer are doing their best to raise their daughter, Clara, commercial-free. |
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Shara Drew
Program Coordinator,
CCFC
Shara assists in the research and implementation of CCFC's campaigns. She manages CCFC's web presence and outreach, and serves as the liaison between CCFC and its fiscal sponsor, Third Sector New England. Shara lives in Cambridge and teaches writing at Bunker Hill Community College. |
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