Advisory Board
Caroline Alexander is a professional speaker and wellness consultant specializing in digestive health. She is the founder and President of Healthy Muse, Inc., a holistically oriented Northern Virginia corporation.
She is a health and wellness practitioner, facilitating lectures/workshops for public and private groups throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Caroline works to raise public awareness of disease prevention; to educate individuals about the body’s ability to heal itself; helps her clients and audiences to to make informed health choices and to take responsibility for their health.
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Ray Michael Bridgewater is the president, founder and CEO of the Assembly of Petworth, a non-profit, culturally diverse and multi-ethnic community empowerment organization serving the metropolitan Washington area and focusing on issues concerning health disparities, technology, workforce and community development. The Assembly of Petworth was funded by a grant from the Kellog Foundation.
He has guided and directed over a dozen major community development projects whose work is concentrated in business development, institutional capacity building and public policy intervention strategies. He is involved in diverse programs, with the common theme of providing health, education and social services for underserved, at-risk populations.
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Esther Burgess serves as the senior vp and deputy COO at Vistronix, where she is responsible for strategic and GWAC programs designed to fuel growth of the company.
Her knowledge and background in Federal Acquisition, Program Management Office Operation, Process Management, Business Operations, as well as Sales and Business Development in large (ITT and CSC), mid-size (SI International), small (STG, Inc.) and 8(a) (Synernet Corp.) companies give her a strong understanding of the shared and unique needs from companies in their various stages of development.
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Virginia Chiantella obtained her undergraduate degree at Georgetown University, and received her MD degree from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She completed her surgery specialty training at the Wake Forest University Medical Center, where she was the first female to complete the Surgery training program.
She spent a year at the University Medical Center as the Bradshaw Surgery Research Fellow, participating in award-winning cardiac surgery research, and was Chief Resident in Surgery there in 1989.
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Dr. Lisa A. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of medicine, epidemiology, and health policy and management at the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
She is a board-certified general internist, health services researcher, and medical educator. Dr. Cooper received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was a Picker/Commonwealth Scholar in patient-centered care research (1995–1997). Her research program focuses on patient-centered strategies for improving outcomes and overcoming racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
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Dr. Emmett Dennis is the Dean of the University College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in New Brunswick. He is also co-director of the B.A./M.D. program run jointly by Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and director of the Diversity Advancement Program of the Graduate School-New Brunswick.
Dr. Dennis also serves at the chairman of the Rutgers Steering Committee for Rutgers/University of Puerto Rico Collaborations and is a professor in the department of cell biology and neuroscience. Dennis joined Rutgers in 1969.
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Todd Mayman is Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Governance Officer at Gannett Co., Inc. Gannett Co., Inc. is a leading international news and information company that publishes 85 daily newspapers in the USA, including USA TODAY, the nation’s largest-selling daily newspaper.
The company also owns nearly 900 non-daily publications in the USA and USA WEEKEND, a weekly newspaper magazine. Gannett subsidiary Newsquest is the United Kingdom’s second largest regional newspaper company. Gannett also operates 23 television stations in the United States and is an Internet leader with sites sponsored by its TV stations and newspapers including USATODAY.com, one of the most popular news sites on the Web.
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Julie Parker is an Emmy Award-winning reporter who joined ABC7 News in September of 2002. A few weeks later, she covered the Beltway Sniper shootings from the moment the story broke.
Other career highlights include traveling to Indianapolis to follow George Mason University’s memorable trip to the Final Four. Days later, Julie juggled both news and sports coverage from Boston as the University of Maryland women’s basketball team captured the national championship.
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Angela Peabody is the publisher and founder of Global Woman Magazine, a publication dedicated to capturing the essence of women who represent international culture and experiences and are sources of inspiration to the magazine’s readers. In her native country of Liberia, Angela worked as a television journalist and press secretary for the country’s minister of agriculture.
In the latter part of her career, Angela became a published author. Her writings include Exiled – Within the Heart of American Society, a tribute to the survival of the Liberian coup d’etat, Unconditional Love, a collection of poems, and is the author of the play, What Goes Around Comes Around.
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Wendy Caputo Pizza is Vice President at AETEA, an IT Consulting Services firm. Wendy has in-depth technical and management experience in analysis, design, project management, problem resolution, customer service and business development.
Prior to joining Aetea, Wendy was the Vice President of Client Services for Williams Lea, responsible for the Southeast Region. Wendy had a 12 year career as a senior IT and business professional with distinguished credentials and a career record of achieving positive results through managing large, international teams of people.
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Neeta Ragoowansi is the Director of Artist-Label Relations for SoundExchange, a non-profit organization designated by the United States Copyright Office to collect and distribute digital performance royalties on behalf of recording artists and sound recording copyright owners (typically record labels).
In her capacity at SoundExchange, Neeta is responsible for, among other things, reaching out to and educating the thousands of recording artists and record labels who are still unaware of the new U.S. performance right and the new stream of revenue it creates for them.
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Suzanne Reuben is dedicated to reaching diverse audiences — the public, patients, cancer survivors, health professionals, industry, and government decision makers — with clear, accurate, and culturally sensitive information on health care issues and health-related research.
In 1985, Ms. Reuben founded Progressive Health Systems and remains its President, directing and conducting health and science communications projects, including policy papers, video scripts, expert panel reports, print- and Internet-based educational content, and multimedia professional training materials.
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Andrea Roane is now in her 27th year with W*USA 9, and currently co-anchors 9 NEWS NOW from 5-7am and 9-10am with Mike Walter. Andrea is honored to have been recently selected as a distinguished annual honoree by the ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership’s Greater Washington Network, which recognized Andrea’s outstanding work within the community and the region as a “leader and trailblazer deserving of recognition.” The GWN serves over 8,000 industry professionals in the region.
Andrea joined 9NEWS NOW in August 1981 as the Sunday evening and 6:30am weekday anchor. In 1983, she co-anchored the Noon broadcast with Bob Dalton. In 1989, Andrea co-anchored the 4pm news with Mike Buchanan. In 1995, Andrea co-anchored the 6 & 11pm newscasts with Gordon Peterson. In October 2000, Andrea was re-teamed with Mike Buchanan for the 5, 6, and 9am newscasts.
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Teri Schulman is a native Washingtonian. She attended the University of Maryland, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with a focus on Radio, Television and Film, and minor in journalism.
Her career work has been focused in the field of Marketing & Public Relations. She has worked for the past 14 years for the Washington Times and for the past 4 years, as the Creative Director for the Washington Times’ luxury living lifestyle magazine Washingnton’s Finest.
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Susan Silberstein has served as Executive Director of the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education since she founded the organization in October of 1977, after the death of her young husband to cancer. She also serves as Educational Advisor to the National Foundation for Alternative Medicine, as trainer for Ultimate Health Group, Inc., and as consultant for various educational, clinical, and nutraceutical facilities.
In conjunction with her work at the cancer center, Susan is Editor of Immune Perspectives magazine, creator of the video, Breast Cancer: The Diet Connection, author of the recipe book Hungry for Health, and originator of Philadelphia’s annual “Food & Health Expo.”
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Jay Silver is the Executive Director of the Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC), where he works to promote the organization’s policies, programs, partnerships, and research to eliminate the unequal burden of cancer among racial and ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations in the United States and its associated territories. Mr. Silver is a dedicated advocate in the cancer community.
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Margaret Timberlake is President, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of The American Small Business Coalition.
She is a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) with experience in Human Resources, counseling and community outreach. She spent 4 years working with at-risk youth, both in the community and through residential treatment. Her experience in human resources has been in the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) industry, as a Human Resources Consultant to small and medium sized businesses.
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Guy Timberlake is the Chief Visionary and Chief Executive Officer of The American Small Business Coalition LLC, an organization providing a unique and innovative membership program for companies doing business with government agencies and government contractors. Since 2004, The American Small Business Coalition (ASBC), has helped Industry and Government to leverage the extensive network of active and retired entrepreneurs, public servants, senior executives, military leaders and thought-leaders, to achieve their respective organizational goals and objectives.
For over twenty years, Guy has been involved in government programs with a focus on federal sector initiatives and requirements. He has provided mission-critical support to agencies of the U.S. Intelligence Communit. Guy spent his entire career working for and with small businesses, including his own venture in 1997, a reseller company that processed nearly one million dollars in revenue in its first four months of existence. Guy serves in an advisory capacity for several small businesses.
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Terrie Williams is the president of the Terrie Williams Agency, a public relations and communications agency, which was launched in 1988. The company would become one of the country’s most successful public relations firms—handling through the years the biggest names in entertainment, sports, business, and politics. Clients included Miles Davis, Eddie Murphy, Johnnie L. Cochran, Essence Communications Partners, Time Warner, HBO and dozens of other notable personalities and corporations.
Terrie is a clinical social worker by training who became a successful public relations pro by her own design. Over the years she has also inscribed her prominence as an author of the successful business and inspirational story, and she has emerged as a passionate advocate for youth and those who battle depression. Her public relations achievements—and that of the Agency’s—have been featured as case studies in PR seminars, college texts, industry newsletters, and novels.
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Michel Wright brings both class and creativity to the airwaves. A veteran on-air personality, she can be heard simultaneously on WPGC 95.5, The Globe 94.7 and SiriusXM’s Heart & Soul channel. Her “Wrightrak” entertainment feature is a part of the syndicated “Live in the Den with Big Tigger” show. A consistent ratings winner for over a decade, she has earned the title “The First Lady of Middays” in the DMV!
Her smooth friendly, voice has been heard on many national TV and radio commercials including Colgate, Frito-Lay and Kodak as well as a voice of the BET-J television network. She is also a Brand Ambassador for Mercedes Benz, Burger King and Ray Hills American Pilsner.
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