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Meet the UCP Board of Trustees

United Cerebral Palsy’s Board of Trustees consists of five officers and 13 trustees. UCP Trustees have varied backgrounds and experience, but all share a strong commitment to UCP’s mission of helping people with disabilities live a life without limits and to strengthening the organization itself.

Click on the names below to read more about each of our valued trustees

 

Dr. Joe Aniello, Chair, Professional Council

Dr. Joe Aniello is the President and CEO of United Cerebral Palsy of South Florida, United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia and United Cerebral Palsy of South Carolina.

Dr. Aniello started his career in the public school system and worked his way up as a teacher, later becoming a director of a Montessori School, before moving into the disabilities field as a Program Director for Sunland Orlando, a state institution for individuals with disabilities. In 1977, Dr. Aniello joined UCP as the Executive Director of UCP of Miami and has been instrumental to the growth and expansion of United Cerebral Palsy in South Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

Dr. Aniello grew UCP of Miami from a $600,000 annual budget and a staff of 50 to a three-state system of 26 different corporations with a total annual budget of more than $80 million, 2,500 employees at 170 locations throughout Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, and serving more then 3,500 people daily. Dr. Aniello created a multi-state integration of staff, board members and shared resources, which has established and strengthened the service provision to individuals with developmental disabilities. He also added additional services to what is offered by UCP of South Florida, such as assisted living facilities for frail elderly individuals without disabilities as well as residential programs for people with severe traumatic brain injuries.

During his career, Dr. Aniello has served as chairperson on numerous statewide and national committees and organizations serving individuals with developmental disabilities.

Dr. Aniello earned his doctoral degree in administration and supervision from the University of Florida.

 

Dr. James Bennett

Dr. James T. Bennett graduated from Tulane School of Engineering and Tulane Medical School. A New Orleans native, he maintains his relationship with Tulane Engineering as a member of the Advisory Board for BME curriculum. His orthopaedic residency was at the University of North Carolina, AI DuPont Institute and a Fellowship at Scottish Rite Hospital in Atlanta.

Dr. Bennett’s interest in computer assisted navigation stems from former Chairman of Tulane Orthopaedics Dr. Tom Whitecloud’s work in developing Stealth navigation. Dr. Bennett’s practice is primarily scoliosis, although he maintains his interest in Pediatric Orthopedics in general.

 

Stephen Bennett, President & Chief Executive Officer

Stephen Bennett leads the international non-profit United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) as President and CEO. He has a 30-year history of success in business development, strategic planning, financial management, marketing, event production, and local and national public policy, having started his career as a Peace Corps/VISTA volunteer in South Central Los Angeles in the aftermath of the Watts riots.

As Executive Director of UCP of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties from 1978-1986, he developed housing and assisted living facilities and advanced public policy for people with disabilities at both the state and federal levels.  Bennett was the CEO of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) from 1989-1992, where he was credited with saving one of the nation’s largest AIDS service organizations from bankruptcy.

In 1992, he created and headed a national consulting practice focused on health care enterprises. The firm assisted for-profit and not-for-profit business through strategic consulting by developing business strategies and directing projects in managed care, financing, regional strategy, market strategy, public policy and e-health.

Bennett has served as adjunct faculty at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and at Pepperdine University.  Throughout his career he has volunteered his talents to public service causes, working in mental health, breast cancer and disabilities. He has served on various boards, including ANGLE, Leadership 18, and the National Institute for the Severely Handicapped. He is a founding board member of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and he currently chairs the Disability PAC. He was recently appointed a member of the Board of Directors of the ARCUS Foundation, a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues.

A lifelong champion for civil rights for people with disabilities, Bennett uses his successful business experience to focus on the mission driven business of non-profit organizations so they can succeed in a challenging business climate.

 

Mark Boles, Treasurer

Mark D. Boles, FACHE, currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation at Frisco (Texas). Boles is a graduate of The Ohio State University and Washington University School of Medicine’s Health Administration Program. With nearly 30 years experience as a healthcare executive, he has been involved with United Cerebral Palsy on the local, state, and national levels for more than 20 years, having received the Ethel Hausman Volunteer of the Year Award in 2003 and the UCP Chairman’s Award in 2004.

Boles has also served on numerous other boards including: the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association in Washington, D.C.; Camp Rap-A-Hope Foundation, Presbyterian Retirement Corporation, Inc., and Patient Advocacy Council, Inc., a for-profit Institutional Review Board.

He is the father of five children and currently resides in Dallas.

 

Michael Burke, Jr.

Michael Burke Jr. is a co-founder and principal of Thrive Office, a newly formed innovative, shared workplace community based in New York City.  His company is focused on emerging trends in the workplace based on the evolving preferences of a new generation of workers.

His background is in commercial real estate and direct sales. Prior to founding Thrive he worked in the commercial office brokerage business in the Washington D.C. metro region for Cassidy Turley and Avison Young. In that role, he worked on behalf of both tenants and landlords and oversaw day-to-day leasing activity for a portfolio of more than two million square feet of office space. Burke has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Villanova University and a master’s degree in real estate from Georgetown University.

He has a personal relationship with the disability community as his youngest brother, Joseph, has cerebral palsy.  Throughout his professional career he has been actively involved in multiple philanthropic organizations centered on disability issues and advocacy, and was a key component in founding ABLE, the young professionals outreach program for United Cerebral Palsy.

 

Edward "Woody" Connette, Chair

Woody Connette is an attorney with ESSEX RICHARDS, P.A. in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended Davidson College, followed by law school at the University of North Carolina.

Connette has served as Board Chair for Easter Seals/UCP North Carolina and Virginia and has been active with that affiliate for about 10 years. Before that, he served on the boards of a supported employment and a respite care provider that merged with UCP of North Carolina. He “survived” those mergers and then participated in the merger of the UCP and Easter Seals affiliates in North Carolina.

In his law practice, Connette has a strong interest in public policy and litigation related to disabilities, health care and mental health. He participated in a class action lawsuit against the State of North Carolina that challenged the practice of institutionalizing adults with developmental disabilities on psychiatric wards with patients with mental illness. For many years, a full-time Special Master and his staff supervised implementation of the court order. More recently, he has served as co-counsel in two Tennessee class actions challenging the conditions under which developmentally disabled children and adults have been confined at state institutions. As a result of these cases, the state of Tennessee is revamping its system of delivering services to its developmentally disabled citizens and is building a statewide network of community-based residential and habilitation programs.

Connette has served on the Executive Board and as President of the National Patient Advocate Foundation and has testified in Washington on proposed changes to ERISA regulations governing employee health and disability plans. He also serves as an advisor with the UNC-Charlotte Center for Applied Ethics and the Medical Humanities Advisory Board at Davidson College.

Connette serves on the North Carolina Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism and the North Carolina Bar Association Board of Governors. He has been awarded the North Carolina Bar Association’s H. Brent McKnight Professionalism award. His public interest and pro bono work has been recognized by the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, the North Carolina Bar Association, the Mecklenburg County Bar, and various community organizations.

Connette is married to Jane Harper, a mediator and retired state court judge.

 

Richard Donovan

Richard Donovan is a globally recognized subject matter expert on the convergence of disability and corporate profitability. He has spent more than 10 years focused on defining and unlocking the economic value of the disability market.

At FQA, Donovan provides corporate clients with insights and tools to frame disability as a global emerging market. His proprietary and proven process translates disability success factors into specific actions that create sustainable value. Donovan’s 2012 research paper, The Global Economics of Disability, is featured on the European Union web site and is frequently quoted by businesses, governments and NGOs when defining the size, scope and value of the disability market.

Prior to FQA, he founded Lime (2006), the leading third party recruiter in the disability space, where he worked with Google, PepsiCo, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, IBM, TD Bank and others to help them attract and retain top talent from within the disability market. Identified as a best practice by the U.S. Department of Labor and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Lime does one thing very well—find great talent.

Donovan has a combined 12 years of experience in portfolio and investment risk management. As a Proprietary Trader and Portfolio Manager at Merrill Lynch, he delivered consistent performance results focused on macro strategies with an event-driven overlay, using equity indices as a primary tool.

Donovan holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BBA from Schulich School of Business at York University. He is an avid sailor and proud father of his son, Maverick, along with his wife, Jenn. He also happens to have cerebral palsy.

 

Keith Green

Keith Green is Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Freddie Mac. He was most recently Vice President of Strategy and Talent Development at Allstate Insurance Company. Prior to that, he was a director of mergers and acquisitions with Deutsche Bank in New York and London. Previously, he worked as the Chief of Staff for the Chairman and CEO of Bankers Trust Company. He also worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York, Paris and Houston, and as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs in New York. Green received his B.A. from Tulane University, M.A. from Middlebury College, and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He currently serves on two other nonprofit boards: The Goodman Theatre and The Latin School of Chicago. He is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council. Green and his wife, Sonya, have two children, Geoffrey and Alexa.

 

Ruth Gullerud

Ruth Gullerud retired in May 2012 as the Executive Director of UCP of West Central Wisconsin, in Eau Claire, where she has worked since 1977 and served as CEO since 1984. Her work with UCP of West Central Wisconsin involved direct counseling with people with disabilities and their families, facilitating group counseling for parents, consulting with schools and M-Teams, supervising program staff, coordinating the affiliate’s diagnostic clinic, fundraising and public education/awareness. Previously, she was an advocate and guidance counselor with the Women’s Community Center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Gullerud received a bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a master of sciences in Guidance Counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She served as a member of the Wisconsin State Board for People with Disabilities (1977 – 1989 and again from 2001 – present), a member of the Wisconsin Exceptional Education Council for Department of Public Instruction (1991 – 1994), and a member of the Board of the Accreditation Council on Services for People with Disabilities (1991- 1998). Gullerud currently serves on the Eau Claire County Advisory Committee on Specialized Transportation and the Wisconsin Alliance for Self-Determination.

A recipient of several outstanding leadership and management awards, she has the pleasure of having hosted the Ruth Gullerud Show (focused on the world through challenges of disability) for Ashford Social Media (March 16 through April 27, 2012).

 

Melvin "Chip" Hurley

Chip Hurley has more than 30 years of healthcare and management experience in accounting, auditing and consulting with two "Big 4" professional services firms (18 years at Ernst & Young and four years at Price Waterhouse Cooper), two national consulting firms (nine years at Navigant Consulting and currently at Berkeley Research Group, LLC) as well as three years corporate management experience with Helix Health, a five-hospital integrated healthcare delivery system, serving in the roles of Senior Director of Finance, Treasurer and Director of Audit and Compliance. Hurley served as Price Waterhouse Cooper’s Partner in charge of their Southeast Region healthcare financial forecasting and merger & acquisitions group and as Audit Partner on numerous healthcare clients. He also served with Navigant Consulting as the national leader of Navigant’s Healthcare Financial Advisory Services’ Group, co-leader of Navigant’s Healthcare Strategy practice, co-leader of Navigant’s Healthcare Performance Improvement Practice and as a member of Navigant’s Healthcare Strategic Leadership Team.

Hurley has worked with such clients as The Johns Hopkins Health System, Georgetown University, Shore Health System, MedStar Health, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Kennedy Krieger Institute, University of Miami, Kettering Medical Center, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Temple Health System, Lehigh Valley Health System, Continuum Health, and numerous other health care, university and law firm clients. He has extensive experience in leading hospital improvement projects, supporting mergers and acquisitions of hospitals, providing litigation support, and conducting audits of hospitals.

Hurley previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of UCP of Central Maryland, Executive Board member of Baltimore Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, President of the Maryland Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, President of Santa Claus Anonymous, Vice President of Baltimore Junior Association of Commerce. A licensed CPA, FHFMA, he currently serves as Chair of United Cerebral Palsy’s Audit Committee.

 

Gloria Johnson-Cusack

Gloria Johnson-Cusack is the Executive Director of Leadership 18, an alliance of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) responsible for leading some of the country’s largest and most well respected charities, non-profits, and faith-based organizations. Among others, members include United Way Worldwide, Salvation Army, American Red Cross, American Cancer Society, Catholic Charities of America, and UCP. As a group, member organizations serve more than 87 million people annually and represent $44 billion in total revenue. Leadership 18 leverages the joint power of its organizations to improve service and influence policy and public opinion. Areas of focus include leadership development, economic self-sufficiency, safety, disaster relief, and health and human services.

Johnson-Cusack brings more than 20 years of management, political and strategic communications expertise informed by leadership positions in the private sector, U.S. Congress, national presidential campaigns, municipal and federal government, and the White House.

Until accepting her position with Leadership 18, she served as a Senior Vice President at GMMB, a D.C.-based strategic communications and advertising firm focused on cause marketing. In this role, she advanced issues on behalf of key nonprofit organizations and foundations. She has worked with the Ford, Lumina and Gates foundations to improve supports for low-income students completing college as well as the American Beverage Association to launch a campaign to address obesity.

In the public affairs arena, Johnson-Cusack served as Director of the Office of Congressional Relations at the Peace Corps, Special Assistant to the President in the White House Office of National Service, and Director of Constituent Relations at the Corporation for National Service. She was Chief of Staff for the D.C. Office of the Inspector General and was policy advisor to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and Senator Albert Gore, Jr.

Johnson-Cusack holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Key Executive Management Program at American University. She is a founder of the Eli J. Segal Citizen Leadership program at Brandeis University, media trainer, church lay leader and breast cancer survivor and advocate. She is married with one adult daughter.

For United Cerebral Palsy, starting in 2004, she lead the strategic and creative team responsible for developing the new “Life Without Limits” brand identity to enhance the positioning of the organization. She also worked with UCP leaders to develop the strategic vision and plan for National Big Sky Visioning Sessions and related outreach to explore ways communities can work together to integrate people with disabilities fully into the entire fabric of society.

 

Mark Lezotte

Mark Lezotte is a Shareholder with the law firm of Butzel Long, practicing in the firm's Detroit office. He has substantial experience in corporate, health care, tax, and exempt organization matters, including corporate and nonprofit governance, business transactions, tax-exempt issues, hospital-physician ventures, and regulatory investigations. He has conducted presentations on a number of topics involving health law, nonprofit organizations, and tax matters, and has been active in numerous bar and professional organizations. He has been recognized in "The Best Lawyers in America” (health care law), published by Woodward/White, Inc. for 2013; and has been selected to Michigan Super Lawyers (health care law), published by Thomson Reuters, in 2008-2012. He is a member of numerous professional organizations.

Lezotte has long served UCP in various public policy and governmental activities roles, and his efforts include the formation of the Disability Policy Collaboration and co-chairing the DPC steering committee. He previously served on the UCP National Board of Trustees from 1999-2004, received the UCP National Chairperson's Award in 2004, and has served as board member and president of UCP of Metropolitan Detroit, and on many other civic and nonprofit boards.

He holds both a J.D. and B.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan. He is admitted to the bars of Michigan, U.S. District Court (Eastern District of Michigan), U.S. Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit) and U.S. Tax Court. He and his wife, Patricia Little, live in Detroit and have two children.

 

Linda Maguire

Linda Maguire has been a consultant at Maguire Associates since 1985. She began her career in the corporate world, but decided to return to higher education. She served in leadership positions in admissions for nine years before joining her husband, Jack Maguire, to build Maguire Associates, a research-based consulting firm that has served educational clients around the world for the past 29 years. She is currently leading the firm’s initiatives in global markets, speaking at conferences around the world, and heads up projects across all service lines of the company. Also, as Vice Chair, she is involved in directing the future of the company and managing the Board of Directors. In addition to her work at the firm, Maguire has experience at the board level through her involvements on the Board of Trustees at Sea Education Association (former Chair) in Woods Hole, MA, past President and currently Vice President of the Board of Directors for UCP MetroBoston, and Corporator at a local hospital. She received her bachelor’s degree from Douglass College of Rutgers University and her master’s degree in educational administration from Boston College.

 

Emilio Pardo

Emilio Pardo is a senior executive with 20 years of business leadership and success with corporate, government and non-profit organizations. As Chief Brand Officer and member of the AARP executive team, he is responsible for the creation, management and integration of the global brand throughout the organization, covering more than 50 offices worldwide. During his tenure with AARP, he has helped the organization grow from 36 million to 40 million baby-boomer/senior members, and added more than $200 million in new revenue. His specific responsibilities include all marketing, advertising, brand and positioning programs for AARP and AARP Services. He was appointed CBO in January 2006 to help the organization re-position what is arguably the most complex brand in the market and extend it to address the 76+ million U.S. baby-boomers. Among his many achievements, he has built a new strategic vision, business platform and roadmap for the organization that is pivotal to AARP’s continued relevance and importance to the Baby-boomer/Seniors market, and helped make AARP number three amongst America’s most trusted brands.

Pardo joined AARP in 2005 as Senior VP, Business Development at AARP Services, Inc., the association’s for-profit arm. At ASI he was responsible for product development and licensing, new market/channel development, joint ventures, and strategic alliances/ corporate partnerships with organizations such as Borders, Walgreens, The Home Depot, United Health Care, The Hartford Group, Proctor & Gamble, and Travelocity.

Before joining AARP, he was Senior Vice President with Discovery Communications, Inc., a leading television network. At Discovery, he was responsible for strategic business development spanning all 14 broadcast networks including Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, and FitTV. He developed a variety of highly profitable new on-air and off-air partnerships for the health and fitness sectors including the development of the first-ever series of Continuing Medical Education (CME) broadcast programs for Discovery Health Channel. Among his many accomplishments was the development of several major national health and fitness initiatives and partnerships including the first-ever televised awards show and gala "Medical Honors 2004" which celebrated the achievements of our nation's most eminent health care leaders, professionals, and scientists. He was also responsible for creating dozens of public/private alliances with influential organizations such as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control.

Prior to joining Discovery, Pardo was CEO and a Member of the Board of CityNet Telecommunications, Inc., a leading telecommunications network company and pioneer in building fiber optic networks in U.S. and international cities. As a co-founder, he lead the company in raising two major rounds of funding, totaling $475 million, from leading private equity groups. During his tenure at CityNet, he helped the company grow a profitable niche customer base with cable and telecom companies, and developed partnerships with more than 22 major city governments in order to deploy broadband and other information services to businesses and consumers.

Pardo joined CityNet after serving as Senior VP & Senior Partner with Fleishman-Hillard International Communications, Inc., the world’s largest communications and marketing firm. During his 10-year career at Fleishman-Hillard he is credited with innovating some of the agency’s most successful products and services as well as pioneering its global expansion, especially into Latin America. He also served as head of business development and founder of the social marketing practice. Pardo has managed and mentored numerous senior strategic communications professionals, representing interests and organizations as diverse as: SBC, PBS, AARP, VISA, AOL, TELMEX, Direct Marketing Association, and The White House National Anti-Drug Communications effort.

Pardo began his career as the first-ever Hispanic Press Secretary in the U.S. Senate, representing then Commerce Committee Chairman Fritz Hollings (D-SC). He was the national spokesman for the committee for five years on major national issues such as telecom reform, aviation deregulation, Merchant Marines, U.S. Tourism, and NASA Space Policy.

 

Ian Ridlon, Vice Chair

Ian Ridlon is General Counsel and Director of Legal Services at the Rhode Island Interlocal Risk Management Trust. Prior to joining The Trust, he was in private practice with a large national law firm where he engaged in insurance defense work, commercial and environmental litigation, and labor and employment work. He also successfully appealed the termination of benefits to children with developmental disabilities in a precedent setting matter before the Vermont Supreme Court.

Ridlon has been involved with United Cerebral Palsy on the state and national level for more than 15 years. On the state level, he has been the Board Chair for several terms and has also chaired two other non-profit organizations created by the affiliate that provide independent living facilities for low income individuals with developmental disabilities.

On the national level, he has previously served on the Board of Trustees and is a recipient of the 2004 Chairperson’s Award. He has also served on numerous committees and was previously the chair of the nominating committee and the by-laws committee.

Ridlon is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Vermont Law School. He currently resides in Rhode Island with his wife, Patty, and his three boys, Conor, Brendan, and Aiden.

 

Christobel Selecky

Christobel Selecky is a chief executive and entrepreneur with nearly 30 years experience in the health care industry. She currently provides strategic consulting and advice to management teams, companies, and investors currently in or seeking to enter the healthcare field focusing on strategy and business plan development, disease and care management program development and assessment, sales and market positioning, product planning, public policy analysis and strategy, and CEO/Senior Management advising. She also currently serves on the Board of Directors of National Healthcare Services, the venture capital arm of Memorial Healthcare Services, a preeminent, non-profit healthcare system located in Southern California.

Selecky most recently served as President, CEO, Chairman, and member of the Board of Directors of LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, which she led from 1996 until 2009. Under her leadership, LifeMasters raised more than $60 million in venture capital, grew to $130 million in annual revenues, employed more than 1,200 people in seven locations, provided care and disease management and health improvement services to more than 1 million program participants nationwide, won numerous industry awards, and counted some of the largest and most well-respected health plans, employers, provider groups, labor unions, and government entities as its clients. 

A veteran in the field of managed health care, her career began at FHP International Corporation, an entrepreneurial, privately held staff-model HMO. While at FHP, Selecky saw the company through its conversion, public offering and rapid expansion.  As president of the FHP California Health Plan, she was responsible for revenues of $2.4 billion and building a customer base of nearly one million HMO and PPO members statewide. She has also served on the boards of both the California and New Mexico HMO Associations and The Medical Quality Commission.

Selecky has been instrumental in driving the growth of the health improvement industry through her leadership role with the Disease Management Association of America.  She is a frequent speaker on the topics of disease management, the future of managed health care, privacy issues, and health care technology, and has been invited to testify before Congress on several occasions regarding care coordination for Medicare and Medicaid populations.

Selecky received a master’s degree in public communication from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors in political science and philosophy from the University of Delaware.

 

Pamela Talkin, Secretary

Pamela Talkin was sworn in on July 16, 2001 as the tenth Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States. Talkin is the first woman to hold the position.

The Marshal is appointed by the Court and oversees the security, operations and maintenance of the Supreme Court building. The Marshal’s most visible role is to attend all sessions of the Court by “crying” the Court (announcing its arrival), ensure Courtroom security and decorum, and supervise Courtroom seating and recording of proceedings. The Marshal also manages the Court’s independent Police force as they protect the building and provide security for the Justices, other Court employees and visitors; supervises and controls all property used and owned by the Court; acts as the superintendent of the Court building; administers the Court’s contracting and procurement activities; and signs checks and authorizes payment of the Court’s bills and salaries as a Treasury Disbursing Officer. In addition, the Marshal’s Office schedules, coordinates and oversees most of the approximately 1,000 lectures, receptions, dinners and other events that take place annually at the Supreme Court.

Talkin came to the Court after six years as the first Deputy Executive Director of the Office of Compliance, the independent regulatory agency created by the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, which applied eleven of the nation’s labor and employment laws to Congress. There, she promulgated procedures and regulations for the application of the laws, managed all operations of the Office, and acted as liaison between the Office and Congressional members, committees, and legislative branch agencies including the Architect of the Capitol, the Capitol Police, and the Congressional Budget Office. Talkin also served as President of the international Association of Labor Relations Agencies.

From 1989 to 1995, Talkin was a Presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority.  The FLRA, an independent agency, establishes policies and guidance relating to Federal service labor-management relations and ensures compliance with the laws that govern the rights and obligations of 2.1 million Federal employees, labor organizations which represent such employees, and Federal agency employers.

Previously, Talkin was the Chief of Staff at the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Assistant Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board’s San Francisco Region (Northern California and Hawaii). Talkin was also the National President of the NLRB Union, which represented over 2,000 professional and clerical employees.

Talkin began her career as a Spanish teacher and guidance counselor in New York City high schools.  She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Spanish from the City University of New York at Brooklyn College.  She has done postgraduate work at the City University of New York and at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

 

Rob White

Rob White is Chief Executive Officer of Cerebral Palsy Alliance, where he has more than 20 years of service with the organization and engagement with the disability sector. He has been Chief Executive Officer since 2000. He has led service innovation and expansion and has been influential in shaping public policy in disability service provision. He has been instrumental in furthering research into the cure and prevention of cerebral palsy. Externally he has built successful corporate partnerships that have supported major advances in service delivery and in research effort.

 

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