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Jules De La Cruz  Jules De La Cruz is a graduate of the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor where she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education. After a short stint teaching fifth grade in the Detroit Public School System, she relocated to Georgia and embarked on a 17-year law enforcement career to include time as a traditional beat cop, Detective, SGT/Crime Prevention, LT/Watch Commander and for a time, a member of SWAT. Further studies garnered a Master's in Public Administration from Georgia State University.
As a former Chief of Police for a large, multi-campus metro Atlanta college, she was briefly profiled in "Breaking the Brass Ceiling: Women Police Chiefs and Their Paths to the Top". In 2004 Jules relocated to San Diego, California, where she has been employed as the Director of Security for the prestigious Salk Institute for Biological Studies. From coast to coast Jules has actively worked on creating a world that is mindful of the complexities surrounding gender and the need for children to be loved and nourished. |
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Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., is the president of the National Women's Studies Association and founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies. She is also adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies where she teaches graduate courses.
She has published a number of texts within African American and Women’s Studies which have been noted as seminal works by other scholars, including the first anthology on Black women’s literature,Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1980). Her most recent publication is a book coauthored with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities (Random House, 2003).
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Kevin Jones 
Co-Chair Kevin Jones brings over 25 years of experience in strategic planning, financial and project management in the financial services industry to his role on the TrueChild Board of Directors. He has served on social change and religious non-profit boards over the years, and recently left the corporate world to become the deputy director of a national nonprofit based in San Francisco.
Kevin's work with youth has ranged from teaching high school English in Central America to coordinating the middle school youth group for his church to proving programs for LGBT high school youth in northern New Jersey. His involvement with TrueChild is fueled by his frustration with the narrow, stereotypical messages he sees throughout modern media and the lost potential of children who feel pressured by them to conform. Kevin holds a J.D. and MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Michael Kimmel 
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Cynthia Neff 
Co-Chair Cynthia Neff has lived in Charlottesville, Virginia since retiring from IBM in 2006. Prior to settling down in Virginia she was a human resources executive with IBM and ran a number of operations during her tenure there. Throughout her career she fostered a number of initiatives focused on building high-performance, global workforces with a focus on diversity.
Cynthia is now a Democratic candidate for the Virginia General Assembly and running for the House of Delegates and Thomas Jefferson's old seat. In her spare time she works with a number of non-profits in addition to TrueChild, including the AIDS Services Group and the Legal Aid Justice Center. She is happily ensconced on five gorgeous acres with a variety of young campaign staff, family and dogs. |
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Kimberly Otis Kimberly Otis has held various leadership positions with private foundations, non-profits, associations, and philanthropic organizations for over twenty years. From 2006 to the present, she is a consultant for philanthropy and social change through program development, fundraising and strategic planning with various nonprofit clients. Currently, she is a senior advisor to the Center for Partnership Studies and an issue expert with the Global Philanthropy Group. From 2007 to 2009, Otis was a part-time Executive Director of the National Council of Women’s Organizations, an advocacy coalition representing 230 member organizations. Previously, Otis was President & CEO for four years of Women & Philanthropy, a membership and advocacy organization of grantmakers.
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CJ Pascoe CJ Pascoe is a sociologist who is interested in sexuality, gender, youth and new media. Her book on gender in high school, Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (2007) recently received the 2008 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association. CJ is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change with the Digital Youth Project at the University of California, Berkeley where she researched the role of new media in teens' dating and romance practices. She is now an assistant professor of sociology at The Colorado College.
Karen Peterson
Karen A. Peterson, M.Ed., is the Executive Director for the EdLab Group (formerly the Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology) and Director of the Diversity in Technology Group. She has managed two U.S. Department of Education grants designed to provide professional development opportunities to Puget Sound area teachers and serves as Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation grant "The National Girls Collaborative Project”.
For over 20 years, Karen has been active in education as a classroom teacher, university instructor, pre-service and in-service teacher educator, program administrator, and researcher. Serving as Western Washington University’s first "Internet Librarian," she assisted teacher education faculty and students in the integration of technology into K-12 classroom teaching. She currently serves on the board of SMARTgirls, a Seattle-based non-profit organization that develops and administers programs designed to increase girls’ interests in math, science, and technology. (Excerpted from her EdLap Group profile.)
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Melissa Theodore 
Treasurer Melissa Theodore is a senior tax accountant in International Tax Services for Ernst & Young, LLP. She began her collegiate career at Harvard University and received her B.S. in Accounting at New York University's Stern School of Business. Melissa currently works in New York City and lives in Huntington, NY, but will be relocating to Los Angeles later this summer to join the Class of 2012 at UCLA's School of Law. |
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