board and committees

Board of Directors

Executive Committee

  • Steven A. Lerman, Chair – Senior Member, Lerman Senter
  • Rick Mosenkis, Treasurer – President and CEO, WorkZone
  • Jen Hartstein, PsyD, Secretary – Hartstein Psychological
  • Bradley Blanken, Development Committee Co-Chair – VP, Industry Alliances, Telnyx
  • Anthony M. Bongiorno – Legal Consultant, Active Minds Senior Counsel
  • Paula Craw – VP, Student Success and Outreach, ECMC
  • Paul Di Vito – Marketing Consultant, Washington DC
  • Michael Glickman – President, Computer Network Architects
  • Gail Kamer Lieberfarb – Former Board Chairperson and Executive Director, National Mental Health Awareness Campaign
  • Alison K. Malmon – Founder and Executive Director, Active Minds
  • Ilene Rosenstein, PhD – Associate Vice Provost, Campus Wellness and Education, University of Southern California
  • David Roter – VP, Global Agency Partnerships, Snap Inc.
  • Ami Nash Shah – CEO, Steward
  • Sophia Shieh – President, Active Minds Student Advisory Committee
  • David Wisniewski – Senior Vice President, Investments, Gayhardt Wisniewski Financial Consulting Group

In Memoriam

  • Sue Cimbricz

National Advisory Committee

  • Bernard S. Arons, MD – Arons Psychiatric Consulting
  • Bob Boorstin – Marketing Consultant, Washington DC
  • Patrick W. Corrigan, PsyD – Professor of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology and Principal Investigator of the Chicago Consortium for Stigma Research
  • Daniel Eisenberg, PhD – Assistant Professor, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Principal Investigator, Healthy Minds Study
  • Sofia Gross – Head of Policy Partnerships and Social Impact, Snap Inc.
  • Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD – Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
  • Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD – Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Richard Kadison, MD – Former Chief, Mental Health Service, Harvard University Health Services
  • Patrick J. Kennedy – Former Congressman, First District of Rhode Island; Founder, One Mind for Brain Research
  • Alan Leshner, PhD – CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, PhD – Director, College Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital; Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • Daniel S. Pine, MD – Chief of Child and Adolescent Research, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health
  • Sally Pingree – Trustee, Charles Engelhard Foundation
  • Micky M. Sharma, PsyD – President, Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors; Counseling and Consultation Service, Ohio State University
  • Jeremy Shure – Global Head of Early Stage Practice, Grasshopper Bank

In Memoriam

  • Gregory Eells, PhD

Student Advisory Committee

Learn about the 2021-22 members of the Student Advisory Committee.

  • Nathan Blanken – University of Maryland
  • Gregory Carnesi – Arizona State University
  • Stephen Chen – Savannah College of Art and Design
  • Yuritza Escalante – University of California, Riverside
  • Tara Gadoury – Smith College
  • Benjamin Heim – Lenox Memorial High School
  • Jordan Kozuki – California State University Fresno
  • Kelly Maguire – Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Kaylee Menefee – University of Portland
  • Vani Mittal – University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Amna Mohammed – St. Francis Xavier Secondary School
  • Kelsey Pacetti – University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
  • Maitri Pathak – Henrico High School
  • Sarah Pennington – Savannah College of Art and Design
  • Geela Ramos – University of Central Florida
  • Natasha Reddy – University of San Francisco
  • Aileen Sanchez – Imperial Valley College
  • Kamakashi Sharma – University of Pittsburgh
  • Sophia Shieh – Boston College
  • Jaiden Singh – University of Arizona
  • Emma Smith – Drexel University
  • Roberto “Beto” Valenzuela – The John Cooper High School
  • Meera Varma – University of California, Los Angeles
  • Audrey Vint – University of Northern Iowa
  • Bakhtawar Yasir – University of North Texas