ParentLink Advisory Board, June 3, 2011

Pictured above: (back row, left to right: Melissa Maras (guest), Karen Kelley, Marcus Robison, Rich Oliver (guest), George Lombardi; front row, left to right: Sharmini Rogers, Judy Finnegan, Carol Mertensmeyer, Allen McCarter, Rose Porter).  Not pictured, but also in attendance: Jim Kyd (EDC).

ParentLink Advisory Board, As of June, 2011

George Lombardi, ParentLink Advisory Board Chair (as of January 2011), Director of MO Department of Corrections.

Rose Porter,  ParentLink Advisory Board Vice-Chair (as of January 2011) Past Interim Dean of the MU College of Education and Past Dean of MU College of Nursing

Anne Deaton, Honorary ParentLink Advisory Board Initial Chair, Adjunct Professor, Colleges of Education, Human Environmental Sciences, and the Sinclair School of Nursing

Jill Bergee, Public School Educator in Lawrence Ks.; Named 2002’s Teacher of the Year by MO’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Karla Diaz, Attorney with Simon, Diaz & Ellis Law Firm

Michelle Dobbins, Self- Employed: Celebrations Special Event Planning Business  

Sherry Forsee, Past First Lady of the University of Missouri System

Karen Kelley, Instructor, MU

Rosetta Kyles, Retired Reading Specialist, St. Louis, MO 

Paul Pitchford, linical Assistant Professor at MU’s College of Education; Associate in the MU Hook Center for Educational Leadership and District Renewal

Sharmini Rogers, Chief, Bureau of Genetics and Healthy Childhood, MO Department of Health and Senior Services

Keith Schafer, Director of MO Department of Mental Health

Annette SobelMU’s Assistant to the Provost and the Vice President, Adjunct Professor in Family and Community Medicine, Adjunct Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Gary Stangler,Executive Director, Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative

New as of 6-3-11 Board meeting

David Strumpf, EDC

Scotty Akers, Dedicated Grandfather and Father

Judy Finnegan, MO Director of the Children’s Office, Department of Mental Health

Honorable Leslie Schneider, Associate Circuit Judge, Division X, elected to the court in 2006.  Judge Schneider handles general civil, domestic, adult abuse dockets.

Marcus Robison, Branch Manager, First Midwest Bank