Dina Rock

Dina has worked as an educator for the past 22 years in both the public and private sector.  She has taught across grade levels first through sixth grade.  Dina has taken an active leadership role in curriculum development and design in all subject areas and created integrated curriculum for two school districts.  Dina was an educational consultant for the Disney Corporation.  She designed teaching guides to accompany educational movies produced by Disney. Dina serves as a mentor teacher for graduate students pursuing a degree in education.  Dina holds a Masters in Education from John Carroll University and Bachelor of Science from The Ohio State University with concentration on child development and family relations.

Sree Chaguturu

Sree Chaguturu is an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Internal Medicine. He is also a consultant at McKinsey and Company, where he focuses on health systems design and reform. He has served corporations, foundations and governments on addressing key elements in improving quality, reducing costs, and expanding access of health systems.

Darcy Moody

Darcy has worked in elementary education since 1996.   She is an educational consultant with experience as a primary teacher, instructional coach, staff development trainer and faculty associate instructor with Arizona State University.   She designs and implements professional development programs for science and mathematics at the district, state and regional levels.

Hoyt Hilsman

Hoyt Hilsman, J.D. is a writer, critic and educator. An award-winning playwright, screenwriter and journalist, he has written widely produced stage plays, screenplays for New Line, Disney, Sony, ABC and CBS, among others, has been a regular contributor to a number of national publications and is the author of several non-fiction books on entertainment and new media. Hoyt has also been a media and story consultant to Vulcan Ventures, The Kennedy Space Center, The National Museum of Patriotism, Unocal, International Data Corporation, and many other companies.

Marc Boxser

Marc Boxser is a media consultant on digital video strategy, management, business development, and fundraising for organizations such as ABC News, Big Think, Grist.org, he has also addressed several leading advertising agencies and media companies on media strategy. Marc was formerly a senior manager for Next New Networks- the pioneering web 2.0 video company- where he was responsible for all their People and Ideas programming where he helped to build Next New Networks' pioneering "super distribution" model.

Sam Roe

Samuel most recently practiced law real estate and venture capital law with a large firm.  Samuel graduated from NYU School of Law. Immediate prior to law school, Samuel obtained a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Seton Hall in ‘02 as a Truman Scholar, Samuel worked for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC and as a Logistics Management Specialist at Department of State.

Douglas Clark

Douglas has worked in the field of education as a teacher, administrator, staff development trainer and consultant since 1977. He has worked as an advocate for world class public education with a special emphasis on special needs learners. Early in his career he wrote and produced a documentary for PBS which presented the challenges and opportunities working with deaf-blind special needs children. As a student of W.Edward Deming, Douglas became a strong supporter of the tools for continuous quality improvement as applied in an educational setting.

Lisa Mills

Amelia Thompson

Amelia Thompson joined the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in January 2008 as Project Administrator.  In this role she provides administrative support to the Institute and supports the management and ongoing development of the NYC Justice Corps.  Funded by the New York City Mayor’s Center for Economic Opportunity, the NYC Justice Corps aims to provide paid workforce development opportunities to formerly-incarcerated youth through participation in community service projects and internships.  Prior to joining the Institute, she served in the Spitzer Administration as Scheduling Assistant to the Downstate Chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation and as Policy Assistant on the Governor’s transition team