Power to Decide, the campaign to prevent unplanned pregnancy, receives guidance from a top-flight board of directors comprised of independent and voting members who help to provide overall direction for the organization. Power to Decide is a public, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization. This governing body is supported by several advisory panels, including a non-partisan Congressional Advisory Panel and Public Policy Advisory Group, the State and Local Action Advisory Group, the Health Equity Advisory Panel, and the Health Care Advisory Group. Power to Decide’s daily efforts are championed by a remarkable team of more than 30 Power to Decide team members.
CHAIR
Stephen A. Weiswasser
Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling
VICE CHAIR
Amanda Deaver
President, Upstream Strategic Communications
TREASURER
Ira Fishman
Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, NFL Players Association
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Ginny Ehrlich, D.Ed, MPH, MS
CEO, Power to Decide
Hannah Anderson
Senior Manager, Select 360
Bill Albert
Chief Innovation Officer
De’Jonnae Boyd
Manager, Digital Marketing & Communications
Kimberlie Burke
Director, Human Resources
Gillian Sealy, PhD, DPH
Chief Program Officer
Colleen Crittenden Murray, MPH, DPH
Senior Science Officer
Harriett Davis
Development and Grants Manager
Rachel Fey
Director, Public Policy
Joshua Isaac
Graphic Designer
Paloma Zuleta, JD
Director, Media Relations
LaShonne Jackson
Senior Manager, Technology & Operations
Scott LaGrand
Chief Development Officer
Tara Mancini, MA
Manager, Public Policy
Shannon Miller, MA
Senior Manager of Digital Fundraising and Marketing
Maggi LeDuc, MA
Senior Manager, Content
Lauren Kernan, MA
Senior Content Manager, Digital Programs
Julian Teixeira, MBA
Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Julie Satterwhite, MBA
Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer
Marilyn Ayres, CPA, MBA
Director, Finance and Accounting
Danielle Lapierre, MA, MEd
Senior Manager, Digital Marketing
Andrea Kane, MPA
Vice President, Policy and Strategic Partnerships
Becky Griesse, MPH
Director, Programs
Sarah Ashley Jolly, MPH
Manager, Audience Engagement & Activation
Katy Suellentrop, MPH
Vice President, Programs
JeNeen Anderson, MPH
Director of Programs
Jennifer Johnsen, MPH
Senior Director, Digital Programs & Education
Mackenzie Piper, MPHP
Program Coordinator, Programs Team
Ginny Ehrlich, D.Ed, MPH, MS
Chief Executive Officer
Sarah Axelson, MSW
Senior Manager, Programs
Jacqueline Pelella
Communications Fellow
Amiya Perkins
Communications Coordinator
Allison McGrath, MA, PhD
Senior Manager, Market & Behavioral Insights
Everse Pullen
Executive Assistant/ Office Coordinator
Julio Sarria
Senior Accountant
Robin Watkins, CNM, WHNP-BC
Director, Health Care
Edwin Zelaya
Staff Accountant
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Professor of Social Work
New York University
Forrest Alton
PRESIDENT
1000 Feathers, LLC
Robert Wm. Blum
Professor and Director
Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Susanne Daniels
Global Head of Original Content
YouTube
Amanda Deaver
President
Upstream Strategic Communications
Craig H. Erwich
Head of Content
Hulu
Ira Fishman
Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director
NFL Players Association
Ron Haskins
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Co-Director, Center for Children and Families
The Brookings Institution
Senior Consultant
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The Hon. Nancy L. Johnson
Senior Public Policy Advisor
Federal Public Policy and Healthcare Group
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Ivan Juzang
Founder and President
MEE Productions, Inc.
Bruce Kuhlik
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel
Pathfinder International
Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Community Health & Equity and Chief Wellness Officer
Henry Ford Health System
Jody Greenstone Miller
President and CEO
Business Talent Group
Melanie Nathanson
Partner
Nathanson & Hauck
Bruce Rosenblum
President, Business Operations
Disney/ABC Television Group
Vicki Shepard
Vice President, Government and External Relations
Tivity Health
Stephen A. Weiswasser
Senior Counsel
Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling
Kiah Williams
Director and Co-founder
SIRUM
Mark Edwards
Co-Founder
Upstream USA
Irving B. Harris (1910-2004)
Chairman
The Harris Foundation
C. Everett Koop (1916-2013)
Former U.S. Surgeon General
Senior Scholar, The C. Evertt Koop Institute at Dartmouth
Katharine Graham (1917-2001)
Chairman
Washington Post Company
Sister Mary Rose McGeady (1928-2012)
Former President and CEO
Covenant House
Warren B. Rudman (1930-2012)
former Senior Counsel
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Victoria P. Sant (1939-2018)
President
The Summit Foundation
Barbara Huberman (1942-2014)
Director of Education
Advocates for Youth
Douglas Kirby (1943-2012)
Senior Research Scientist
ETR Associates
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Partner and Co-founder
Echelon Insights
Charlotte Beers
former Under Secretary for Public Affairs
U.S. Department of State
former Chairman and CEO
Ogilvey & Mather
Carol Mendez Cassell
Senior Scientist
Allied Health Center, School of Medicine, Prevention Research Center
University of New Mexico
Thomas S. Chappell
Senior Manager
CBIZ MHM, LLC
The Hon. Linda Chavez
Chairman
The Center for Equal Opportunity
Vanessa Cullins
Vice President for External Medical Affairs
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.
Annette P. Cumming
Executive Director and Vice President
The Cumming Foundation
Maria Echaveste
Senior Fellow
Center for American Progress
Daisy Expósito-Ulla
Chairman and CEO
d’expósito & partners
William Galston
Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
Brookings Institution
David R. Gergen
Senior Political Analyst
CNN
Director
Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University
Whoopi Goldberg
Actress
Stephen Goldsmith
Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
former Deputy Mayor for Operations
New York City
David A. Hamburg
President Emeritus
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Visiting Scholar
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
Alexine Clement Jackson
former Chairperson
Susan G. Komen Board of Directors
Judith E. Jones
Clinical Professor Emerita
Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University
Leslie Kantor
Director of Urban health concentration
Rutgers School of Public Health, Rutgers University
Nancy Kassebaum-Baker
former U.S. Senator
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean
CEO
THK Consulting
Chairman
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Chairman Emeritus
The Carnegie Corporation of New York
Former Governor of New Jersey
John D. Macomber
Principal
JDM Investment Group
Judy McGrath
former Chairman and CEO
MTV Networks
Brent C. Miller
Professor, Family, Consumer, and Human Development
Utah State University
Kristin Moore
Senior Scholar and Program Area Co-Director
Child Trends, Inc.
Frankie Sue Del Papa
former Attorney General
State of Nevada
John E. Pepper
CEO
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The Hon. Sheila C. Johnson, Ph.D.
CEO
Salamander Farm
Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Project HOPE
Reverend Father Michael D. Place
Corporate Ethicist
Hugh Price
Visiting Professor, Public and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Senior Fellow
The Brookings Institute
The Hon. Deborah P. Pryce
Senior Public Policy Advisor
Ice Miller LLP
Sara Rosenbaum
High Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy
School of Public Health and Health Services
The George Washington University Medical Center
Diane Rowland
Executive Vice President
Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Stephen W. Sanger
former Chairman of the Board
General Mills, Inc.
Isabel V. Sawhill
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
The Brookings Institution
The Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke
President
University of Baltimore
Sara Seims
former Senior Advisor on Reproductive Health Strategy
The David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Matthew Stagner
Vice President
Mathematica Policy Research
Isabel Stewart
former Executive Director
Girls Inc.
Mary C. Tydings
Managing Director
Russell Reynolds Associates
Roland C. Warren
President and CEO
Care Net
Vincent Weber
Partner
Clark & Weinstock
former U.S. Congressman
Judy Woodruff
Co-Anchor and Managing Editor
PBS News Hour
Andrew Young
former Chairman
GoodWorks International
former Ambassador to the U.N.
Ellen Pliska
Family and Child Health Senior Director
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Ann Shoket
Karey Burke
Executive Vice President, Programming and Development
Freeform
Reynaldo Casas
Television Producer and Media Consultant
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Professor of Social Work
New York University
Crystal Ward Allen
Senior Director, Strategic Consulting
Casey Family Programs
Lauren Anderson
Senior Vice President, Primetime Programming
NBC
Sara Austin
Executive Editor
Real Simple
David Baime
Vice President, Government Affairs
American Association of Community Colleges, DC
Melissa Boteach
Director, Poverty to Prosperity Program
Center for American Progress
Claire Brindis
Director
Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and National Adolescent Information and Innovation Center
University of California, San Francisco
Haywood L. Brown
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and GynEcology
Duke University Medical Center
Anne Burke
Assistant Professor and Obstetrics/GynEcology Director, Family Planning Fellowship Program
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Lucia Cottone
Producer and Latino Media Advisor
Todd Cunningham
Senior Vice President, Strategic Insights & Research
Viacom
Susanne Daniels
Global Head of Original Content
YouTube
Christine Dehlendorf
Assistant Professor in Residence,
Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine
Evelyn Delgado
CEO and President
Healthy Futures Texas
Margarita K. Dilley
Former Treasurer
Intelsat
Lauren Dolgen
Head of West Coast Development
Viceland
Linda Dominguez
Certified Nurse Practitioner
Southwest Women's Health
Angela Díaz
Director
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Jean C and James W. Crystal Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine
The Mount Sinai Hospital
Craig H. Erwich
Head of Content
Hulu
Eve Espey
Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Ann Marie Etergino
Senior Vice President, Financial Advisor
Senior Consulting Group, The Etergino Group, RBC Wealth Management
W. Douglas Evans
Director, Public Health Communications and Marketing Program
The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Samie Falvey
Former Chief Content Officer
Unnamed Media Venture
Judith Flores
Representative
National Hispanic Medical Association
Chief of Service, Department of Ambulatory Care
North Brooklyn Health Network
Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center
Lynya Floyd
Health Director
Family Circle
Amy Friedman
Senior Vice President, Programming and Development
Universal Kids
President
Redhead Consulting
Nikia Fuller-Sankofa
Director, Breast Feeding Project
National Association of City and County Health Departments
Susan M. Gallego
Coordinator, Border Coordinator HIV/Substance Abuse
State of Texas Department of State Health Services
Gina Girolamo
Senior Vice President of Television
Alloy Entertainment
Jeffrey Glaser
Head of Content
Wondery
Juleanna Glover
Founder and CEO
Ridgely|Walsh
Sibyl Goldman
Head of Entertainment Partnerships
Jocelyn Guyer
Director
Manatt Health Solutions
Ron Haskins
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Co-Director, Center for Children and Families
The Brookings Institution
Senior Consultant
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Paula J. Hillard
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynocology
Stanford University School of Medicine
G. William Hoagland
Senior Vice President
Bipartisan Policy Center
Saul D. Hoffman
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics
University of Colorado, Denver
Jim Jaccard
Professor of Social Work and Co-Director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health
Silver School of Social Work
New York University
The Hon. Nancy L. Johnson
Senior Public Policy Advisor
Federal Public Policy and Healthcare Group
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Nancy Josephson
Partner
William Morris Endeavor Agency
Colleen Krajewski
Fellow in Family Planning, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Bruce Kuhlik
Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel
Pathfinder International
Ed Kutler
Government Affairs Strategist
The Kutler Group
Daniel T. Lichter
Professor, Department of Policy Analysis & Management
Cornell University
Director
Institute for Social Sciences, Cornell University
Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D.
Senior Vice President, Community Health & Equity and Chief Wellness Officer
Henry Ford Health System
Tessa E. Madden
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynocology
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Jody Greenstone Miller
President and CEO
Business Talent Group
Beth Miyares
Executive Vice President, Scripted Programming
Revelations Entertainment
Chris Moeser
Former Vice President, Programming and Development
Resignation Media
Jamie Muñoz
Administrative Manager II
Orange County Social Services Agency
José Márquez
NBC Universal Hispanic Group
Melanie Nathanson
Partner
Nathanson & Hauck
Susan Newcomer
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Population Dynamics Branch
Haley Nicholson
Senior Policy Specialist, Health and Human Services
National Conference of State Legislatures
Hiram Norman
Senior Vice President, Digital Media
The CW
Janelle Palacios
Certified Nurse Midwife
Permanente Medical Group
Nadine Peacock
Associate Professor
School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago
Cynthia Pellegrini
Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Government Affairs
March of Dimes
Brenda Pereda
Fellow in Family Planning, Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of New Mexico Hospital
Gail R. Wilensky, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Project HOPE
Susan Philliber
Senior Partner, retired
Philliber Research Associates
Dr. Drew Pinsky
Physician and Television/Radio Host
Michael Policar
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
UCSF School of Medicine
Medical Director
UCSF/Family PACT Program
Joy Hoskins, RN
Division Director
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Alfredo Richard
Senior Vice President, Communications
NBC Universal Telemundo Enterprises
Reverend Sam Rodriguez
President
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
Pablo Rodriguez
clinical associate professor, department of obstetrics and gynecology
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Bruce Rosenblum
President, Business Operations
Disney/ABC Television Group
Alina Salganicoff
Vice President and Director of Women's Health Policy
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
John Santelli
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Dia Sokol Savage
Owner
11th Street Productions
Executive Producer
“16 & Pregnant” and “Teen Mom” series
Susan Schulz
Lead Strategist
Masthead Media Company
John Sciamanna
Child welfare expert
Matthew Stagner
Vice President
Mathematica Policy Research
David N. Sundwall
Professor - Public Health
Division of Public Health
Dept. of Family and Preventive Medicine
University of Utah School of Medicine
Héctor Sánchez-Flores
Executive Director
National Compadres Network
National Latino Fatherhood & Family Institute
Tara Thomas-Gale
Practice Administrator, Community Health Services
Denver Health
Helen Iris Torres
Executive Director
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE)
Marcela Vargas
Project Coordinator
Institute for Hispanic Health
National Council of La Raza
Antonia Villarruel
Professor and Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing
University of Pennsylvannia
Leslie R. Walker
Professor and Chief, Adolescent Medicine Division, Department of Pediatrics
Seattle Children's Hospital
Shana C. Waterman
Head of Television
One Race TV
Stephen A. Weiswasser
Senior Counsel
Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling