National Advisory Council
Dorothy Allison
Juan Carlos Arean
Prudence Brown
Lonna Davis
Cheryl Dorsey
Michelle Fine
Lisa Goodman
Audrey Jordan
Anne Peretz
Lisbeth (Lee) B. Schorr
Nan Stone
Dale Walker
Jane Wei-Skillern
Julie Boatright Wilson
Meet Our Advisory Council
Dorothy Allison, Author
Dorothy is the prize-winning author of a number of books, including Bastard Out of Carolina. She specializes in capturing the voices and rawness of entrenched poverty and violence and plans to work with FFI’s founder on raising up the voices of program participants in Full Frame programs.
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Juan Carlos Areán, Director of the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities, Casa de Esperanza.
Juan Carlos works to mobilize Latin@s and Latin@ communities to end violence against women. Since 1991, he has worked to engage men across cultures to become better fathers, intimate partners and allies to achieve gender equity. He is an active writer and presenter who has led hundreds of workshops nationally and internationally.
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Prudence Brown, MSW, Ph.D., Independent Consultant
Prue’s work focuses on the documentation and evaluation of community change initiatives, new approaches to learning from and providing assistance to these initiatives, and the role of philanthropy in community change. She was a Research Fellow at the Chapin Hall Center for Children and served as Deputy Director of the Urban Poverty Program at the Ford Foundation.
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Lonna Davis, Director of Children’s Services, Futures Without Violence
Lonna oversees a range of national and international programs for the nation’s pre-eminent anti-family-violence organization (in translating grassroots effectiveness into social policy and change). She has been a pioneer in creating state and national policy and programs to address domestic violence.
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Cheryl Dorsey, MD, MPP, President, Echoing Green Foundation
Cheryl heads one of the nation’s most prestigious social entrepreneurship fellowships. A pediatrician and an accomplished social entrepreneur (founder of Boston’s Family Van), Cheryl has expertise in health care, labor issues, and national policy.
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Michelle Fine, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Social and Personality Psychology, City University of New York
Michelle is a nationally known expert on the intersection of social justice and academic research. Her research program surrounds questions of community development with a particular emphasis on urban youth and young adults. She is working on a number of projects about access, opportunity and the New York public schools.
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Lisa Goodman, Ph.D., Professor, Boston College Lynch School of Education
Lisa is an expert on the intersection of poverty, domestic violence and mental health issues. She partnered with FFI’s founder in documenting the Full Frame Approach, and they continue to collaborate on research and writing about the Full Frame Approach and community-based strategies to addressing violence in the context of poverty.
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Audrey Jordan, Ph.D., Director of Partnerships, Innovation and Evaluation at Lawrence Community Works
Audrey is a loaned executive of the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF), working in Lawrence and Boston Massachusetts, with Lawrence Community Works (LCW) and the Eos Foundation, respectively. While at AECF, Audrey led the Foundation’s portfolio of work concerned with resident engagement, with a special focus on strengthening families’ positive social networks.
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Anne Peretz, LICSW, Founder, The Family Center
Anne is a longtime champion of family-based strategies to support families mired in poverty. She has been involved in many of the Boston-area’s most important start-ups and community-based organizations.
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Lisbeth (Lee) B. Schorr, Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy
Lee is a national authority on “what works” to improve the future of disadvantaged children and their families and neighborhoods. She is the author of several highly regarded books on the subject.
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Nan Stone, Ph.D., Partner, Bridgespan
Nan heads the knowledge division of Bridgespan, a national consulting firm to leading nonprofits and managers. Prior to coming to Bridgespan, she was editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review.
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Dale Walker, M.D., Director, One Sky Center, and professor of Psychiatry, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Director of the Center for American Indian Education and Research, Oregon Health and Science University
Dale is nationally recognized for his work as an advocate and activist for access to healthcare and the elimination of the stigma of mental illness and addiction, particularly among American Indians.
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Jane Wei-Skillern, MBA, Stanford School of Business
Jane is a pioneer in the study of (and is an evangelizer for) how nonprofits achieve greater impact by working in networks.
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Julie Boatright Wilson, Ph.D., Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Kennedy School of Government
Julie is interested in poverty policy, family policy, and urban race relations. Julie spent three years at the NY Department of Social Services, where she directed the Office of Program Planning, Analysis, and Development.
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