McKeever has held a variety of direct service and leadership positions in his more than 11 combined years with Alliance member Boys Town. He began his service with Boys Town in 1989, where over the next 10 years he served as a clinical director, director of special projects, and senior director of Boys Town USA.

Daly is a licensed clinical psychologist who has held a variety of senior management positions at Alliance member Boys Town for more than 30 years. He has been involved in program development, research, program planning, and program management activities at Boys Town and has consulted to dozens of organizations across the country. Daly has published more than 40 articles and conducted many presentations at scientific and youth service conferences. He is currently a member of the Alliance Program Planning Committee.

Nicole Klaas is managing editor of the Alliance for Children & Families Magazine. She also manages content for the Alliance's website. She has been with the Alliance for three years.

Sheila Zelenski, vice president of member relations and knowledge management for the Alliance, oversees the implementation, management, and evaluation of Alliance membership retention and recruitment activities, as well as its programs, conferences, and events, including the Severson National Information Center and the Value Partners program.

Lau is president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc., Hawaii's largest public company, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE-HE). She is one of only 20 female chief executives at the helm of a Fortune 1,000 company, and the only woman heading a publicly-traded electric utility in the United States.

Lau is also a director of another of Hawaii's large public companies, Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. (NYSE-ALEX) which is the primary maritime shipper to Hawaii and Guam.

Born and raised in Hawaii, Watanabe, is the retired founder of a Hawaii-based law firm bearing his name. In the nonprofit world, Watanabe is the chair of Alliance member Consuelo Foundation, which serves exploited women, children and families in the Philippines and Hawaii. He is a longtime trustee and former chair of the Sesame Workshop, a trustee of Punahou School, and the former chair of The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii.

Sister Rybicki is the director of training at Alliance member Holy Family Institute.

Kros is a career child advocate, who has served as a childcare worker, child abuse investigator, children’s home administrator, consultant, college professor, attorney, writer, and speaker. Kros is president of The Upside Down Organization and executive vice president of The Children’s Guild, one of the largest private providers of special education services in Maryland. Prior to joining The Guild, Kros practiced law with Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps in San Diego, where his practice focused on children's issues.

Duea has been the president and CEO of Alliance member HopeSparks Family Services in Tacoma, Wash. for the past nine years. The mission of HopeSparks, a nonprofit, human service agency located in Pierce County, Wash. is to strengthen families by inspiring courage and confidence to make a lasting change. HopeSparks has a budget of $2.5 million with more than 45 staff, and is a member agency of the Alliance. Duea is currently serving on the Alliance Public Policy Committee.

Whalen is the director of evaluation and research services at the Alliance. Whalen assisted the American Association of Children’s Residential Centers (AACRC) with replication of their widely-used 1999 outcomes study.

Arnow is the chairman of the Aurora Family Services Board of Directors, and has been a director of the board since 1997. He has served on several Milwaukee community boards, including WUWM Radio 88.9 (NPR), the Zoological Society, and the 16th Street Community Health Center.

Arnow is the director of financial planning for SJA Financial Advisory, and has held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Hampton University. He frequently appears in the media, speaking on issues involving personal financial planning.
 

Jones has been president and CEO of Alliance member Children’s Aid and Family Services, Inc., in Paramus, N.J. for the past 23 years. Children’s Aid and Family Services is one of the oldest and largest human service organizations in northern New Jersey. Jones is also the chairperson of the Alliance’s Resource Development Services Advisory Committee and is a columnist for the Alliance for Children & Families Magazine.

Schneider is a pediatrician who worked in the field of child abuse for 13 years as the founder and director of the Kapi’olani Medical Center Child At-Risk Evaluation (CARE) Program and as the medical director of the Child Protection Center. She was the recipient of the 2003 and 2005 Commissioner’s Award from the Department of Health and Human Services for her work in child abuse prevention, and received the Leadership Award from the YWCA in 2004. She has taught extensively in the field of child abuse, neglect, and foster care.

Prior to serving for 14 years in his current position of vice president of operations, Rea served as manager of information systems for Alliance member Family Services of Greater Houston. Rea has served as an integral part of the team spearheading the agency’s in-house development of dataTRAQ, a web-based data collection and management software system. Prior to joining Family Services of Greater Houston, Rea served as network supervisor for Gay Engineering and as inventory control manager for Maencor, Inc.

Campbell was one of the founding members of the Bridgespan Group team. While at Bridgespan, she has worked with both foundations and direct service organizations across a variety of sectors including youth development, community development, education reform, and the environment.

VanCamp's background includes stints as a high school teacher, a congressional aide, a college administrator, a pharmaceutical representative, and a financial advisor/stock broker. These sales, management, education, and fundraising experiences are combined in his current role as director of development at Alliance member Chaddock, in Quincy, Ill., a 2009 Alliance Agency of the Year award winner.

Hall is the project manager for the National Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services (QIC PCW) and co-project manager of the Kentucky Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System: Project MATCH. Seventeen years ago, she began her career in social work as a frontline child protection services worker.

Kohomban is the president and CEO of Alliance member The Children’s Village and The Center for Child Welfare Research at the Children’s Village Institute, in Dobb’s Ferry, N.Y. The Children’s Village provides a broad continuum of programs including affordable housing, evidence-based alternatives to incarceration, non-secure detention, alternative schools, and specialized services for 8,500 children and families in community settings and more than 1,000 children in residential settings annually.

Frumer, associate executive director at Alliance member Alpert Jewish Family & Children's Service (AJFCS), in West Palm Beach, Fla., has worked in nonprofit social services for more than 27 years. Frumer oversees many of the contracts and grants at AJFCS and has designed and implemented many of the organization’s innovative programs for older adults and people with disabilities.

Blythe, senior vice president–program operations, oversees Alliance member Lawrence Hall Youth Services residential treatment, foster care, older adolescent program and clinical services which include: therapeutic recreation, expressive therapies, LGBT programs, and balanced and restorative justice. He is a licensed clinical social worker in the State of Illinois and has been a member of Lawrence Hall Youth Services’ staff since January 2002.

Blythe is a 2009 graduate of the Alliance Executive Leadership Institute.
 

Woodruff Ment, president and CEO of Alliance member Andrus Children’s Center in Yonkers, N.Y., has played a leading role in developing the organization from a small single service provider in 1987 to a multi-service, multi-million dollar nonprofit enterprise through expansion, program development, and mergers. The growth in service has been paralleled by a growth in risk across increasing functional dimensions. Woodruff Ment is past president and life fellow of the American Association of Children’s Residential Centers and current president of the Yonkers Community Planning Council.

Till is vice president of Family and Community Programs at Alliance member Family & Children’s Service (FCS) in Minneapolis, Minn. He was hired by FCS in 1998 to develop family strengthening initiatives based on FCS’ groundbreaking family research, The Minnesota Family Strength Project. New programming arising from his efforts includes The Family Project and the Community Building Initiative, and a collaboration on informal “neighborhood/family champions” with Search Institute.

Till is a 2009 graduate of the Alliance Executive Leadership Institute.
 

Goughler is CEO of Alliance member Family Services of Western Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh, an agency that provides a wide range of regional social services with a $25 million budget and more than 40 operational locations.

Goughler is a part-time faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, teaching graduate courses in management.

Daniel has 12 years of experience developing and implementing innovative and creative programming to support children with mental health issues to be successful in the school setting. She is currently the coordinator of school based service for Alliance member St. Aemilian-Lakeside, Inc., in Milwaukee, Wis. These services range in scope from community day treatment serving students who are at risk of out-of-home placement to school-based therapy services utilizing an early intervention model to prevent out of district placements.