WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS

creating healthier places in which to learn

Advisory Board

Badreyyah Alireza, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Ann Brashares, Author, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Hilda Chazanovitz, Founder, Hilda Chazanovitz & Company

Sybil Dessau, Television Producer, Fawlty Productions

Benjamin Kligler, Associate Professor of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Vice Chair and Research Director of the Beth Israel Department of Integrative Medicine

Wendy Kopp, Founder, Teach for America; CEO, Teach for All

Roland Lafontant

Betty Lopez-Towey, Principal and Co-Founder-AmPark School, P.S. 344

Claudia Malley, Executive Vice President and Worldwide Publisher, National Geographic Global Media (NGGM)

Havilah Mann, Certified Public Accountant

John McNiff, Managing Director, Bank of America

Sarah Natchez, Managing Director, Super Soccer Stars

Andrew Nipon, Chief Creative Officer, Mad Projects

Kari Ostrem, Academic Dean, The Lawrenceville School

Joy Pierson, Co-Owner / Nutritionist, Candle Cafe

Janet Poppendieck, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. Author, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America and Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

Sharon Richter, Registered Dietitian, The Richter Reco

Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union

Greg Sheindlin, Sheindlin & Sullivan, LLP

Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD

Jennifer Allan Soros, Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation

Jonathan Allan Soros, Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation

Rachel Tore, Co-founder of Wellness in the Schools, Certified Yoga Instructor

"[Thanks to WITS] our students have developed a greater understanding of and respect for the food they eat and the importance of eating healthy."
-Principal of a WITS school