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Networks

National Advisory Board

HOPE’s National Advisory Board (NAB) is a group of passionate and diverse leaders who are committed to spreading HOPE. NAB members are highly-regarded and experts from higher education, medicine, advocacy, research, families, and non-profits. Yet, they all share a common purpose of expanding access to positive childhood experiences to children and youth of all backgrounds through ongoing, collaborative partnerships between providers and families. NAB members offer their support and guidance through recommendations and thoughtful discussion about the goals, priorities, mission, and values of HOPE.

Rev. Darrell LaRue Armstrong

Pastor Shiloh Baptist Church

Alison Baker

Vice President of Child and Community Health, American Academy of Pediatrics

Dee Bonnick

National Lived Expert Child Welfare Consultant, Just-US Partnerships, LLC

Renée Boynton-Jarrett

Founding Director, Vital Village Community Engagement Network

Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba

Executive Director, Children’s HealthWatch

Ron Ferguson

Founder and President, The Basics

Patricia Frost

President and Executive Director, National Pediatric Disaster Coalition Inc.

Pradeep Gidwani

Medical Director, Healthy Development Services, American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 3

Patsy Hampton

Deputy Director, Nurture Connection

Elliott Orrin Hinkle

Principle and Founder, Unicorn Solutions

Jennifer Jones

Chief Strategy Officer at Prevent Child Abuse America

Kimberly Ladd

HOPE Champion, Aligned HOPE

Danielle Laraque-Arena

Professor and President Emerita, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Michelle Lennon

President & CEO, Archways

Tabetha Melton

Community Health Worker

Phyllis Niolon

Senior Scientist for Preventing ACEs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Vicky Roper

Director of Education and Awareness, Prevent Child Abuse Kansas

April Scott

Director for Early Childhood Services, Centerstone

Roger Sherman

Executive Director Idaho Children’s Trust Fund/Prevent Child Abuse Idaho

ChaBria Smith

Founder/President, Advisory Living & Learning Agency

Jennifer Valenzuela

Executive Director, The Children’s Trust

Tamara Vesel, MD

Division Chief of Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center

David Willis

Founder and Director, Nurture Connection

Aimee Zeitz-Gruber

Assistant Director, San Diego County

Family and Community Experts Council (FACEs)

Family and Community Experts Council (FACEs) is a group of parents, youth, and other family and community members who share a common purpose of expanding access to positive childhood experiences (PCEs) for families of all backgrounds through the ongoing, collaborative partnerships between providers and families that HOPE promotes. FACEs serves in an advisory capacity, similar to the advisory role of the National Advisory Board, and their recommendations are valued. The goal of meetings is to ensure that every Council member voices their perspective.

The value of lived expertise

At HOPE, we believe those whose lives have been most impacted by health and social systems hold deep wisdom on how to improve them. Their voices are not just valuable—they are essential to our understanding of complex social issues. We are committed to sharing power by ensuring that individuals with lived expertise are shaping policies, programs, and decisions that impact their families’ lives. Working at the intersection of academic knowledge, professional experience, and lived expertise, we can create a more inclusive, effective, and empathetic approach to serving children and families.