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The Foundation is governed by a Board of Managers of no less than 6 and no more than 11 members who are elected to three year terms at the Annual Meeting of the Foundation.

Jacqueline E. Darroch, PhD
Seattle, WA
President
Abigail English, JD
Chapel Hill, NC
President-Elect
Ellen Rome, MD, MPH
Cleveland, OH
Treasurer
Stacey Easterling, MPH
New York, NY
Secretary
Daphne Byers*
Chappaqua, NY
Reverend Henry C. Doll
Shaker Heights, Ohio
Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst, PhD
Cleveland Heights, OH
Gita P. Gidwani, MD
Cleveland, OH
Daniel Pellegrom
Boston, MA
Elizabeth Stites*
Brooklyn, NY
Barbara Brush Wright*
Shelter Island, NY
Founder
Charles F. Brush
Emeritus
John J. Beeston, MD
Sally F. Burton
Virginia Carter, PhD*
Doris Dingle
Richard M. Donaldson
Henry W. Foster, Jr., MD
Carol Miller
Lee Minto
Stirling Scruggs
* Indicates members of the
Founder's family.

Board Committees
Letter of Interest Screening Committee: Gita Gidwani, Jacqueline Darroch, Elizabeth Stites, Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst (chair), Daniel Pellegrom, Barbara Brush Wright, Lee Minto
Brush Scholarship Committee: Ellen Rome, Elizabeth Stites, Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst (chair), Henry Foster, Stacey Easterling
Board Nominating Committee: Ellen Rome, Elizabeth Stites, Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst, Daniel Pellegrom (chair)

Abigail English, JD

Abigail English is Director of the Center for Adolescent Health & the Law, a nonprofit organization working nationally to support laws and policies that promote the health of adolescents and their access to comprehensive health care. She has been actively engaged in research, teaching, and advocacy on legal and policy issues in adolescent health care for 30 years. She has served as President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine and on the boards of nonprofit organizations in law and reproductive health.

Carol Miller

Carol Miller completed her second year in Ethiopia this June, working as the Director of Policy and Communication for the Africa Area, Save the Children USA. This year her focus will largely be on building the advocacy and communication capacity of my colleagues working throughout Africa as they develop their national advocacy strategies.

More and more Ms. Miller's work involves the nine Save the Children Alliance members working in Africa (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Swaziland, and UK). She edits an Alliance Africa Newsletter – IMPACT - and will establish an Africa-wide Alliance advocacy training of trainers team this year. For the past several months Ms. Miller was helping to coordinate the Alliance emergency communication and advocacy response for Ethiopia, including taking journalists (USA Today) and UN officials (John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs) to visit Save the Children programs and will continue working with the countries were we work in Africa to raise visibility around our policy agenda for children.

Gita P. Gidwani, MD
President

Dr. Gita Gidwani has been a member of the Brush Foundation Board of Managers for over 8 years. She has practiced obstetrics & Gynecology at Cleveland clinic for over 30 years. Dr. Gidwani was a founding member & later one of the presidents of North American Society of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology. She is actively involved with Planned Parenthood of Northeast Ohio & with their Global Partnership in Jamshedpur, India.

Daniel E. Pellegrom
Vice President

Daniel E. Pellegrom is the president of Pathfinder International, with headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts, and field offices in 19 countries abroad. It supports reproductive health and family planning services in more than 25 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Near East, and Latin America. With an annual budget exceeding $90 million, he oversees a staff of more than 700, more than 80 percent of whom are citizens and residents of the countries where Pathfinder works.

Ellen Rome, MD, MPH
Treasurer

Ellen Rome, MD, MPH serves as Head of the Section of Adolescent Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. She is a board certified pediatrician and Adolescent Medicine specialist. Dr. Rome received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Yale University and her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine, then completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She next completed a three year fellowship in adolescent medicine at Children’s Hospital, Boston, during which time she also obtained a masters degree in Public Health at the Harvard University School of Public Health. She now is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case. Dr. Rome currently serves on the board of the International Federation for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (FIGIJ) and just finished her term on the board of NASPAG, the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Dr. Rome’s research interests include eating disorders and obesity, preventive health and wellness, and reproductive health. She has been an invited speaker locally, nationally, and internationally on various topics in adolescent medicine, while maintaining a commitment to ongoing teaching of house staff and students in the local and surrounding areas. She has written and published on various adolescent medicine topics, including eating disorders and obesity, the female athlete triad, nutrition for the teen athlete, and adolescent sexuality.

Elizabeth Stites
Secretary

Elizabeth Stites is a Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center of Tufts University, where she researches the livelihoods of conflict-affected populations. Focusing on experiences at the community level, her research in areas of conflict and crisis around the globe aims to improve international and national policy. She always examines gender and generational differences in her research. She is currently working primarily in eastern Africa, and has also worked in southern Africa, Afghanistan and Bosnia.

Daphne Byers

Daphne Byers is following in the footsteps of a pioneering female relative through her involvement with The Brush Foundation and her support of family planning education and service programs. Daphne's maternal grandmother, Dorothy Adams Hamilton Brush, worked closely alongside Margaret Sanger during the 1930s, traveling throughout Asia and Europe as a missionary for birth control and family planning. Daphne is committed to carrying out the mission of The Brush Foundation and continuing the work her grandmother started over three quarters of a century ago. She currently resides in New York.

Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst, PhD

Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst trained in Epidemiology (Ph.D. and MS) and Public Administration of Health Care (MPA) commits her passion to local and international maternal and child health issues with a strong belief that only through scientifically-based public health interventions can communities change adverse health outcomes. After 12 years as a researcher/consultant for a community-based infant and child mortality reduction initiative, has been employed as a Medicolegal Death Scene Investigator for the Cuyahoga County Coroner's Office for the past three years, where she serves a population of 1.4 million people.

Jacqueline E. Darroch, PhD

Jacqueline E. Darroch, PhD is a sociologist and demographer. She is currently a Consultant in Social Demography and Senior Fellow for The Guttmacher Institute. Prior to that, she led the reproductive health grantmaking program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and, before that, the policy-focused research of The Alan Guttmacher Institute. Dr. Darroch did graduate studies at The University of Cologne, Germany, and The University of Michigan and earned her Doctorate in Sociology from Princeton University. Dr. Darroch serves the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Committee on Adolescent Health Care and the Technical Assistance Committee of the Contraceptive Research and Development Program (CONRAD).

Stacey M. Easterling, MPH

Stacey M. Easterling joined The Atlantic Philanthropies in August 2007 where her work focuses on supporting the role of direct care workers in long term care settings, community-based initiatives in civic engagement, and supporting the civic engagement of older adults in communities of color. Prior to her work at Atlantic, Stacey served as Director of Community Responsive Grantmaking at The Cleveland Foundation where she managed the Foundation’s Successful Aging Initiative, a $4 million initiative that created resources and opportunities for seniors to age successfully in Greater Cleveland. Prior to joining The Cleveland Foundation, she served as director of client services for Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland. She also served as the Deputy Executive Director of Planned Parenthood of East Central Michigan (Flint). Stacey holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in human biology from Stanford University and a master’s degree in public health from The University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

Barbara Brush Wright

Barbara Brush Wright Barbara Brush Wright is the great-granddaughter of the foundater Charles F. Brush. She joined the board in November of 1991 when her father Charles F. Brush III retired. She has served as Vice-President, President and Treasurer. She was a professional fundraiser and more currently a functional potter.

Henry W. Foster, Jr., MD

Henry W. Foster is Professor Emeritus and former Dean, Meharry College and Clinical Professor, OB/GYN, Vanderbilt University. His B.S. degree is from Morehouse College and his M.D. degree from the University of Arkansas. Dr. Foster has served on numerous boards, committees and councils, all of which work to improve reproductive health and medical education. In 1995 he was President Clinton’s, nominee to become U. S. Surgeon General; thereafter, he served 5 years as his Senior Advisor on Teen Pregnancy and Youth Issues.

Lee Minto

Lee Minto joined the Brush Foundation Board in 1993 following her retirement as President/CEO of what is now known as Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest. During those years she served on the boards of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, The Guttmacher Institute, The National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, and a number of other national, regional and local organizations. From 1972 to 1993, Lee Minto held a position as Adjunct Associate Professor of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington. She served as co-chair of the Washington state coalition which in 1971, passed the first state abortion reform law voted in by a vote of the people. Subsequently, she chaired in 1986 a new statewide coalition, PRO-Choice Washington, which defeated an attempt to de-fund abortions for low-income women, and went on in 1991 to pass Initiative 120, which codified Roe v Wade language, plus the guarantee of funding into Washington State Law.