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Healthy
Schools Network, Inc.
110 Maryland Avenue NE • Ste 505 • Washington,
DC 20002 • T-202.543.7555
773 Madison Avenue • Albany, NY 12208
T- 518.462.0632 • F-
518.462.0433
About Us
Healthy Schools Network, Inc., is the leading national
voice for children's environmental health at school
and a national-award-winning 501(c)3 not-for-profit
environmental health organization. Founded in 1995,
we launched the national healthy schools movement
with comprehensive state policies and a model coalition
that have been shared and replicated widely since
1997. As EPA and CDC Partners, our expertise is also
recognized by Congress, university centers, NGOs,
and the media. To protect our voice for children,
we do not endorse products or accept support from
chemical companies or vendors.
Our policy campaigns address three core facets of
environmental health at school: 1) child-safe standards
for school design, construction, and siting; 2) child-safe
policies for housekeeping and purchasing (targeting
indoor air pollutants, mercury, pesticides and other
toxics, and the use of safer substitutes); and 3)
environmental public health services for children
in harm's way. In 1996, to assist parents with health-impacted
children, we developed the EPA-award-winning
Healthy Schools/Healthy Kids Clearinghouse©,
which offers dozens of fact sheets, guides, and peer-reviewed
reports. Its first two parent guides (indoor
air, green cleaning) have been nationally distributed
since 1999.
In 2000, we convened the now-1,000-strong national
Coalition for Healthier Schools, which has won $1.2
billion for schools repairs (2001) and two federal
laws authorizing Education (2002) and EPA (2007)
to address school environments by partnering with
the states. The Coalition provides "the platform
and the forum for environmental health" through
regular conference calls and annual meetings. In 2009
it issued Sick Schools 2009, its second national collaborative
report with state-by-state data and policy profiles.
Based on multiple technical panel discussions (2004-2006)
and landmark policy wins in New York, Coalition activists
formed the National Collaborative on Green Cleaning
and Chemical Policy Reform in Schools in 1996.
The Collaborative has shared resources, strengthened
certification standards for cleaning products, developed
an "industry-free" and open-source online
training Toolkit tested in ten states, and won several
state laws, and it continues to work daily to defeat
chemical industry's false marketing claims, all through
providing free information and technical comments
to policy reformers, NGOs, and schools and their communities.
Since 2009, we have successfully worked for restoring
a federal executive order on risks to children's environmental
health (2009), the President's Inter Agency Task Force
on Risks to Children's Health (2009), and igniting
new interagency work to address environmental risks
in K-12 schools (2010) through a new EPA Healthy Schools
Initiative that will offer grants to states.
2009
yearbook |
2010
yearbook
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2010 Research Associates
Albany, NY (left to right) Andrew
Sumpter,
Executive Director Claire Barnett,
Maliha Chagtai, Kit Lee
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Children & Environment:
The White House
Council on Environmental Quality
On the Steps of the White House
Council on Environmental Quality (April 30).
Susan Wooley, Executive Director, American School
Health Association; Vernice Miller-Travis, Healthy
Schools Network Board Officer; Ramona Trovato,
Children’s Environmental Health Network
Board Chair. Not pictured, Claire Barnett, Coordinator,
Coalition for Healthier Schools.
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Coalition for Healthier Schools Annual Meeting
December 2007
Coalition for Healthier Schools
annual meeting in Washington, DC,
December 4-5.
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Coalition for Healthier Schools
Annual Meeting
December 2006
Washington, DC: Coalition for
Healthier Schools meeting hosted by American
Federation of
Teachers. Lunch Break!
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Awards and Benefit Reception
October 2006
New York, NY: (left to right)
John Shaw, HSN Board President; Peggy Shepard,
WE ACT for Environmental Justice/Award Presenter;
Jeff Jones, HSN Board Member; Stephen Boese,
HSN NYS Director; Vernice Miller-Travis, HSN
Board Member; Claire Barnett, HSN Executive
Director; Neal Tepel, HSN Board Member; Joyce
Bove, NY Community Trust/Award Presenter; Richard
Iannuzzi, NYSUT/Honoree; Marcia Bystryn, NY
LCV/Honoree; Robert Jackson, NYC Council/Honoree;
Denis M. Hughes, NYS AFL-CIO/Award Presenter;
James Naughton, Program Host.
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Summit on Green Cleaning
April 2006
NY, NY: New York State and New
York City organizations meet with NYS Department
of Health and Office of General Services to
discuss draft standards for new state law requiring
all schools to use green cleaning products.
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New York City Council
National Healthy Schools Day Proclamation
April 2006
(left to right) Peggy Shepard,
WE ACT for Environmental Justice; John Shaw,
Healthy Schools Network Board President; Claire
Barnett, HSN Executive Director; Robert Jackson,
NYC Council; Stephen Boese, HSN New York State
Director; Gale Brewer, NYC Council; other parents
and advocates from NYC.
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Coalition for Healthier Schools Meeting
January 2006
Washington, DC: (left) Claire
Barnett (center), Coalition Coordinator and
HSN Executive Director, panel on children's
exposures and intervention services; (right)
Coalition for Healthier Schools meeting attendees,
panel on High Performance School Design.
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Back to School Breakfast
September 2005
Washington, DC: (left to right)
Tom Anapolis, Healthy Schools Network Board
Member; Governor Parris N. Glendening, Smart
Growth Leadership Institute; Claire Barnett,
HSN Executive Director; Ramona Trovato, Healthy
Schools Network Board Member; Stephen Boese,
Healthy Schools Network
New York State Director.
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Awards and Benefit Reception
October 2004
New York, NY: (left to right)
Leyla Erk McCurdy, Healthy Schools Network Board
President; Charles Szuberla, New York State
Education Department; Claire Barnett, Healthy
Schools Network Executive Director; Peter R.
Smith,
NYSERDA; Katherine Kennedy.
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Healthy Schools Network,
Inc.
Board of Directors & Board Committees, January
2009
(organizational affiliations
for identification purposes only)
 President
John Shaw is the President and co-founder
of Next Wave Inc., a national health services
consulting and evaluation firm. Here he has
worked with several state and private agencies
on health care consulting and evaluation projects. |
 Vice
President
Beatriz Barraza is the Director of Health
Promotion for the San Diego Colaborativo SABER
Project that encourages community empowerment
through local partnerships. She has also worked
on various health promotion projects in San
Diego, including the Tobacco-Free Workplace
project. She currently serves on the Children's
Health Protection Advisory Committee of the
U.S. EPA. |
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 Secretary
Vernice Miller-Travis is Executive
Director of Groundwork USA, a network of independent
non-profit urban redevelopment organizations
that help communities use their assets to
eliminate environmental poverty and become
vibrant, healthier, and safer places to live.
As a former program officer of the Ford Foundation,
she launched that institution's environmental
justice portfolio in the United States. She
was the Director of the Environmental Justice
Initiative at the NRDC, served on the U.S.
EPA's National Environmental Justice Advisory
Council and is co-founder of West Harlem Environmental
Action, an 18-year-old community-based environmental
justice organization in NYC.
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 Treasurer
Tom Anapolis is Director of Program Services
for New York State United Teachers (NYSUT),
the union representing more than 575,000 professionals
in education and health care across New York
State. |
 Chair-
Science Committee
Dr. David Carpenter is the Director of
the Institute for Health and Environment at
the University of Albany. He has served on various
national and international committees and was
the founding Dean of the School of Public Health
at the University of Albany until he left the
position in 1998. His research areas include
environmental exposures to toxins, public health
education, and neurotoxicology. |
 Kenneth
Olden, Ph.D.
Dr. Kenneth Olden is the former Director
of the NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program.
At present, he is a Yerby Professor, Harvard
University, School of Public Health, and Chief
of the Metastasis Section, NIEHS. |
 Chair
- New York City Task Force
Neal Tepel is the Assistant to the Executive
Director of AFSCME District Council 1707 for
Intergovernmental Affairs. This union represents
members in childcare, early education, and health
facilities. Through the years, Neal has worked
with many labor organizations in strategic planning
and public relations. As a current board member
of Healthy Schools Network and chair of the
New York City Committee, he has developed collaborations
to foster healthy and energy efficient schools.
Neal is also the founding board member to New
York City Apollo and vice president of the Civil
Service Merit Council. |
 Joellen
Lawson
Joellen Lawson holds a bachelor's degree in
Special Education and master's degrees in Counseling
and School Health Education. Prior to her disability
retirement in 2001, her twenty-three year career
as an educator/consultant included working as
a founding member of the Attention Deficit Disorders
Institute, seminar leader for the Institute
for Creative Education, and as a special education
teacher for several public school systems in
Connecticut. In 2002, she founded the Connecticut
Foundation for Environmentally Safe Schools. |
 Shirley
Schantz
Shirley Schantz, RN, EdD, ARNP is the nursing
education director at the National Association
of School Nurses which is the primary source
of information for school nurses. The National
Association of School Nurses improves the health
and educational success of children and youth
by developing and providing leadership to advance
school nursing practice. She has served on national
committees addressing the health and well being
of all children. Shirley has a background in
academia focusing on school health and maternal/child
health. |
 Carolyn
Smith Evans
Carolyn Smith-Evans is a teacher in the Salem-Keizer
School District in Oregon. She graduated from
Oregon State with a B.S. in Social Sciences
and received a master's degree in Psychology.
She became active in the area of environmentally
healthy schools when her son was chemically
injured at school. She began her work as a parent
activist and then worked with her local union
association on these issues. Eventually she
worked at the national level within NEA to create
awareness and training opportunities for NEA's
members. She was one of the 3 co-founders of
the NEA Healthy Schools Caucus and has served
in a leadership position within the caucus since
its inception. |
 Robert
W. Amler, MD
Robert W. Amler, MD is Vice President for Government
Affairs at New York Medical College and Dean
of the School of Health Sciences and Practice,
and Institute of Public Health. He is a graduate
of Dartmouth College, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School, and the CDC’s Epidemic
Intelligence Service. He also chairs an advisory
committee for the Task Force on the Future of
Westchester Medical Center, and has consulted
for other medical centers. Dr. Amler previously
held the post of Regional Health Administrator,
US Dept of Health and Human Services and Chief
Medical Officer, CDC-ATSDR, where he founded
and directed the Children’s Environmental
Health Initiative and Pediatric Environmental
Health Specialty Units (PEHSUs).
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National Policy Committee
Vernice Miller-Travis,
Co-Chair
Laura Abulafia
Environmental Healthy Policy
Los Angeles, CA
Pam Bauer Wallentiny, Coordinator
Maryland Children’s Environmental Health
Coalition
Denise Bowles
Assistant Director Health and Safety
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees Washington, DC
Paul Burns
VT Public Interest Research Group
designee Charity Carbine
Montpelier, VT
Veronika Carella, MD PTA Legislative Committee
Member -
Health & Environmental Issues
Glenwood, MD
Doreen Croser, Executive Director
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities
Julia Earl
Preventing Harm MN
Minneapolis, MN
Jay Feldman, designee Kagan Owens
Beyond Pesticides
Washington, DC
Ginny Frazier
ALLY,
Cincinnati, OH
Ellie Goldberg, M.Ed.
Educational Rights Specialist and MA-PTA
Newton, MA
Tolle Graham, CIH,
MassCOSH and Coordinator, MA Healthy Schools
Network
Boston, MA
Lloyd Kolbe, PhD, U. of Indiana/Bloomington
fmr Director
CDC-Div of Adolescent and School Health
Julia Graham Lear, Ph.D.
Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Washington, DC
Joyce Martin
Environmental Healthy Policy
Washington, DC
Elise Miller, Med, Executive Director
Commonweal
Freeland, WA
Deborah Moore
Green Schools Initiative
Berkeley, CA
Virginia Mott, ME-PTA
American Lung Association of Maine
Lakeville, ME
Peggy Shepard
WEACT
NY, NY
Carolyn Smith-Evans, President
National Education Association's Healthy Schools
Caucus
Salem, OR
Kirk Stone
New Hampshire Partnership for High Performance
Schools
Concord, NH
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director
Children's Environmental Health Network
Washington, DC
Ramona Trovato, M.S.
Blue Heron Consulting, LLC
Crownsville, MD
Susan Wooley, designee Sharon Warnecke
Jennie Young
NEA-HIN
New York City Task Force
Neal Tepel, NYC Chair
Nancy Anderson, Ph.D.
Sallan Foundation
NY, NY
Kirsten Brashares
Wellness in the Schools
NY, NY
Marion Feinberg
For a Better Bronx
Bronx, NY
John Forster
Local 375, DC 37
New York, NY
Jacquelyn Kamin
New York, NY
Ernest Logan
Council of School Supervisors and Administrators
New York, NY
Cameron Lory
NY, NY
Josh Nachowitz
NY League of Conservation Voters
New York NY
Michele Nolan, NYS-PTA
Ithaca, NY
Chris Proctor, UFT
NY, NY
Joel Shufro Executive Director
New York Committee on Occupational Safety
and Health NY, NY
Kim Sweet
Advocates for Children
New York, NY
Patricia Zedalis
New York, NY
NYS Association of School Nurses
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National Science Advisory Committee
* appointees are not necessarily peer-reviewers
of HSN publications
David Carpenter, MD, Chair
Ken Olden, PhD, Co-Chair
Darryl Alexander, CIH
Coordinator, Health and Safety
American Federation of Teachers
Washington, DC
Robert Amler, MD
NY Medical College
Valhalla, NY
Hal Levin, Research Architect
Building Ecology Research Group
Santa Cruz, CA
Ruth Etzel, M.D., Ph.D.
George Washington University
Sch. Publ. Hlth/Hlth Svcs
Anchorage, AK
New York State Committee and New York City
Task Force
Judy Braiman
Rochesterians Against the Misuse of Pesticides
Rochester, NY
Stephen Boese, LDA-NYLatham, NY
Cecil Corbin-Mark
WEACT, NY, NY
Kathy Curtis
Clean New York
Albany, NY
George Dunkel
American Academy of Pediatrics/District 2
Albany, NY
Janet Foley
CSEA
Albany, NY
John Green
New York State United Teachers
Latham, NY
Sally Guifrida
New York State PTA
Binghamton, NY
Wendy Hord
New York State United Teachers
Latham, NY
Jeff Jones
NYS Apollo Alliance
Rob Moore, Executive Director
Environmental Advocates of NY
Albany, NY
Joshua Nachowitz
NY League of Conservation Voters
New York, NY
Paul Webster
New York State United Teachers
Latham, NY
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