Healthy
Schools Network, Inc.
110 Maryland Avenue NE • Ste 505 •
Washington, DC 20002 • T-202.543.7555
30 Broad Street
• 30th floor
• NY, NY 10004 •T-
212.482.0204
773 Madison Avenue • Albany, NY 12208
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518.462.0433
About Us
Healthy Schools
Network, Inc. is a 501 c3 national environmental
health organization that does research, information,
education, coalition-building, and advocacy to ensure
that every child has a healthy learning environment
that is clean and in good repair.
Founded in 1995,we
have documented and publicized school environmental
problems; shaped and won new education, health,
and environmental policies; fostered dozens of local
and state policy groups; won systemic federal and
state reforms; and helped thousands of parents and
schools make classrooms and buildings healthier
through our EPA award-winning Healthy
Schools/Healthy Kids Clearinghouse (Information
and Referral Services).
Major efforts include:
building the platform and the forum for school
environments through the collaborative Coalition
for Healthier Schools which we founded and convene
with more than 400 local, state, and national partners;
leading National Healthy Schools Day; offering
steady assistance through the Clearinghouse's publications
and referrals; and refining our model New York Program.
Throughout, we are focused on: 1)
High Performance School Design/Construction consistent
with children's needs for healthy environments;
2) Greening Existing Schools; and
3) Environmental Public Health for
Children who are disproportionately affected by
environmental exposures.
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What Others Say About Us
Coalition for Healthier Schools Annual Meeting
December 2007
Coalition for Healthier Schools
annual meeting in Washington, DC,
December 4-5.
Coalition for Healthier Schools
Annual Meeting
December 2006
Washington, DC: Coalition for Healthier
Schools meeting hosted by American Federation of
Teachers. Lunch Break!
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.
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.
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.
 
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.
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.
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.
Healthy Schools Network,
Inc.
Board of Directors & Board Committees, January
2006
(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-
National Policy Committee
Ramona Trovato is the founding and now
former Director of the U.S. EPA Office of Children's
Health Promotion. She has received several distinguished
awards including the 2005 EPA Children's Environmental
Health Champion Award. |
 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. |
 Chair-
New York State Committee
Jeff Jones is a founding board member
of the Healthy Schools Network, and chairs the
organization's New York State Committee. An
Albany- based consultant, he advices not-for-profit
groups on political and media strategies. He
has taught in several daycare settings and as
an adjunct professor specializing in social
justice and the environment. He is currently
the coordinator of the New York State Apollo
Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, environment,
and healthy schools organizations. |
 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. |
 Hillary
Brown, AIA
Hillary Brown is the Principal of New Civic
Works, which assists government agencies and
institutional clients in integrating sustainable
design practices into their capital programs
through guidelines development and project implementation.
She is the former founder of the New York City
Office of Sustainable Design. |
National Policy Committee
Ramona Trovato, Chair
Denise Bowles
Assistant Director Health and Safety
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees Washington, DC
Veronika Carella, Parent Advocate
Glenwood, MD
Doreen Croser, Executive Director
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental
Disabilities
Washington, DC
Jay Feldman
Beyond Pesticides
Washington, DC
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
David Lohrman, PhD, Past-President
American School Health Association
Kent, OH
Elise Miller, Med, Executive Director
Institute for Children's Environmental Health
Freeland, WA
Virginia Mott
American Lung Association of Maine
Lakeville, ME
Carolyn Smith-Evans, President
National Education Association's Healthy Schools
Caucus
Salem, OR
Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director
Children's Environmental Health Network
Washington, DC
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
Lawrence D'Addona
United Federation of Teachers
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
Cecil Corbin Mark
West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.
NY, NY
Josh Nachowitz
NY League of Conservation Voters
New York 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
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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
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
Eileen Storey, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Indoor Environments &
Health
University of Connecticut
Farmington, CT
New York State Committee and New York City
Task Force
Jeff Jones, NYS Chair
Judy Braiman
Rochesterians Against the Misuse of Pesticides
Rochester, 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
Heather Loukmas
Learning Disabilities Association of NYS
Albany, NY
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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