Carmen Arias - District of Columbia

Currently working for BET Networks, Arias is a dynamic, energetic, creative, charismatic, and resourceful leader among her peers, co-workers, and in her community.   A member of Good Shepherd Catholic Church, Arias is a proud graduate of George Mason University with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in Business Administration.  Understanding the power of education, she also completed her Associates Degree in Liberal Arts from Northern Virginia Community College.  Her innovative thinking and drive are evident in her success as an accomplished HR Generalist, Project Manager, and Notary Public.  Fluent in English and Spanish, she was selected to study International Public Relations abroad. Her commitment to her community shines through her consistent volunteerism for such organizations as the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of NAMIC and spearheading the launch of the Latino campaign "Alto al Silencio," (Stop the Silence).  Passionate about the cause to stop child sexual abuse, she is coordinating the communication efforts for the Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc. organization and is also heading the sponsorship committee for the "2009 International Race to Stop the Silence."

LaQuisha Hall, Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator - Owings Mills, MD.

Ms. Hall is a Board Member with (unpaid) "staff-like" responsibilities currently serves as Mrs. Maryland Galaxy 2009. Ms. Hall is a Baltimore City School Teacher.   As a community service leader and a survivor of CSA, LaQuisha actively promotes her platform, Stop the Silence! Sexual Abuse Education & Support, which presents a two-pronged approach?educating the public about the realities of sexual abuse and supporting survivors through the recovery process. LaQuisha works with Stop the Silence, serving as the International Spokesperson and Ambassador Pageant Coordinator. LaQuisha oversees the work of Queendom TEA, a training and etiquette academy for teen girls, which helps teen girls build their character, self-esteem and make them aware resources in cases of child sexual abuse or other life situations for which intervention is needed.

Jeff Jordan - Falls Church, VA.

Seasoned nonprofit and for profit international development senior executive with demonstrated leadership skills and track record of achieving and surpassing programmatic goals and driving organizational change.   Mr. Jordan's technical experience spans both domestic and international applications in program development, policy communication and constituency building, institution building, and applied policy research and analysis for FP/RH and HIV/AIDS. Mr. Jordan is also active in international gender issues, and formerly the Chair of USAID's Inter-Agency Gender Working Group.   His areas of technical expertise include policy analysis and presentation training, participatory policy processes through civil society networks, GIS applications of health survey data, work on demographic linkages to related sectors including the environment and food security, and gender. In the area of HIV/AIDS Mr. Jordan, under the Futures Group managed POLICY Project, served as the facilitator for eight African delegations at the Regional Conference on Building Political Commitment for HIV/AIDS in Benin (1999) and again at the ICASA Conference in Burkina Faso. In February 2003, Mr. Jordan served as a facilitator at the Europe/Eurasia Chief of Missions Meeting on HIV/AIDS. He was a member of the planning committee for Track E (Program and Policy) of the 2004 AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.    Field applications include work in Benin, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Haiti, India, Ivory Coast Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Tanzania, Ukraine and Zambia . Mr. Jordan speaks French.   He holds a BA in Economics form Davidson College and an M.P.A. in International Development for the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

Mildred Mohammed ? Clinton, MD

After her children were kidnapped and her inability to go on living without them, she began the silent struggle of looking for them, knowing that if she exposed herself, John Allen Muhammad, the convicted and now executed DC Sniper,   would locate her and kill her. She was triumphant in her struggle to get through those 18 months of not knowing where her children were and re-gained full custody of them.   She fled from her estranged husband and moved to Maryland with the children.   She was frightened during the horrific sniper shootings, sat through court proceedings during the trial, and last but not least, began re-gaining her strength to start a non-profit organization to assist survivors of domestic violence.   Keeping her promise within herself to help other survivors and with her own personal funds, Mildred began After The Trauma, Inc., as the Founder/Executive Director.   (www.afterthetrauma.org).  

Mildred has appeared on Larry King Live, The Tyra Banks Show, CNN, BET, Good Morning America, Cable TV interviews and various newspapers and magazine interviews, to include the Washington Post and Newsweek. She has spoken on various syndicated radio shows.   She has appeared in many documentaries surrounding the DC Sniper case aired by TruTV, Discovery ID, MSNBC, A&E, CNN, Investigation Discovery and others.   She has become a "National Spokesperson" for domestic violence and has been honored as being the keynote speaker, telling her story, for many conferences regarding domestic violence. She speaks to victims/survivors of domestic violence, law enforcements, advocates, judges, therapist, counselors, medical professionals and at various universities.   She is an advocate and accompanies victims & survivors to court. She has received many awards and certificates of recognition for her work in domestic violence. She is a consultant with the Office for Victims of Crime.

Nicholas Panebianco ? Beltsville, MD

Long-standing children's advocate and mentor, since 1993 when he joined the Big Brothers Big Sisters program and program manager.   For over 17 years, he has served three different Little Brother mentees providing friendship and mentorship to boys who did have fathers in their lives.   In addition, Mr. Panebianco created, launch, and maintained the local BBBS chapter's Web site and e-mail for over 17 years.   He served as the President and Treasurer of the chapter's Prince Georges Council.   Finally he served on the Board of Directors managing the Run for Kids program for over 10 years.   During this time, the program raised over $500,000 for the agency.   In 2003, Mr. Panebianco founded the Marathon Charity Partners (MCP).   MCP is a non-profit organization that provides coaching, health, fitness, and logistics support to the partner charities.   These charities serve underprivileged children and families around the world.   The runners who train with MCP raise funds for the partner charities.   The charities that MCP supports have raised over $750,000 since the inception of MCP.   In 2006, Mr. Panebianco merged MCP with another non-profit and formed Marathon Charity Cooperation (MCC).   MCC is a non-profit corporation organized as a charitable and educational foundation for the benefit of the public both locally and globally.   The MCC mission includes funding a cooperative of non-profit member-charities who both benefit from and contribute to the events hosted. Our events provide opportunities for personal and professional growth in addition to education of the public serving people of all ages.   Mr. Panebianco currently reserves as the MCC President and has brought his management, leadership, and organizational skills to the organization.   MCC has doubled in size (membership and revenue since 2006. Stop the Silence (STS) has been an MCC partner charity for the past three years.   Mr. Panebianco currently works for Microsystems Automation Group, Inc. as a Senior Program Manager. He was served the Federal Government for the past 24 years as a Project Manager and Systems Engineer both as an employee and a contractor. He has held positions and supported several agencies including: the Intelligence Community, FAA and the Department of Transportation.   Mr. Panebianco joined the STS Board in April 2010.

Pamela Pine, PhD, MPH, MAIA - Bowie, MD  

Pamela Pine has been working in the area of national and international health and development and health communication for more than 30 years.   Her primary foci have been on communicable and other life threatening diseases (TB, AIDS, malaria), chronic diseases, reproductive health, family planning, child survival, violence against women and children, and related issues, with a primary focus on underserved women and children.   She has provided a full spectrum of public health assistance: program design, planning, fundraising, research, management, materials development, technical assistance, and evaluation.   She is a driven leader who is known as extremely productive, highly communicative, fair, and honest and a consummate net-worker.   She has worked diligently with numerous coalitions of corporate, faith-based, and philanthropic agencies to enact change in the U.S. and abroad from policy to grass roots organizing.    

Dr. Pine is the Founder of Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse, Inc.(www.stopcsa.org), a non-profit company focused on the comprehensive mitigation (prevention and treatment) of child sexual abuse (CSA) nationally and internationally, including a focus on orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC).   She oversees all aspects of the organization and is the Project Manager for the National Children's Bench Book Project, a Ford Foundation and DOJ-funded project focused on providing information to judges about CSA and trauma.   In a very short period, Stop the Silence has gained an international reputation.     

Ted Thompson, JD - Stillwater, Minnesota

Mr. Thompson is a veteran public policy professional with over 20 years experience working in the policy arena including nine years work for two Members of Congress; consulting services; and work for several non-profit organizations.   Thompson was most recently president/executive director of the National Association to Prevent Sexual Abuse of Children (NAPSAC) where he led the establishment of NAPSAC and NAPSAC Foundation as national organizations focused on a three-legged approach toward ending sexual abuse in America.   While at NAPSAC Thompson coordinated the acquisition of the National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC) program, managed public advocacy efforts in four states and the District of Columbia, and spearheaded the strategic planning process for the establishment and expansion of NAPSAC.

As chief of staff to Congressman Bill Luther, Thompson managed offices in Washington DC and Minnesota, coordinating legislative, press, and constituent outreach strategies.   In this role he served as the top policy, political and communications advisor to the Congressman.   Currently Thompson is working as an independent consultant and serves on the board of Resources for Child Caring, Minnesota's largest early education resource, referral and training agency. 

STOP THE SILENCE IS CURRENTLY RECRUITING FOR AN ADDITIONAL THREE BOARD MEMBERS

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