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Lead Poisoning Help Association
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| ALPHA's Board of Directors: | |||||||||||
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Leann Howell - Executive Director,
President, ALPHA |
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| Leann
Howell has been involved with childhood lead poisoning for over a
decade, learning about it firsthand through her children’s exposures.
Leann has a MA in English & a BS in English Writing through
Slippery Rock University of PA, along with an AAS in Business through |
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| Marian Johnson - Treasurer, ALPHA | |||||||||||
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Marian Johnson attended
Glassboro State College and earned a BA in education in 1965. She worked
as an elementary and middle school teacher in New Jersey for 34
years. Her involvement in lead poisoning began when her nephew Julian
was diagnosed as an infant. That was more than 10 years ago. She has
worked with Julian as both an aunt and teacher for a good portion of
his life. She has seen first hand the effects of lead poisoning and
understands the frustrations and fears of all "lead
parents". As a result,
Marian co-founded ALPHA,
has attended lead
awareness meetings and has helped at local lead testing events.
Because of her education background she believes that education is the
key to wiping out lead poisoning in this country and will continue to
work to that end.
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| Michele Gaffney - Secretary, Parent and Webmaster, ALPHA | |||||||||||
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| Sandra Roseberry - Parent Advocate | |||||||||||
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Sandra has been involved in lead poisoning prevention since her own children were diagnosed with lead poisoning in 1985. For over 22 years Sandy has worked with other parents in coping with and understanding the implication of their children’s lead poisoning. Her work has extended from direct service to families, community education and out reach, public speaking and presentations in conferences across America to co-founding ALPHA and working on changes in public policy. Through her advocacy work with Congress and State Legislatures the bills she worked on have resulted in new Federal; Title X and five State laws designed to protect children and their families from exposure to lead. Sandy’s most recent work has been in Maine and New Hampshire resulting in a new lead law in Maine which now brings in approximately $1,000,000 each year from the paint industry to pay for lead poisoning prevention and outreach and the successful passage of a new law in NH which will now allow the State to take action and issue corrective orders in cases when a child has a blood lead level of 10 mic/dL. Over the past year she has been providing Lead, Healthy Homes and Tenant Advocacy education to low income families in Manchester, NH with a specialty of working with Sub-Saharan African Refugees. She serves on a committee addressing the need for reform in Refugee Resettlement practices and was appointed by the Governor of New Hampshire to serve on his Study Commission on Lead Poisoning Prevention. |
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| Michael Martin - Research Analyst, Arizona School Boards Association | |||||||||||
| Michael Martin is the research analyst for the Arizona School Boards Association. He regularly prepares reports on education topics of statewide relevance. One of those reports, titled "A Strange Ignorance", summarized the research on lead poisoning and its effects on school children. He has a B.A. in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in economics from the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at California State University, Sonoma. He is a co-founder of ALPHA and was formerly the assistant financial advisor to the Arizona Senate, a research analyst with the Arizona Tax Research Association, the Arizona Public Affairs Officer for the Internal Revenue Service, and an instructor in the U.S. Marine Corp Electronics School. He is married to an elementary school principal and has a thirteen-year-old son in eighth grade. | |||||||||||
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| Janet A. Phoenix, MD, MPH - Executive Director, Coalition for Environmentally Safe Communities | |||||||||||
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Janet A. Phoenix is Executive Director of the Coalition for
Environmentally Safe Communities, a tax exempt non profit organization
dedicated to providing technical assistance and training to communities
at special risk for environmental disease. Dr. Phoenix is a graduate of
the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and
Howard University College of Medicine. She is an internationally
recognized expert on lead poisoning prevention. She has extensive
experience on childhood asthma, having developed a train the trainer
curriculum to reduce environmental asthma triggers in the home. Dr.
Phoenix is a co-founder of ALPHA and has been a grants manager for lead poisoning prevention programs
for over 10 years, having managed the |
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| Stephen Weil - Founder and Chairman, Board of Director's, Coalition for Environmentally Safe Communities | |||||||||||
| Mr. Weil currently serves as chair of the Coalition’s board of directors and is cofounder of the Coalition. Mr. Weil is a co-founder of ALPHA and has over 15 years of extensive involvement in the lead hazard control field. Through his numerous conferences targeted to lead hazard control professionals and his managerial relationship with the Lead and Environmental Hazards Association (formally the National Lead Assessment and Abatement Council), he has developed strong relationships within the lead hazard control industry. In 1996 Weil established the first National Conference on Lead-Safe Housing, now in its seventh year. His experiences in conducting numerous technical workshops and conferences on lead-based paint hazard control practices; his management of the Indoor Environmental Health & Technologies Conference, held this year in New Orleans, May 13-16, and his work as publisher of trade publications to the industries and agencies involved in lead hazard control, have provided him with extensive contacts in the industry. | |||||||||||
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| Kristin Joyner - Parent Mentor | |||||||||||
| Kristin
Joyner, a mother whose child suffers permanent neurological damage from
lead poisoning, is a co-founder of ALPHA, founded UNited Carolinians for Lead Eradication (UNCLE)
in 1997 (developed from United Parents Against Lead/NC). The
primary focus was intervention services for families of lead-diagnosed
children and lead prevention. UPAL/NC received funding to teach parents how to navigate a lead-poisoned child through educational, medical, social, and legal issues, along with Lead 101, and provided lead outreach and education to migrant workers who come to NC during spring and summer months. Predominantly, these individuals are of Spanish heritage; UPAL/NC developed an entire Español outreach program for these famili es. Over the past five
years, UPAL/NC has successfully mentored numerous parent organizations
in obtaining 501(c)3 status and some grant writing assistance. Kristin
has received a Lead Star Award in 2000, and a Lifetime Achievement Award
in 2006 for her contributions towards ending childhood lead poisoning.
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| Barry Sugarman | |||||||||||
| Barry
Sugarman, a shareholder with Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A., has
been a member of the firm's Toxic Tort Team since 1992. Mr.
Sugarman's bar admissions in both New Jersey and New York make it
possible for him to work from the firm's offices in both states
representing those injured by dangerous and defective products.
Mr. Sugarman represents those injured by many different kinds of defective products including Asbestos, Diet Drugs (Fen-Phen), Propulsid and Vicryl Sutures. He has worked on the Wilentz Toxic Tort Team, and together with other regional and national law firms, to represent those injured in both individual and class action cases. Barry is proud to be an advocate for children representing the rights of victims of childhood lead poisoning. He is also a member of several boards and organizations, including Advocates For A Lead Safe New Jersey (ALSNJ), the Advisory Committee to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, and the New Jersey Appleseed Public Interest Law Center. He has presented and moderated at local and national seminars on litigating infant injury cases including, but not limited to, lead poisoning and traumatic brain injury. In 1996, Mr. Sugarman was selected as a finalist for the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. Mr. Sugarman is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America- New Jersey and the Middlesex County Bar Association. He is also a Barrister in The Joseph Halpern Inn of Court helping less experienced attorneys to develop their legal skills. |
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