Director
Judith Kleinfeld
Judith Kleinfeld has published widely on gender issues, including the groundbreaking article, "The Myth That Schools Shortchange Girls," and has received awards from several associations for her work on gender equity.
Website: www.judithkleinfeld.com
Board of Directors
Our board unites more than 40 people concerned with boys' issues drawn from many points on the political spectrum. The board includes such well-known figures as:
Warren Farrell
Warren Farrell is the author of such books as Why Men Are the Way They Are The Myth of Male Power and Why Men Earn More. Warren Farrell's books articulate solutions, such as what it takes to provide a safe environment for boys and men to express feelings (such as Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say) and how to best integrate dads into boys' lives (such as Father and Child Reunion) The tables of contents and excerpts are at www.warrenferrell.com
David Geary
David Geary is Curators' Professor, Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri and the author of many books and articles on the biology of sex differences, such as Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences and Sex differences in social behavior and cognition. His research group specializes in cognitive, memory, and attentional systems and on improving the mathematics and science achievement of American children.
Website: web.missouri.edu/~psycorie Contact: gearyd@missouri.edu
Layne Gregory
Layne Gregory is the Executive Director of Boys to Men (B2M), a not-for-profit organization based in Portland Maine. The mission of B2M is to prevent interpersonal violence by offering programs that support the healthy development of adolescent boys, provide assistance and educational resources to boys and those who raise them, and to increase community awareness about the specific needs of boys.
Website: www.boystomen.info Contact: boystomen@maine.rr.com
Michael Gurian
Michael Gurian is a family therapist, youth advocate, and bestselling author of 21 books, including The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life, Boys and Girls Learn Differently, The Wonder of Boys. He is co-founder of the Gurian Institute, which trains educators, parents and other professionals in the learning and developmental needs of boys and girls.
Website: www.michaelgurian.com and www.gurianinstitute.com. Contact: michaelgurian@comcast.net
Ronald Henry
Ronald K. Henry is the founder and chairman of the Men's Health Network, a
501(c)(3) organization that has become the largest non-profit source of information and advocacy for improving men's
health. MHN works to improve health care access
for uninsured men and boys, improve their understanding of how to care for themselves and reduce behaviors that lead to premature
death and disability. MHN views men's health not only as an issue for men but also as an issue for women who face widowhood and
poverty from the premature death of husbands, for children who lose the love and support of fathers, for businesses which lose
productive workers and for government agencies which must fund welfare programs for prematurely disabled men and impoverished
surviving family members.
Mr. Henry is the 2004 recipient of the "Child Advocacy Lifetime Achievement Award" presented by the Children's
Rights Council for his pro bono work on behalf of children.
Contact: rhenry@kayescholer.com
Kevin Jennings
Kevin Jenings founded in 1990 the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, bringing
together straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in Massachusett's K-12 Schools. GLSEN has made safe schools into a national issue and grown the number of organizations to over 3,000 today. GLSEN programs like No Name-Calling Week and Day of Silence are now commonplace in American Schools.
A graduate of Harvard College, Jennings was named to Newsweek magazine's "Century Club" as "one of the 100 people to watch in the new century" and is also the recipient of the Human and Civil Rights Award of the National Education Association. Jennings has authored six books (one of which, Telling Tales Out of School, won a Lambda Literary ward and has established the Alice Jennnings Fund to help low income and battered women have the
opportunities his own mother was denied as a girl and woman from Appalachia.
Contact: fnbmj@uaf.edu
Bernice Joseph
Bernice Joseph is vice chancellor of the College of Community and Rural Development at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This college is home to six rural and community campuses that serve nearly two-thirds of Alaska's total land area, including more than 160 primarily Native communities. The CRA is the center for support and development of distance delivery education throughout the university.
Contact: fnbmj@uaf.edu
Clive Keen
Dr Clive Keen is author of six books on communications and higher education, and has been a regular media commentator in Canada on education-related issues. Recent papers and broacasts have focused on the male problem and issues conncted with the rapid expansion of participation in higher education.
He began his career as a lecturer in philosophy, but in the years since has played many roles, including founder of a major marketing and public relations company, Associate Dean of a Faculty of Business, Director of Communications of a newly created university, and Executive Director of Canada's largest online university. It was in his recent role as Director of Lifelong Learning and Enrolment Management at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, that he came to focus on the problem of male achievement at the university level.
Contact: fnbmj@uaf.edu
Michael Kimmel
Michael Kimmel is Professor of Sociology, S.U.N.Y at Stony Brook, New York. He has received international recognition for his many books on men and masculinity, such as Manhood in America: A Cultural History, Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity, and The Politics of Manhood. He edits Men and Masculinities, an interdisciplinary international journal.
Website: www.michaelkimmel.com Contact: michael_kimmel@yahoo.com
Kelly King
Kelley King is the principal of Douglass Elementary School in Boulder, Colorado. Her school began addressing the gender gap in literacy in August 2004 through staff training and the implementation of schoolwide "boy-friendly" instructional strategies. Within one year, both girls and boys had made tremendous achievement gains and the reading/writing gap was closed. As a result of its remarkable success, Douglass Elementary was featured on the cover of the January 2006 Newsweek magazine and on the Today Show. Kelley is currently involved in several writing and speaking projects so that others may learn from her school's success.
Website: www.douglasselementary.com and www.douglasselementary.com/gendergap.pdf Contact: kelley.king@bvsd.org
Joe Manthey
Joe Manthey is a gender equity advocate who leads Kid Culture in the Schools for educators, Raising Good Sons for parents, and How Boys Are Shortchanged in the Schools for students. His professional activities have included being a K-12 public school teacher, juvenile hall and group home counselor, as well as seminar leader/panelist/guest speaker/writer/consultant on a host of men's and boy's issues.
Website: www.joemanthey.com Contact:joemanthey[at]comcast.net
Tom Mortenson
Tom Mortenson is Higher Education Policy Analyst, Postsecondary Education Opportunity and senior scholar, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. He first drew public attention to the gender gap in postsecondary education and was the first to point out the need for a Boys Project.
Website: www.postsecondary.org and postsecondaryopportunity.blogspot.com Contact: tom@postsecondary.org
Marty Nemko
Marty Nemko is a contributing editor for US News and World Report, a columnist for Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, and a producer and host of Work with Marty Nemko, 91.7 FN (NPR San Francisco)
Marty Nemko deals with men's issues such as The Problem with BoysWebsite: www.martynemko.com Contact: mnemko@earthlink.net
William S. Pollack
William S. Pollack is Director of the Centers for Men and Young Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also the Director of the REAL BOYS® Educational programs, a school and organizational consultant and a clinical psychologist in private practice. His bestselling book, Real Boys and national book bestsellers Real Boys' Voices and Real Boys Workbook, as well as his video, Real Boys have brought his research to a popular audience.
Website: www.williampollack.com Contact: wpollack@williampollack.com
Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University, is a noted educational historian and author of The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms, and many other important books on American education. She served as Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993 and was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S. Department of Education.
Website: www.dianeravitch.com
Maria Elena Reyes
Maria Elena Reyes, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas Pan American, a specialist in Latino issues, was co-director of a research project examining Alaska's college gender gap and is currently planning to study gender issues among Latino high school students.
Contact: mereyes2@utpa.edu
Glenn Sacks
Glenn Sacks is a columnist and radio talk show host who discusses gender and family issues from a perspective sympathetic to men and fathers. He launched the highly-publicized radio campaign against "Boys are Stupid" products which succeeded in driving them out of 3,500 stores, 95% of their worldwide retail distribution.
Website: GlennSacks.com and www.hisside.com Contact: glenn@glennsacks.com
Jabali Sawicki
Jabali Sawicki is the founding principal of Excellence Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant located in Brooklyn, NY. Under Mr. Sawicki's leadership, Excellence aims to prepare its young boys to enter, succeed in, and graduate from outstanding college preparatory high schools and colleges. In August 2004, Excellence welcomed its inaugural group of 88 students in grades K-1.
Website: www.uncommonschools.org/ecs/home/index.html Contact: jsawicki@excellencecharter.org
Leonard Sax
Leonard Sax, a family physician and research psychologist, is author of the bestseller Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences, Boys Adrift and many scholarly articles such as " Who First Suggests the Diagnosis of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?" He is founder of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education.
Website: www.singlesexschools.org and www.whygendermatters.com Contact: leonardsax@prodigy.net
Jonathan Shepard
Jonathan Shepard is Assistant Principal, Sycamore Elementary in Ft. Worth, Texas. He has established a program called "Band of Brothers" for boys and "Band of Sisters" for girls which has had remarkable success in engaging culturally diverse children in school and raising their school attendance and achievement.
Contact: Jonathan.Shepard@crowley.k12.tx.us
Larry D. Simpson
Mr. Simpson leads efforts to eliminate the disproportionate identification of African Americans, especially African American males in special education. He has been a key figure in the district's equity work and in Ann Arbor Public Schools' attempts to close the achievement gap. His current research interests include how gender and ethnicity impact teacher efficacy and reading achievement
Contact: simpson@aaps.k12.mi.us
Paul Slocumb
Paul Slocumb is the author of Hear Our Cry: Boys in Crisis and is co-author of Removing the Mask: Giftedness in Poverty. He examines such issues as bullying, school violence, dropouts, and adolescents committing adult crimes.
Website: www.ahaprocess.com Contact: pslocumb1@aol.com
Kathy Stevens
Kathy Stevens is co-author, with Michael Gurian, of The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and Life. She presents nationally and internationally on how to create boy-friendly classrooms. She has more then 30 years experience in the nonprofit world, working in education, domestic violence, and women's issues. Kathy also has directed programs in youth and adult corrections for both male and female offenders. She has two sons and three grandchildren--two of them boys!
Website: www.thegitd.com Contact: kathy@thegitd.com
Sandra Stotsky
Sandra Stotsky is a professor of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Sandra Stotsky is an independent researcher and consultant in education. She is the editor of What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers and author of Losing Our Language. From 1991-1997, she served as editor of Research in the Teaching of English, the research journal sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English.
Contact: Sstotsky@aol.com
Christina Hoff Sommers
Christina Hoff Sommers is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. She has been a professor of philosophy at Clark University since 1981. She specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy and the New England Journal of Medicine. Sommers is editor of Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life - one of the most popular ethics textbooks in the country. She became known to the wider public as the author of Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women. Her book The War Against Boys received widespread attention and praise and was excerpted for a cover story in the Atlantic Monthly. It was included in the New York Times "Notable Books of the Year" in 2000.
Website: www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.56,filter.all/scholar.asp Contact: sommers22@aol.com
Scott Steinbrecher
Scott Steinbrecher served as a teacher, substitute teacher and coach in several school districts in Colorado. He also coached and officiated youth athletics for 15 years, coaching both boys and girls. He also has worked in the public policy arena for many years, including stints at the National Conference of State Legislatures and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, where he adapted the Family Directed Transition Guide for Colorado and edited the Colorado Work Incentive Project Resource Guide. He also has served as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Graduate School of Public Affairs and Colorado Technical University Online.
Contact: steinbrecher_scott@yahoo.com
Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson is the co-author of the bestselling book Raising Cain:Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys and Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Raising Sons. He hosted the two-hour PBS documentary, Raising Cain: Boys in Focus which portrays the challenges facing boys from diverse backgrounds.
Website: www.michaelthompson-phd.com and www.pbs.org/opb/raisingcain Contact: MGThomp328@aol.com
Melana Vickers
Her research publications include an examination of college women's studies programs called "An Empty Room of One's Own" and a review of top college liberal-arts curricula called "The Death of Liberal Arts?"
Contact: vickersm@cox.net
Ken Wallace
Ken Wallace is Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction for Maine Township High School District in Park Ridge, Illinois. He does school staff development and consulting on teaching and learning implications of gender differences between boys and girls and ways to promote better teaching and learning through the use of differentiated instruction and empathic teaching strategies for all students.
Contact: kwallace@maine207.org
Peter West
He is the head of the Research Group on Men and Families at the University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia and is a member of the Australia-wide National Advisory Committee of the Boys' Education Lighthouse Schools Program which funds action research to improve boys' education. He is the author of What Is the Matter with Boys? as well as a series of papers on boys' schooling. He has been a key player in getting the issue onto the national agenda in Australia , prompting a federal Parliamentary Inquiry into the Education of Boys. He has given workshops for teachers, parents and others on what teachers can do to increase boys' learning outcomes. Many valuable papers on the Australian experience in educating boys and tips for teachers may be found on his website: www.boyslearning.com.au.
Contact: p.west@exemail.com.au