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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 14, 2006
Children's Futures Names New Board Members
Trenton, NJ, November 1, 2006- Children's Futures, Inc. has named seven new board members representing diverse backgrounds in the areas of medicine, law, philanthropy, higher education, and child advocacy. They include: Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., professor of Psychiatry and Sociomedical Services at Columbia University in New York, NY; Sherea McKenzie, Esq., executive director of the Joint City/County Commission on Children in Houston, TX; Barbara Reisman, executive director of The Schumann Fund of New Jersey in Montclair, NJ; Dr. Frank Louis Rusciano, professor and chair of Political Science at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ; Dr. Gregory Seaton, assistant professor in the Department of Education, Administration and Secondary Education at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, NJ; Kendall Sprott, M.D., director, Community Pediatrics at Children's Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, NJ; and, Suzanne Williamson, president of the National Association for Family Child Care and executive director of Monday Morning, Inc., a professional child care management service in Central New Jersey.
"We are grateful that these seven distinguished professionals have agreed to join our work on behalf of families throughout Trenton," said Children's Futures' board chair Beverly Richardson, Ph.D., who is also vice president for college advancement of Mercer County Community College and provost of its James Kerney Campus.
Established in 2001 with major support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Children's Futures is a non-profit organization that works city-wide in Trenton, N.J. to improve child health and development outcomes, particularly for children ages 0-3.
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