Meet The Team
We are a very lean foundation, guided by our Board of Directors, a great team of experts, and by three terrific Advisory Committees; The Walter Cronkite Committee, the K-8 Study Group, and the GenZ Committee.
Board of Directors
Dan Buettner
Dr. Lennette A. Coleman
President
Malcolm Kirschenbaum
Chairman
Mary Cunningham
Mike Sheffer
Director of Education
Remar Sutton
Founder & Chairman Emeritus
Roberta Baskin
Will deHoo
Co-Founder & Content DirectorKey Team Members
Chelsea Trengrove
Director of AI Impact Project
Destanie Powell
Walter Cronkite Ambassador 20-21
Drew Guthrie
Executive Director
Eik Felix
Walter Cronkite Intern 2024-2025
Elenzie France
Research Coordinator - The Manipulation Project
Joey Archibald-Bowers
Spokesperson
Judy Cortinaz
Editor
Karim Aoussar
Social Media Guru
Dr. Lennette A. Coleman
President
LuAlice Waite
Senior Researcher
Mary Abbott Waite
Senior Editor
Matt Moss
International Projects Coordinator
Mike Sheffer
Director of Education
Nathalie Lemon
Walter Cronkite Intern 2023
Niels Postma
TechTeam Manager
Renier Dijkhuis
Creative Team Manager
Tracy Scott
Key Correspondent
Tyler Thournir
Videographer
Will Mears
Project Lead - The Manipulation Project
Will deHoo
Co-Founder & Content DirectorGenZ Committee
FoolProof's Generation Z Committee provides us valuable feedback on our resources and projects aimed at young people. In 2021 the team has been invaluable in vetting the series of new modules FoolProof is developing for our Big Project.
Anika Goyal
Destanie Powell
Joey Archibald-Bowers
Samantha Firmin
Team Co-Leader
Sarita Toledo
Sasha Alvarez
Team Co-Leader
Taylor Griffeth
The Walter Cronkite Committee
FoolProof exists because of Walter Cronkite. The Walter Cronkite Committee works to advance FoolProof's mission to provide ethical and free financial literacy resources that actually work to all consumers.
Walt Cronkite IV
Co-Chair, the Walter Cronkite Committee
Dr. Lennette A. Coleman
Co-Chair, the Walter Cronkite Committee, President of the FoolProof Foundation
Hamilton Fish
Co-Chair, the Walter Cronkite Committee
Cristina Cuomo
Doug White
Author, The Non-Profit Challenge: Integrating Ethics into the Purpose and Promise of the Nation's Nonprofits
Sheila Bair
Former Chair FDIC, Senior Advisor, StudentDebtSmarter.org, Author, Money Tales
Eric Poirier
CEO of Addepar
Susan Eisenhower
Author and President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc.
Dan buettner
Founder, The Blue Zones Project and National Geographic Fellow
Dayle M. Smith, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Business Administration; Loyola Marymount University
Edward B. Cohen
Partners for Democracy, Attorney
Sara & David Stemler
Founders PC Home Stores
Jim Trengrove
Communications & Media Specialist
Joe Lonsdale
Founding Partner, Formation 8
Jan Neuharth
Chair & CEO, Freedom Forum
Jackie Gingrich Cushman
CFA, NACD Board Leadership Fellow
Tanya Davis
Co-founder, William & Mary Davis Foundation, founder, A Purpose by Design
Heather Harper MBE
President Gridserve
Sharon Bush
Board Member, UN Women for Peace Association, New York
Jeremy Seward
Content strategist, the Walter Cronkite Committee, owner, Logistical Video Research
Peter Cunningham
United States Assistant Secretary of Education, 2009-2013
Joan Claybrook
President Emeritus, Public Citizen
Steve Brobeck
Senior Fellow, Consumer Federation of America
Ira Rheingold
Executive Director, National Association of Consumer Advocates
Rodney Brooks
Personal Finance Columnist, Retired, The Washington Post
Michael Coleman
Newspaper Management Consultant, Trustee with the Freedom Forum, Newseum and Newseum Institute
Anne Hearst McInerney & Jay McInerney
Directors, Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation, New York
Rita Green
Instructor of Accountancy, The University of Memphis and Former Director, Consumer Federation of America
Professor Lauren Willis
Professor of Law, Loyola University, Los Angeles
Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, Ph.d.
Co-Founder, Speyer Legacy School
Jennifer Tejada
CEO, PagerDuty
Ivan Oransky, MD
Co-Founder, Retraction WatchK-8 Study Group
There are no scalable financial literacy resources for children in kindergarten through the 4th grade. Very limited resources are available for kids in the 5th through 8th grades. That's why FoolProof formed the K-8 Study Group. This study group brings together internationally recognized experts in childhood education who advise FoolProof and our partner, The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, during the development of our K-8 resources.
Susan Linn, Ed.d
• Research Associate at Boston Children's Hospital; Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. • Founding Director, Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood • Author, Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood
Michelle Singletary
• The Washington Post syndicated personal finance columnist • Author, The 21 Day Financial Fast
Ron Lieber
• The New York Times' "Your Money" columnist • Author, The Opposite of Spoiled
Tim Kasser, Ph.d
• Researcher on materialism and consumer culture • Author, The High Price of Materialism • Professor and Chair of Psychology, Knox College
Dr. Lennette Coleman
• Co-founder and Principal, Ariel Community Academy, Chicago, Illinois
Mara Einstein, Ph.d
• Author, Black Ops Advertising • Authority on consumer culture
Professor Lauren Willis
• Research authority on the impact of financial literacy education • Author Against Financial Literacy Education, The Financial Education Fallacy
Nathan Dungan
• Founder and President, Share Save Spend • Board Member, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood • Creator, Money Sanity U, a virtual learning library
Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, Ph.d
• Co-founder and Director, Speyer Legacy School, Manhattan • Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Chris Hoofnagle
• Authority on the FTC and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act • Author, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy • Professor, UC Berkley School of Information
Josh Golin
• Executive Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood