Will A. Gunn
Will A. Gunn is CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW), a youth organization providing after-school academic enrichment and athletic activities for 35,000 children annually throughout the National Capital Region through its 21 clubs and a summer camp. Founded in 1886, BGCGW is the largest affiliate of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Colonel Gunn joined the BGCGW after a distinguished 25-year career in the United States Air Force and a long history of mentoring and volunteer work with young people through churches and schools wherever he was stationed. Throughout his career, Gunn built, oversaw and managed large, complex legal teams to ensure fair and just representation within the military legal system. Most recently, Gunn was Chief Defense Counsel in the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions where he directed the overall defense effort for detainees brought before military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While in this post, Gunn built a defense office from the ground up and led a team of 14 military and 20 civilian pool attorneys representing a client base of more than 500 detainees. Prior to this position, he was Executive Officer to the Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG), where he oversaw the office responsible for organizing, assigning and training more than 2,500 active duty and reserve attorneys and paralegals. He has held a variety of positions as a manager and staff attorney for the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General, at one time leading a 52-person legal team covering an 11-state region that defended several thousand clients and served a total client base of more than 100,000 personnel at 26 installations. From 1990-1991 he was a White House Fellow, serving as a liaison between the White House and Department of Transportation, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Gunn has a deep commitment to helping people. He has been actively engaged in bringing more minorities into the Air Force Academy and working within JAG to mentor and develop young attorneys. He has coached various youth basketball teams, tutored in the Washington, DC and Montgomery, Alabama school systems and directed youth programs through his church. He holds a J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He also holds an M.S. from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and an L.L.M. in Environmental Law from George Washington University. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Dawn, and three children.

VICE CHAIR

Laura V. Farber

MEMBERS

William C. Bell

Hon. Bobbe J. Bridge

Peter Correia III
Mr. Correia directs the overall administration of the National Resource Center for Youth Services at the University of Oklahoma, a major program supported by the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is responsible for coordinating the overall management and delivery of service/programs of the NRC. He develops and provides training and consultation in the areas of cultural competency and independent living for youth transitioning to adulthood. Peter serves on many national committees pertaining to child welfare and youth services. He has a master's degree in social work from Boston University.

Education: bachelor's degree from the University of Florida, law degree from West Virginia University, masters of law degree from Georgetown, and masters of arts degree from the Naval War College.

Miriam Aroni Krinsky
Miriam Aroni Krinsky is a Special Consultant on Policy, Reform and Legislative Initiatives for the California Judicial Council. She previously served as Executive Director of the Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles, a 185 person nonprofit organization that represents over 20,000 abused and neglected youth in Los Angeles. Ms. Krinsky sits on the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Foster Care and participates in various other federal, state and local policy groups addressing issues impacting dependent youth, and has testified extensively before legislative, governmental and judicial bodies on issues relating to children at risk. She served as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (the first lawyer from the public sector to hold that office), on the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, acting as Commission President for three years, and as Co-Chair of the California Bench Bar Coalition.  After law school, she practiced at the L.A. firm Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson & Beardsley and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District of California, acting as Chief of that office's Appellate and General Crimes Sections. While with DOJ, Ms. Krinsky chaired the Solicitor General’s Advisory Group on Appellate Issues and received Attorney General Janet Reno’s highest national award for appellate work. Ms. Krinsky has taught law school at the University of Southern California Law Center and Loyola Law School and lectured nationwide on criminal law, child welfare, sentencing, and other legal topics.

Patricia Loera

Harriet S. Mosatche, Ph.D.
Dr. Harriet S. Mosatche is Vice-President of Program Collaborations and Initiatives for Girl Scouts of the USA. Dr. Mosatche received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Previously a tenured professor and the Chairperson of the Psychology Department at the College of Mount St. Vincent in New York City, Dr. Mosatche also taught at the College of New Rochelle, Manhattan College, and Hunter College. Dr. Mosatche has been a long-time Girl Scout leader and has published numerous articles about child and adolescent development as well as family relationships. She is also the author of several books, including: Too Old for This, Too Young for That! Your Survival Guide for the Middle-School Years; and Where Should I Sit at Lunch? The Ultimate 24/7 Guide to Surviving the High School Years.

Christina Plum

Myrna S. Raeder

Andrew I. Schepard

Dianne Stone, Ph.D.
Dianne Stone is a consultant for the Cook County Juvenile Court and does private assessments of students struggling in their educational setting. For over a decade, Dr. Stone was a psychologist for the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center's Nancy B. Jefferson School where she counseled and assessed youth between the ages of 10 and 17 who were incarcerated there. Dr. Stone was appointed by the Hon. Donald P. O'Connell, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, to the Clinical Evaluation and Services Initiative at Cook County Juvenile Court to work on improving mental health assessments for juveniles in court. Dr. Stone received her doctorate in psychology from Loyola University and did her undergraduate work at University of Illinois.

Linda A. Teplin

Paul Weckstein
Paul Weckstein, Co-Director of the Center for Law and Education joined the program full-time in 1978 as a staff attorney and moved to Washington to direct the program's DC office in 1981. He has been co-director with Kathy Boundy since 1990. He played a major role in shaping past and current reforms of Title I, the Perkins and School-to-Work Opportunities Acts, and other federal education legislation and has developed projects to assist with local implementation of both Title I/academic reform and vocational reform. He has written, trained, and advocated extensively in all areas of education affecting low-income students. Mr. Weckstein began his education career at the Massachusetts Department of Education, where he worked with high school students on involvement in school decision-making. He graduated from Haverford College and holds both education and law degrees from Harvard University, where he has also taught education law.