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
PresidentMalcolm Kirschenbaum
ChairmanMary Cunningham
Mike Sheffer
Director of EducationRemar Sutton
Founder & Chairman EmeritusRoberta Baskin
Will deHoo
Co-Founder & Content DirectorKey Team Members
Chelsea Trengrove
Director of AI Impact ProjectDestanie Powell
Walter Cronkite Ambassador 20-21Drew Guthrie
Executive DirectorElenzie France
Research Coordinator - The Manipulation ProjectJoey Archibald-Bowers
SpokespersonJudy Cortinaz
EditorKarim Aoussar
Social Media GuruDr. Lennette A. Coleman
PresidentLuAlice Waite
Senior ResearcherMary Abbott Waite
Senior EditorMatt Moss
International Projects CoordinatorMike Sheffer
Director of EducationNathalie Lemon
Walter Cronkite Intern 2023Niels Postma
TechTeam ManagerRenier Dijkhuis
Creative Team ManagerTracy Scott
Key CorrespondentTyler Thournir
VideographerWill Mears
Project Lead - The Manipulation ProjectWill 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-LeaderSarita Toledo
Sasha Alvarez
Team Co-LeaderTaylor 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 CommitteeDr. Lennette A. Coleman
Co-Chair, the Walter Cronkite Committee, President of the FoolProof FoundationHamilton Fish
Co-Chair, the Walter Cronkite CommitteeCristina Cuomo
Doug White
Author, The Non-Profit Challenge: Integrating Ethics into the Purpose and Promise of the Nation's NonprofitsSheila Bair
Former Chair FDIC, Senior Advisor, StudentDebtSmarter.org, Author, Money TalesEric Poirier
CEO of AddeparSusan Eisenhower
Author and President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc.Dan buettner
Founder, The Blue Zones Project and National Geographic FellowDayle M. Smith, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Business Administration; Loyola Marymount UniversityEdward B. Cohen
Partners for Democracy, AttorneySara & David Stemler
Founders PC Home StoresJim Trengrove
Communications & Media SpecialistJoe Lonsdale
Founding Partner, Formation 8Jan Neuharth
Chair & CEO, Freedom ForumJackie Gingrich Cushman
CFA, NACD Board Leadership FellowTanya Davis
Co-founder, William & Mary Davis Foundation, founder, A Purpose by DesignHeather Harper MBE
President GridserveSharon Bush
Board Member, UN Women for Peace Association, New YorkJeremy Seward
Content strategist, the Walter Cronkite Committee, owner, Logistical Video ResearchPeter Cunningham
United States Assistant Secretary of Education, 2009-2013Joan Claybrook
President Emeritus, Public CitizenSteve Brobeck
Senior Fellow, Consumer Federation of AmericaIra Rheingold
Executive Director, National Association of Consumer AdvocatesRodney Brooks
Personal Finance Columnist, Retired, The Washington PostMichael Coleman
Newspaper Management Consultant, Trustee with the Freedom Forum, Newseum and Newseum InstituteAnne Hearst McInerney & Jay McInerney
Directors, Hearst Castle Preservation Foundation, New YorkRita Green
Instructor of Accountancy, The University of Memphis and Former Director, Consumer Federation of AmericaProfessor Lauren Willis
Professor of Law, Loyola University, Los AngelesKelly Posner Gerstenhaber, Ph.d.
Co-Founder, Speyer Legacy SchoolJennifer Tejada
CEO, PagerDutyIvan 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