Carol Melville is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who worked as Regional Director for South Bay Jewish Family Service Mental Health Center providing counseling and psychotherapy to underserved populations. In her role with Jewish Family Service, she developed community programs, supervised student interns, and administered an on-going professional development program for staff members. She has also worked as a private practice clinician specializing in working with adults with eating disorders, addiction and depression. Carol has also worked as a volunteer mentor for Walk with Sally and completed the Manhattan Beach Leadership program (May 2020). She resides in Manhattan Beach and is the mother of a college-age daughter.

Mara Grobins Nasatir is an attorney licensed in New York. She specializes in ethics and regulatory compliance through her own professional practice and as a member of Prodigious Advisors. Mara is an advocate for the physical and psychological safety of employees in the workplace. Prior to hanging her own shingle, Mara was the director of safety, compliance & ethics at Westbrook, Inc., a production company, where she oversaw initiatives and projects to ensure production worker safety and satisfaction. Before Westbrook, she worked at TIME’S UP, partnering with survivors to design and implement initiatives to improve safety from sexual harassment and assault in entertainment industry workplaces. In addition to being a member of the board of Echo, Mara is a member and secretary of the board of STOKED, a nonprofit that bridges the opportunity gap for underserved youth through mentorship and immersion in action sports culture.

Robert Koseff is a financial executive with over 30 years of experience in the consumer products, entertainment and food brokerage industries. He is currently the CFO at Carole Incorporated, a wholesaler of accessories and costume jewelry. Robert grew up in South Africa and moved to the U.S. over 30 years ago. He is passionate about animal rights, human rights, sports, and running on the beach. He lives in Santa Monica with his actress wife, Jessica, college-age child, Sam, and their two cats Dexter and Maizie.

Bridget Gordon is the Co-Chair of the Integration Advisory Board for LA County Health Departments (Health Agency). The Integration Advisory Board (IAB) advises Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors on the Health Departments integration of three departments, Public Health, Mental Health and Health Services. Bridget founded the Bridget B Foundation in 2004, a charitable organization dedicated to creating awareness & resources on reproductive healthcare issues for women with focus on providing practical support for women living with HIV/AIDS, and currently serves as its Executive Director. She is a member of the Los Angeles County Commission on HIV and of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. Bridget previously served as a Board Member, Community Advisory, Maternal Child & Adolescent Center, Los Angeles County. Recognition of her work includes an Honoree for the IMPACT Champions of Change, Washington, DC, 2012. She has a degree in Engineering from the University of Washington and worked for many years in the tech industry as an engineer, manager and consultant. Bridget and her daughter reside in Los Angeles.

Dana Brown is the ACEs Science Statewide Facilitator, Learn4Life Organizational Liaison, ACEs Connection, and Executive Director, Youth Voice A social entrepreneur, Dana founded a character development program at Tierrasanta Elementary in San Diego, CA; co-founded OurSOLES (Our Students of Leadership ~ Empowerment ~ Service), founded Youth Leadership TICS (Trauma-Informed Community Schools) and Youth Leadership with McGill School of Success. Dana is a Commissioner on the City of San Diego Commission on Gang Prevention & Intervention and Chair of the Youth Committee., co-chair of the San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team , on the Advisory Council of the University of San Diego’s Character Development Center, the steering committee of the Clinton Health Matters Initiative, Strong Families, Thriving Communities, and the leadership team of the Southern California Warrior Spirit with Indigenous communities. An author, Hidden Treasures, Ms. Brown has received many awards over the years, including, the Joy McAllister Advocacy Award from Mental Health America in 2014, President Obama’s USA Volunteer Presidential Award in 2013 (with San Diego Compassion Project), and the City of San Diego’s Human Relations Commission Award in 2009.

David Guarino is a communications professional with decades of experience as a news reporter, strategic communications advisor and nonprofit leader. He is the Founder & President of Survivors Say, the first nonprofit of its kind providing free support to survivors seeking to have a greater say in if, when and how their stories are told. Since 2021, David and his colleagues at Survivors Say have helped dozens of survivors of high-profile traumas including mass shootings, homicides, missing persons, suicides, sexual violence, human trafficking, climate disasters and more. David is also a Partner at Melwood Global, a strategic communications firm co-located in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. He worked for 12 years as a newspaper reporter, covering the 9/11 terror attacks in New York, several presidential campaigns, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and many other high-profile news events. He lives in Salem, Massachusetts with his wife and their labrador retriever and has two sons currently in college in Georgia and Virginia.

Ted Scheinman is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine, based in Washington, D.C. Before that, he worked as a senior editor for Pacific Standard magazine and has also edited for CNN and several weeklies. As an instructor and teaching fellow, he has taught courses on literature and journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. He’s the author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan (FSG Originals, 2018) and is currently at work on his second nonfiction book, for Scribner, about electroconvulsive therapy.