Experience

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  SmartTeams

  • Cambridge, MAss

  • Managing Director

    • Jan 2013 - Present
    • Cambridge, MAss

    The MomsTEAM Institute SmartTeams Play Safe ™ (“SmartTeams”) program is the first national program of unique hub sites to aggregate and disseminate comprehensive, evidence-based sports health and safety best practice standards and benchmarks for sports safety against which programs, regardless of sport, age, or competitive level; provide an interactive, voluntary self-audit and safety certification program to assure safety-conscious parents that their child’s program is following best health and safety practices; and incorporate the International Safeguards for Children in Sports to help guide sports programs towards a safer sports experience for their athletes. Roll out launch from August 2016-June 2017. First hub site was accelerated by the NCAA-DoD Mind Matters Grand Challenge (Concussion ED) grant and can be viewed here: concussions.Smart-Teams.org

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  MomsTeam Youth Sports Safety Institute

  • Boston

  • Founding Executive Director

    • Nov 1999 - Present
    • Boston

    Executive Director of MomsTeam Youth Sports Safety Institute, Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit and Founder/Publisher of MomsTeam.com,® MomsTEAM Institute is the most trusted advocacy and watchdog organization for protecting youth, high school, and college athletes physically, emotionally & sexually. The mission of MomsTEAM Institute is to educate sports parents, coaches, athletes, programs, and health care professionals about sports health and safety best practices and provide them the resources they need to keep student athletes safe while playing sports.MomsTeam.com is a comprehensive premier online information gateway for the 90 million youth sports parents, the online resource site now in its 16th year as the trusted source for sports stakeholders of comprehensive, well-researched, objective information on a wide array of youth sports health, and safety issues. MomsTeam.com now in its sixteenth year has become a well received and trusted brand with a social cause mission.

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  The Smartest Team

  • Boston

  • Producer/Director

    • Jan 2012 - Present
    • Boston

    The Smartest Team: Making High School Safer (PBS) (documentary) provides real life solutions to the football concussion crisis at the youth and high school level by chronicling how one high school football team in Oklahoma, allowed Brooke de Lench and a team of professionals to implement a concussion risk management program based on her two decades long work in the youth sports concussion education field and to follow them for the entire season. Learn how they reduced their diagnosed concussions by more than 75%. Currently airing until 2019.

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  Teams of Angels

  • Board Member

    • Jan 2002 - Present

    In 2002, I established Teams of Angels, a non-profit 501(c)(3) foundation of MomsTEAM supporting families whose children have died or been catastrophically injured while playing sports. In 2003, I spearheaded Teams of Angels' "Save a Child's Life - An AED For Every Team" campaign which raised funds to supply over 2,000 automatic external defibrillators to teams across the country. MomsTEAM continues to provide support for and consult with families of youth athletes who have suffered catastrophic injury or death playing sports.

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  Harper Collins

  • Speakers Bureau (Speaker)

    • Sep 2006 - Present

    Speaker: Keynote presenter with subject expertise in; Safeguarding Children in Sports, Youth Sports Concussion risk reduction, Youth Sports Abuse, Youth Sports Reform, Youth Sports Health and Safety issues and marketing to Sports Moms.

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  Foote, Cone & Belding

  • Marketing & Development

    • Jan 1977 - 1981

    Brand Marketing and Development, Creative dept.

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  Doner Advertising

  • Creative Marketing

    • 1974 - Mar 1976

    Brand Marketing and Development, Creative dept