National Committee Foundation Board of Directors
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National Committee President and CEO Barbara B. Kennelly has spent 25 years in public service at local, state and federal levels, including 17 years as a member of the U.S. Congress. A former ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Social Security, Mrs. Kennelly was the first woman to serve as Chief Majority Whip and she was Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. She was also the first woman to serve on the House Committee on Intelligence. Throughout her career, Mrs. Kennelly has advocated for Social Security, Medicare and other health and retirement issues. After leaving Congress, she served as Counselor to the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Mrs. Kennelly served on the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. In 2006, Mrs. Kennelly was appointed to the Social Security Advisory Board by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Mrs. Kennelly resides in Hartford , Connecticut and Washington DC. |
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Jane L. Ross, Ph.D. - Chair |
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| Dr. Ross is the Director of the Center for Social and Economic Studies at the National Research Council and responsible for the leadership and management of boards and committees that address a broad range of social and economic issues. Dr. Ross served as Deputy Commissioner for Policy for the Social Security Administration from1998-2001 and served as SSA spokesperson on a broad range of policy issues at the White House and the Office of Management and Budget. From 1992-1998, Dr. Ross served as the Issue Area Director and Assistant Director for income Security Issues at the United States General Accounting Office. Dr. Ross resides in Greenbelt , Maryland. | |
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Scott L. Frey - Executive Director |
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Mr. Frey is a Senior Policy Advisor in the office of the President at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. He brings nearly 20 years of experience in health, aging, and retirement income policy at the national level. Mr. Frey has served twice as executive coordinator of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, a national coalition of 56 organizations in 2000-2001 and again in 2005-2006. From 1989 through 1992 Scott served as majority staff to the House Select Aging Committee and its Task Force on Social Security and Women during his tenure as Legislative Director to former U.S. Representative Mary Rose Oakar, D-OH. In this position, Scott organized twelve Congressional hearings on a range of issues that include women’s health, Social Security, federal funding for alcohol and drug abuse treatment, and elder abuse. In 1993, Scott served as Policy Analyst in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health. He later returned to Capitol Hill as Senior Legislative Assistant to U.S. Representative Ron Klink, D-PA. Mr. Frey holds a B.A. in English Literature, and an M.A. in Political Science from Duquesne University. |
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Carroll L. Estes, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Estes is a professor of Sociology at the University of California , San Francisco (UCSF). She is the founding and former director of the Institute for Health and Aging (1979-1998) and the former Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing , UCSF. Dr. Estes is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and past president of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the American Society on Aging (ASA), and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE). She has served as consultant to the U.S. Commissioner of Social Security and the U.S. Senate and House committees on aging for more than two decades. She resides in Healdsburg , California. |
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Patricia G. Archbold, D.N.Sc., R.N. |
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Pat Archbold is Professor Emerita from the Oregon Health & Sciences University where she was the founding Director of the J.A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. Since 2005 she has been Program Director for the J.A.Hartford Foundation’s national initiative, Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity at the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Archbold’s research focuses on understanding family care for frail elders, and developing health system interventions to support families in their role. Dr. Archbold resides in Montpelier,Vermont. |
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Paul S. Nathanson, Esq. |
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Mr. Nathanson was the Director of the Institute of Public Law and a member of the faculty of the University of New Mexico School of Law. He is founding director of the National Senior Citizens Law Center and founding member of the ABA Commission on legal problems of the elderly. He has served as co-chair of the UNM Center for Aging Research, Education and Service (UNMCARES) and Chair of the New Mexico Association of Geriatric Education (NMAGE). Mr. Nathanson resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
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J. Andrew Smith |
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Mr. Smith is the partner in charge of the Assurance Department of Langan Associates, P.C. He has over fifteen years of experience exclusively serving the audit, tax and consulting needs of the not-for-profit community. Mr. Smith served as a member of the Financial Issues Committee of American Society of Association Executives and the Government Affairs and Public Relations Council of Greater Washington Society of Association Executives. Mr. Smith resides in Alexandria, Virginia. |
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Maya Rockeymoore, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Rockeymoore is a scholar and activist with expertise in an array of social and political issues. She currently teaches a course on The Politics and Policy of Race and Gender at the American University. Dr. Rockeymoore is the former Vice President of Research and Programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Prior to joining the CBCF, she served as the Senior Resident Scholar for Health and Income Security at the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality. Dr. Rockeymoore resides in Washington, D.C. |
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Katherine S. Villers |
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Kate Villers is an innovator in developing high social impact organizations and an advocate for building consumer-based health advocacy to shape health access and other policy reforms. She is president and was founding executive director of Community Catalyst, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that works in over 30 states to build consumer organizational leadership for both state and national health reforms. She also is president of RealBenefits , a nonprofit social enterprise providing web-based tools for community access to public coverage and other benefit programs.
Previously, Kate co-founded both the Villers Foundation and its successor organization, Families USA. She was executive director of the Massachusetts offices of both of these organizations from 1982 until 1997, when she established Community Catalyst as an independent group. An urban planner, Kate previously founded New Communities Housing Management, which integrated community capacity-building approaches into the management of low- and moderate-income housing. She also was research director for the Interfaith Housing Corporation and the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency. She has served on the boards of directors of several national, state and local organizations, including the Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts, Women and Philanthropy, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Concord Housing Authority, and National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. She currently chairs the Community Catalyst and RealBenefits boards of directors and also serves on the boards of Health Care for All in Massachusetts and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Foundation in Washington , D.C. She has a master’s degree in urban affairs from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Grinnell College. |
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Nancy J. Altman |
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Nancy J. Altman has a thirty-year background in the areas of Social Security and private pensions. She is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of beneficiary rights, and author of The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
From 1983 to 1989, Ms. Altman was on the faculty of Harvard University ’s Kennedy School of Government and taught courses on private pensions and Social Security at the Harvard Law School. In 1982, she was Alan Greenspan’s assistant in his position as chairman of the bipartisan commission that developed the 1983 Social Security amendments. From 1977 to 1981, she was a legislative assistant to Senator John C. Danforth (R-Mo,), and advised the Senator with respect to Social Security issues. From 1974 to 1977, she was a tax lawyer with Covington & Burling, where she handled a variety of private pension matters. Ms. Altman has a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was on the organizing committee and the first board of directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a membership organization of over 700 of the nation’s leading experts on social insurance. In addition to her work on retirement income, Ms. Altman is an assistant producer of the award-winning high school quiz program, It’s Academic. |
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Honorable Robert M. Ball, Founding Advisor |
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